Every Tuesday is family day at the Wiesn: rides reduce their prices until 7 p.m. This is particularly good for parents whose offspring has long since outgrown the “Oh, how cute, what’s his name?” age and would like to ride every roller coaster on the fairground three times. What would come close to a nice short break in terms of price if you gave in to all these wishes. The family day is an opportunity for a more peaceful coexistence. One or the other near-whiplash to gruesome techno music is cheaper there.
If the offspring are so small that they simply look adorable in their cousin’s costume, which doesn’t quite match yet, there are a number of special offers for them. On the family days, but also around it.
Highlights for children at the Oidn Wiesn
The Oide Wiesn is always a good place to go with children. But especially during the week. At the weekends, all families in the city come up with the idea of taking a leisurely stroll there, which can mean that the parents at the carousel do not always get a good angle to take a worthy photo of Greta, Carl, Emma and Linus at their Shooting a tour on the retro horse. And that, although they had to wait quite a long time in line at the Oidn Wiesn. Only on the weekends, mind you.
Admission to the Oidn Wiesn costs four euros for adults (from the age of 14), nothing for children, and all rides from children’s carousel to chain flyer only cost one euro.
in the museum tent you can see pretty cool Oktoberfest exhibits like old showmen’s wagons. Since 2019, the tent has also had a bowling alley (free for children, adults 2.50 euros for three bowls). The bowling alley can also be booked for half an hour under the telephone number 0171/5404536. In and in front of the museum tent there is a separate children’s program including handicrafts, trouser running, Masskrug slalom, juggling and unicycling. For the first time this year, the children and young people even have penny-farthings available. They can also test their knowledge of Bavarian in a hidden object game and learn something about the history of showmanship. Anyone who answers all questions about the Oide Wiesn correctly receives the “Wiesn Diploma” and a small prize. Participation is free.
That Heart Punch Tent has also thought of the little ones in its lovingly selected cultural programme; the children’s theater at the Fraunhofer, for example, performs the puppeteer story “Wiesnräuber”, Cafe Unterzucker plays music suitable for children. The program is below www.herzkasperlzelt.de viewable.
That too Marquee tradition is a good place to go with small children: It has a covered parking lot for prams, children’s toilets, changing facilities, a soda fountain in the beer garden and a Munich Kindl figure for souvenir photos.
The Munich Marionette Theater is completely free – apart from admission to the Oide Wiesn – which performs plays such as “Der Brandner Kaspar looks into paradise” and “Der Münchner im Himmel” daily from 11 am to 1 pm and from 3 pm to 6 pm. The play “Kirkus Kunterbunt” from Monday to Friday at 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. is particularly suitable for children. Further information and the playground of the marionette theater are available at www.muema-theater.de.
Offers for everything to do with children at the Familien-Platzl
But parents with small children don’t necessarily have to resort to the Oide Wiesn to have a good time on the Festwiese. There is one especially for her family place: It is located on Straße 3 Ost and has its own beer garden with a wooden floor suitable for prams and a pram garage, children’s toilets, changing table and microwave.
You can bring your own snack to the beer garden, so nothing stands in the way of the gluten-free rice cake experience for the little ones at the Oktoberfest. The orchestrion from the fifties is cool to look at. And around the Familien-Platzl there are some of the best rides for the little ones, including the Babyflug, Musik-Express and toss and play booths.
For children of primary school age, the entire fairground can become an adventure scene: The Herzerl Rally starts on the first family day. There are gingerbread hearts with letters distributed all over the Schaustellerstraße, mainly at the children’s rides. The game board for this is laid out on all of these rides; and when the last letter has been found, the children can pick up a surprise from the line in the service center behind the Schottenhamel marquee.
On the two Tuesdays, not only are the prices for many rides reduced, one thing is completely free for children: that devil wheel. Adults only pay three euros for admission on Family Day. And you can spend a lot of time on the Teufelsrad, watching others fly off the wheel and clinging to it until centrifugal force does the rest. The traditional ride is also a great alternative when the weather isn’t quite so kind. On all other days, the Teufelsrad costs just one euro for children.
New this year and also well suited for the whole family is the Circus circusa carousel with twelve gondolas that can swing up to 360 degrees.
Cheap food for children at the Wiesn
Here and there there at the family days discounted food for the little ones, in the big festival tents such as the Hacker festival tent, the Bräurosl, the Augustiner festival hall and the Hofbräu tent, for example.
On all days, some tents offer children’s meals or even a whole children’s menu, in many there are even coloring books and pens to keep the youngest happy – in Kufflers Weinzelt, in Bodo’s Cafézelt and in Poschner’s Hühner- und Entenbraterei, for example.
Useful, legal and organizational information on Family Day
In order to minimize the drama potential of losing a child, the security guards are at the entrances to the festival site child finder-Bracelets off. They are given the phone number of the parents so that if the worst comes to the worst, everyone can be reunited quickly. If it can be arranged, weekday mornings and early afternoons are most relaxed for visiting with children.
Children are allowed into the marquee, the emphasis being on with them – of course when accompanied by adults. After 8 p.m., children under the age of six are not allowed in the beer tent, even with adults. From 8 p.m., under 16-year-olds may only be on the festival grounds if accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
stroller are allowed on the Festwiese from Sunday to Friday until 6 p.m.; they may not be brought along on Saturdays and on the Day of German Unity. There are luggage storage stations around the Wiesn, where they can be stowed for three euros, and there are numerous parking spaces on the festival site itself: on the Familien-Platzl, at entrance 2 to the Oidn Wiesn, at the marionette theater on the Oidn Wiesn and at many rides and tents
A Changing and nursing area are available in the service center (landline entrance) behind the Schottenhamel tent, here and there in the tents themselves and at rides. children’s toilets can be found on the Ferris wheel, at several children’s carousels, in the Marstall marquee and in Poschner’s chicken and duck roastery.