Advice please-weekend trip to Munich!

Munich Airport is very efficient. My luggage arrived within 5 mins of reaching the carousel. It was a 5 min walk to the car hire desk, and then 5 mins from there to collect the car from the multi storey, straight out onto the motorway which runs from the airport. We were on the road within half an hour of leaving the plane.
The road round Munuch does get very busy at weekends, as Dave said. It took us 2.45 hours to get to Niederau, although next time I would take the extra 40 mins and drive on to mayrhofen )

Thanks for all the replys guys, but the main question is really which resort we should go to-which resorts are easily reached by public transport? Or if we hire cars, which snowsure resorts should be the quickest to reach?
Has anyone experience of travelling from Munich to Seefeld-and is the skiing snowsure and good there?
Garmisch seems to be the closest with high skiing, would it suit a group, especially if we used publuc transport?

Nowhere around the Munich area is particularly high, although Mayrhofens slopes are higher up and as a result are about as snow sure as you will find. Plus the drive is motorway all the way except the last 20 mins.
Cant comment on the skiwelt but reports from people I know who have been there are always positive. Not sure Garmisch would offer you too much skiing for a week with only 48km.

You can get a train to Jenbach and then take a bus or another smaller train up the Ziller valley.

Dave Mac wrote:

Dave it has never taken me an hour to collect a hire car, if thats the case I will not be using Munich airport, I book an early flight so to get to resort for an extra half days skiing
apart from a delayed flight to Basle last year I have always been able to achieve that

Ian, I meant to add to the Ice Ghost response, that flight services in the UK, vary so much, depending on your location, and where you wish to go. The question relates to Munich Airport, and you seem to indicate that this is not an airport that you use.
I am fortunate to have a great service from Edinburgh to Munich, but it does mean a flight arrival time of early afternoon. I like that, getting to the Bichlwirt early evening for a Zipfer. :wink:

OTOH, your attitude does you great credit.

On the point of an hour to collect a hire car, this is what I allow in all main airports, it is the practical time to allow, from baggage collection to driving off. That is the typical Heathrow time. Smaller or provincial airports are different.

Also, Munich is the quickest airport for luggage retrieval from landing time that I have experienced.

No, I have never flown to Munich but I'll be using Innsbruck in March, if it takes me an hour to pick up the car it will be the first and last time ....... perhaps you could use some influence Dave .... I'm sure you must have some contacts at Innsbruck international airport. 8)

No, I have never flown to Munich but I'll be using Innsbruck in March, if it takes me an hour to pick up the car it will be the first and last time ....... perhaps you could use some influence Dave .... I'm sure you must have some contacts at Innsbruck international airport.

I wish that I could use Innsbruck Ian, but there are no budget direct flights go there from Edinburgh. That would be my Utopia. Train to Worgl, one hour.

Will be at Innsbruck in Jan, but on a T/O flight.

No probs with car hire time at Innsbruck, everything there is 5 minutes, give or take the hire queue. It's the major airports like Munchen, Schipol, Chicago. I was amazed at Tony's Munich time, transferring from Terminal 1 to 2 in 5 minutes. And no hire queue! He's a lucky guy!

Where are you headed for in March Ian, that starts at Innsbruck? It couldn't be, no, it couldn't be......

Dave Mac wrote:

No, I have never flown to Munich but I'll be using Innsbruck in March, if it takes me an hour to pick up the car it will be the first and last time ....... perhaps you could use some influence Dave .... I'm sure you must have some contacts at Innsbruck international airport.

I wish that I could use Innsbruck Ian, but there are no budget direct flights go there from Edinburgh. That would be my Utopia. Train to Worgl, one hour.

Will be at Innsbruck in Jan, but on a T/O flight.

No probs with car hire time at Innsbruck, everything there is 5 minutes, give or take the hire queue. It's the major airports like Munchen, Schipol, Chicago. I was amazed at Tony's Munich time, transferring from Terminal 1 to 2 in 5 minutes. And no hire queue! He's a lucky guy!

Where are you headed for in March Ian, that starts at Innsbruck? It couldn't be, no, it couldn't be......

Sorry to disappoint Dave but no I'm not ..... Livigno, it's the quickest route via Landeck and the Inn valley into Switzerland and then through the Munt la schera tunnel and into Livigno 8)

I used to have Livigno on my list when the boys were young, but it was the 5 hr transfer that was a deterrent. It does look to be an attractive location, no/little through traffic, 1200m drop.

Dave Mac wrote:I was amazed at Tony's Munich time, transferring from Terminal 1 to 2 in 5 minutes. And no hire queue! He's a lucky guy!

Well its hardly several miles, is it? You walk down the escalator, a few hundred metres on the lower floor, and round the corner past the shops and hey presto, there are the car hire desks. I literally turned up, got the keys and walked into the multi storey within minutes. No queueing anywhere. I dont think it was luck. I put it down to having a good sense of direction, the airport being eficient and well signposted, and it being late morning on Boxing Day. The journey did go downhill a short while after that, round about the time I passed the fantastic new Bayern Arena, where there were several delays on the motorways, but only because there were road works.
I particularly liked the variable speed limit on the Inn Valley motorway in Austria which is varied depending on the amount of pollution generated, ie the busier it gets, the more pollution there is, the slower the speed limit.
Oh, and big cars with winter tyres on steel wheels. Remember that one????

Dave, I think you need to change your travelling times into MUN, walk faster, open your eyes, and stop chatting so much on the way and you might make it out a lot quicker )