Gay Germany Cultural Tour
Gay Germany Tour: Berlin, Nuremberg, Munich & Oktoberfest
Prices listed are per person:
Shared Room: $TBA
Private Room: $TBA
Physical Challenge
Join our gay Germany tour and step into ancient history. You’ll enter the castles of kings, uncover the secrets of the Third Reich, and finish with a spectacular overlap into Oktoberfest. We bring you insider access to sites (and sights) across Berlin and Munich. Highlights include the Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, and Dachau Memorial Site — plus an exclusive event at Munich’s Hofbräuhaus, world-class museums, surviving underground Nazi bunker systems, the Nuremberg trials courtroom, Hitler’s rally grounds, and the Zeppelin landing field. Add secret locales, hidden histories, and the stunning palaces of Bavaria’s kings. And while you’re in Munich, consider our Oktoberfest extension.
Highlights
Immerse yourself in history as you stand in front of Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Wall.
Travel through time at Museum Island, home to artifacts spanning ancient history to the 19th century.
Learn gay history from before and during WWII. Then visit a private underground book cellar filled with books rescued from the infamous Nazi book-burnings.
Visit the historically rich city of Munich and experience its eclectic architectural styles.
Relax amid stunning views at picturesque Neuschwanstein Castle — the “Magic Kingdom” Walt Disney made famous.
Pause at the Dachau Memorial Site to honor those imprisoned there. Nearby, discover the secret “Nazi university” set deliberately at the camp’s edge.
Enter the Führer’s hidden “Golden Chamber” at Nuremberg’s Zeppelin Field. Then stand in the Nuremberg courtroom where the world’s worst villains were tried and sentenced.
Overview
Germany overflows with history and culture. Our gay Germany tour dives in headfirst, starting in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall’s remains, and more historic sites. We’ll also unravel the Third Reich’s mysteries in an exclusive exploration that will change everything you were taught in school.
Next, Nuremberg: the city of the world’s most famous trial, and the rally grounds where Adolf Hitler drew huge crowds.
Then Munich, with the lavish 19th-century palaces of Ludwig II — including fairy-tale Neuschwanstein, built by the gay Bavarian king who “mysteriously” drowned after refusing to take his country to war. We’ll confront history at the Dachau Memorial Site and visit the Deutsches Museum, the world’s largest science and technology museum, where a V2 rocket still stands.
Have extra time? Join our Oktoberfest extension in Munich. Traveling with HE Travel again? Browse our other gay Europe tours.
Itinerary
Day 1: Berlin – Where Marlene Dietrich was Queen
Arrive in Berlin — one of the world’s most open-minded cities: culturally exotic, even erotic. Your gay Germany tour begins on the anniversary of East and West Berlin’s reunification, and a modern city greets you with world-class museums and sleek, state-of-the-art transit. As Berlin’s mayor says: “We may not be as rich [as Bavaria], but we are sexy!” After a brief orientation, head off to a deluxe Welcome Dinner, then explore Berlin at night.
Day 2: Berlin – Touring inside and out
Continue your gay Germany tour in Berlin today and see how this reunified city fits together. Start at the iconic Brandenburg Gate, made famous by Showtime’s “Homeland”. Then visit the German parliament dome for striking architecture and 360° city views.
Day 3: The Berlin Wall and An Island Holding World Treasures
Today, visit the last surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall. Its western side keeps the era’s original graffiti, while the eastern side offers a shocking counterpoint — all in a stunning open-air museum setting.
Then descend into surviving Nazi bunker systems: a dazzling underground world with original plumbing, communications gear, and early high-tech air conditioning.
Day 4: Fun-Filled Day in Berlin
Ride to Wannsee, Berlin’s lakeside resort town, and enter the mansion where Nazi leaders concocted “The Final Solution”. The villa drips with luxury — the same luxury where the top brass planned the mechanized murder of millions.
Next, choose your own adventure: Berlin’s famous Queer Museum (Schwulesmuseum), or Marlene Dietrich’s elegant hidden grave — her headstone covered in flowers and cigarette butts, left in homage.
Permits and appetite allowing, we may also descend seven stories underground, where the Führer ordered a gigantic “Flak Tower” built to fire enormous aerial weapons at Allied aircraft. Though bombed, 8,000 archaeological hours and 1,400 cubic meters of cleared rubble have opened an area once thought lost.
Day 5: Free Day in Berlin
Enjoy a free day in Berlin before we head to Nuremberg tomorrow.
Day 6: Nuremberg
Midway through our gay Germany tour, arrive by first-class rail in medieval Nürnberg. Much of modern history’s legal framework unfolded here — from the dreaded “Nuremberg Laws” stripping human rights to the US-led “Nuremberg Trials” that followed.
Visit the Nazi party rally grounds, sprawling across 11 square kilometres of southeast Nuremberg. Six party rallies were staged here between 1933 and 1938.
Afterward, explore the Historic Rock-cut cellars — a labyrinth of underground rock passages with guided tours.
Day 7: Munich – The Crown Jewel of Bavaria
Visit the Memorium Nuremberg Trials, then ride first-class rail to Munich through lush countryside. After settling into our hotel, enjoy a walking tour of Munich’s old city, followed by a delicious dinner.
After dinner, some may wish (on their own) to visit Munich’s largest gay sauna. Three underground stories make it the premier hangout for steam, soak, and saunter — with a first-class restaurant to boot.
Day 8: Lederhosen Time – Free Day
Some will wish to walk around the vast area and enjoy Oktoberfest.
Maybe visit the Deutsche Eiche’s impeccably clean gay saunas and cafés. They peak early, 5–7 pm, as social meeting spots — an entirely different vibe from American saunas.
Visit Nymphenburg Palace (another castle, right in town-ish). Then sunset cocktails at the Hotel Deutsche Eiche’s historic rooftop bar — the single best sunset view in Bavaria.
Or stroll the English Gardens, where lines of German boys literally surf the gushing river currents.
You can also visit Munich’s Nazi Documentation Center, holding a comprehensive history of the Third Reich.
Day 9: The Real Magic Kingdom; The King was a Big Queen 22
Today is fit for a king: the palaces of Bavaria’s gay King Ludwig II — Linderhof and Neuschwanstein. Our gay king floated in grand golden swans through his blue-lit grotto. Ludwig rarely received visitors (the staff talks!), yet he spent hours below with the young stablehands, ensuring the horses were well-kept.
Walt Disney made Neuschwanstein famous with a literal reproduction: the Magic Kingdom. The king spent millions building it; Walt made millions copying it.
Ludwig received few visitors here, principally his mother. He also owned one of the world’s only working telephones — a bona fide tech nerd whose phone presumably rang straight to Mumsy.
Day 10: Private Dachau Memorial & Third Reich Tour 23
Today: a private Dachau and Third Reich tour. To grasp Dachau’s full impact, we must understand its perpetrators — and the most important question: why.
An exhibition traces the “path of prisoners” through firsthand accounts and biographies, all in their historical locations.
Day 11: Farewell Dinner
A day at your leisure — revisit a favorite spot or discover something new. Tonight: our Farewell Dinner.
Day 12: Farewell or onto Oktoberfest!
Enjoy breakfast and then transfer to the airport or your next hotel for Oktoberfest!
Price Includes
Main Tour:
Price includes: Accommodations at 4 or 5-star hotels, in double occupancy; All transportation when traveling as a group; Arrival and departure airport transfers in Berlin and Munich; All breakfasts, 6 lunches, and 6 dinners; Wine or soft drinks at the Welcome and Farewell dinners; Services of a knowledgeable HE Travel tour director (subject to minimum participation); Admission fees to all locations listed in the itinerary; Meal and driver gratuities; HE Travel provides complimentary Medical & Evacuation Insurance for every US Resident on our group tours who does not have other coverage.
Not included: Airfare between home and Berlin/Munich; 4 lunches and 5 dinners; Tips to National and local guides, hotel staff and gratuity for the HE Travel tour director; International departure taxes; Personal items such as alcoholic beverages, telephone calls and laundry.
Octoberfest Post Tour:
$998 per person in a shared room
$1298 for a private room
Price includes: Accommodations for one night, in double occupancy; All transportation, when traveling as a group; Departure airport transfer in Munich; All meals, 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, and 1 dinner; Services of a knowledgeable HE Travel tour director (subject to minimum participation); Admission fees to all locations listed in the itinerary; Meal gratuities; HE Travel provides complimentary Medical & Evacuation Insurance for every US Resident on our group tours who does not have other coverage.
Not included: International Airfare between home and Germany; Tips to hotel staff and gratuity for the HE Travel tour director; International departure taxes; Personal items such as alcoholic beverages, telephone calls, and laundry.
Extensions
Stay longer and enjoy Oktoberfest! Dates: TBA
Day 11: Oktoberfest!
Extend your gay Germany tour with Gay Monday in the Fischer-Vroni tent, joining thousands of gay guys. It started in the ’70s, when gay leather/fetish Germans (the Munich Lions Club) crashed the Bräurosl beer tent and changed history.
The day rolls on with German beer and a live oompah band playing camped-up oompah. Another venue on the green is an over-the-top drinking hall packing 8,000+ LGBT+ revelers along rows of long tables. Yep. Game on!
Day 12: Farewell
We hope you enjoyed your taste of Oktoberfest! Safe travels home.
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