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These 4 paths will lead you to your Oktoberfest reservation.

Only a couple of decades ago, people wouldn’t even consider getting reservations for Oktoberfest tents. As the importance of the Oktoberfest tents has grown significantly starting in the 80s, reservations have become one of the most discussed topics. On the one hand, they release you from the sometimes cumbersome search for free seats, on the other hand, they guarantee admission to your tent on a Friday night or Saturday, when tents may close to avoid overcrowding. And all that in general for free - only some vouchers for beer and food have to be bought beforehand.

So, let’s better reserve for a Saturday? If it only was that easy… Actually valuable reservations – for evenings and weekends are usually not publicly available as they are exclusively offered to returning guests. On weekends, even lunchtime reservations are often not available to new customers.

Foreigners like to overestimate the importance of reservations. Therefore, we want to make it absolutely clear that you don’t need reservations to visit the Oktoberfest and its tents. Also, there are no tickets.

How can I reserve for Oktoberfest tents?
When can I reserve for the Oktoberfest 2021?
General Reservations Regulations

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 2021?

In order 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. Alle tents' hosts do their reservations themselves.

Large tents

Augustiner-Festhalle	Expected only for regulars
Armbrustschützenzelt	Expected March
Bräurosl	Not expected before June
Fischer-Vroni	Expected May
Hacker-Festzelt	Expected May
Hofbräu-Festzelt	Expected March
Käfer Wiesn-Schänke	April 1st
Löwenbräu-Festzelt	March 6th
Marstall	January
Ochsenbraterei	Expected May
Schottenhamel-Festhalle	October
Schützenfestzelt	September 1st
Weinzelt	Expected January
Winzerer Fähnd (Paulaner-Festzelt)	Expected April

Oide Wiesn

The canceled central agricultural fair (Zentrallandwirtschaftsfest, ZLF) will not be postponed to 2021. Therefore, the Oide Wiesn can take place after its regular one-year hiatus. In general, valuable reservation slots are even available to first-timers there.

Festzelt Tradition	April 1st
Herzkasperl-Festzelt	Expected May
Zur Schönheitskönigin	Expected May

General Reservations Regulations

Reservations are not required. Admission to all tents is free.
Except for the Festzelt Tradition, you're required to guarantee a minimum consumption with your reservation by buying beer and chicken vouchers in advance. Usually, you need to buy two beers and one half chicken per seat.
Those vouchers can still be used after Oktoberfest in the hosts' restaurants.
A quarter of all seats in the large tents are generally unreserved, on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays before 3 pm, it's even half, after 3 pm, 35% of all seats. Only Käfer and the Weinzelt are excepted from this rule.
On weekends before 3 pm, 15% of the seats inside may be additionally reserved for people living in Munich. Not all tents do this, though.
10% of the actually 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.
The tables in the beer gardens can't be reserved.
With only a few exceptions, you can only reserve whole tables for typically ten persons.
Reselling reservations is prohibited.

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