Sightseeing tour Munich

Forty-six listings sit on this page in six price bands. Fourteen of them are tours of the city itself — by bus, on foot, by bike, Segway or e-rickshaw — and the rest are beer and food evenings, palace visits, concerts and full days out to the castles and the Alps. Pick the money first, then whether the day stays in the city or leaves it.

The sightseeing tour Munich visitors have reviewed most on this page is the hop-on hop-off bus: 4,805 reviews at 4.3, $27 for a one-day or two-day ticket. It is a double-decker, the listing runs its views from Olympic Park to Nymphenburg Palace, and you get on or off when you like. The other bus is a five-hour package: the main sights by bus, then a guided tour of the Allianz Arena with the museum and the fan store, $57, 2,411 reviews.

On foot costs least. Two Old Town walks are $25 for two hours: one, rated 4.7 by 655 people, takes a break in the English Garden; the other, 4.6 from 562, names the Frauenkirche and Marienplatz. That is the lowest price for a city tour here, so the “from” figure on this page points to the walk, while the top pick stays with the $27 bus and its seven times as many reviews.

By bike the price is $44 for three and a half hours. One ride goes through the city and the English Garden and has 1,984 reviews at 4.6; the daily one passes the Old Town and the Chinese Tower with a beer garden stop. For $45 and four hours, a third, rated 4.9 by 627 people, takes in the river surfers and Odeonsplatz and stops for lunch in a beer garden. The electric bike version is four hours for $67.

Segways come in two lengths, each with a guide: two hours past the Hofgarten and Ludwigstrasse for $73, or three hours for $106, starting with personal training on the machine. The e-rickshaw with a local guide is $112 for one to five hours through the Old Town and the English Garden, rated 4.9 by 196 people. A private tour with a local host is $107 for two to six hours.

The most reviewed listing here is not in the city at all. The full day at Neuschwanstein and Linderhof, the castles of King Ludwig II, has 17,025 reviews at 4.6 and costs $85 for ten to ten and a half hours. Neuschwanstein alone, by train and bus through Füssen, is $80; by van, with a guided tour of the castle and a stop at a Bavarian farm, $140; by luxury bus in a small group with snacks and drinks, $217.

Three other days leave Bavaria’s capital behind. Salzburg by train, with a guide in Mozart’s hometown, is $88 for nine and a half hours, rated 4.7 by 1,808 people. The Zugspitze day goes by van to Garmisch and up by cable car for $140; Königssee, with a boat ride on the lake, is $146. Both take nine hours.

Back in the city, the guided beer tours run three to three and a half hours: $39 for Beer & Beyond, $55 for a brewery and the Hofbräuhaus, $81 with a Bavarian dinner and the Oktoberfest Museum. The Residenz with a licensed guide is $73, a one-hour classical concert in its Court Chapel $44, Nymphenburg Palace with the Carriage Museum $75.