I was first introduced to this magnificent castle through Samantha Brown's travel channel 'Passport to Europe' back when I was in Junior High. I was so mesmerised by it's beauty and the fact that Neuschwanstein schloss (read: Noi-swan-stain slos) is the inspiration of Disney castle I often saw in movies. This castle keep following me through my undergrad years as a big poster inside a Student Lounge. I made up my mind that it will be the first castle I'm planning to visit if I ever got the chance to travel around Europe, and it did happened.
Psst, insider tips! There is cheaper option for the train ticket, instead of buying normal train ticket, you can buy Bayern-Ticket which cost €28 and can be use in all regional train within Bavaria, regional train usually the one in red while white train is the intercity rail and express train, and the best part is the ticket can be used up to 5 PEOPLE, yep you don't get me wrong, you can travel with 4 of your friends means each person only pays less than €5 for the return trip, how cool is that? The catch is the ticket only valid after 9 a.m. from Monday to Friday but valid all day during weekend. You're welcome!
From Füssen station, took a bus 73 to Steingaden / Garmisch-Partenkirchen or bus 78 to Schwangau and stop at Hohenschwangau/Alpseestraße which located close to the ticket and information office, if you following my advise and buy Bayern-ticket, this bus ride is included in your ticket. It is advisable to come in the morning because the ticket easily sold out especially during holiday season, it's more tricky if you can't speak German due to limited English tour per day, the ticket cost €12 which included entrance ticket to the castle and 35 minutes guided tour with an experienced guide which will tell you the story of the castle it self. One downside of this is : no picture permitted inside the castle. Argh, now I'm frustrated!!
 |
| Long queue in front of ticket office |
There are 2 options to get the to castle from the ticket office, you can hike the mountain through a hiking path which will took around 40 mins to 1 hour but with magnificent view, or you can be lazy like me and took a bus instead. The bust stop located next to the biergarten and costed €3 for both ways. It's a 15-20 minutes bus trip on the edge of a cliff with magnificent view. I really recommended took the bus around an hour before your intended tour, and go the Marianne Brücken to get the first glimpse of this beautiful castle.
 |
| It looks so gorgeous!! |
Just go through the gate and you'll see several gate with number on them, you will be assign to specified gate based on your tour number. Unexpectedly the tour was not as entertaining as the view from the outside, it still amazing and worth the visit though. But I just couldn't stop drooling looking over the alps view from the castle window. The tour visit several rooms including king bed chamber, king toilet (which already use a flush toilet, a very advance technology at that time), kitchen, great hall and several other rooms. At the end of the tour I went to the toilet to get a drink, you may say eewwhhh but this is very normal in Germany, and I tasted the most refreshed toilet water I've ever drink, I think it's taste even better than normal bottle water!
Finished my tour and still got time to spare before heading back to München, why not grab a traditional beer König Luwig Dunkel Beer while enjoying the scenery?
For further information regarding Neuschwanstein Schloss, you could visit their official website below:
No comments:
Post a Comment