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!

The Thirsty Historians had the luxury of carting around 28 college kids throughout Germany. This…read morewas my first experience going to Germany and they truly made it a journey I will never forget. The knowledge that our tour guide had on the history and culture of Germany was truly awesome and he was able to keep all of us engaged and having fun. I would 100% recommend The Thirsty Historians, they truly made an effort to not just show us the culture but make us a part of it. Every step of the way was a fascinating adventure. Thank you all very much!

You can purchase tickets online to do a guided tour of the Hohenschwangau Castle. We purchased our…read moretickets a few months in advance so that we could better plan out our day. When you purchase a ticket you are given a time and a number. You wait in a large courtyard for your time and number to signal the right to go through the turnstiles and start your tour. The courtyard has a gift shop and a few benches to sit on. The castle is located in a small quaint German town close to the border of Austria. It was built by King Maximilian ll of Bavaria and used as a summer home for his family. His children Ludwig ll and Otto spent many years here. The tour is informative and moves quickly. You are allowed to take photos and questions are welcomed. The tour goes through about six rooms and lasts around thirty to forty minutes depending on time spent asking questions. The rooms are beautifully maintained and offer an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge of the past.

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.

My wife and I were on a five day trip to Munich and took a day trip to the castle via Radius tours…read more They were a great tour group and the bus ride was great with the freeway with no speed limits with Porsches flying by us and the countryside with lots of mustard growing. The castle is beautiful and you can go to a high bridge. The tour guide was a little robotic, but nice enough. The tour is about thirty minutes and the views are spectacular. A few castles are nearby to look at as well. Check out Mary's Bridge. It was WAY high up but with nice and high railing, I am afraid of heights but I wasn't bothered. Lots of people on it though.

I agree with most of the other 3-star reviewers on this page. This castle tour is expensive and you…read moredon't see many rooms, nor do you get to ask any questions or interact with any human docents. You're given an audio tour and waved ahead. We had fantastic weather when we were there, so no complaints there. And we were particularly careful to get there early, so as to not miss our entry time. I do get it that over-tourism is a real issue in this region, and that this particular castle is a victim of its own success, needing to shuffle tens of thousands of tourists every season. But I'd like to think there are alternative ways of educating people about the castle and its builder, dreamer, and ruler. TIP: Tour in the morning. By the time we were done and back downhill, the lines for the shuttle buses were easily 200+ people deep. TIP: DO NOT EXPECT HELPFUL SIGNAGE! We had to ask multiple people where to pick up the shuttle bus. TIP: If going straight to the castle, do not follow the shuttle bus crowds towards the bridge. Head the other way, and perhaps catch the bridge on the way back, especially if you feel like you might be rushed for your entry time. TIP: BRING CASH. The shuttle bus is NOT included in your ticket price, and is cash only. It was maybe 2 euros pp (I don't honestly remember). You CAN walk it, but we had some health issues and needed the shuttle; the incline is significant and probably would take 30+ minutes uphill? INTERESTING: this castle is about the same age as Biltmore in Asheville, NC. It's just not that old!

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!