What admission to Neuschwanstein Castle costs

Official admission

This is the tariff the Bavarian Palace Administration charges for Neuschwanstein Castle in 2026.

The reduced rate applies to visitors aged 65 and over, students, disabled visitors and groups of 15 or more; proof is checked on site. Pupils over 18 at general and vocational schools also enter free with a school ID. The palace administration's annual pass and multi-day ticket are valid for Neuschwanstein, but not for Hohenschwangau Castle, which is not run by the palace administration.

Two things about this are regularly overlooked. First, the booking fee is not trivial for a larger group: it applies per ticket, including the children's free tickets. Second, free admission for under-18s applies to the state-run sites, which means Neuschwanstein. As soon as a combination ticket includes Hohenschwangau Castle, the Ticket Center's child price applies instead.

The combination tickets

The four combination tickets are sold by the Ticket Center Hohenschwangau. They bundle Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangau Castle and the Museum of the Bavarian Kings in different cuts.

Buying online adds a service fee of 5.00 € per ticket, 7.50 € on the Swan Ticket. The child price applies from 7 to 17 years; children under 7 are free on the combination tickets. The reduced rate here covers, besides visitors aged 65 and over, students, disabled visitors and groups of 15 or more, holders of a guest card or the KönigsCard.

Three rules decide whether one of them is worth it:

The Wittelsbach Ticket does not include Neuschwanstein. It combines Hohenschwangau Castle with the museum. Buy it because the name sounds like the big package and you end up at the wrong castle.

Every combination ticket is valid for exactly one visit date. Spreading two castles over two days is not covered. And because both castles work with admission slots, you need two times far enough apart, plus the walk through the village and, in both cases, the climb. Only the museum is not tied to a time: on the Prince Ticket a single slot is therefore enough.

The child price changes with the cut. On the Prince Ticket, which combines state-run sites only, children stay free. As soon as Hohenschwangau is in the package, a child aged 7 or over costs 12.00 €.

What the third-party offers cost

There is no fixed tariff for tour operator products: their price depends on the date, the group size and the service included, and it changes daily. That is why there is no table for them here, only the live prices further down this page.

As a rough guide: an offer with an audio guide sits close to the official tariff, one with its own guide and a carriage ride clearly above it, and a day trip from Munich costs a multiple of plain admission because it replaces the journey.

What else the day costs

Admission is not the only item. The climb from the village to the castle is free on foot; the shuttle bus and the horse-drawn carriage cost extra, and you buy the fare on the bus or at the carriage. The Ticket Center publishes the fares on hohenschwangau.de. Parking in the village of Hohenschwangau is chargeable; the car parks are named P1 to P4, and stopping is prohibited outside the Ticket Center. The official tariff applies per calendar year, and the palace administration sets it afresh at the turn of the year.