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Beautiful Buildings, Rushed Experience

The tour was as advertised, but next time I believe that we will do the research and travel on our own. Both interior castle tours are conducted by on-site staff, and you go at their pace, and see what you see. That would be true for everyone, regardless. Unfortunately, apart from the ease of not having to drive, the guided bus tour added little. Some tidbits, but mostly those things you might find out via a short web visit or that you hear on the castle tours anyway.

The most disappointing item for my family's tour was the very rushed nature of the schedule - Linderhof has beautiful grounds which we only saw as we rushed past to get in and out of the castle and scurried back to the bus. Neuschwanstein's classic view from Marienbrucke is possible if you completely give up on checking out the shops and restaurants - but this choice was not clear, and after doing just a little shopping and grabbing a bite, we didn't have time to stand in the long line waiting to get out to the Marienbrucke bridge. (Teeth grinding noises).

Worse - you rush back to the bus, only to find that some of the group aren't quite as circumspect, and then you sit for however long it takes for "those people" to show up. The guide's gentle tongue lashing of the late-comers does not compensate for our own lost opportunity or idling in our bus seat.

Next time - definitely will rent a car, make advance ticket reservations on the web, and do things on our schedule.

Visiting the castles

The scenery is beautiful, the bus is confortable and our guide was very good. However, everything seems rushed, specially the tine in Oberammergau. The castle tours themselves were very short and not much detail. We spent most of the time on the bus.

Neuschwanstein and Linderhof Royal Castles Day Trip

Ulrich was very nice however when we asked him about WiFi he informed us he would ask the driver. Later when we asked the driver he told us that he does not speak English. He was very rude and needless to say there was no WiFi. In 2018 there should be WiFi available.

The tour was ok

The bus was ok and the castles were amazing. The recording guide, in the bus, gave us very few information. I would like to know more. The time was a little tight and there weren’t any time to do much or ask the guides, specially in Linderhof. Beside that everything was ok. The only negative point is that the guide, at the end, ask us for tip. For me, you earn your tips, and if your clients wants to give you tip, they give it to you. You as a guide, shouldn’t tell in a open mic to give you tips, that was a very bad taste gesture.

Good tour into Baverian countryside

Good day out from Munich with good guide and friendly driver. We enjoyed the visit to Linderhof and also the brief visit to Oberammergau as we managed to see the theatre where the passion plays are produced. However, we were very disappointed in the visit to Neuschwanstein. We had a few hours stay which was taken with a long but wonderful walk up to the castle and then were basically herded into a very short guided tour of the castle. This was not the fault of the tour company but the way the castle tours were operated - typical tourist trap! Frankly, we thought the Residenze in Munich was by far the best value for money and certainly surpassed the Neuschwanstein experience. The travel through Baveria was lovely.

Royal castle tour

It was generally good but Not enough time to See nor to walk around there during limited time. The place was so crowded and it was impossible to eat and run to the meeting place in the court of castle. We missed a lot of area we wanted to see!!!

Meeting/Pickup point was easily located.
Bus was clean and sales of drinks available from driver during stop was additional good service.
It would be good if Bus tour guide advise us of her location on certain timings at Neuschwanstein after our lunch before going up to the castle... in case we need to get last minute information.

Tour was interesting, nice to see Bavarian countryside. There were though much too little time to see the castles. Group was so big that you could not even see the room properly and you could not browse rooms on your own because of the time table.

I recommend NOT to eat in the restaurant the guide recommended. Food tastes bad, cold, mashed potato was not from real potatoes and it was really expensive.

Our tour guide, Markus, was wonderful. His commentary was informative but lively and quite funny at times. His instructions were clear.

I enjoyed the visits to the castles, however I did not really care for the shopping expedition to Oberammergau. Perhaps a variation of this tour that offers longer time at the historical sites and skips the shopping could be offered.

A very interesting tour, but in my opinion not enough time for each visited site. At Linderhof only time for either seeing the castle from the inside OR the beautiful surroundings. A frustrating choise. The visit in Oberammergau very short, also frustrating, because it's a very charming town with lots of good shops. At Neuschwanstein more time was scheduled, but still I found it stressful. You have to consider the long tour up and down the mountain, either walking or waiting for a shuttle bus together with hundreds of other tourists, If it's full, you have to wait another 20 minutes for the next one. Consider that you need time for eating dinner. Consider that the führung in the castle may last a bit longer than scheduled. Consider queues if you want to buy something in the shop at the castle, and use the toilet. If you take a wrong path when walking down, as I did, consider time for finding your way back. I ended up having to run all the way down the mountain, and still couldn't make it back at the time scheduled. The bus waited for me though :-)
All in all: my suggestion is, that you - besides this tour - offer a tour in your program that focuses on Neuschwanstein alone - there is enough to see, to make a day-tour to this site alone. (For those who like, there would perhaps then also be time to see Hohenschwanstein, which is a next-door neighbour to Neuschwanstein.) I would definitely enlist!
You have another day-tour to Linderhof and Oberammergau only, and knowing what I know now, I would have chosen this, I think, PLUS a day-tour to Neuschwanstein only, if it had been possible.
I will add that the guide was VERY nice and she gave us lots of interesting information during the day.

We missed the tour by five minutes because we were standing on the wrong corner BUT City Discovery was so helpful in suggesting another tour and repaying us for this tour. I have used City Discovery tours and HIGHLY recommend them.

The tour leader was very efficient.

The stop at Oberammergau is a lost of time.

It is not your fault, but the visit of Neuschwanstein at a run is a pity as it is impossible to admire quietly such beautiful rooms.