It's Summer; Plan Now for Oktoberfest

Miles Away

The Points Guy

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The general manager of TripSavvy, Molly Fergus shares some tips around planning an early Autumn visit to Oktoberfest in Munich. Get the lowdown on the history of the event and where best to fly into and stay. Molly and Zach have got your survival guide for an unforgettable time in the city's famed beer halls and tents. Pro Tip — reserve your seat ahead of time.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Miles Away. Today we are talking about Octoberfest. And today we have a very special guest. We have Molly Fergus who's the general manager of TripSavi with us today.
0:13.0	Welcome, Ollie.
0:13.8	Thank you, Zach.
0:14.6	Happy to be here.
0:15.4	Can you tell me a little bit about your website, TripSavi?
0:17.5	Sure.
0:17.8	So TripSavi is a travel advice website.
0:19.9	We reach almost 10 million US readers every single month and we publish travel
0:23.7	guides to the best destinations all across the world. Our writers are based in the
0:26.9	cities and countries that they cover and offer really in-depth content for you to
0:30.9	help you plan your vacation. So Molly and I go way way way
0:34.0	back before my journalism career to I think our summer welcome before
0:39.0	freshman year of college is that right? I believe so I wasn't even old enough to get her credit card then. I think I was 17.
0:45.0	Oh my God I just barely was. I think I just got in the American Airlines credit card.
0:49.0	I was thinking about it. I'm like, oh, I really want to get this card.
0:52.0	But one of the things I use my miles for was trips to Europe.
0:55.0	And I never actually made it to Octoberfest. But I know some of our friends that studied abroad did.
1:00.0	When was the first time that you went?
1:01.0	I went for the first time in 2015 actually so not
1:03.3	with studying abroad as an adult I decided I'm going to do this trip and make it
1:07.3	happen. What brought you to Munich that time? We had some friends running the Berlin
1:10.8	Marathon so I went and cheered on my now husband and a bunch of friends running the Berlin Marathon so I went and cheered on my now husband
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