No beer tent traffic jams, no half-digested leftover food on the roller coaster, no annoying celebrities. For our author, the Munich Spring Festival is significantly more attractive than the Oktoberfest.
About five months before Oktoberfest and just a few weeks after Starkbierfest, Munich hosts perhaps the city’s least famous beer festival, the Frühlingsfest. Like Oktoberfest, there are loud beer tents, rides, games and dozens of dining options. The spring festival is the perfect warm-up for Oktoberfest. No, more than that.