Actually, I'm not surprised they are all booked up---it's a nice and very popular place. The website showing free rooms every day of Oktoberfest didn't seem possible.

We stayed at an Econtel in Munich last summer. It was clean and comfortable. The train station was about a five minute walk, and the ride into the center took 20-25 minutes. (The hotel desk sold tickets.) The hotel's rates were very reasonable as well.

Well I got some responses... looks like my options are:

Hotel Royal Munich

Hotel Mark

Acanthus Hotel

All these about 220E for the triple room and 190E for the double room.

Anyone has any feedback on any of these hotels?

Still haven't heard from the hotel in Stamberger See. But I think I will rather pay the difference and be closer to the ground.

At least I got a great deal on an apartment in Florence....

I can very HIGHLY recommend the Acanthus and it is close to public transport, too.

Check out the reviews on TripAdvisor, too.

We stayed at the Kempinski at the airport, I think it was a 30 or so minute ride into town. I don't know if they may still be really pricey out there, but the hotel is fantastic.

The S-bahn takes 41 to 44 minutes, depending on which S-bahn, to go from the airport STATION (not the hotel) to the Hauptbahnhof. That's about the same time as from Rosenheim and longer than from Starnberg.

We stayed at Hotel Würmtaler in Grafelfing. It's a five minute walk to the S-Bahn station and it takes about 15 mn to get to the city.
The price at the time (last year after Oktoberfest) was €100 for a double room.

So far, the Acanthus is closer than any of these others.

Well, I have a reply back to the nh hotel. Trip advisor gives it good reviews and they quoted me E620 for the triple room (the one we are paying for) and E550 for the double, for all three days.

I am just waiting for confirmation.

We stayed at the Hotel Frey in Ismaning. It is a 15 min ride on the S-Bahn to the center of Munich. It was a beautiful hotel and the area is peaceful and pretty. There is also another hotel around the block that has a great beer garden.

I don't remember it being 45 minutes, that seems long - but it was well worth the ride, whatever it was (and I rarely would say that about a hotel).

>15 min ride on the S-Bahn
25 min, and the area looks like somewhere on Mars ;-)

Why stay in the burbs when you've got availability right IN town?

Ah, logos The Ismaning Hater. Haha. It was an excellent place for last minute accommodations. I would definitely rather stay in Munich, but we had no choice at all. I really did think the hotel was beautiful. I had a nice walk in that big park and it was nice to be in a park that didn’t have people living in it! We almost didn’t survive our whirlwind tour of Munich!

Good, you liked the beergarden and the Isar. ;-). Did you walk down to the iron bridge?
>We almost didn’t survive
What happened?

Oktoberfest happened. Hofbrauhaus happened. All good things, but very painfully exhausted! I think the long walk to the s-bahn from Oktoberfest with everyone marching across the bridge singing in German was my favorite part.

sounds like you have made up your mind but just in case -

We stayed at the Kings Hotel First Class on Dachauer street this past Oktoberfest. It was about a 15 minute walk to the festival. We paid around 150E per night for 2 nights. Booked it on Expedia because we were having NO luck with contating hotels individually. We booked in February for September and Expedia seemed to have several choices at that time.

We had the same response from the Hotel Uhland - and they had a 3 night minimum (or something like that that prevented us from being able to stay there).

Our friends stayed at the Hotel Mark 3 years ago. Good location but they found the hotel to be only ok. They said their room was VERY smoky which made the morning after quite nauseating! Their room did not have a private bathroom, which also made the morning after rather uncomfortable!

I'm jumping on this thread because we're hoping to book our Oktoberfest hotel sometime this week. Great suggestions here!

Karameli, where did you end up staying? When are you going?