When I tell people that I’m going to Oktoberfest they normally say “is that the one in Ipswich?”, or “my local is doing one of them”. It seems that there’s so many ‘Oktoberfest’ events that people forget or don’t realise what happens in Munich each year. To me, what happens is perfection. An incredible mix of brilliant rides, great food, amazing beers and some rather weird things. Los Geht’s!
Just a heads up, this blog is probably going to be in a weird order! I’m joined by Emily from Retro Rollercoasters! I’ve also already written a blog ranking the six 2024 Oktoberfest beers, check that out if you haven’t already. Link to Oktoberfest Beers blog
We arrived in Munich and headed out for food and drinks.
The plan wasn’t to go to the festival that evening, but who could resist?
Had my annual ride on Looping! It rides fine until a couple of loops in, where it begins to compress your spine. After that we deserved one of these:
The festival was drawing to a close for the evening, so we had a late night walk through Munich.
I always seem to wake up early when staying in a hotel, so an early walk around Munich was the obvious thing to do!
But after a long walk, it’s important to hydrate!
But it’s also important to not drink too much delicious beer at once! Spacing the drinking out by riding stuff is the obvious answer!
Circus Circus is one of my favourites! It’s fun yet comfortable level of spinning! A must ride if you visit the Wiesn!
One of my other all time favourites is Mondlift!
Mondlift is just brilliant! It runs a proper cycle, unlike most other rides of this type and actually makes you feel like you’re flying through space! Emily tried to convince the Mondlift team to run it backwards for us, sadly that wasn’t successful.
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| Mondlift selfie! |
This year I decided that I wanted to try out one of the giant swings:
I would say that these look a lot more impressive than they actually are. It was ok, but don’t think I’d bother again!
Our second day was nearly coming to an end, so we headed for a beer!
The next day we arrived early and ventured into one of the few tents which don’t serve beer!
Tasty coffee and cake! There was even music!
We decided to head into Oldie Wiesn, an area which celebrates the history of the festival. It’s home to a few beer tents and some classic rides.
Who doesn’t love a classic ride?!
There’s also a small museum, which is worth a look.
The museum isn’t just home to giant apes, there’s also things like this:
These are the mallets used by Munich Mayors to tap the first beer of the festival each year! There’s even bets on how many hits the mayor will need to tap the beer!
Now, the ride line up at the festival is fairly consistent each year. There was a new for this year flat ride, I decided to check it out!
It was fairly gross! Lots of spinning, but not good spinning. I don’t really know how to explain what good spinning is, I guess see Break Dances. More on those later.
As it was starting to get dark, we decided to take a ride on the classic wheel.
The views are best seen at night!
Really shows the sheer scale of the tents doesn’t it?
It then time for food and we headed to an old favourite, the cheese tent!
Roast pork with cheesy potato dumplings and a wheat beer. Incredible.
We decided to do something gentle, to give our food time to go down.
Who doesn’t love a big, spinning disc which throws drunk people off in every direction?!
Our next adventure of the night involved one of the most famous attractions at the Wiesn. The Toboggan is a fast moving belt, which takes you up to a slide! It’s a great watch and actually very difficult to do without falling over, as I found out.
There’s a lot of debate over which is the best coaster at Oktoberfest, for me it’s Alpina Bahn:
Smooth, fast and fun!
That brings us to our last day. We had a relaxed time before our flight that evening.
We of course started with a coffee!
Then headed for a Schnitzel lunch in Heinz Wurst, a new tent to us!
The Schnitzel featured potatoes in a cucumber sauce. I’m not a fan of cucumber, but it was actually alright!
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| A beer of course |
This was a nice tent, very relaxed!
If you’ve made it this far, thank you! It’s time we talk about Break Dances! I think Break Dances are the best flat rides. I’ve never ridden something as fun and that brings me as much joy!
If I see a Break Dance, I have to ride! We had at least one ride on one per day! One of our rides was even controlled by a legendary Break Dance operator! We always finish our time at Oktoberfest with a Break Dance, just after we have had our last beer:
Thanks so much for reading!
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