Train and other Munich, Germany Transportation Tips

'Mode': TO
Category: Train
Getting TO/AROUND: As one of Germany's biggest cities, Munich is well connected throughout the country, but its also well placed at the center of Europe for access to cities in a number of other countries, like Austria and the Czech Republic. Apart from Dresden, all of Germany's major cities are accessible via direct train from Munich, with Stuttgart just a couple of hours away, and Berlin over six hours. Internationally you can get direct trains to cities like Vienna(4 hours), Ljubljana (6 hours) and Budapest (7 hours). You can also be in Prague in about 7 hours, and Zurich in about 5.

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Website: www.bahn.de

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Subway/Metro
Getting TO/AROUND: Munich, like every city in Germany, has an excellent public city transport system, including an extensive underground system. All of it is safe, clean, accessible, easily understood, and relatively cheap, at least if you buy the day-tickets. Most of the main sights in the city can be accessed on foot, so you can do without a ticket on most days, but if you want to see some of the outlying sights, such as Schloss Nymphenburg and the Olympic Park, then you'll need an inner-city day ticket (4.50 euros). For sights further out, like Dachau and Oberschleissheim, you'll need an XXL day ticket (6.00 euros). There are a whole range of tickets, but for most casual visitors to the city a day ticket will prove the best value deal you can get, as it costs only a little more than two singles. You can find out more about ticket prices, network reach and routes in the excellent MVV site below.

Whatever you don't forget to validate your ticket.

Unlike some other cities in Germany I noticed that the Munich transport police are very thorough. I had my ticket checked several times on my visit. I also forgot to validate my ticket once, because I'm an idiot, but thankfully I got away with it. Just stick your ticket in one of the little validating posts on the steps down to the subway and S-bahn, or at one of the machines on the trams. Then your ticket is valid for any of the trams, buses, S-Bahns and U-Bahns in the city.

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Website: http://www.mvv-muenchen.de/de/home/index.html

'Mode': TO
Category: Airplane
Getting TO/AROUND: Munich's Franz-Josef Strauss is a busy international airport, with great links, especially to southern Europe. Lufthansa is the main airline here, and it often has some great offers to nearby international cities, including 99 euros return to Budapest. It even has direct and good value flights to Nice. Munich isn't Germany's main international airport, and most of its flights are to Europe, the Near East and North Africa. It does have a few long haul destinations, like Shanghai, but usually you will need to go to (or via) Frankfurt.

The airport is fully integrated into Munich's public transport system, and the S1 and S8 suburban trains run regularly from the central station to the airport throughout the day and night.

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Website: http://www.munich-airport.de/EN/