Guided day trip to the legendary Herrenchiemsee Palace with English-speaking tour guide

Highlights

Munich City Pass: Your Munich City Pass entitles you to a 20% discount on your ticket for the day tour to Herrenchiemsee Palace.
Reserve your preferred date in advance – you will receive all the information you need with your Munich City Pass.
Munich Card: With the Munich Card, you receive a 20% discount on this attraction.
The regular price for an adult to take part in a day trip is €61.
Reserve your preferred date in advance – you will receive all the information you need with your Munich Card.
For the entrance tickets to the castle and for the boat ride, there is an additional fee of 28 € per adult to be paid at the tour office

Day trip including train and boat journey
Only an hour’s drive from Munich
Experience one of the fairytale castles of the ‘Fairytale King’ Ludwig II.

A dream of a castle – when Ludwig II wanted to rebuild the Palace of Versailles

What awaits you on site

Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, is remembered in the history of Bavaria as a passionate castle builder, particularly of the castles Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof; he is also known as the ‘Fairytale King’. Inspired by the Palace of Versailles, Ludwig had a castle built on the Herreninsel in the Chiemsee. The magnificent staircase, the state bedroom and the Great Mirror Gallery were designed with particular extravagance.

With its elegant gardens and walkways and its luscious interiors of gold, glass, and porcelain, the castle is a visually overwhelming monument to opulence. It also reflects the eccentric and troubled personality of Ludwig with features such as the celebrated elevated dining table, which could be raised and lowered through the floor to the kitchens below so that the reclusive king did not have to see his servants.

The state rooms of Herrenchiemsee New Palace can only be visited as part of a guided tour. These tours take place regularly and your place is already secured when you book the excursion.

About the excursion

Look forward to go on a train and boat trip to Herrenchiemsee, the stunning palace on an island on Chiemsee lake. Known as ‘the Bavarian Sea,’ Chiemsee is the largest of many lakes near Munich. We take you on a boat trip to two islands: the Herreninsel (the "Men’s Island", location of the palace) and the smaller Fraueninsel (the "Women’s Island"), with its lovely Benedictine Convent, whose origins stretch back 1300 years. The complete day trip to Herrenchiemsee is one of the most unique and beautiful tourist-experiences you can have in Bavaria. Palaces, lakes, mountains: the full Bavarian experience. Just a short train ride from Munich, the Royal Castle of Herrenchiemsee is a glittering jewel on a lake island. Your guide will accompany you there and provide you with all the mystical history of the castle and its builder.

How to get there

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Meeting point: Radius Tours, Dachauer Straße 4, 80335 Munich

Good to know

Tour times:
Start time: 9.20 am
May to September on Wednesdays and Sundays
Duration: 9.5 hours

As the times for the day tour can change at short notice, please check the website for your preferred date: https://www.radiustours.com/tours-in-english/herrenchiemsee-castle/
Tour language: English

With the Munich City Pass and the Munich Card, you get a 20% discount on the participation fee for this day tour in English.