Public Transportation, Munich

The pass called the Isar card is excellent value for people spending some days or weeks in or around Munich. There is a weekly or monthly Isar card available and yet a cheaper version of these for travellers 60 years and over. To see detail google MVV, the Munich public transport website and select your language. Isarcards are under the heading in the left column "season passes". This pass is valid on S-Bahn and U-Bahn trains. It may well be valid on buses too but I don,t usually use a bus in Munich so can,t say for sure.
To sum it up, the weekly pass starts on a monday and finishes the following monday at midday, the monthly starts on the first of a calendar month. If a monthly pass is reqired you can save more money by selecting Isarcard 9uhr (9a.m.) which simply means you can,t use the pass between 6a.m. and 9a.m. Selecting this reduces the cost of the pass by 40%.The price of the pass depends on the number of "rings" or zones, you need to cover and this can be found on the MVV website, once you know how many rings you need you can see the price also on the left, e.g. 8 rings , approx 30 min s-bahn ride from the central city, will cost E26.60 for a week, and this is for an unlimited number of rides. To cover from and to the airport you need 13 rings, Euro34 for the weekly pass. As an example, if you buy the 13 ring card you can travel for 13 of the concentric rings out from the city in any direction.
As well as being a bargain for getting around Munich, this pass does away with the complicated system of Streifenkarten (stripe cards) normally used in Munich, which require the user to know how many stripes they need to validate.

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U-bahn is mainly underground, and S-bahn mainly overground, both are interchangable. The ticketing system seems to be on trust, has there are no barriers to exit and entry. I had a ticket provided by the hotel. If you have been on a day trip out of Munich and used a Bavarian train ticket , on your return you can used this ticket on trams , buses and S-bahn and U-bahn till 3 am.

If you plan to do a lot of getting around using public transport, consider the Munich Welcome Cards. They offer 1 day cards and also 3 day cards for either the inner area or the total area. The same cards are also in the partner day cards, which are valid for travel up to five adults...great deal if you are in a group!!!

Basically, these cards allow for travel within the city of Munich using their public transport. If you get the total area pass, this will include transportation from the airport. You can purchase the Welcome Card at the airport or at the railstation, whichever way is most convienent for you.

The cards also allow for discounts on admissions to many sights. Say for example, Deutches Museum is normally Euro 6, it would be Euro 5 with the card. There is also a discount included for Nymphenburg Palace. If you plan on going to see many sights, it basically will pay for itself!!!

COST:
1 - Day - €6.50
3 - Day - €16.00
3 - Day Total area - €28.00
Partner 1 - Day Card - €11.00
Partner 3 - Day Card - €23.50
Partner 3 - Day Total area - €43.00

I am normally very apprenhensive about taking the metro because I find reading a map, buying tickets, etc. inconveinent. I reccomend to take the S-bahn or U-bahn in and around Munich. The maps are not too difficult to read and it is fairly inexpensive.
If you are traveling through out Bavaria and are planning to visit Munich I reccomend buying the Bayern pass. It is good for up to 5 people on a weekend, and it entiles you to use the metro with no extra charge. For one person it costs about twenty euros.

From the airport a day ticket for up to 5 people plus any number of children is available. The S-bahn (metro train) is quicker than the taxi and MUCH cheaper.
To get around the area, a "Happy Weekend" ticket allows you to go where you will in Germany on local trains for 40 dollars for 5 people

We used the undergrounf to move back and forth from the fair area to the center. Really convenient and fast. When we were trying to figure out what kind of ticket was better for us a nice man explained us that for a one day ticket it was possible to make a "family ticket", it allow up to i believe 5 person to travel for one day on the entire trasportation system for about 9 euros. The ticket will be just one and it is shared so you have to be aware your group cant split.

The Munchen underground system is well developed over six lines that will take you everywhere and will keep you warm in winter time.
Underground stations are well-kept and comfrotable.
Tickets are sold in the stations, you can buy them from ticket machines. Fares changes depending on the distance, and you can also go for daily or multi-day passes.

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The public transport system in Germany is one of the best in the world as far as I am concerned. If you are a single traveller, you have the option of buying a day ticket which you can use on all the busses, trains, trams & sometimes even on the boats. If you are travelling as a group (up to five), you can buy a gesamtkarte. Within the inner city the cost is 10.40 euro for the group, but you must travel together all the time and if you are staying like we did in Hallbergmoos, then you buy the Munich xxx ticket for 18.80 euro for your group. It works out a lot cheaper than buying individual tickets.