Please advise me which is the best way to go tour the castle. Should I buy the entrance ticket online and go on my own or should I join the local tour? Would local tours charges include the entrance ticket?
Would be most grateful for some advice. Thanks
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There is only one tour of the castle, and it is available in different languages at different times troughout the day. It makes no difference if you book on line (www.hohenschwangau.de) or if you visit the ticket office in Hohenschwangau in person to make the arrangements, except if you book on line you will be guaranteed the tour time and if you show up in person you might have to do a later tour or all tours may be full. Anyways, even if you book on line you will ave to pick up your ticket in the same office at least an hour before the tour.
There are several ways to get to the castle: walk up the hill; take a horse drawn carriage; or a bus. No matter which you choose, you will still have to walk up the final part of the way. I recommend the carriage. If you are way too early for the tour when you are up the hill, you might want to continue up to the Marienbruecke (bridge) for a lovely view down on the castle.
At the ticket office you can also purchase tickets to nearby Hohenschwangau Castle where the family actually lived. It%26#39;s much less of a walk up to this one.
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Do you think it is better to join a local tour that will provide transport and the charges would also include the castle entrance ticket? I can just sign up at the local tour agency by paying an amount and just be at the meeting point? Or is getting to the castle on my own easy and don%26#39;t need to join any local tour?
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I don%26#39;t know what you mean by a local tour, from Fuessen or from Munich? There is no need from Fuessen as you can just take a bus or taxi to Hohenschwangau, pick up your ticket and proceed to the castle easily on your own.
If you are calling from Munich a local tour (it%26#39;s quite a distance) than you will have a bus ride between the two places, and also probably stop elsewhere to visit. I can%26#39;t imagine the entry ticket price not being included, but check with the tour operator to see what you are actually getting. You will probably have to get up to the castle on your own from Hohenschwangau. A better tour would also stop at Ludwig II%26#39;s Linderhof Palace with its Swan Grotto and allow you time to visit it.
It%26#39;s also possible to take the train from Munich (the least expensive way probably by using a Bavaria laender ticket that allows train transportation all over Bavaria and includes some city transportation too in some places such as Munich, and the multi-passeger ticket is an exceptionally good deal allowing up to five people to travel together. There are restrictions on this ticket such as only regional trains can be used and only after 9AM departures on weekdays). I%26#39;m not certain about all the details for a bus tour or a visit by railroad as we just drive our car.
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DB timetable
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/e
To: Hohenschwangau
Hohenschwangau is the village/bus stop next to Neuschwanstein Castle. This is also where the ticket booths for Neuschwanstein Castle are. Hohenschwangau is well served by public transport. There is no need to use a bus tour e.g. from Munich to Neuschwanstein Castle. You can do this by your own. Good deal for this is the Bavaria Ticket Single (EUR 19,00). A day ticket which covers the trains to Füssen and the buses from there to Hohenschwangau.
You can only visit Neuschwanstein Castle as a part of a guided tour. When you buy the ticket you%26#39;ll be assigned to a tour at a certain time. From the ticket booths you can walk up or use a horse carriage to Neuschwanstein Castle itself. At the castle you just wait till your tour starts.
http://www.hohenschwangau.de/553.0.html
These tours through the castle are done by staff from the castle. This is totally independent if you travel by your own to the castle or as part of a bus tour trip.
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Here a link to a bus tour company which will bring you to Neuschwanstein and Linderhof Castle.
http://www.msr-muc.de/eng/neuschwanstein.html
Linderhof castle is not as well connected by public transport as Neuschwanstein castle. Thus if you want to see both on one day such a tour is probably the only way (apart from renting a car).
Please note that the entrance fees are extra.
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Thank you very much Marcopolko and abalada for your infos and advice. I still cannot decide on how best to get from Munich to the castles.
Should I go on my own by taking a train or bus and also to book an online guided tour ticket to Neuschwanstein castle. You see I will arrive in Munich at a Saturday and spend Sunday (which would be rather crowded and have to be there early) on the castle trip and leave Munich on Monday. That%26#39;s why I am very anxious about making it to the castle which is my dream.
Do you think joining the Panorama Castle Tours is the easiest way?
I am checking with them whether the castle entrance ticket in included in the fare.
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I can%26#39;t really answer your last question, but if this has been always a dream you might like to go to Hohenschwangau directly upon arrival and spend the night there. The inside of Neuschwanstein is not that great as it was never finished, but the exterior is certainly beautiful and I believe should be savored for long times. This would give you plenty of time to walk around it in the evening and view it from different perspectives.
An excellent way to do this is to stay at Villa Jaegerhaus, an excellent very small hotel, where it is possible to have close-up views of lit-up by night Neuschwanstein from your bed. It may be expensive, but to my wife and I, well worth the cost. Just make sure that you have a view of Neuschwanstein and not nextdoor Hohenschwangau Castle from a room above ground floor, as all rooms have castle views, but not neccessarily of Neuschwanstein. They can also make arrangements for castle tours if desired. You might click on my name and then look at my review of this hotel. Another person has posted nice pictures of their stay there. Ignore the only bad review because it is not for this hotel. The hotel can be booked at the Hohenschwangau website www.hohenschwangau.de . If you can%26#39;t get a room there, try Hotel Mueller which also gets good reviews here.
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we are also travelling from Munich to visit Neuschwanstein castle and are staying over at Villa Jagerhuas.
The only thing is, we foolishly bought a Eurail pass to cover all of our travel through europe, including 2 days for the Munich Fussen/Fussen Munich legs but it seems to me that the BUS from Fussen to Schwangau is probably not covered on the rail pass the way it would have been if we%26#39;d bought bavaria tickets when we got there.
Anyway- does anyone know if the Eurail pass actually covers this bus, and if not what the fare is to just buy the bus leg?
Since we have the pass- is Rothenberg or another interesting visit feasable on the return to Munich?
thanks!
-cris
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Hi,
there are several tours to Neuschwanstein. Her you find a short description of how to go to Nauschwanstein....
lessordinary.eu/content/view/409/522/lang,en/
bye
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Jericho7, We were just in Munich and chose to drive to Neuschwanstein. We stopped in Garmisch, went to the castles and Mary%26#39;s bridge and drove back. It%26#39;s not a bad drive and if you plan it you can do it pretty easily. We did get a little lost when we drove into Austria, but not for long, and we were back in Munich in plenty of time for dinner and an evening out. Good luck!
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