Munich night watchman tour: evening walks and concerts

Both walks last 90 minutes and both follow a night watchman through the alleys of the centre. The Costumed Night Watchman Tour in English, $21, describes a watchman with a lantern and medieval clothes, little alleys, hard-to-find sights and stories of medieval city life. It has 185 reviews at 4.4.

The Night Watchman Walking Tour describes much the same evening: the watchman’s stories, hidden alleyways and a Munich shrouded in darkness. It carries far more reviews, 2,428 at 4.7, and a listed price of $504. The description does not say what that figure buys or which language the watchman speaks, so open the listing and read both lines before comparing it with the $21 walk.

Neither description gives a start time or a meeting point. The listing shows both once you choose a date.

At $21 for 90 minutes the costumed walk costs $14 an hour, close to the $13 an hour of the Witches and Executioners tour. Those are the two lowest hourly figures on this page.

The ratings pull the other way. The costumed walk holds 4.4 on 185 reviews; the witches tour 4.7 on 402; the Night Watchman Walking Tour 4.7 on 2,428. If the rating matters more to you than the language in the title, the two-hour witches tour is the stronger buy under $50.

The concerts cost more per hour, $44 and $55, and buy a seat and a programme instead of a walk. The gala has the highest rating of the five, 4.8 on 111 reviews.

The Classical Concert in Residenz Palace’s Court Chapel is the short one: an hour, $44, in the old court chapel where, by the listing’s account, Mozart played for the Bavarian elector. It carries a likely-to-sell-out flag, the one listing on this page that does.

The Gala Concert at the Rococo Cuvilliés Theatre is two hours for $110. The listing describes an evening of classical music performed by the Residenz soloists in what it calls one of the most beautiful and important Rococo theatres in Europe.

Programmes, seat categories and start times are not in either description; the listing shows them for your date. The Court Chapel listing does not state the hour of the concert, so confirm it before you plan dinner around it.