Oktoberfest 2025

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I have made it to Oktoberfest this year .

My friend mike is meeting me tomorrow to start an achterbahn und bier trip.

 

i started a week earlier and went to the drinktec convention and we will spend some time in munich before heading out to freiburg for europa park, mannheim for holiday park, home of expedition geforce, stuttgart for tripsdrill and the cannstatter wasen fest before returning to munich to finish off.

I saw part of the opening parade  lots of horse drawn bierwagons and brass bands.

I have confirmed that olympia looping is still one of the most awesome things on the planet  i got on the third train and it was great  

You must stay hydrated and the paulaner hefeweizen booth nearby offers a nice view. 
 

alpina bahn was running well too. It is my first time trying the new trains. I got a middle seat for some mild airtime. There are no headrests and at the bottom of the first drop there is a janky little curve that will keep chiropractors in business. 
 

Anybody else here, feel free to reach out. It is hot today at 30C but an awesome time. Maybe some night rides would be good. 
 

i was last here in 2014 and rode olympia looping 15 times. My goal itls to do 20 this year. Tickets are 14 euro bit still less than the airfare and more legroom than lufthansa. 

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Monday was cooler and rainy so we went to the deutsches museum. Really cool. 

Then a little refreshment at the hofbrau haus where we met new friends  

 

Then off to the weisen  

It was misty foggy  and agreat atmosphere for some night rides  

 

And then finished off with an upside down beer to review olympia looping. 
 

not sure how to make this right side up: maybe turn phone upside down. 
we are going there today and will check our the oide wiesen the old oktoberfest. 

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Also lots of neat flat rides with cool lighting  

The mist made them glow

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Tuesday it was overcast and cool so we welt to the old Oktoberfest section:

they started the display in 2010 for the 200th anniversary of oktoberfest and it was popular so they kept doing it. 
They had this fun spinny one  it had a brass band in the booth later on  

Would you eat at the badass imbiß?

Some nice tractors

 

a nice pipe organ

 

And organ grinders with animatronic monkeys. 

and who would turn down the chance for a fahrt ins paradise   (12 year old boy humour still going)

it was really cool, it had this steering wheel that the operator turned to change the speed  he also had a saxaphone and would pick it up and play some of the songs . He did moon river for us.

surprise: side view  you can really see how they crammed all of that track in there. Spoiler alert: big fanboy!

 

as it turned out we were lucky that tuesday was family day and they only charged 9.5 euro rather than 14 for olympia looping  helped me get to 11 rides so far. Aiming for 20… 

 

most of the other rides had discounts as well  

 

so it only made sense to ride the double wild maus. So good. 
 

ttoday we took the train to ringsheim via freiburg. It was a bit rainy but we walked around the old town. 
it turns out we could have taken the regional train down from mannheim rather than up from freiburg but i was happy to visit again. 
 

We are staying at the holiday inn ringsheim it is near the train station (more like whistle stop) and they have Rothaus pils, a local black forrest beer i love. 
 

i was able to visit the brewery with my friends the week earlier. 
 

They name their logo Birgitte which is a play on words for beer getter  

Was able to do a little hotel sink laundry as we prepare to visit europa park tomorrow. 

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We went to europa park for day one of two here. 

we started the day with the can can coastter, formerly eurosat, they refurbished it in 2017 and rethemed it as the moulin rouge in belle epoch Paris.  The queue line themeing is great with the occasional nod to eurosat. Most importantly it rides great. It has a spiral lift hill with a rotating center column that pulls the train up the hill. It has parisian scenes and an eiffel tower as you get to the top. The trains have onboard audio synched to the ride that keeps pace. Scenery lights up as you go by including a winking moon from jules verne. Not too scary but really fun.

 

Rode silverstreak, a b&m with great airtime. It had been mercedes themed and now is monacco grand prix themed. Not sure if it was suppodes to be a poke in the eye but they had a vintage Daimler owned by prince Ranier of Monaco. 

I have heard tpr sing the praises of the aquatrax and had to take the opportunity to try the one in the greece area here. Since it was drizzling and we were already a bit wet, why not. It was fun and exceeded expectations  (which had been set low)

Voltron was new last year and was awesome. We enjoyed the electricity themed queue line in the rain which felt disconcerting. 

Amazing themeing and ride with a statue of Nicholai keeping watch. 

pirates of batavia , having been restored from an elecrrical fire (on a water ride) was great. The queue line had some great stuff including the requisite topless mermaids. 

We tried out the food loop restaurant. You order your food and it gets sent out along coaster tracks including loops and helixes. The kitchen and bar send food up to a central dispatch area who distribute it to the correct table. There are special holders for drinks and food in pots down stainless steel tracks to circular tables. Each seat has a number and you get your food delivered by the food loop. Pretty fun and the food was good too. I had chicken breast on spätzle which was delicious.

We finished the day in the rulantica waterpark with the ride and slide package. The indoor/ outdoor swimup bar came in handy and their wave pool is one of the most intense i have been to. It has a really bizarre lazy river that goes through caverns below the indoor waterpark with crazy themeing. They let you go around as much as you like and we finished the day with 4 more laps. 
 

it is not well explained but you can take a shuttle from the hotel in the spanish section to rulantica for free. You can take the large monorail from the front gate there. 

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^ I've seen so much reported about that 'Coaster Restaurant'.  All of it great, I read.

Great that you got to "give it a whirl". 

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They give you a swipe card when you go in the restaurant. Everytime you order food or drink you swipe it. You take it to the cash to pay on the way out. If someone does not use the card and orders on someone else's they still have to check out with their unused card.  
 

there were a few people who just walked in to join a group without getting a card so when they went to leave they had no card to swipe. They had no way to prove they didn’t order anything. 

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Today was our second day at europa park. You could probably do most of it in one day but there is so much detail in all of the theming and areas that it is nice to have a second day. It also allows you to go back to some of your favourites. 
It was so foggy and hazy when we got there   That silverstar’s lift hill was hidden.

the two things that stood out for me were the obsession in themeing, architecture and plants they have and how they pack so much in to a small space with rides folding on top of one another like hershey does but even more. 
 

one of my favourites was the swiss themed wild mouse where the queue walks through a barnyard with animals and chicken sounds. The train crashes through the barn on one of the dips. 

Some rides are hidden into the buildings to the point you don't realize they are there. 
Near the can can coaster there is a curio shop which when you walk through which turns out to be a ride that takes you through a bunch of colourful dinosaurs. 

It was really bizzare  but fun. 
 

They have a larger blauer enzian powered coaster with a station that was amazing. It is woven together with an old school log flume. 
 

they had several water rides including one of the most aggressive white water rides i have seen. 

We had a great two days at Europa park and cant wait to come back  

 

We have taken the train to Mannheim and will see holiday park, now Plopsaland deutschland home of expedition ge-force tomorrow.