The Munich full-day coach, reviewed: 4.6 from 16,467 ratings, and the tickets are an option
This is the listing everything else on the site gets measured against, and it is not a Linderhof product. It is a coach. A full day out of Munich that stops at Neuschwanstein first and reaches the Graswang valley afterwards, from about seventy-six euros a person, carrying 4.6 from 16,467 ratings — ninety per cent of every rating attached to a Linderhof listing in this catalogue. Entry to the two palaces is listed as “Neuschwanstein and Linderhof Castle entry tickets (if option selected)”, so the tickets are a choice you make at booking rather than something the base fare already contains.
Read the third inclusion, not the first
| Which list it is filed under | The line, exactly as the listing writes it |
|---|---|
| Included | Transportation |
| Included | Tour guide |
| Included | Neuschwanstein and Linderhof Castle entry tickets (if option selected) |
| Included | Audio commentary is available in 7 languages (subject to availability) |
| Included | Premium tour only in English |
| Not included | Food and drinks (classic & late riser) |
| Not included | Lunch |
Transportation and a tour guide are stated flat. The entry tickets are not: they carry “(if option selected)”, and this site quotes that phrase rather than flattening it into “optional”, because the difference between a condition and a paraphrase of one is most of what a reader needs. The audio commentary carries its own hedge, “subject to availability”, and that stays too.
What it means in practice is worth being plain about, because the palace sells entry no other way. Linderhof can be seen only on a guided tour, the tour runs about twenty-five minutes and takes at most forty people, and the ticket at the palace’s own window is about eleven euros. If you tick the option, that is what the option is buying. If you do not, you are on a coach to a park, which is a real day out and not the day most people think they have booked. Tickets has both sides of it.
Ten written reviews under 16,467 ratings
Ten written reviews, every one of them five stars, against an average of 4.6. The written set cannot explain that average and I will not pretend it does. What it can do is tell you what the day is like, and on this listing it is unusually concrete about it.
The most useful line in the ten is Elke’s, and it is about language. She writes that “Tour guide Jay spoke English slowly and clearly, so that we Germans also understood”, and then, about the palace itself: “Unfortunately, we were also scheduled for an English guided tour at the Lindenhof.” The palace administration gives its guided tours in German and English, and which one you are put into is decided by the slot the coach is booked onto rather than by you. She still gave it five stars. It is the kind of detail no rating average will ever contain.
Fiona describes the day honestly: “Be prepared for a lot of driving, but also a lot of walking to Neuschwanstein - there are bus and horse options so don’t be put off.” She is right about both halves. The coach is the transport and Neuschwanstein is a climb at the far end of it. Matthew, on a different departure, supplies the detail that most often decides whether a long day is bearable: “Driving on a comfortable bus with a bathroom to each stop made the day much easier.”
Six of the ten name their guide by first name: Jay twice, then Faizan, Sven, Jai and Dimitri. That is a rota rather than one person having a good month, and the guide you get is whoever is on that morning. Reviewers naming their own guide are quoted here as written; the company that employs them is not named anywhere on this site.
One word in the ten is worth flagging, because this site does not use it in its own voice. Matthew calls the day “fairytale perfect from beginning to end”. That is his word and he is entitled to it. Ludwig II is very often called “the fairytale king”; that is a nickname attached to a man rather than a description of a building, and his page treats it as one.
What works
- 16,467 ratings at 4.6, by a distance the sturdiest base anything about this palace has
- The cheapest listing whose own page offers you a way inside the palace, at about seventy-six euros — the only listing that names Linderhof for less says in its own exclusions that you stay outside
- Transportation and a guide are stated flat, with no condition attached to either
- Reviewers describe a comfortable coach and a rota of guides they name and rate
Worth knowing
- Entry to both palaces reads “(if option selected)” — check what you have ticked before you travel
- Neuschwanstein comes first; Linderhof is the second half of somebody else’s day
- The palace can be seen only on a guided tour, and which language slot you get is not your choice
- Food and lunch are crossed out on the listing’s own page
- Ten written reviews behind sixteen thousand ratings, all five stars: useful for detail, useless as a sample
Open the option list before you pay and find the one that carries the entry tickets. Then remember what it buys: about twenty-five minutes inside, guided, in German or English, on whichever slot the coach is booked into. Everything else about Linderhof — the park, the fountains, the walk up the valley — needs no ticket at all.
The listings this one gets compared with
Small group, big priceFrom Munich: Premium Neuschwanstein Castle & Linderhof Tour
You see it from outsideMunich: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof Group or Private Tour
Cheapest with entry statedFüssen: Neuschwanstein & Linderhof Palace Day Trip
Frequently asked questions
Does this tour include entry to Linderhof?
Only on the option that carries it. The listing’s own inclusions read “Neuschwanstein and Linderhof Castle entry tickets (if option selected)”. Transportation and the tour guide are stated flat; the tickets are not.
Is it the best-reviewed Linderhof tour?
It is by far the most rated: 4.6 from 16,467 ratings, which is ninety per cent of every rating attached to a Linderhof listing here. Two listings on this site show a higher average, but both rest on fewer than twenty-five ratings, which is why their bases are printed beside them everywhere.
How long do you get at Linderhof?
The palace itself is a guided tour of about twenty-five minutes, in German or English, with a maximum of forty people, and that is the only way in. How long the coach stops in the valley is the operator’s business and it varies. How long you need takes the question apart.
Is it cheaper to go independently?
At the window, yes: the palace charges about eleven euros and a coach seat with the tickets attached is about seventy-six euros. They are not the same purchase. One is a ticket, the other is a day’s transport into a valley that is genuinely awkward to reach. Getting there sets out the bus from Oberammergau, which is the alternative.