Springfest in Munich is basically Oktoberfest in April and May. With all the attractions of the famous German beer festival – albeit on a slightly smaller scale, Springfest, or Frühlingsfest…
Munich’s Oktoberfest is the world’s biggest folk festival, where every year millions of beer lovers gather to drink, dance and celebrate the best beer in the world. In 2020 the…
Oktoberfest season and all of it’s lederhosen-clad liver swelling antics are almost upon us! And while we’re wrapt at the prospect of prosting in the beer halls again, the unreasonable…
Oktoberfest is the world’s largest, wildest beer festival. With robust Bavarian brews, unbeatable German chow, a massive carnival, and booming brass bands, it’s no wonder Oktoberfest draws millions of festival-goers…
Group travel: a sloppy shit show of bill paying, reservations, compromises and making sure no one perishes most egregiously. Whether your destination is Oktoberfest or Running of the Bulls, you’re…
So you’re gallivanting through Europe and think you’re ready to take on Germany’s biggest, raunchiest, wildest festival: Oktoberfest. Obviously you want to do it the most lit way possible by…
They’d say things that’d make you puke. Let us paint you a scene. You’ve imbibed the unlimited beer and sangria while pre-gaming for Springfest, the Running of the Bulls, La…
If there’s one thing that we love at Stoke Travel it’s a good party, doubly so when the star of the show is beer, our favourite golden liquid (there wasn’t…
A shocking new report has come out of Munich, Germany, suggesting that Germans are seriously really nice people. The report, gained from travellers’ experiences visiting Europe’s most populous country, suggest…
Surely by now you know that Springfest 2019 is not only Oktoberfest’s smaller, more authentic sibling, but that it’s also a fantastic time. Well here we are to tell you that…
Officials at Munich’s Fruhlingsfest, better known as Springfest, have instituted a new minimum-drunkenness requirement for the carnival at this year’s festival. Meant to combat dangerous under-indulgence, the proposed policy change…
In a power struggle as old as families themselves, Springfest has announced that it’s about time it gets the same recognition as its better-known cousin, Oktoberfest. “It’s bullshit,” Springfest told…
According to various experts, that Bavarian Bathsheba who poured your last liter was definitely checking you out. Sources confirm that, among the several thousand men she served during the festival,…
Now if you’re thinking that Oktoberfest is little more than a gratuitous, beer-soaked orgy of new friends and oompah music, then you’d be right! That’s pretty much all it is,…
Ah, I’m going to enjoy this, she says while cracking her 20th beer that day Munich, Germany. A young American woman has appreciated yet another beer while celebrating Munich’s Frühlingsfest,…
The Cos and the Pros, the Prosts and the Hosts, the Steins and the Neins, which is the better festival? It’s Springfest vs. Oktoberfest Germany. A mass of central land…
If being in Munich in September just doesn’t fit with your plans, you can experience all the same delights at Springfest.
Springfest is many things – Oktoberfest in spring, Oktoberfest’s lesser-known but cooler younger sister, the warm up for Oktoberfest, and/or Oktoberfest with better weather and less tourists.
Springfest, known locally as frülingsfest, is Germany’s other beer festival. Every year, from mid April to the beginning of May, tens of thousands beer lovers make their way to Munich’s…
With winter upon us it’s easy to turn into a shivering, lifeless blob. Summer picnics and beach days have vanished from memory (along with your motivation to exercise), and life’s…
Germany’s Springfest, held in Munich ever April-May, offers young backpackers and students yet another opportunity to behave like complete pissheads without compromising their professional nor familial relationships. The festival, held…
And what that means for you. From humble beginnings a decade ago, Stoke Travel’s marquee Stoketoberfest event has won Tour Radar’s coveted “Festival and Events Tour Of The Year”. That…
Say sayonara to summer’s shenanigans in style It doesn’t matter if you call the season autumn or fall, all that matters is that it starts in Europe on Sunday September…
We’re gonna need more than ein stein, Einstein. Oktoberfest is fast approaching and all things Germanic are on our minds again. It’s easy for us to slip into the German…
Oktoberfest is almost upon us, and with it the season that we again start hearing things about the “purity laws” relating to German beers. The purity laws are often wheeled…