Reserve Tables
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.
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?
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 quick 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.
Large tents
| Augustiner-Festhalle | Expected only for regulars |
| Armbrustschützenzelt | Expected March |
| Bräurosl | Expected January |
| Fischer-Vroni | Expected May |
| Hacker-Festzelt | Expected May |
| Hofbräu-Festzelt | Expected March |
| Käfer Wiesn-Schänke | April 1st |
| Löwenbräu-Festzelt | Expected March 4th via email |
| Marstall | January |
| Ochsenbraterei | Expected May |
| Schottenhamel-Festhalle | October |
| Schützenfestzelt | September 1st |
| Weinzelt | Expected January |
| Winzerer Fähnd (Paulaner-Festzelt) | Expected April |
Oide Wiesn
It's not yet known if the Oide Wiesn will take place in 2021. However, the Festzelt Tradition will either be part of the latter or the ZLF and be accessible for Oktoberfest visitors outside the ZLF opening hours.
| Festzelt Tradition | April 1st |
What reservation rules are there?
- 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.
