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Day Trips
Neuschwanstein, Salzburg, the Alps and the lakes u2014 what each costs, which regional ticket covers it, and which station it leaves from. The Bayern-Ticket changes the arithmetic for most of them.
Munich is unusually well placed: mountains, lakes and two foreign countries are all inside a day's return, and the regional ticket makes most of them cheap.
Neuschwanstein is the famous one and the most misunderstood. It is a nineteenth-century fantasy castle rather than a medieval one, entry is by timed ticket only, and the journey takes roughly two hours each way. Booking ahead is not optional in season.
The lakes — Starnberger See and Ammersee to the south-west, Tegernsee further into the mountains — are reachable on ordinary S-Bahn or regional services and are what locals actually do on a hot weekend.
Salzburg is about ninety minutes by train and is in Austria, with different opening conventions and its own museum pricing. Articles here do the arithmetic: what each trip costs, which ticket covers it, and whether the group fare beats singles.
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