Oktoberfest - 5 Days Hostel

Annoyed at Contiki experience... Will not be travelling again

Loved it, hostel was amazing and clean, didn’t really get much use of the buses as they didn’t go at very good times so I pretty much only paid for the accomodation but tour managers were amazing and so helpful! Definatly would do again

Could have been slightly cheaper but all in all glad I spent the money as it was an amazing trip

This is my third Contiki and the only one I wouldn't ever purchase again. I'm not sure what our money went to, because our hostel was absolutely disgusting. It was far and had six or eight people shoved into tiny little rooms that smelled and were germy and overcrowded. The included "breakfast" only provided things like cheese, bread, whole milk, and two kinds of cereal - nothing else. We were never given reserved tables at Oktoberfest, free drinks, even access to healthier food for breakfast or even just water. The bus shuttled us a few times a day and we were so far from the hostel that paying for Ubers/cabs was a necessity if you didn't come on the times, which left early. There was also no time to really meet our other Contiki members. For the price of what we paid for, I'm not sure what it covered considering we could've stayed somewhere else cleaner and nicer for the exact same price. Really disappointed with this one, and I hope it changes.

Great mix of boozy Oktoberfest and city sightseeing.

Tents were a bit small but they did the job.

The staff, the group size, the organisation, the whole Oktoberfest experience, 5 stars. To noones fault, the hostel was a bit difficult, having only three power points per room of six and showers that I can not use words to describe.

If you used to enjoy school camp and having teachers that have no fun, they want to give you a bed time and food that will at the very least will make you loose your appetite, then this is the contiki for you!!!

Arrived at the camp with people that weren’t on he bus. Straight away excluded from the group and got told to wait at the campgrounds reception far away and wasn’t included in the first breakfast which I’m sure would of been a nicer way to treat us. First night we aren’t allowed to have music playing in the main tent of the camp and pretty much felt like it was a school camp and wasn’t allowed to have fun. The staff were not keen on any means of fun with the contiki group. Second day no tables were pre booked for us and struggled to get seats with people from the group and was all split up. Final night the staff were fun police again and we were getting told off for being to loud and drunk whilst camps around us from other parties were having a great time. 10pm comes along we are shut out of the camps tent and told to go elsewhere whilst the staff members stayed up and drank/listened to music by themselves. By all means this is the worst contki you could possibly do when it comes to comfort and HAVING FUN!

Had a great time on this trip. The trip managers that took us to the festival seemed to have no information about what was going on once they arrived. They should have the schedule for the weekend when they pick up the group so we can all plan our stay. The bus drivers were great! They took us back without the trip managers and they did an awesome job. The breakfast was good and the camping facilities were better then expected.

I’ve done contiki before and this contiki was disappointing as a solo traveller I was expecting to meet a lot more people than I did, I basically was with the girls in my room the whole festival as contiki do not organise a time where everyone gets to meet each other. Over the 5 days I used the shuttle bus once. Most days there was only one shuttle to get to the festival and the shuttles to get back to the hostel were quite early, so I managed to spend more money trying to get back to the hostel at night. Contikifest was awesome but it should have been done on the first day so everyone got to meet each other. Overall Oktoberfest was amazing and I had the most brilliant time, but I was a little disappointed with what I expected from the contiki.

So good, however we had to buy dresses out there which were around €90 each, which would have been better to have been prewarned about this, however everything else was lovely

Hostel was far from Oktoberfest. Was basically transport and accommodation. Enjoyed it nonetheless

Should have more items like toilet paper and shower tokens included.

I wouldn’t do camping ever again with contiki. The beds were ****. It’s like a swimming lillo. My partner is 6ft 3 and the ‘bed’ ended just bellow his knees. They were so narrow and uncomfortable. Splash out a little more contiki for the amount we paid you can afford better beds. The food was ok. You need a new urn cause the one they had was ****. Location was ok transport was good. Maybe need a few more trips in and out of the rest though.

Same as above. I loved contiki, but this trip didn't get 5 stars because in my mind excellent/5 stars would have included a table for at least one meal for contiki members. But that didn't happen, despite claims that there were tables reserved for us.

The hostel was clean and comfortable. The service on behalf of the Contiki personnel was lacking. Never once did they reach to me to see if I was okay after not meeting me at check in. Extremely disappointed.

I had lots of of fun on this contiki and met a ton of amazing people. Hostel was nice and clean and the bus was always on time to take us to festival. The only bad review I have is that our tour director lied to us about having a reserved table for all of contiki. We arrived to the festival on the busiest day (Saturday) to find out that basically all tables were already taken and we didn’t have one.

Because being at octoberfest is like finally making it to the end of a rainbow and finding that pot of gold! Seriously happiest place on earth!