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Started by Rickytoo in Ski Chatter - 46 Replies

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Ian Wickham
reply to 'Advice please-weekend trip to Munich!' posted Oct-2009

Dave Mac wrote:What time do you fly in?
Train Info
Kitzbuhel is 2.5 to 3.0 hrs
Hopfgarten is about 2h 20m, lets you into the skiwelt
Worgl is 2 hrs, add 20 min transfer into Niederau, Oberau, Auffach
Worgl is about 2h15m, then 20min transfer to Alpbach.

If hiring cars, add an hour for the paperwork and car pick up.
Worgl by car is just under 2 hours.


I have hired a lot of cars over the years for ski trips and as long as they are prebooked I think the longest time I have wanted has been a max 15 mins , and that is from arriving at the hire car company to driving away 8)

Dave Mac
reply to 'Advice please-weekend trip to Munich!' posted Oct-2009

Ian, I asked Ricky the time of arrival, and 10.00am saturday morning is primetime. If the queue is short it will be 15min. Add 10 min for the transaction, 12/13 min for the terminal walk, (it takes longer to queue for a taxi, and transfer, and then walk to through to the relevant desk, Ice Ghost!) Then you walk through to the lift, change floors, and find the car, 10 min. Load up and find the exit. Total 56 minutes.

I am not saying that this is not a reasonable choice. The really big issue is that while the Autobahn from the airport will be a steady flow, on a Saturday morning, in January, the E52 round Munich will be very busy, and have a number of standstills enroute. The E52 onwards to Rosenheim should be a bit clearer, but is still steady at peaktimes. So a 2.5 hour journey might be a 3 hour.

The train is always on time, and is therefore, predictable.

You can manage the situation in a group, by sending the first two people to get their gear off the conveyor through to the station/car hire desk. Use your mobiles to check everyone else is through, prior to getting tickets.

ParalyticSkiCrazie
reply to 'Advice please-weekend trip to Munich!' posted Oct-2009

Last year we flew into Grenoble with the dreaded RYANAIR at half term from Prestwick (flights were incredibly cheap and we had lent our driving friends our roof box for free ski carriage!!) All the flights from UK landed within a few minutes of each other and we had to queue for an hour and a half to get our car - nightmare. The combination of Ryanair and Grenoble airport is not a good one - no boots or helmets in hand luggage, you have to wear all your clothes to keep within the 15kg baggage limit, smallest car hire unit ever at an airport and only one desk for the cheapest car hire company.......

To back up Dave Mac driving from Innsbruck to N last year we saw the traffic (on the other side of the AB) from Germany. If the public transport links are good I would use them OP.

IceGhost
reply to 'Advice please-weekend trip to Munich!' posted Oct-2009

ParalyticSkiCrazie wrote:Last year we flew into Grenoble with the dreaded RYANAIR at half term from Prestwick (flights were incredibly cheap and we had lent our driving friends our roof box for free ski carriage!!) All the flights from UK landed within a few minutes of each other and we had to queue for an hour and a half to get our car - nightmare. The combination of Ryanair and Grenoble airport is not a good one - no boots or helmets in hand luggage, you have to wear all your clothes to keep within the 15kg baggage limit, smallest car hire unit ever at an airport and only one desk for the cheapest car hire company.......

To back up Dave Mac driving from Innsbruck to N last year we saw the traffic (on the other side of the AB) from Germany. If the public transport links are good I would use them OP.


Are you serious? Are you allowed under-things, or are those prohibited. Doesn't Lufthansa have any good prices out of the UK?
Uh oh, I think I broke'd the lift

Ian Wickham
reply to 'Advice please-weekend trip to Munich!' posted Oct-2009

Dave Mac wrote:Ian, I asked Ricky the time of arrival, and 10.00am saturday morning is primetime. If the queue is short it will be 15min. Add 10 min for the transaction, 12/13 min for the terminal walk, (it takes longer to queue for a taxi, and transfer, and then walk to through to the relevant desk, Ice Ghost!) Then you walk through to the lift, change floors, and find the car, 10 min. Load up and find the exit. Total 56 minutes.

I am not saying that this is not a reasonable choice. The really big issue is that while the Autobahn from the airport will be a steady flow, on a Saturday morning, in January, the E52 round Munich will be very busy, and have a number of standstills enroute. The E52 onwards to Rosenheim should be a bit clearer, but is still steady at peaktimes. So a 2.5 hour journey might be a 3 hour.

The train is always on time, and is therefore, predictable.

You can manage the situation in a group, by sending the first two people to get their gear off the conveyor through to the station/car hire desk. Use your mobiles to check everyone else is through, prior to getting tickets.


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 8)

Dave Mac
reply to 'Advice please-weekend trip to Munich!' posted Oct-2009

Are you serious? Are you allowed under-things, or are those prohibited. Doesn't Lufthansa have any good prices out of the UK?


Ice Ghost, Lufthansa is a main carrier, and is not a budget carrier. You might pay anything from £100, (rarely), to £450, ie business rate fares. My ski buddy had just taken up a Lufthansa offer from Manchester to Munich for £150. I expect to pay under £60 for a return flight Edinburgh to Munich.

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Dave Mac
reply to 'Advice please-weekend trip to Munich!' posted Oct-2009

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.

Farostegui
reply to 'Advice please-weekend trip to Munich!' posted Oct-2009

I agree with the 1 hour landing-depart time. If you want to avoid all this parlava try PUBLIC transport.
I´m aware that there are bus conexions to Austrian resorts and from Kitzbuhel`s balconies you can waive to the german bundespolizei.
Train links with the S8/S1 to hautbanhof or ostbanhof are handy.
Last year I went from Standsted to Sölden using the train and bus. You can by the tickets even for the Italian Súdtirol resorts from the very München airport.
Elurra and Dolce Vita

Topic last updated on 14-October-2009 at 23:15