Linderhof Palace: Tickets, the Guided Tour and Day Trips From Munich

Linderhof is the small palace King Ludwig II built in the Graswang valley near Ettal, about 97 km from Munich by road, and the only one of his palaces he was able to complete (1878). The ticket is €11 for an adult, under-18s go in free, and you see the rooms only on a guided tour of about 25 minutes. Most Munich day trips pair it with Neuschwanstein.

That pairing is the easy way in without a car. The From Munich: Neuschwanstein & Linderhof Castle Full-Day Trip by Gray Line Munich Day Tours goes to Linderhof first and Neuschwanstein in the afternoon, from $87.59, rated 4.6 from 17,174 reviews (checked November 2026). Book the classic departure: on its late-departure option the Linderhof visit is not part of the tour.

From $87.59 is the lowest price on the listing; the calendar above shows the price of each departure and ticket option for your date. Checked November 2026.

What a Linderhof ticket costs

The palace’s own 2026 prices:

Children under 18 go in free. The Moroccan House, Hunding’s Hut and the Hermitage of Gurnemanz need no ticket, and all three close in winter. Tickets are sold at the palace cash desk and through the palace’s online ticket shop; an online ticket lets you walk straight to the entrance past the cash-desk queue, and when the online allocation is sold out the desk usually still has tickets. Prices checked November 2026 at schlosslinderhof.de.

Tickets on a day trip

On the Gray Line Munich Day Tours trip, entry tickets to both palaces come with the option that includes them. Book the option without tickets and the guide sells reserved tickets for Linderhof and Neuschwanstein on the bus, by debit or credit card only: €42 including reservation and system fees, €10 per child, and tariffs may change.

For comparison, the two palaces charge €32 an adult between them at their own desks: €11 at Linderhof and €21 at Neuschwanstein, which adds a €2.50 booking fee online (neuschwanstein.de, checked November 2026). Under-18s are free at both (the online fee applies to a child’s free ticket too). So the bus price is about €10 above the desk prices for an adult, and what the extra buys is reserved entry at both palaces.

The Premium Neuschwanstein Castle & Linderhof Tour includes skip-the-line tickets to both palaces in its price.

The palace tour

The palace and the Venus Grotto can only be seen on a guided tour, in German or in English. Palace groups of up to 40 leave every 5 to 10 minutes and the tour lasts about 25 minutes. The grotto has its own tour of about 15 minutes for up to 50 people, every 20 minutes, from mid-April to mid-October.

The park is the other half of the visit. The Venus Grotto is an artificial stalactite cave begun in 1875, built as the stage set for Act I of Wagner’s Tannhäuser, with electric lighting installed between 1878 and 1881 that used exchangeable coloured glass discs. Hunding’s Hut is the set for Act I of Die Walküre, where Ludwig read Germanic legends; the Hermitage of Gurnemanz is from Parsifal. The Moroccan House was built for the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna and bought for the king in 1878. The Royal Lodge, a hunting lodge he had moved to its present spot in 1874, is where he lived until the palace was finished. From mid-April to mid-October the palace fountain runs every half hour.

One building is out of reach for a while: the Moorish Kiosk is under renovation and covered in scaffolding, and the palace hopes to reopen its interior at the start of the 2028 season.

The premium small-group tour allows 70 minutes at Linderhof. That is enough for the palace tour and a walk up through the gardens, though not for every park building as well.

Winter: 16 October to 14 April

Linderhof stays open all winter, with shorter days and less to see:

• The palace opens daily 10 am to 4:30 pm, and ticket sales run 9:30 am to 4 pm (summer: 9 am to 6 pm, sales 8:30 am to 5:30 pm).
• The Venus Grotto, the Moroccan House, Hunding’s Hut and the Hermitage of Gurnemanz are closed, and the fountains are off.
• The Royal Lodge exhibition opens noon to 4:30 pm on Sundays and public holidays, and daily during Bavarian school holidays.
• Every building closes on 1 January, Shrove Tuesday and 24, 25 and 31 December. The first and last days of the summer season can move with the weather.

So a winter visit is the palace tour and a walk outside. On the full-day trip the Linderhof stop is the guided palace tour, with time in the grounds depending on the season and the time available. The premium tour reverses its order in winter, Linderhof first and Neuschwanstein in the afternoon, and Oberammergau may not be reachable between December and March, depending on the weather.

Hours from schlosslinderhof.de, checked November 2026.

Getting there

By car, the palace’s directions are the A95 motorway and the B2 to Oberau, then the B23 towards Ettal, turning left before Ettal onto the St2060 into the Graswang valley. The car park takes 550 cars and is charged. From Karlsplatz in central Munich that is about 85 km to Ettal and 11 km more to the palace.

By public transport, take the train to Oberammergau and the regional bus from there; the palace lists it as bus 9622, with bus 9624 from Oberau or Reutte, and points to rvo-bus.de for times.

From Linderhof to Neuschwanstein the shortest road is about 45 km and crosses into Austria via Reutte; the day trips go the other way, about 58 km through Oberammergau.

Three ways to do Linderhof from Munich

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On your own: Ettal, Linderhof and Oberammergau

With a car the three fit one unhurried day, and the order follows the road. Ettal comes first, 11 km before the palace. Its Benedictine abbey has shaped the valley since 1330; the baroque basilica is open to walk into, and the monastery has brewed its beer since 1609 (kloster-ettal.de).

Linderhof is next. Buy the palace ticket online if you want to walk past the cash-desk queue.

Oberammergau is 12 km back from the palace by road and 5 km from Ettal, the village of the Passion Play, woodcarvers and painted house fronts. The full-day trip only drives through it; the premium tour stops for about half an hour.

What you give up by driving is Neuschwanstein on the same day without planning: its tickets are timed, the climb from the village takes 30 to 40 minutes, and a coach day handles both. If you do want both by car, book Neuschwanstein’s slot first and fit Linderhof around it.

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