So I'm going to Oktoberfest...

MAURICE

MAURICE

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A friend of mine recently watched the movie Beerfest and told me we have to go to Oktoberfest this year.
I was talking to a co-worker who spent several years in Germany while in the Army and basically told me that Munich is the Oktoberfest hot spot, but I should look elsewhere since it is a lot more crowded and expensive than some other cities.
That said, I've been looking at airfare and hotel prices online and have found some pretty damn good deals, but I dont know what city we should visit.

Anyone been there, lived (or lives) there, or know anything about it? I would like to get it all booked and paid for as early as possible to get the cheaper airfare.

Any help is appreciated.
 
Munich is generally considered the definitive Oktoberfest. It's a bit like asking what knife show to go to if you're only going to one. Yeah, Bladeshow is big and crowded and expensive ($2.50 for an eight ounce bottle of water). But it is the definitive knife show. If you're only going to one knife show, make it Bladeshow. And if you're only going to one Oktoberfest, make it Munich.
 
Oktoberfest in Germany? Sounds like expensive beer and ugly women, both readily available in Cleveland.
 
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Sounds like quality beer and beautiful women, neither available in Cleveland!

maximus otter
 
Mount Angel Oregon

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There is no more appropriate setting for an American version of the "Old World" Oktoberfest than in Mount Angel, Oregon.

The small community was settled by German pioneers in the 1800s and readily reminds one of the rich Bavarian countryside.

Oregon's oldest and best-loved Oktoberfest began in 1966 as a traditional harvest festival to celebrate the bounty of the earth and the goodness of creation.

It is Oregon's largest folk festival.

Mt. Angel's 41st Annual Oktoberfest
September 14, 15, 16 and 17, 2006
"Come Blow Your Horn!"
 
Oregon's oldest and best-loved Oktoberfest began in 1966 as a traditional harvest festival to celebrate the bounty of the earth
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The original Oktoberfest was a celebration for a royal wedding but of course any time is good enough for a little beer and ......

TLM
 
I spent a week at Oktoberfest in Munich about 6 years ago and had a blast. I think you really need to go to Munich, even if it costs a bit more. Rollercoasters, beer, women, good food, beer tents that hold up to 14,000 people each . . it's a blast. One neat factor is that they won't serve you if you're standing up, and all of the tables are generally full. So if you walk into a beer tent without reservations, it means you have to saddle up to a table and ask if you can join them so you can order a beer. This means that you'll regularly find yourself standing arm in arm with your best new German friends drunkenly shouting along to the polka band.
 
Go for it and go to Munich. Most of the things that we regret as we get older are the things that we DIDN'T do
 
I was in Munich for Oktoberfest in....1998, I think. I was 19 and had no idea what I was in for. Having made no prior arrangements, and with every hotel in the city booked solid, I had to sleep in the train station along with several hundred others. The police were very nice and didn't kick us out until the sun started coming up. and thats a good thing because man but it was cold!

In the train station beer worked out to about $1.50 for what looked to me like a 20oz cup. Outside the station I couldn't tell you what I was paying because I was drunk as a skunk before I hit the street.

And the women, hot damn. On day 2 (or three, I don't remember) I upgraded my train station accomodations for a room that I shared with a beautiful woman named Sabine. She made me a pumpkin pie and showed me just how accomodating the german beauties can be.

Good times, good times. I'll never be that young, or approaching handsome, again!
 
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