Hey guys, its time for an update from a local guy!
So, Munich is kind of divided into 4 seasons.
- Ugly winter (after Oktoberfest - end of March)
- Christmas Markets (Dezember)
- Summer (April - Oktoberfest)
- Oktoberfest (starts two weeks before the first weekend of Oktober)
Ah and in the end of the post Ill sum up some general stuff.
Ugly winter: In general travelling Munich during the winter doesnt make a lot of sense except maybe for winter sports, but regarding chicks it sucks. The mood of the people is bad, people are mostly at home, weather is cold and rainy/snowy, at night people hail mary into night clubs, but night clubs here are crap in my eyes, bad music and expensive. so lets skip this part.
Christmas Markets: Although its winter in this time you can have a lot of fun. Dont expect snow, it usually doesnt snow until January (we have like one snowy Christmas in 10 years). But the whole city is packed with Christmas Markets and the whole city is gettin drunk with "Glühwein" (hot sweet wine). The best markets in my opinion are at the train stations "Münchner Freiheit" and "Rosenheimer Platz". Avoid the one in the city centre at "Marienplatz", because its just packed and expensive.
Theres also like a small "winter festival" calles Tollwood, its at "Theresienwiese" (where Oktoberfest takes place too). In contrast to the other Christmas Markets, which close between 8 and 9 (so quite early), you can pardy there easily until Midnight. Tollwood is for free and you have a lot of hippie shops and bad food, but also a lot of places to drink Glühwein. Usually the people who sell are students, so choose a cool bar, talk to the barkeepers, its easy to get free shots and talk to the chicks.
Optional: If your apartment is close to a Christmas Market its jackpot, just try to pull the chicks home directly. Take advantage of the drunk people and the cold weather (:
Summer: Yeah, my favourite time of the year (apparently). Usually it starts getting sunny in the middle of April. Everyone is outside, the chicks start wearing short clothes again, its amazing. Go to "Englischer Garten", the park is really huge, go out at train station "Universität", from there its like a 5 minute walk. There is a small cold river (called "Eisbach"). Grab some beers, swim in the sun, enjoy the weather and join the groups of people. And trust me, there are a lot. Sometimes youll see people playing "Flunkyball", its a German festival drinking game (you can watch tutorial on youtube). So if you can drink a beer fastly youre very welcome. Just talk to the people, everyone speaks English here by the way.
If you fail here or want to make barbecue, go to the big river called "Isar", best is around train stations "Isartor" and "Rosenheimer Platz". Also possible at "Thalkirchen" (in former times it was a meet up for the punks in Munich).
There are a lot of parties going who continue until the night, just join the people who got some hot chicks.
My favourite spot: Take the train to "Studentenstadt". On the first view an ugly place, huge grey houses. Theyre dorm for students whore not from Munich, you have all nations there, only students, the cheapest pubs in Munich (1,80 for a beer) and its next to the English Garden and the Eisbach too. You can buy the cheap beer and sit outside with the people or join the ones in the English Garden. Theres also one of my most favourite and even to Munich people unknown places, we call it the "hotspot". Its a place next to the Eisbach where hot air comes out of the ground - ideal for nude bathing and then warming up again (the location is (watch on google maps): go out of the train, down "Grasmeierstraße into the English Garden, then when you encounter the river move on the right, youll hear the hotspot easily. The Eisbach is called "Schwabinger Bach" on google maps).
Another popular spot is "Gärtnerplatz" at train station "Frauenhofer Straße.
We have a lot of pretty chicks from all nations / races so its quite easy to meet girls.
Oktoberfest: Its a crazy time. Like the only place I know in the world where its totally accepted that a whole city is drunk like shit. When you go there make sure you plan it at least a year before, as long as you dont know really cool people in the city who have an apartment close to Oktoberfest. When you travel a lot its youll run into Germans all the time, if theyre cool and from Munich befriend them, if there apartment is close its a jackpot. Hotels and Airbnbs are totally overpriced. Combined with the expensive prices at Oktoberfest its tons of money.
Dont get confused, its called Oktoberfest but its called like that because it ends on Oktober (the first Sunday of Oktober) not that it takes place in Oktober, most of the days it takes place is in September.
I prefer going there between Monday and Thursday, because on the weekend especially Friday and Saturday, its too crowded. Its a pain in the ass to get a spot in the beer tents, if you get in at all. So go during the week and avoid the beer tents who serve the beer Spaten (tastes like shit and has headache-guarantee) and Löwenbräu (tastes bad too).
The most popular beer tents among the youth are "Himmel der Bayern" and "Schottenhammer" (beware: serves Spaten). My favourite one is "Winzerer Fähndl. Look for a place with cool chicks and pardy with them. I actually prefer sitting on the benches outside the tent, because its too loud inside (hard to flirt). Always give a little tip to the waiter/waitress. A beer with tip is around 11€ now, be prepared. If you want to isolate a chick, invite her for a ride at the amazing fairgound rides. If shes down to, pull her home. Thats why its important to live close, if you fail, just try again, or even when youre successful and its before 22:30 (thats when the tents stop serving beer, thery close at 23:00) you can try to pull another chick home.
Avoid the photo-chicks they rip you off. Even worse are the chicks called "promilla". They have an alcohol-test-machine that shows you have like an unrealistic alcohol level. The tourists love buying that when theyre drunk to show off with that in front of their stupid friends.
Ah yeah I also avoid the tent "Hofbräu", its THE tourist tent of them all. And regarding the gays. Yeh there are gays, most of them in the tent "Bräurosl", but theyre not much and dont interfere. The gays here in general like to pardy a lot and they smell that youre not into them. I had good results with chicks in that tent too.
Regarding the traditional clothes. You dont need to buy "Lederhosen". The good ones are expensive like shit and only worth the money if you wear them a lot. Its enough in my eyes to buy a "Trachtenhemd", its the traditional shirt. You can buy it everywhere in the city centre for around 20 bucks.
In general: In Munich you really have all kind of chicks. Hippies / Metal / Stoners / squares / all nations / races. Thats damn amazing. Since we have a lot of universities there are a lot of students who want to pardy. Remind our shops close at 8 pm! There are only two 24hours places (at train stations Münchner Freiheit and Frauenhoferstraße) for beer. Some street food places sell too, but expensive.
Food: I love German traditional food and I can cook most of them. But the quality of Bavarian food in the centre is shit. The good food you get in the international restaurants. We have amazing places for food from all over the world, Italian, Arabic (at the central station), Chinese, Indian (!!), African and a lot more.
Public transportation works fine, but the conductors are assholes and the ticket system is damn complicated (even I dont know all the detailes).
Im not that much into the common nightlife in Munich, since we pardy at home since Im 13 or at Studentenstadt (described above). The club quality is bad in my eyes, especially when you have been to Berlin one time in your life. There are a lot of bars around train station "Münchner Freiheit" (haha theres one famous place called "Schwabinger 7". They describe themselfes as "if you remember Schwabinger 7, you havent been to Schwabinger 7). They serve a good selfmade Mexican liqour (beware if youre not use to eat spicy) and play Rock/Metal/Punk/Raggae music and are opened till the early morning at the weekend. Theres also an old school pub called "Rennbahn" (i drank the first shot of my life there). They have a great selfmade sweet strawberry liqour. Other pubs areas are around train stations "University" (expensive and boring places), "Frauenhofer Straße", "Sendlinger Tor" (mainly gay area) and in the area between "Ostbahnhof", "Rosenheimer Platz" and "Max-Weber-Platz", its called Haidhausen, i like this part of Munich a lot.
Regarding clubs, there are a lot in the city centre, I also worked in a club for one and a half years, as described above, I dont like it. Especially avoid the P1, its like the shittiest place ever. They were famous many many years ago because the VIPs of Munich went there. Its overprived, full of pussy guys who get shitloads of pocket money and goldigger chicks.
Check out
http://www.mvg.de or the mvg app for public transport at night, we have a lot of night busses / trams that you dont need to pay for a cab.
Guess i got everything, stay tuned and rock the city.
Cheers!
