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We know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking that we’re just going to say, Camping with Stoke Travel at Oktoberfest is the best budget option, and you’re right, we could say…

You want to find the best place to stay at Munich’s Oktoberfest, because your accommodation will make all the difference to your German cultural experience. There are a lot of…

As the Jackson Four once said, “O-K-T,  it’s as easy as S-T-O-K-E”, and we gotta agree. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who has spent more time at the…

While we don’t recommend doing drugs at Oktoberfest, we do recommend having as much fun as is physically possible, and to help with that we’re opening our bar to you…

For a guide on how to get to Oktoberfest from within Munich, you’re going to want to read this. Getting to Oktoberfest in Munich is easy from anywhere in Europe….

Six reasons why travelling solo to Munich’s Oktoberfest is an awesome idea. It’s on your bucket list, but for some reason you can’t convince the homies to join you at…

Oktoberfest, not your obvious gay event.  Munich’s Oktoberfest might not be the first event that comes to mind when you think of a gay event or holiday but there are…

Far from being a tourist-focused beer-a-thon, Oktoberfest Munich is a deeply traditional event. An almost sacred occasion to the local Bavarians and Muncheners, they eagerly await September and October each…

Balling on a budget? Here are a few places that make a perfect weekend trip for study abroaders There’s nothing quite like studying abroad in Europe. Calling a new city…

When you’re hammered, dirndl’d, a little emotional and a whole lotta lost, this is your guide for finding Oktoberfest.  You’re in Munich looking for Oktoberfest and you’ve overindulged on the…

Anytime is the best time to visit Germany for Munich’s Oktoberfest, it’s the world’s original, biggest, and best beer festival! But, while Munich’s famous beer fest is always the most…

Oktoberfest, and all of its lederhosen clad, liver swelling antics are almost upon us! And while we’re wrapt at the prospect of prosting in the beer halls again, the unreasonable rise…

Group travel: a sloppy shit show of bill paying, reservations, compromises and making sure no one perishes most egregiously. Whether your destination is Oktoberfest in Munich or Running of the…

So you’re gallivanting through Europe and think you’re ready to take on Germany’s biggest, raunchiest, wildest festival: Germany’s Oktoberfest.  Obviously you want to do it the most lit way possible…

If pillows could talk… …they’d say things that’d make you puke. Let us paint you a scene. You’ve imbibed the unlimited beer and sangria while pre-gaming for Springfest or Oktoberfest. You’ve…

Germany’s Springfest, held in Munich ever April-May, offers young backpackers and students yet another opportunity to behave like complete pissheads without compromising their professional nor familial relationships. The festival, held…

If there’s one thing that we love at Stoke Travel it’s a good party, doubly so when the star of the show is beer, our favourite golden liquid (there wasn’t…

Surely by now you know that Springfest 2019 is not only Oktoberfest’s smaller, more authentic sibling, but that it’s also a fantastic time. Well here we are to tell you that…

In a power struggle as old as families themselves, Springfest has announced that it’s about time it gets the same recognition as its better-known cousin, Oktoberfest.  “It’s bullshit,” Springfest told…

Most people don’t even think about food at Munich’s Oktoberfest, focusing more on the festival’s reputation as a gratuitous, beer-soaked orgy of new friends and oompah music. And they’re right,…

Our good friend Lana over at Nomaden Berlin has come up with some pretty good tips and tricks for visiting Berlin either before of after Oktoberfest in Munich, or Springfest.  Oktoberfest in…

Springfest, known locally as frülingsfest, is Germany’s other beer festival. Every year, from mid April to the beginning of May, tens of thousands beer lovers make their way to Munich’s…

Officials at Munich’s Fruhlingsfest, better known as Springfest, have instituted a new minimum-drunkenness requirement for the carnival at this year’s festival.  Meant to combat dangerous under-indulgence, the proposed policy change…