The official Oktoberfest may be cancelled, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to Munich, in September and October, to drink beer and dance on tables.
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The official Oktoberfest is cancelled. So what are our options?

To put on our own event! To do Oktoberfest our way. To take the festival out of the fairgrounds and take the opportunity to explore Munich and celebrate Bavarian beer and beer culture across the city. 

To create an event, a festival – a celebration – for a few thousand of the fun and beer loving travellers and partiers who know that we don’t need the official Oktoberfest to have an excuse to drink Bavarian beer by the litre, to eat the greasy and delicious German beer food, to dress in lederhosen and dirndls and dance on tables while oompah bands play those classic Oktoberfest singalong jams. WE CAN, AND WE WILL, DO ALL OF THAT IN 2021 – WITHOUT THE OFFICIAL FESTIVAL.

But the best thing, the irreplaceable and unstoppable thing, that cancellations and COVID and whatever can’t take away from us, is you, the partiers and the travellers, and the beer lovers, and the vivacious, courageous, fun loving people who come to Stoketoberfest for the party, to make new friends, to dance and to sing and to drink and to be merry.

Because after the year(s) we’ve had, don’t you think we deserve THAT! We’re sure that we deserve that.

SO what will the Stoketoberfest: Oktoberfest Experience events be?

The way we see it, the Munich mayor shut down the Oktoberfest fairgrounds, but he didn’t stop the spirit. The city of Munich is going to be filled with the Oktoberfest feeling, and with event capacity in the 1000s we’ll be able to put on all kinds of events for our beer-loving Stokie friends. So what have we been planning?

Stoketoberfest Sessions in Munich’s historic beer halls and breweries

You may or may not know that the Oktoberfest tents are just temporary structures put up by Munich’s seven famous breweries, and that all year-round the breweries have beer halls in the city centre where we can get the true, the authentic, the historic and the amazing traditional beer hall experience. We’ll be taking over some of Munich’s famous beer houses for private parties, and seeing the beerhall culture that inspired Oktoberfest’s famous tents.

Day drinking in Bavarian beer gardens… it’s the stoketoberfest way

One aspect of Munich’s beer drinking culture that’s overlooked during Oktoberfest are the wonders of beer garden culture. Vast fields seating 1000s of people in the open air, where you can drink Bavarian beer by the litre with the sun shining on your face. We’ll be organising day drinking sessions in some of our favourite Munich beer gardens, with reserved seating and live music from Munich and around the world.

The Stoketoberfest beer big-top

We’re also going to be popping up a big top somewhere in Munich where we will have our very own Oktoberfest experience set up. This is where we can get wild, where the beer will flow like… beer and where we can dance on tables and singalong, and be absolutely and amazingly merry together. This is OUR own little Oktoberfest, and it’s where most of us will finish our nights… most of us.

Exclusive Stoketoberfest after parties

Of course, some of us will want to rage until the wee hours, and so we’ll be kicking on after the Big-Top and heading to after parties in some of Munich’s notorious late night venues. These after-hours events are only for the strongest amongst us, the mightiest party warriors, those with unquashable constitutions, or those too drunk or stupid to know better – which to be fair will be all of us. See you there!

Our infamous Stoketoberfest campsite parties

This is where everything starts and finishes, where the bar is always open (open as in open for you to drink as much as you want, during opening hours 10am-10pm). Where our Stoketoberfest stage features live music and the Wheel of Misfortune spins and spins and maybe makes you pour sangria down your pants… but don’t worry, there’s always plenty more where that came from. Anything goes at the campsite parties at Stoketoberfest, and that’s why many Stokies come back every year for our Oktoberfest trips.

camping at STOKETOBERFEST: Your best accommodation option in Munich

This is the cheapest, but more importantly most fun, way to stay in Munich. We’ll be setting up our sea of tents for Stoketoberfest: the Oktoberfest Experience and hosting you all in our solo, twin, triple and quad tents, as well as our teepees (up to eight people) and our Glamping options. This is the social way to stay, with all tents located a short stumble from our Stoketoberfest party area, and the whole thing is located inside the Munich city limits, so all of our events are easily reached.

Not only a place to sleep, staying at our Stoketoberfest campsite includes bottomless brunch – with unlimited mimosas – every morning, entertainment day and night, drinking games like beer pong and flip cup, live music, and our open beer and sangria bar, for only an extra €10 a day.

Find out more about the Stoketoberfest experience.

A Special Place for women at Oktoberfest

For the first time ever in Munich, Stoke Travel will be establishing a Ladies’ Island during Stoketoberfest 2021. This is an “island” of tents where only groups of women, or female and female identifying 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 beerhalls. 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. 

Stoke Travel Passport Holders Oktoberfest

Stoke Travel Passport holders are eligible for a 2 or more nights all-inclusive stay.
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