| Travel Information (24 October 2007) |
Coming to Germany is usually very easy, from most countries no visa is required, just a passport will do. Nevertheless please double check. All participants arriving via airplane should travel to Munich airport. From the airport, Munich and Ringberg Castle can be reached via public transportation (~100 km). For the city of Munich transportation services (commuter trains, underground trains, busses) are provided by the MVV. How to reach Ringberg Castle by public transportation From Munich airport take either the "S-Bahn" or the Lufthansa Airport Shuttle bus and go to the main station in Munich ("Hauptbahnhof"). Both options will take around 40 minutes. If you go with the S-Bahn try to get a "Bayern Ticket Single" (19 Euros), which is valid for one person for the whole day in Bavaria - it will thus be valid also in the train from Munich to Ringberg. You need to validate the ticket using the small blue machines as you enter the S-bahn station. Going with the shuttle bus will cost you 10 Euro (payable to the driver), and you will need another ticket for the train from Munich to Ringberg. A taxi costs around 60 Euro from the airport to the central station. From Munich central station to Ringberg you have to take the Bayrische Oberlandbahn, nicknamed "BOB". It leaves from tracks 27 to 36, at the northern side of the station. The very last train leaves shortly before midnight. The ticket office is located close to these tracks and not in the main hall of the station. If you already have a "Bayern Ticket Single" you do not need to go to the ticket office and can go directly to the train. The "BOB" trains are composed out of several cars. Not all will go to "Tegernsee" since the trains are split on their way south. So watch out that you get on the right car. Go with the "BOB" to the final station "Tegernsee". Travel time: Roughly one hour. BOB timetable: Saturdays/Sundays/Holidays, working days. If no special arrangement was made, you should take a taxi at Tegernsee main station to "Schloss Ringberg". The price for the taxi to Ringberg Castle should be less than 20 Euros. Phone numbers to call a cab at Tegernsee main station are: Taxi Tag und Nacht: Telefon: +498022 2011 Phone number of Ringberg Castle: +498022/2790 For those who stay overnight in the hotel Parkresidenz leave BOB at the station "Gmund" and take a taxi (~15 Euro) to the hotel. You can also ask the hotel for a shuttle taxi. You also might want to check the respective section of the Ringberg Castle webpage. |