Visiting Munich – Useful info and Accomodation
Preparing for a trip
Travel – flying
From Ireland
AerLingus fly daily Dublin – Munich, with 2 flights on Tue, Thurs and Sunday
www.aerlingus.ie
UPDATE 2009: Aerlingus also fly every other day from Belfast and Cork direct to Munich!
Ryanair fly to Fredrichshafen or Baden Baden which are both about a 2 or 3 hour drive from Munich respectively. (These are Ryanair airports so renting a car to get to munich is the quickest, handiest and cheapest option)
www.ryanair.ie
UPDATE 2009: Ryanair also fly every from Dublin direct to Memmingen near Munich, reachable by direct shuttle bus to right beside the hostels at Hauptbahnhof!
From europe
All major connections like Paris and Amsterdam minimum of 5 daily flights.
Best overview of options is www.opodo.com who are owned by the major airlines
Accomodation
Budget Accomodation is available through www.hostelworld.com
Recommended is any of the Hostels on Sennefelderstr at the main station, i.e. EuroYouth, Jaegers or Wombats
Hotel Accomodation is best booked through www.hrs.de (160+ hotels in the centre)
Recommended is anything near Hauptbahnhof as you are direct to the Airport and direct to the training grounds
Specific Hotels tried and tested
Hotel Stachus – http://www.hotel-stachus.de – V. Central. – has triples from 100 euro w. Breakfast
Pension Locarno – pension.locarno@web.de – V. Central – B+B has triples from 80 euro w. Breakfast
When in Munich
Attractions/ Info
Munich Official Tourist Information (Incl Events, Tours, Accomodation etc)
Dachau Concentration Camp (Dachau KZ) – Visitor info
Tour or Visit Olympic -Park/ -Stadium/ -Tower
Killians Irish Pub – City Centre near Marianplatz
Irish Folk Pub – North City Centre (U Bahn Giselastr)
Public Transport
All Transport in the greater munich area is coordinated by the MVV organisation so the same day ticket allows travel on busses, trams, suburban trains and underground.
Single Journey Tickets are extortionate prices so day tickets are recommended. Day tickets are available as 1 person (single) or up to 5 person (partner) tickets.
- There is a full network (gesamtnetz) version which does out as far as the airport
- There is an innerzone (innenraum) version which covers the innercity, including Allianz arena/ Olympiastadium.
- A third day ticket type, XXL, covers a little more than the innerzone covering the journey to Dachau, including the shuttle bus.
