Oktoberfest started out like many trips we have now do... a really long car drive. We drove thorugh Switzerland, Austira and then to Germany all within 5-6 hours. It always gets me how close everything is in Eruope. In Austria, you have to get a toll pass from a gas station in order to drive on the freeways. Thank goodness we got one since right when we were about to exist Austria, there were police at the border checking each car. Supposedly the fine's 250 euros. Damn.
We got to the hotel quiet late and checked in, then went to sleep. We stayed at the Ibis Munich West. It was a fairly nice hotel. They completed it the Tuesday before the first weekend of Oktoberfest. Probably too much of a loss to have it delayed after the first weekend. The hotel was PACKED. We comfortably fit 3 people into our room. It was a fairly standard European bedroom.
The next day, we all geared up to go to Oktoberfest. Tom Faussett was even wearing lederhosen. Fantastic! the site itself is massive. I was thinking there'd be one tent, but there was probably upwards of 30 tents where people were lining up to get in. With 7 people in our group, it was a mess. The line we stayed at wasn't letting people in, they were fully closed by 9AM! It seems you can go in and out of tents until around 2PM, when there's just too many people and they stop letting people in. To get into the tent offically, you have to have a table reservation for a certain time slot. We didn't get a reservation because we were too late. You have to book it a year in advance, basically, to get anything. I hear weekdays are easier, although all we had was a weekend.
We went into the tent where they tap the first keg and almost got a table, but it was way too crowded and there were too many of us to get sit with anyone else. We ended up just sitting outside of the tents. It was a good thing we go there early, though (we arrived at this tent at like... 11AM) because even the area we were at filled up fast. It wasn't as exciting as being in a tent, but it was still fun. Unfortunately, I had a cold so couldn't drink that much! what bad timing...
We stayed all Saturday at the Oktoberfest site and didn't have a chance to go into any of the tents. I think my time would've been far better if I hadn't had a cold. It's not so fun being the only sober one amoungst a large group of drunk people. We did meet some fun people and I got a great hat, though! The next weekend was far far better.
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