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Six Tips for Women at Munich's Oktoberfest, From the Ladies of Jaunted

Kim Kardashian represents womankind at last year's Oktoberfest. Vom.

Okay people. Oktoberfest is officially in full swing. The brew has been tapped and the pretzels baked and the hotels...well, filled. The luxury hotel collection Rocco Forte Hotels dropped some advice into our inbox regarding tips for ladies visiting Oktoberfest, and as seasoned female revelers at Munich's massive party, we've got some priceless tidbits of our own to add:

· Drink: The only authentic drink at the Oktoberfest, even for women, is beer. But caution is advised—the typical Munich festival beer, specially brewed for Oktoberfest has a higher alcohol percentage than average. When drinking with others it is polite to clink your glasses, while looking the person in the eyes, and say “Prost”.

Jaunted Says: Whoa—not true about beer being the only authentic drink! In fact, we'd argue there are two other beverages it's "authentic" to drink at Oktoberfest, both of which work out well for those who don't particularly enjoy chugging beer: champagne and schnapps. Look beyond the ginormous beer tents to the Weinzelt tent, a smaller tent that specializes in Nymphenburger Sekt—sekt being German champagne. Even smaller and dotted around the Theresienwiese are schnapps booths, where a few Euro goes a long way (towards getting drunkers).

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Katy Perry's Giant Cookie Marks the End of Oktoberfest

If there's a world event that guarantees women will be wearing bust-enhancing, colorful dresses, you can bet that the current pop culture cuties will make an appearance for a prime photo-op. This is what's happening now with Germany's Oktoberfest. A couple weeks ago, the 200th Oktoberfest opened in Munich, and Kim Kardashian made sure to stop by with her mom for custom dirndl dresses and braided pigtails. Now it's Katy Perry's turn to be dirndl-ed up, but she's taken it beyond the fairgrounds and onto television.

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Munich's Oktoberfest Turns 200, Gets a Visit from Kim Kardashian

Ein Prosit...Ein Prosit...Der Gemütlichkeit! If you've ever been to the famous annual beer-and-pretzel smorgasbord that is Munich's Oktoberfest, then you should be able to sing that with a nice sloppy slur. It's one of the official toast songs of the two-week-long festival, and more revelers than ever are in town for this, its 200th Anniversary.

One of the more unexpected guests is Kim Kardashian, who dropped by the beer tents with her mom, Kris. The duo are trotting all over Europe on a press tour for their reality show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and they've managed to do typically tourist things at each major stop. They went sightseeing in London, to the Louvre in Paris, shopping in Milan and now they've got to do the Oktoberfest thing in Munich, of course.

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Lufthansa's Newest A380 Takes an Inaugural Lap Around the Alps

Can you even believe that it was only two months ago that Lufthansa welcomed their first A380 to their fleet, and now they've already got another?

We were there, in Germany and onboard, when the first A380 named the "Frankfurt am Main" went for an inaugural flight over Holland and northern Germany, and we'll never forget it. This week, the "München" was christened, and appropriately by Alpenhorns and a flight over the snowy Alps from Munich Airport.

This time, the seats onboard the first flights were sold, bringing in over 100,000 Euros for charity, and the flights didn't go anywhere but back where they began!

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Lufthansa Makes Dreams Come True By Putting Biergarten in Munich Airport

Munich Airport's Airbräu biergarten

As if the service on Lufthansa wasn't enough, there's now a huge new reason to fly the German airline in business class through their Munich airport hub—they're getting a full-fledged biergarten!

Just announced today at the tourism conference in Berlin, the news of the Business Class biergarten comes straight from the top Lufthansa brass, as a huge welcome to the spring season. It'll open on March 23, and will be located in the Schengen departures area at Gate Area G in Terminal 2 as part of the 11,000 square foot Lufthansa business class lounge there.

So what's on tap? Find out, after the jump!

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The Secret To Summer Beer Bliss Sits In Munich

To avid beer drinkers and expats, this super summer beverage might be pretty familiar; it's the Radler, a mix of light beer and lemonade which also goes by the names of panache in France and clara in Spain. Since lemonade never fails to refresh, the Radler is a way of both adapting beer for summer bingeing and offering a refreshing beverage.

Since Oktoberfest in Munich actually takes place in September and the city is usually still experiencing summer temperatures, tucking into a Radler is a way to continue drinking into dusk without suffering heatstroke and passing out from a combo of booze and sunlight. In town and away from the Oktoberfest tents however sits Donisl Restaurant, a bastion of Bavarian cuisine for over 200 years, which happily serves up fizzy steins of Radler to those looking for a meal with their beer.

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'Du hast die Wahl' in Munich

On a layover at the Munich airport, you have a lot of choices. For example, you can sup on pasta at Piazza Monaco or drink your dinner in Airbräu beer. And when it comes to Internet access, you can drive your own vehicle on the information superhighway or arrange to borrow someone else's.

The "Internet point" in the Munich Airport Center at Franz Josef Strauss Airport advertises fast broadband connections on airport computers for €5 an hour. (If you only want to use Microsoft Office, it's €4 an hour -- what are you, a Luddite?) Elsewhere, use your T-Mobile account to pick up WiFi (we got it in Terminal 1).

Choosing to connect somewhere else? Tell us which international airport to choose next. (And don't hesitate to correct our German.)

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Inside a Sleeper Cabin on Germany's DB City Night Line Train

Hey, you try filming in a space this small.

Before we vomited our way through Oktoberfest a few weeks ago, we needed to get to Munich from Paris.

Since we sometimes hate flying, we decided to take one of those overnight trains and do it up baller-style by getting one of the sleeper cabins on DB's City Night Line.

The train left Paris' Gare du Est train station at 9:45 at night. Passengers were allowed to board 20 minutes before departure time but we will warn you: The train left at exactly 9:45 pm.

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Oktoberfest Post-Mortem: The Five Things You Need to Know for '09

Oktoberfest 2008 has come and gone--in Germany at least--but the memories will live on forever. Thankfully, the vomit is easy enough to wash away.

This is a video from inside the Hofbrau tent at the storied Oktoberfest fair grounds in Munich. You can watch "Beer Fest" as many times as you like but nothing, we repeat, nothing can prepare you for the real Oktoberfest.

So to make it easier, we've put together this handy list of rules and tips to remember for Oktoberfest 2009.

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Chasing HSM: Munich Calls Your Name

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Corbin Bleu (destined to be voted Most Changed from the original "High School Musical") and Ashley Tisdale hold up celebratory cookies at the German premiere of "High School Musical: Senior Year" in Munich over the weekend. Director Kenny Ortega, whose biggest credit before helming the series was creating the beloved box-office bomb "Newsies," also walked the red carpet with them (but he was cookie-less).

The premiere was held at the Mathäser Filmpalast which later this month will host the domestic premiere of "Hellboy 2" and the new James Bond flick, "Ein Quantum Trost."

Sounds so much better than "Quantum of Solace," right?

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A 750 Mile Taxi Ride for a Beer

The 2008 Oktoberfest in Munich finished up over the weekend, and one English man was extremely glad to be there. We're thinking he needs a few travel tips because to get to Munich from Portsmouth, England, he decided to catch a taxi.

To be fair, he did try to catch a plane first but missed his flight. Not wanting to miss the beer (and his buddy's buck's night), he persuaded a local cab driver to get him all the way to Munich for a fare of £1,700 (almost $3,000). And he paid in cash.

We're not recommending using this method of travel across Europe, but perhaps some of the European low-cost airlines could consider it as a back-up plan when their flights have some of those all-too-regular delays?

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Beer Travel: Bavarian Premier Says Drinking Heaps is OK

With the beer kegs ready to pour at Munich's Oktoberfest on Saturday, the big news in Bavaria is that the premier, Guenther Beckstein, says you can drink two liters of beer (well over 4 pints) and still drive back to your hotel or home.

With a local election looming mid-Oktoberfest, the media grabbed Beckstein's comment that you could drink two one-liter glasses of beer in two hours without a problem--but police, doctors and other politicians are politely disagreeing.

The premier has since gone back on his statement--saying it was a "rather unsuccessful contribution"--but it wouldn't have mattered much to budget travelers: Beer has become so much more expensive this year that two liters might be financially out of the question, even if it apparently won't make us too drunk to drive.

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· Two Litres of Beer OK for Drivers [news.com.au]
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