Overview

Tips

• While you can enter the beer tents without reservation, you should consider coming early since the tents fill-up very quickly.
• Once a tent is full, you will not be allowed to enter.
• On weekends the tents often close before 11:00 am because of overfilling. During the week the tents are normally open until afternoon.

Food & Beverages:

• Food:
  • Vegetarian:
    • Creamy Sauerkraut
    • Vanilla Bean Custard with German Sour Cherry Sauce
    • Pepper Brie and Radicchio Salad
    • Oktoberfest Strudel
    • New Potato and Bierwurst Salad
    • German Sauerkraut or Pickled Red cabbage as a perfect, heat-and-serve side dish
    • German Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownies with Black Cherry Preserves
    • Cherry, Quark and Pumpernickel Trifle
    • Sauerkraut Soup
  • Non-vegetarian:
    • German Ham-Wrapped Figs with Marinated Bean Salad & Hazelnuts
    • Pork Tenderloin with Sweet Mustard Crust, Potato Pancakes, Brussels Sprouts Leaves with Black Forest Ham and Dark Beer Sauce
    • Schnitzel in Creamy Mushroom Sauce with Beer Stein Noodles
    • Pork Wiener Schnitzel
    • Schweinebraten
    • Beef Stew
    • Half Chicken
    • Schweinshaxe
    • Steckerlfisch (grilled fish on a stick)

• Alcohol:
  • Beer is the most common alcohol served in the tents.
  • You can try Weinzelt, if wine is your choice of drink as it is the only place that doesn’t serve beer.
  • Following are the six Munich Oktoberfest-breweries that provide beer at Oktoberfest-
  • Augustiner: Augustiner-Festhalle, Fischer-Vroni
  • Paulaner: Armbrustschützenzelt, Winzerer Fähndl, Käfer's Wies'n Schänke
  • Spaten-Franziskaner: Marstall, Schottenhamel, Ochsenbraterei/Spatenbräu-Festhalle
  • Löwenbräu: Schützen-Festzelt, Löwenbräu-Festhalle
  • Hacker-Pschorr: Hacker-Festzelt, Pschorr-Bräurosl
  • Hofbräu: Hofbräu Festzelt

• Cost: A "Mass", one litre of beer, was priced at about EUR 10.00 for the last edition of the Oktoberfest.

Inside the Venue:

Other Amenities:

• Restrooms
• ATMs
• First Aid
• Lockers
• Shops

Activities:

• There are a number of rollercoaster and amusement rides at the Oktoberfest.
• These rides range from comfortable carousels like the old and beloved "Krinoline" and the timeless chairoplane and Ferris Wheel to breathtaking overhead experiences in the "Top Spin" and from children' rides with fairytale heroes to spooky ghost trains.
• You can also demonstrate your skills at shooting with air-guns or popping balloons with darts.

• Area: 42 hectares
• The venue is divided into the following tent categories:
  • Big Tents:
    • Schottenhamel
    • Armbrustschützen-Festhalle
    • Fischer Vroni
    • Ochsenbraterei (Spatenbräu-Festhalle)
    • Marstall
    • Weinzelt
    • Winzerer Fähndl
    • Löwenbräu-Festhalle
    • Pschorr Braurosl
    • Hofbrau Festzelt
    • Schützen-Festzelt
    • Augustiner-Festhalle
    • Hacker-Festhalle
  • Small Tents:
    • Café Mohrenkopf
    • Zur Bratwurst
    • Schiebl's Kaffeehaferl
    • Wiesn Guglhupf
    • Ammer’s Roasted Duck and Chicken
    • Hochreiters Kalbsbraterei
    • Feisinger's Kas- und Weinstub'n
    • Fisch-Bäda
    • The Stiftl-Tent
    • Bodo's Café Tent
    • Café Kaiserschmarrn
    • Wildmoser’s Roasted Duck and Chicken
    • Goldener Hahn
    • Münchner Knödelei
    • Metzgerstubn
    • Glöckle Wirt
    • Heinz' Sausage and Chicken Grill
    • The Herzkasperl tent at the Oide Wiesn
    • Hochreiter's Haxnbraterei
    • Wirtshaus im Schichtl

• Beer Serving Hours:
• Opening day 12:00 noon – 10:30 pm
• Weekdays 10:00 am – 10:30 pm
• Saturday, Sunday & holiday 9:00 am – 10:30 pm
• Daily closing hour 12:30 am 'Käfers Wiesnschänke' and 'Weinzelt' open until 1:00 am

• Opening hours of stalls:
• Opening day 10:00 noon - midnight
• Monday - Thursday 10:00 am – 11:30 pm
• Friday 10:00 am – 12:00 midnight
• Saturday 9:00 am - midnight
• Sunday 9:00 am – 11:30 pm

• Fairground attractions & sideshows:
• Opening day 12:00 noon - midnight
• Monday - Thursday 10:00 am – 11:30 pm
• Friday, Saturday 10:00 am - midnight
• Sunday 10:00 am – 11:30 pm

• End of Oktoberfest:
  • Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 11:30 pm