Destination Munich eBook

The old guidebook is off sale. A new one, all about day trips from Munich, is on its way in 2027.

For years this page sold Destination Munich and Bavaria, my PDF guidebook to the city and the region. Quite a few of you bought it, and one reader wrote to say it saved her honeymoon, which still makes me smile.
The last edition came out in 2019, though, and a guidebook goes stale faster than a Wiesn pretzel. When I went back through it this autumn, the Bayern-Ticket was down as €22 (it’s €34 now), and prices, opening times and hotel reviews all through the book needed redoing. I didn’t want anyone paying for out-of-date information, so I’ve taken it off sale.

COMING SOON: Rothenburg ob der Tauber, one of the trips in the new guide. Picture: Stu Anderson

What’s coming: Day Trips from Munich

Instead of patching up the whole book, I’m writing a new guide about the thing this site does best: getting out of Munich for the day. It’ll cover more than 15 day trips, every one of them checked again before it goes out, with my own photos.
• The trips. The castles of King Ludwig II, the Alps and the lakes, Salzburg just over the border, and Bavaria’s best old towns, from Nuremberg, Regensburg and Rothenburg to little-known places like Amberg and Neuburg an der Donau.
• The Bayern-Ticket explained. Where it takes you, when it doesn’t work and how to make it pay for a group.
• Ready-made routes. Which trains to take, what to see in what order and where to eat, so you can just get on and go.
• Trips that go together. Which places you can easily combine in one day or a night away.
I’m aiming to have it out in 2027.

Want to know when it’s out?

Drop me a line through my contact page and say you’d like to hear about the new guide. I’ll let you know when it’s ready.

In the meantime

Everything that would go in the guide is already free on this site, and I’ve been busy updating it:
• All the trips, and a map with every one of them pinned: Day trips from Munich.
• Coming in December? Munich Christmas markets, with the 2026 dates.
• Planning for next September: the Munich Oktoberfest.

Thanks to everyone who bought the old book. You helped keep this site going.