Venture out of Munich by local transport for a comprehensive tour through the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. An authorized guide will show you the many remaining historic buildings, and give you the story of what happened in this terrible place between 1933 and 1945. Today, the former Nazi concentration camp is a place of memory, pilgrimage and education, and makes for an illuminating day trip from Munich. Please note: the Dachau Memorial Site does not permit children under 13 to attend this tour.
From the operator’s live schedule on Viator, checked Oct 11.
Starting location of the tour. Meet our staff here to check in for the tour.
Visit the Dachau Memorial Site for our 3 hour guided tour.
Ending Location of the tour back to our office.
Reviews collected by Viator and Tripadvisor
Our summary of the 100 most recent reviews out of 6,181 (Sep 2026 – Oct 2026), collected by Viator and Tripadvisor.
Nearly every reviewer credits the guide with turning a free-to-enter memorial into something they could actually understand, delivered with care for a painful subject. The one repeated drawback is too little time afterwards to explore the museum alone.
Most reviewers stress how much the guide knew, explaining daily life in the camp, how it fit into the wider Nazi system and why events unfolded. Jake and Iain are the names mentioned most.
About a fifth praise how guides handled the weight of the place: reverent at the memorial, warning before graphic images, yet with enough warmth or humor that the day did not feel crushing.
Around a fifth note that the guide kept the group together on public transport, explained each connection in advance and made the journey feel easy.
A good number mention guides inviting and fully answering questions, often with a balanced, non-political view.
Under one in ten felt the free time after the guided part was too short to see the museum or linger in buildings, and a couple of groups were rushed after transport delays.
How we make this: we read the most recent reviews and sum up what travelers say again and again, good and bad. It is our summary, not a review; the reviews themselves are further down this page. Updated Oct 2026.
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site Tour from Munich by Train lasts about 5 hours. The itinerary has 3 stops.
Prices start at $61 per person for this Munich experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. There is 1 booking option, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
According to the operator’s current schedule, it runs every day, starting at 9:00 AM, 10:15 AM, 11:00 AM, and 12:15 PM.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
The meeting point is You find our office and meeting point at : Dachauer Straße 4 , 80335 Munich. Please come and meet us inside this location 20 min prior to departure time. Hotel pickup is not part of this experience.
The experience is available in EN.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 25 participants.
Please note: the Dachau Memorial Site does not permit children under 13 to attend this tour.Proof required.
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
Travellers rate it 4.8 out of 5 across 6,187 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor; it is run by Radius Tours GmbH.
Reviewers overwhelmingly say yes, even a couple who usually avoid organized tours. They felt the guide supplied context they could never have pieced together from the displays alone.
Many describe it as heavy and sobering. Most add that the guide handled it with care, which made the day bearable rather than overwhelming.
Usually not: most found the train and bus easy with the guide leading. A few groups lost time to a missed bus or a delayed train, which cut into time at the site.
Very few. A handful found a guide hard to understand because of their English, too lecture-like, or slow to adjust after a delay.
Reviews collected by Viator and Tripadvisor
Our guide Keith was very informative, he gave a balanced view of what we were seeing. He often had personal stories that made the tour very interesting. He kept a good pace and we covered everything in good time. For this trip we met at the office of the tour company, took a metro to Dachau and from there took a bus to the place.
Jake was a great guide and very knowledgeable. We enjoyed the tour and the great stories and lessons from history. Would definitely recommend!
Excellent tour — well organized and easy to meetup with group as we travelled from Munich to Dachau. Tour guide — Jamie — was expert in the causes of Hitler’s rise to power, how the SS turned judicial imprisonment into extra-Judicial torture and execution, and why the German people were surprisingly amendable to enabling it.
An important visit. Having visited Auschwitz we knew what to expect as it were. Our guide was excellent. Always exceptionally moving to visit these historical places of horror.
Lucia was incredibly knowledgeable and informative on this tour. Dachau should be seen and and we learned many new details. Highly recommend this tour
Yes, Lucia is a great guide :-)
This was an excellent and informative tour. You learn things you never knew before. Our tour guide Keith was fantastic. He was open to questions and had the answers.
great to hear, that you learnt from the tour, as this is a very important subject
Mark was one of the best guides we’ve had in our experience over many years of travel. The entire tour was top notch and Mark made it even better.
Scott was our guide for our day trip to Dachas. He was so knowledgeable and provided us with tons of information regarding the harsh realities of what the everyday lives were like for the prisoners of Dachau. Truly an eye opening experience that I’d recommend to anyone.
It was a rather emotional experience, but necessary. The guide we had really explained the history of this concentration camp very well to us; it was very touching.
Our train was delayed in its arrival. Our guide did nothing to shorten her long winded commentary about the camp. We had no free time to go to the places she recommended we see on our journey out of the camp. She did not give us any extra time to compensate. We arrived at our departure destination and waited a long time; we could have been in the camp. We missed the train and arrived back in Munich over an hour later than our itinerary. It was a very disappointing tour.
Unfortunatelly it (rarely) happens, that the trains have a delay, which of course disturbs the tour. And we can not just stay at the Memorial longer than planed as other guests or guides have plans (or train conections to reach) afterwards. The tour should give you a insight to the Memorial. Sometimes guests stay longer at the Memorial instead of traveling back to Munich with the group - that is possible in some cases if you speak to the guide.
| Tour | Duration | Rating | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site Tour from Munich by Train | 5 hours | 4.8 (6,187) | $61 | |
 Munich World War II Sites Including Dachau Concentration Camp | 8h 30min | 4.7 (592) | $99 | View |
 Dachau Private Tour with Licensed Guide by Train from Munich | 4–5 hours | 4.8 (199) | $251 | View |
 Early Start Small Group: Dachau Memorial Site + Town Tour | 6 hours | 5.0 (32) | $56 | View |
 Private Munich City and Dachau former Concentration Camp day Tour | 7–8 hours | 5.0 (2) | $297 | View |
 Dachau Concentration Camp Guided Tour from Munich - small group | 5 hours | 5.0 (19) | $56 | View |
 Private Dachau Memorial Site Tour meeting in Dachau | 3–4 hours | 5.0 (5) | $211 | View |