Three guided visits
A Dachau tour from Munich takes five to six hours and visits the memorial site of the former concentration camp, outside the city. Three guided visits run from Munich, all in English, at $50, $53 and $59 per person. Below: how each one travels, how long you spend at the site, what the listings say about age, and how to choose between them.
Quick answer
The short answer. Each Dachau tour from Munich on this page is a guided group visit in English. Choose by format. The 6-hour visit ($50) gives about four hours inside the memorial site and starts at Marienplatz, but does not admit children aged 13 or under. The two 5-hour visits ($53 and $59) travel by train, or by train and bus, and one of them includes an English-language documentary film.
The place
A place of memory and of education, in the words of one of the listings.
The memorial stands on the grounds of the former Dachau concentration camp, outside Munich. One listing describes it as the first German concentration camp, opened outside Munich in 1933. Another calls it the first permanent concentration camp of the Nazi regime, in use for the full twelve years of its rule. Since 1965 the site has been a memorial and a place of education, and that is how the guides on these visits present it.
A Dachau concentration camp tour from Munich is a quiet, serious day. One listing asks visitors to behave in an appropriate and dignified manner, and says its guides work «with sensitivity, with dignity, with respect for the victims, and without recourse to cheap sensationalism». Reviewers describe the same tone, and so does this page: what each Dachau tour from Munich covers, how long it takes and how you get there.
On this site, anyone looking for a concentration camp in Munich tour is pointed to the same place: the Dachau Memorial Site, which the listings place outside the city.
Every visit, current fare
The three ways to take a Dachau tour from Munich, side by side. None of the listings says whether train or bus fares are in the price, so ask when you book.
| Visit | Price | Price is for | Length | Getting there | What the price covers | Where it starts | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The 6-hour visit | $50 | per person | 6 hours | Metro and bus out; bus and train back | A guided group visit with a Memorial-qualified guide, about 4 hours inside the site | Marienplatz 11, by a white-and-blue umbrella | 4.9 · 1,838 |
| The 5-hour visit by public train | $53 | per person | 5 hours | Public train, with the guide | A guided tour of the site in English and a visit to the exhibition in the memorial museum | Not given in the details we read; check your confirmation | 4.8 · 3,215 |
| The 5-hour visit by train and bus | $59 | per person | 5 hours | Train and bus, with the guide | A 3-hour guided tour with a guide authorized by the memorial site, and an English-language documentary film | The tour operator’s office | 4.7 · 2,914 |
Visit by visit
What each listing says it covers. Every concentration camp near Munich tour on this page goes to the same memorial site; the difference is time, transport and age rules.
You meet at Marienplatz 11 and ride the metro for about 40 minutes, then a bus for 10. The listing describes a 4-hour visit inside the camp and 2 hours of travel. The route takes in the Jourhaus gatehouse, the Appellplatz roll-call square, the Bunker and Barrack X, and explains the three phases of the camp and the former S.S. training facility. You return with your group to Marienplatz in the late afternoon.
You travel with the guide on a public train. The listing names the former barracks and cells among what you see, and includes time in the exhibition of the memorial museum, which follows the camp’s history to its liberation by the Allies in 1945. It is listed as wheelchair accessible with a companion; arrive 10 minutes early.
Your guide is trained and authorized by the memorial site. The itinerary shows about 30 minutes of train travel each way around a 3-hour guided tour. You see all the surviving original buildings and the museum exhibition centre, and watch an English-language documentary film in the site’s cinema. Most of the tour is outdoors.
At the memorial site
Three frames from the grounds a Dachau tour from Munich walks through with a guide.
Rows of plain wooden bunks in tiers along a bare plank floor, with light coming in through small windows at the far end.
A white two-storey building with a wooden tower on the roof and an iron gate in the arch, with visitors walking through it.
Long rows of low foundations filled with gravel beside a wide path, with a line of tall poplars along the far side.
Getting there
Public transport with your guide, on every Dachau tour from Munich here.
None of the three visits lists hotel pickup. You meet the guide in Munich and travel with the group. On the 6-hour visit that means about 40 minutes on the metro and 10 on a bus on the way out, and a bus and a 40-minute train back. The 5-hour visit by train and bus shows about 30 minutes of train each way. The 5-hour visit by public train gives no timings for the journey in the details we read.
A Dachau day trip from Munich takes five or six hours in all, with the journey counted in. The listings do not say whether your fare is in the price. The guide travels with you on every Munich to Dachau tour here, so ask at booking how fares are handled on the day.
Age and access
What the listings say about age on a Dachau tour from Munich. These are the operators’ rules; we add none of our own.
The 6-hour visit does not admit children aged 13 or under, and proof of age may be required. Teenagers aged 14 and over come with their parents.
The visit by train and bus says it may require parental discretion with regard to minors. The visit by public train gives no age rule in its details.
Before you plan a day trip to Dachau from Munich with teenagers, read the rules above. One parent on the 6-hour visit wrote: «Thank you for make it interesting for my teens.» allyie, United States.
The 5-hour visit by public train is listed as wheelchair accessible, with a companion; the listing asks you to arrive 10 minutes early. The other two give no such detail.
In visitors’ words
Quoted word for word, with first names and countries.
Across the three listings, 7,967 reviewers rate the visits 4.7 to 4.9. Many of them write about the guide’s manner with a hard subject.
Melissa from the United States: «The subject matter is very delicate and he delivered the information in a professional and heartfelt way.» Elizabeth from the United States: «He set the tone for this difficult subject with grace and was extremely knowledgeable about the history to put this in context.» Jeffrey from Australia: «Informative. Moving. A necessity for people to understand history.»
Several compare a guided visit with going alone. Antony from the United Kingdom: «We felt we’d learned much more than we would have using the audio-guide and display information.» St John from Australia says the guide «made what would have been an overwhelming solo museum tour very palatable and easy to follow.» That is what a guided Munich concentration camp tour adds, and it is why each Dachau tour from Munich here is led by a guide from start to finish.
Before you book
Small details that shape the day of a Dachau tour from Munich.
One listing says no food or drink can be bought within the grounds, so bring your own. Another says eating is not permitted while on the tour.
The 6-hour visit meets at Marienplatz 11, by a white-and-blue umbrella. The visit by train and bus meets at the tour operator’s office. For the visit by public train, the details we read give no meeting point, so check your booking confirmation.
The listing for the visit by public train notes that its 13:10 departure tends to meet fewer school classes at the site.
Most of the visit by train and bus is outdoors, and the listing asks for clothing to suit the day. The other two are also largely on foot around the grounds.
All three offer free cancellation and reserve now, pay later. Check the deadline on the listing before a Munich to Dachau day trip goes into your plans.
Our verdict
For the most time at the site, the 6-hour visit at $50: about four hours inside with a Memorial-qualified guide, for visitors aged 14 and over.
For a documentary film and a memorial-authorized guide, the 5-hour visit by train and bus at $59.
For a wheelchair user in the group, the 5-hour visit by public train at $53, which lists access with a companion. Each Dachau tour from Munich here is rated 4.7 or higher.
Book direct
The three guided visits, in the order of the table above. All three are priced per person.
★ 4.9 · 1,838 reviews
★ 4.8 · 3,215 reviews
★ 4.7 · 2,914 reviews
Common questions
Five to six hours from Munich and back. The 6-hour listing describes a 4-hour visit inside the camp and 2 hours of travel. The 5-hour visit by train and bus has a 3-hour guided tour. One reviewer on the 6-hour visit wrote that it took about one hour less than the six predicted.
With your guide, on public transport. On the 6-hour visit it is metro and bus from Marienplatz; on the two 5-hour visits it is a train, or a train and a bus. On a Dachau tour from Munich none of the three lists hotel pickup.
The 6-hour visit does not admit children aged 13 or under; teenagers aged 14 and over come with their parents, and proof of age may be required. The visit by train and bus asks for parental discretion with regard to minors. The visit by public train gives no age rule.
No food or drink can be bought within the grounds, according to one listing, so bring your own refreshments. Another listing says eating is not permitted while on the tour itself.
Yes. Whichever Munich Dachau tour you choose, the guide speaks English, and the visit by train and bus also shows an English-language documentary film.
That depends on what you want from the day. With a guide you get context: two of the listings use a guide authorized or qualified by the memorial site, and one includes a documentary film. Antony from the United Kingdom felt he learned much more than he would have with the audio-guide and display information.
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