oktoberfest camping at STOKETOBERFEST:
THE SECOND BEST PARTY IN MUNICH

Stoketoberfest is Stoke Travel’s Oktoberfest camping accommodation, where you sleep in a private tent, and not a busy and boring hostel dorm. This is Munich’s only real budget accommodation option and also its wildest party, and all located inside Munich’s city limits. The Stoke Travel Oktoberfest camp is well connected to public transport and the place where legends are made, awesome and terrible decisions are interchanged, and we can let our hair down and be whoever we want to be.

In addition to being where you sleep, eat and get ready for the beer halls, our Oktoberfest camping is a wild party. Every night there’s a stage show featuring DJs and live bands. You can drink as much beer and sangria as you want at your own open bar. At Stoketoberfest you’ll find a place to buy your traditional Oktoberfest outfits – dirndls and lederhosen – and enjoy/punish yourself with drinking games like flip cup, beer pong, or maybe take a spin of our infamous Wheel Of Misfortune and losing your clothes. Oh, and there’s the dance floor that doesn’t stop day or night.

Stoketoberfest is also Munich’s biggest accommodation provider, and every year we host the most travellers, study abroad students, ex-pats and beer lovers and party animals from all over the world, with more than 2000 people staying and dancing with us on weekend nights. When you stay at Stoketoberfest you’ll be exploring Munich, making the most of Oktoberfest and losing it on the campsite dance floor with thousands of like-minded travellers from all corners of the globe. It’s not uncommon to meet your new best friends, your perfect dance-off partner, or the love of your life at our Stoketoberfest campsite.

Our Oktoberfest 2023 packages are all inclusive, so your tent, sleeping bags and sleeping mats are pre-prepared for your arrival, our chefs will cook you a hearty breakfast every morning so your stomach is lined and filled with healthy fuel. The Stoke Travel crew and guides will show you the party, both at our campsite and in the beer halls, and make sure you enjoy it. Our open and unlimited bar serves up German beer and Spanish sangria, wine, soft drink, tea and coffee  – an unlimited open bar for only €15 a day. 

In 2022 we were joined by international bands Wicked Things from Australia, Bread Gang DJs from Australia, Mega Events DJs from the UK, Pearl the Girl (DJ set) from Australia, The Guinness Brothers from Ireland/Portugal, and Slim Radio from The Netherlands. Our campsite parties were the wildest celebrations outside of the beer halls. Expect even bigger and better for 2023.

Other activities include:  our infamous opening party, speakeasy, circus performers, Wheel of Misfortune and so much more!
Find out more about the Stoke Travel Oktoberfest experience.

Oktoberfest is the october fest in september, Germany’s original BEER FEST 

Despite the name, Oktoberfest – the world’s biggest beer festival, attracting more than seven million people every year to the Theresienweise fairgrounds in Munich, Bavaria, Germany – mostly takes place in September (unsure about dates? See our article on when’s the best time to go to Oktoberfest). Once there they will drink more than seven million litres of perfect Bavarian beer, obeying German purity laws which mean Oktoberfest beers give less of a hangover, because they contain no preservatives or artificial additives. They will eat thousands of plates of hearty, German, Oktoberfest food including beer lover favourites like pretzels and bratwurst. They will dance on tables to German oompah bands and make new friends from all over the world and sing and drink and make temporary besties with complete strangers. They will leave the beer halls and then enjoy the carnival rides that rival the best amusement parks — roller coasters and swings and fun houses designed to thrill and excited and after all that beer and hearty food test even the strongest of stomachs.

But the thing to love the most about Oktoberfest is your fellow beer lovers and party animals. From Munich locals to travellers from all over Germany and the world, you’re going to be surrounded by thousands of new best friends, drinking litres and litres of beer, dancing on tables and generally being awesome/drunk/the best version of you/a sloppy mess.

For more Oktoberfest information, head here.

A Special Place for women at Oktoberfest

Stoke Travel will be establishing a Ladies’ Island again for Oktoberfest 2023. This is an “island” of tents where only groups of women, or female solo travellers, can stay. Within this safer space there will be extra security, and a powder room, so you can sleep with greater peace of mind, and enjoy a little extra space while getting prepared for the beer halls. This initiative is to encourage more female solo travellers and groups of women to Oktoberfest – an event that is often consider to be the domain of men, but we know that the love of beer doesn’t adhere to gendered boundaries – without worrying about being accommodated alongside farting, stumbling, drunken men. Of course, staying on Ladies’ Island is completely optional, and is offered with your Oktoberfest 2023 package at no additional cost. 

Munich’s Oktoberfest for Study Abroad students – it’s the unofficial fall semester launch party

Oktoberfest 2023 starts right when Fall Semester does, and so we always see 100s (if not 1000s) of study abroad students at Stoketoberfest, drinking beer from our open bar through funnels, playing flip-cup – just regular college party things. Given Munich’s central location and easy connections to all of Europe, whether you’re studying abroad in Florence, Rome, Prague, Barcelona, Paris, London – or anywhere in Europe – you will easily be able to get to Munich for Oktoberfest. AND seeing as though Oktoberfest is the world’s biggest folk festival you can convince your parents that it’s a cultural experience and not just you drinking delicious German beers by the quarter gallon (they might even pay for it, even though our packages are such good value you easily pay for it without their help). Why stay with Stoke Travel for Oktoberfest if you’re studying abroad? We are the biggest group of study abroad students in Munich, the best value, by far the most fun, and with plenty of experience working with students we’re completely safe and secure.
And if you’re coming from Rome or Florence check out our transport package below.

Oktoberfest for Stag dos, Hen dos or any group

Oktoberfest is the perfect place for your birthday, hen or stag do (bachelorette/bachelor party), sporting team end-of-year trip, university club piss up – basically any excuse to get your group together and head to Munich. Oktoberfest as a group will be the perfect place to bond over way too many beers, dancing on tables, and generally having the best time possible. Plus, staying at Stoketoberfest means you’ll be able to make new friends, not worry about your pre-and-post Oktoberfest parties – which happen on our campsite all day and night, and we definitely have enough space for you all. Plus, you won’t be the rowdiest crew at Stoketoberfest, so you can really have a good time. Find the Oktoberfest for groups package below and send us a contact form so we can work out the best package for you!
For more information on Oktoberfest for groups, check this out.

Oktoberfest Munich Tickets & Table reservations

You do not need to purchase tickets to attend Oktoberfest, and entry to all beer halls is free and open to everybody. Sometimes there are queues to get in and very rarely you might not because it’s just too busy (only on weekends and at certain times). To avoid this some people do reserve Oktoberfest tables and this is something that we can provide, but we don’t feel that it’s needed. The Oktoberfest tables that you can reserve are situated away from the main party area and require a minimum spend on food – so they are a great idea if you want to eat something and have a few chill beers before heading into the party. We recommend heading into the beer halls early, so we can get the best tables near the band, or if you can’t get up in time, to go in smaller groups, join other people’s tables and make new friends (you can’t buy beer inside the beer halls unless you’re attached to a table).

Watch the Rugby World Cup at Oktoberfest

The 2023 Rugby World Cup will take place in France and the group stages neatly overlap Oktoberfest’s dates. So we can have our beer and drink it too we’ll be playing every Rugby World Cup match at the campsite on our big screen, as well as hosting rugby-based drinking games, face/body painting and so on. There are plenty of Rugby World Cup matches to watch at Oktoberfest with Stoke, including New Zealand and Namibia on our opening night (September 15th), South Africa, Australia and England all playing on the 17th, and South Africa v Ireland and Wales v Australia on the 23rd and 24th respectively. If you love rugby and beer then Stoke Travel at Oktoberfest has you completely covered.

OKtoberfest Accommodation & TRansport Packages

Staying with Stoke Travel, all your Oktoberfest needs are sorted for a hassle-free stay and experience. Our all-inclusive Oktoberfest trips include your accommodation, tasty warm breakfasts, legendary parties and entertainment, free entry to all the beer halls and fairgrounds, a wicked festival crew to show you a good time before, during, and after your time in the halls, and our campsite’s infamous open beer and sangria bar – an additional cost of only €15 per day. Our Oktoberfest tours also currently run return sleeper coaches from Amsterdam, Eindhoven, and Utrecht for the weekends. Whatever you need for your Oktoberfest stay and experience, we’ve got you covered.
See all of your Oktoberfest 2023 transport options, here.