Reserve Tables

How can I reserve for Oktoberfest tents?

To acquire a valuable evening or weekend reservation, those are in our opinion the best options you have:

1. Reservation Alarm

When valuable reservation slots become available, you need to be fast. Therefore, subscribe to our free reservation alarm to learn about them as quickly as possible.

2. List of available Reservations

We offer the only overview over available and valuable Oktoberfest reservations.

3. Last-Minute-Reservations

A small portion of seats is being reserved only 24 hours in advance.

4. Reservation Exchange

In the largest Oktoberfest group on Facebook, lots of spare seats are given away on short notice every year.

When can I reserve for the Oktoberfest 2025?

Not to miss any start of reservations, we list all dates when tent hosts start to accept reservation requests in the following table as soon as they are published. Most tents only accept requests for weekday daytime shifts. You'll find the links to the individual reservation forms on each tent page. You have to know that there is no central reservation platform. All tent hosts handle their reservations themselves.

Large tents

Oide Wiesn

General Reservations Regulations

After some tent operators abused the former reservation rules, the city of Munich has luckily redone its regulations in 2023 and again adjusted in 2024, leading to the following rules:

• This big tents are allowed to charge a minimum consumption of two beers and half a chicken per person to guarantee the reservation. In the boxes and on the galleries, they can add a €18 voucher.
• Käfer Wiesnschänke and Weinzelt are entitled to a minimum consumption of €50 per person for reservations beginning before 2 pm; after 2 pm and on weekends even €95.
• The small tents can charge a minimum consumption of €50 per person for reservations starting before 2 pm and €75 after that and on weekends.
• It's forbidden to ask any to preorder menus before confirming a reservation or asking to buy any additional services.
• The vouchers you buy to guarantee the minimum consumption can still be used after Oktoberfest in the hosts' restaurants until the end of October.
• Reservation fees are only allowed up to €1.50 per person. Other additional charges are prohibited.
• Reservations have to be for at least 3 hours.

Reservation-Free Areas

Different from many other volksfests, the city of Munich obliges the tents to have large unreserved sections. As most Oktoberfest visitors don't have reserved seats, we collected some tips on finding free seats.

In detail, the tents have to obey the following rules:

• 25 % of all indoor seats in the large tents are generally unreserved.
• On Saturdays, Sundays, and the holiday, 35 % have to be unreserved before 3 p.m. even 50% of all seats.
• 15% of the otherwise reservation-free seats may be additionally reserved for people living in Munich if no minimum consumption is required.
• 10% of the unreserved sections may be reserved 24 hours in advance as last-minute-reservations.
• Reserved and unreserved sections in the tents are to be indicated by signs.
• Only Käfer, Weinzelt and the small tents are exempted from these rules.
• The tables in the beer gardens can't be reserved.

With only a few exceptions, you can only reserve whole tables for typically ten, sometimes eight persons. Reselling reservations is prohibited.

How Can I Pay for My Reservation?

Paying for the vouchers you have to buy with a reservation is done via bank transfer, which is the predominant way to settle a bill in Germany. Your bank will usually be able to do the transfer using the IBAN of the recipient for you.

However, banks are known for charging outrageous fees for international wire transfers. Therefore, it's advisable to check whether an alternative service is a more affordable option. We made good experiences with Wise in the past. If you decide to use Wise using this link, we'll get a commission.

When Is a Reservtion Worth It?

As, with a few exceptions, reservations can only be made by the table, i.e. for 8 or 10 people, reservations are only attractive for groups. However, even groups of ten are not necessarily dependent on reservations, but often simply split up into several tables and come together again later in the evening when their table neighbors leave their seats.

More important is the time at which you want to visit a tent. If you arrive for your reservation at eleven a.m. from Monday to Thursday, you will find that yourself in an almost empty tent. In this case, a reservation is disadvantageous due to the additional costs and inflexibility. Even more important is the fact that you can also get seats in the unreserved area so early, where the length of stay is not limited.

A reservation is undoubtedly advantageous for a Friday evening or Saturday, as the tents are regularly closed at these times to avoid overcrowding. However, these evenings are virtually unavailable for new customers as they are occupied by long-standing regular customers.

In short, reservations are irrelevant for the vast majority of Oktoberfest visitors. Either because they are only traveling in a small group anyway, or because only uninteresting times are offered for which you can find unreserved seats as well. Individual seats at reserved tables are offered at short notice in our Facebook group.