Excellent historical tour to Dachau with Adam... He knows his stuff!…read more He provides factual information and a narrative that brings the experience alive. It's well worth the trip out to Dachau... & the tour exposes the ugly truth of the Nazi regime. Bring water & a sandwich and enjoy the day learning and seeing. Adam speaks both lovely Australian English and fluent German, and lives in Munich... perfect!

I booked the Dachau Memorial tour for my mom and I. It was competitively priced with other tour…read morecompanies in the area, but because it met at the Marienplatz, I chose this company because it was only a 10 min walk from our hotel. We met our tour guide Jon and 5 others joined the tour as well. The tour price included the fare on the lightrail and bus to get to Dachau. It was really nice to not have to worry about the times and connections. Not that it would have been a huge deal, but when on vacation, I like to worry less about logistics. Jon was very knowledgeable and I am so glad that I did use InMunich Tours because it was nice to have someone talk about the key points of the Dachau Memorial. If you're ever in the area, I would check out this tour company because they are very professional and knowledgeable.

For a guy that grew up in Wisconsin, Levi at Thirsty Historian knows his stuff! He took us on a 3…read morehour walk-around tour of Munich and offered incredible insight about it's history! We started off with a great beer selection and ended with reservations at an incredible restaurant. If he really likes you - he'll show you another local bar that is a blast! Thank you Levi for your time and info. It really was the highlight of our trip and I'll actually do the tour again the next time I'm in town. Prost!

Levi is an amazing Tour Guide!!!! I went on a tour with him and my family and it was the bast part…read moreof the trip!!! Levi was very flexible with what we wanted to do and worked around our ideas to give us the best possible experience. He knew great places to take us and also where to get great beer! I would recommend Levi and The Thirst Historian to everyone who is planning on touring Munich!!

We had a lovely tour guide who was very knowledgeable about the castle and the family history. She…read moregave us in depth details about each room and all the family members. The castle rooms are smaller and more demure than Neuschwanstein, making it more homey. The views of the lake are incredible too. The area itself is beautiful and there are some nice cafes and restaurants up there too. Well worth the visit.

We made reservations for both Hohenschwangau and Neuschwanstein castle tours and I preferred the…read moreway the Hohenschwangau tour was run. We were told to arrive 1 hour before our reservation but 30 minutes would have been plenty of time. We were in a small group and our guide made sure that all of us were settled in each room before starting. She gave us a brief overview before starting the prerecorded audio narration. I left feeling more knowledgeable about King Ludwig's childhood and family life at Hohenschwangau. The tour took about 30 minutes and there was not much to see afterwards. We had thought we needed 3 hours for this castle but the walk up was short, but 2 hours for everything was plenty of time for us.

We had an amazing tour of the Dachau concentration camp with Taff. We were traveling with our three…read moreteenage kids, and he made sure that they were engaged and felt included. He carried large bags with him, and at different times of the tour, would pull out wonderful items to enhance the tour. He was patient with us when we wanted to spend more time at a particular place, and we never felt rushed. If you're considering a private guide in Munich, hire Taff!

We spent a wonderful day with Taff! I can't say enough about how informative he was. Everything…read morewas interesting and he even sent us emails before hand asking us how to tailor the experience to our liking. He took us around Munich in the morning, then we grabbed a snack at the train station and headed to Dachau. After the sobering personal tour around the grounds, we shared beers and trained home. It was great sharing the day with a local and hearing his passion for his work. Please don't hesitate to spend a little more and get a personal tour with him. You may not go here again, so make the most of it.

If this Castle was good enough for Walt Disney....should good enough for all of us!…read more Awesome over the top Castle with gorgeous designs inside. If you are a Richard Wagner fan this place has tons of homages to the famous classic composser. Stunning views. visit the bridge above for another great vantage point. There is a simple tour you get using a listening device and it is well worth the effort. Highly recommend.

Neuschwanstein Castle itself is absolutely beautiful, but unfortunately the overall tour experience…read morewas very disappointing and there is a lot that could be improved. We took the horse-drawn carriage up toward the castle, which was a fun experience and the horses were adorable. Just be aware that the carriage does not take you all the way to the castle -- you still have an uphill walk afterward to reach the entrance. One thing I really didn't understand was the amount of horse poop all over the road. There didn't appear to be any type of bag or collection system behind the horses, so as you're walking up and around this incredibly popular tourist attraction, you're literally dodging piles of horse poop along the road. With the number of visitors and carriages going through here, it seems like there has to be a better system for keeping the area clean. Our castle tour was scheduled for 1:40 PM, and even though we arrived about 40 minutes early, we weren't allowed inside until our exact tour time. Once inside, there are several flights of stairs before reaching the tour area. That normally wouldn't be an issue for us, but we were traveling with my 70-year-old in-laws, who simply needed a little extra time on the stairs. It would have been helpful to allow guests inside a few minutes early so anyone who needs additional time could make their way upstairs without being rushed. What was especially frustrating was that the tour started before our entire group had even made it upstairs and gathered together. The guide moved very quickly, spoke extremely fast and didn't consistently wait for everyone to enter the room before beginning the next explanation. At times she was so far ahead that the audio through the speaker was going in and out. The tour groups also felt much too large. Splitting the groups in half would make a huge difference. It would give people time to actually enter each room, see what is being discussed and hear the information before being moved along. The castle itself is gorgeous and I'm glad we saw it in person, but the tour didn't provide nearly as much information as I expected because everything felt so rushed. Between the tour organization, accessibility/pacing issues and the conditions along the carriage route, there is a lot of room for improvement here. Beautiful castle, but based on our experience, I would not recommend the tour.

After hearing about the treasures in a magnificent baroque palace very near our hotel, we decided…read moreto invest part of our Saturday in Augsburg there. The first disappointment was not being able to buy the tickets with our credit card - another sign that those in charge of some tourist attractions in Germany are still very provincial. We opted for the audio guide - a big mistake. Audio guides should be a help for visitors to see things they might miss, but this guide was full of names and dates without nearly enough info about the actual pictures we were looking at or the rooms we walked through. Too much of the art museum seemed to be in a state or renovation with poorly lit paintings in the gallery part and a weird kind of open heating system spewing out smoke in the monastery part attached to the palace. Distracted by all the oddities, we ended up missing one of the most famous paintings: Albrecht Dürer's portrait of Jakob Fugger, a very rich merchant from Augsburg's time in the limelight in the 16th century. Only from the outside could we appreciate the length of the structure with the palace-monastery extension taking up an entire big block. At least the rococo ballroom with its mirrors and gilt walls was impressive, maybe especially so since we were there alone on a brilliantly sunny Saturday in early February. At least we could imagine the room also impressing Marie Antoinette, who evidently danced here for the palace-warming party a few hundred years ago. After an hour, we'd seen the whole place but then had to wait for someone to open up the room where we had to leave our bags. The café seemed more a parody with the couple of small tables and very uncomfortable looking chairs in a room next to the bookstore/ticket office, so we chose instead to rest our feet and our ears in the sunshine outside gazing at the gardens, which themselves seemed somewhat modest for a magnificent baroque palace, but then we had lowered our expectations sufficiently by the end of our hour in the Schaetzlerpalais.

just another church?…read more Maybe we've just seen one church too many on our travels or are spoiled by living in a city with a world-famous cathedral, but we were disappointed by the plain interior and the stained glass, which we had expected would be far more impressive. We had a hard time finding an entrance - the church seemed to have been put together in an architecturally haphazard way and as we later read was indeed changed again and again. We wandered around a bit, was able to overhear some interesting details about the destruction of the place during World War II, but after a look at the cloister, left to continue our visit in Augsburg. Maybe we should've tried to join a tour of the cathedral or maybe we should've just skipped both the church and this overrated mid-size Bavarian city altogether.

It's a church. A big one.read more

Informative and excellent tour guide. Safe, quick, and detailed service and transportation. Goes…read moreabove and beyond for the experience.

We took a tour of Munich with Jake in June 2013. He took us to tons of interesting places and told…read moreus great stories and history of the area! I highly recommend taking tours with Jake!

Tour of Augsburg: a bit too exotic, a bit too long to cover the sights…read more In the hope that we'd receive a good overview of the important sights in Augsburg we booked a two-hour walk (offered daily by the Tourist-Information Office) entitled Auf den Spuren der Fugger durchs goldene Augsburg (Following the Footsteps of the Fuggers). The very large group of interested tourists was split into three and we took the exotic tour guide, who introduced herself as originally from China but having lived in Augsburg for a few years. And in the next two hours we managed to see the sights: the clever building Stadtmetzg where 17th century butchers were able to keep meat cool, dispose of garbage, and offer meat for sale to a growing population - probably the most elegant looking butchers hall we'd ever seen; the outside of the simple house where Berthold Brecht was born; a tour of the famous Fuggerei with houses created for the poor by Augsburg's very rich Fugger family; assorted facades and streets and fountains and statues in between; and then at last the Golden Hall at the top of Augsburg's Town Hall as finishing touch. We sometimes had a hard time understanding our guide, who spoke heavily accented German. And some of the interesting cultural differences between China and German she mentioned were unfortunately lost in too many names and dates and details. The group shrunk as it got colder and the tour got longer, but we stuck it out until the very end and then earned our beer and very late lunch in the basement of Augsburg's Town Hall, exhausted and ready then to check Augsburg off for good of our German-cities-to-see list.