Saturday, 17th September 2011:
The traditional entry of the Oktoberfest-hosts and the official taping of the first barrel
Start: 10.45 h
Length: ca. 45 minutes
Participants: ca. 1.000
Distance: Sonnenstraße – over Schwanthalerstraße – to the Theresienwiese
The most important: today also the hosts of the small tents are marching in – with own cart and the legendary „Wielenbacher brass band music“
Sunday, 18th September 2011:
Start of the international costume- and marksmen-procession
Start: 10.00 h
Length: ca. 2 hours
Participants: ca. 8.000
Distance: Start at the Siegestor over Ludwigsstraße – Odeonsplatz Briennerstraße – Maximiliansplatz – Lenbachplatz – Stachus (Karlsplatz) – Sonnenstraße – Schwanthalerstraße – Theresienwiese
Sunday, 25th September 2011:
Concert of all Oktoberfest brass bands
Start: 11.00 h
Participants: ca. 400 musicians of all beer tent-bands
Location: at the bottom of the Bavaria (open air)
(In case of bad wheater the concert will be deferred until sunday, 2rd October 2011).
Sunday, 2rd October 2011:
12.00 o’clock: the big saluting gun-firing at the bottom of the Bavaria
Monday, 3rd October 2011:
23.30 o’clock: the official end of the Oktoberfest 2011
Other dates:
„Oide Wiesn“
The historic Wiesn from 2010 will be continued! On the „Oide Wiesn“ in the south of the Theresienwiese the visitors can enjoy a historic beer-tent and nostalgic carroussels from the first years of the Oktoberfest.
http://www.muenchen.de/Tourismus/Oktoberfest/Jubilaeumsfeier-200-Jahre-Oktoberfest/392307/index.html
Family-days
With reduced prices for parents and their children
Tuesday, 20th September 2011, 12.00-18.00 o’clock
Tuesday, 27th September 2011, 12.00-18.00 o’clock
Beer-serving in the tents
Monday – friday: 10.00-22.30 o’clock
Saturday, sunday and holiday: 09.00-22.30 o’clock
The tents are closing half an hour after the last serving, except „Käfer’s Wiesnschänke“ and the „Weinzelt“ (here serving until 0.15 o’clock, opened until 01.00 o’clock).
The cosy-reasonable lunch at the Oktoberfest
Reduced prices in many Oktoberfest tents
Monday-friday until 15.00 o’clock
The show-men and their carousels, stands etc.
Monday - thursday and sunday: 10.30 - 23.30 o’clock
Friday and saturday 10.30-24.00 o’clock
The stands are opening at sunday already at 09.00 o’clock.
Tip: Monday, the 4th october 2010 is a holiday, with opening times like sundays.
No responsibility can be taken for the correctness of this information.