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TourRadar» Widest selection of carnival & festival packages across the globe, usual & more quirky options ... MORE
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Shamrock
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St Patrick Day! Four and seven-day specials for 18-35 year olds, celebrating in Dublin – and in green presumably! The seven day tour get you St Patrick's Day in Dublin plus the Giant's Causeway, Cliffs of Moher and Blarney Castle.
| festivals/carnivals | UK |
STA Travel Featured Site
Tickets and travel packages to the very best international music festivals, underground festival scenes and cultural events such as carnivals, fiestas and parades. Packages for: La Tomatina, Oktoberfest, Brazil's Rio Carnival, Anzac Day in Turkey, the Naadam Festival in Mongolia ...
| festivals/carnivals | Europe |
Topdeck
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Trips for 18-30 somethings to many of the best festivals and celebrations in Europe – try then for: Sziget, La Tomatina, ANZAC Day, Christmas and New Year, St Patrick's Day and Oktoberfest.
| festivals/carnivals | England |
TourRadar Featured Site
A very wide selection of festivals across the globe. Along with the usual suspects: St. Patrick's Day, Oktoberfest, the Rio Carnival etc. – there are more unusual options like: Mexico's Day of the Dead, Running of the Bulls, the Stuttgart Beer Festival, and the, very wet, Songkran Festival in Thailand.
| festivals/carnivals | Worldwide |
BaliSpirit Festival
based: Ubud, Bali
The BaliSpirit Festival attracts people from all over the world, celebrating life through yoga practice, dance, healing and world music.
| festivals/carnivals | Bali |
Festival of Speed
based: West Sussex, UK
Cars, stars and motorsports in a 4-day celebration at Goodwood; it's the largest car culture event in the world! Tickets and packages are listed on the website.
| festivals/carnivals | England |
Hay Festival of Literature & the Arts
based: Powys, Wales, UK
The original annual Hay-on-Wye literature and arts festival, bringing together authors, artists, comedians and musicians to hundreds of events. Full travel and accommodation information is available on the site.
| festivals/carnivals | Wales |
Horizon Festival
based: Arinsal, Andorra
Music and snow-sport based festival using the local on and off-piste bar and club venues for some fantastic music, and the snow slopes for daytime snowboarding and skiing action.
| festivals/carnivals | Andorra |
GERMANY: Which Oktoberfest festival package?
Oktoberfest is on a lot of people's festival bucket list and many of the specialist tour operators have Oktoberfest packages of some sort; so what are the differences and how do you choose between them?
Differences mainly come in the form of duration, type of accommodation and additional excursions or trip extensions. Some trips will include travel from the home country as part of the package, for others you'll need to make your own way to Munich.
Offer trips from 4 to 6-days with a choice of hostel or camping accommodation. Also trips which include coach travel from London.
All have Oktoberfest from 4 to 7-days and also offer a choice of hostel or camping. Prices are reasonably comparable, but vary slightly between them depending on the combinations chosen. Each of these also have more expensive hotel based options for anyone wanting a bit more comfort.
With Topdeck some of the longer coach trips include a stop-over with excursions (e.g. Prague) on the outward or return journey.
Here you'll have the biggest selection, including most of the options listed above (particularly where TourRaidar act as an agent for the same operators) – but you'll find also some very interesting alternative choices like:
• Mid-week tours
• Amsterdam or Paris to Oktoberfest options
• A luxury (4.5* hotel) Oktoberfest
• Oktoberfest in an Austrian chalet
• Coach options from Bournemouth, Oxford or Brighton etc.
• Springfest trips (like Oktoberfest but in the spring!)
• Springfest/Oktoberfest glamping.