Easter weekend opening times

Easter holiday weekend includes Good Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Easter Monday.

Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays. This means that office workers get the day off and shops are closed. Bars and restaurants will mostly be open as usual, although some may have restricted opening hours - perhaps their usual Sunday hours. Museums are also mostly open. Nightclubs are generally closed or have no dancing and quieter music.

Saturday is a usual Saturday. Business as usual. All shops are open.

Sunday is the pretty much the usual Sunday. Shops are closed, but bars, restaurants, and museums open as usual.

Easter weekend dates:

• Friday 14th April - Monday 17th April 2006
• Friday 6th April - Monday 9th April 2007
• Friday 21st March - Monday 24th March 2008

Hello,

I will be visiting Munich this Friday. Will the museums be open? How about restaurants? Is there anyway to know what will be open and what won't be? I know almost all stores will be closed, right?

I'll be travelling from Frankfurt Friday morning to meet with some U.S. friends who will be flying out of Munich late Friday night, and need to find somewhere for us to go. We want to be able to 'catch-up' and just relax a little. Thanks for any tips you can give!

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Never thought about this, presuming The Arc, Outland, GM's etc will be open for the weekend ?

I suggest you google for the museums. I'm sure you'll find the information on their respective websites.

As for restaurants, I think most will be open but can't guarantee it. If you want at least one definite "yes", I know that Sendlinger Augustiner (which is a very nice place serving typical Bavarian food) will be open over Easter because the other day I noticed they were advertising a fish menu for Good Friday and roast lamb for Sunday and Easter Monday.

and if you just want some big chairs etc, then i always go to hotel lobbys.
there is a great number of nice hotels in the centre you can hang out.

Good Friday:

Shops = CLOSED

Pubs and restaurants = generally all open but some may close as is their right.
NO loud and happy music, NO dancing.

Nightclubs = CLOSED

2004/2005 thread link thingiwatsit: No disco dancing on the night of Good Friday

The Arc is open on Good Friday from 6 p.m. onwards.

Normally on good friday, most bars and restaurants are open but most discos will be closed. The few that will be open will be dull as dishwater because according to the Bavarian law, there can be no dancing or loud, jubilant music from midnight friday to midnight saturday. I would assume museums would be closed as well as this is an officially recognized holiday in bavaria. Bottom line: You picked a bad time to visit Munich.

This is what I just copied from the Neue Pinakothek site. It would be interesting to see whether it will really be open over Easter.

Yeah, I know But, they didn't bother to check before they chose MUC as their last stop, and I want to see my friends, so what can ya do? To top it off, it will be rainy and cold. So, all around a good deal, oder?

Thanks everyone for all of your tips! I hope we find something to do!

. o 0 (This place is great! I really wish there was a TT for Frankfurt!! Guess I'll just have to move to Munich instead!)

also, does anyone know any places open on Easter Sunday? for brunch/lunch type thing after church?

(my mom's coming and she's making me find a church and a place to go after)
thanks in advance!

Well, I was also wondering if things run normally on saturday. I don't remember from last year and we are planning to have a dinner on sat and I may need to go to the supermarket.
Thank you!!

Are shops open on the Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Monday?

Yes, they're open. But they're closed Friday and Monday.

OK, this is very worrying, im getting back from my home country saturday morning and I have absolutely no food in my fridge, on top of that I'm having a guest over for the weekend. Help, are supermarkets going to be open saturday?

I'm guessing some smaller places might decide to close, but since Saturday isn't actually a holiday itself, I would think that most supermarkets would open. Don't worry about it too much. If all else fails you can go to the Hbf or take the looong journey to the airport and go to the stores there that are open every day.

Thanks, I'll take your advice. Since I'm getting back by plane I'll buy some stuff in the airport while I'm there. You know...just in case.

One more thing, do you think the Neusomething castle is going to be open?

Saturday is not a bank holiday here, so shops should be open, however usually they close an hour or two earlier.

Shops are closed on Friday and Monday (and Sunday).

The museums should actually have extra hours this weekend, as they are normally open on holidays other than Christmas.

The extra hours will come on Monday, when the museums are generally closed UNLESS it is a public holiday, and then they are open. Ostermontag is a public holiday.

The supermarkets will be open, and mobbed, on Saturday before the two-day holiday. My advice is to go early - the Tengelmann in my neighborhood tends to run out of milk, eggs, etc. in such cases. I imagine some of the smaller fruit shops, etc., might be closed to allow for a nice long weekend for the owners.

do they? bloody cheek. the one day in 3 that they are open, and then they close early. grrrr

I could be wrong, I can't remember too well. Maybe that was only during Christmas weekends.

don't complain, these days should be spent in church, so no time really for the shops

Yeah, who needs to eat anyway?

And doesn't the fasting time end on Sunday?

Exactly.
But then, the shops are closed on Sunday...
So you can't break your fast if you've not been shopping...
Vicious circle, anyone?

I believe some shops in the Hauptbahnhof are actually open on sunday in case you need to buy emergency rations.

i am lucky, going to my parents on saturday so i don't have to think about my empty fridge...

my advice, go today if you can and avoid the hell on earth that will be small german supermarkets overcrowded with last minute shoppers on saturday. freeze the meat and the rest should survive through to monday. then on saturday you could stock up with fresh veg from a little greengrocers rather than have to buy everything in the supermercado.

Supermarkets will be open on Saturday but jammers.
Do as much shopping as you can today would be my advice.

everyone seems to be getting in a bit of a flap about this...
Saturday is a normal day just like every other Saturday, all the main dept stores, supermarkets etc will be open their normal hours
MAYBE some smaller shops will close on Saturday to give themselves a long weekend, but others will be grateful for the revenue and stay open.

The vast majority of Bars, restaurants etc will be open the rest of the weekend on Sunday hours. Nightclubs won't be open on Thursday night, as stated above, because of the religious thing that's going on.

There's honestly no need to stock up on tinned food and candles

This seems like a good time to share a heartwarming story about our German neighbors. They were feeding our cats, bringing in the post, and watering plants during our first holiday away from Germany a few years ago.

When we came home, on a Sunday, they had left us some milk, sausage, and bread, since we had been gone a couple of weeks and didn't have much of anything in the larder. The best part was, they bought that white "American" sandwich bread in the star-spangled packaging for us!

Unless you want to annoy the Christians and have kinky sex with hot wax on Marienplatz!
Allegedly.

only buy the white ones, though, kids!

Good safety tip there Topsy!

Play fun, play safe.

As someone who has never "played" with candles, what difference does it make?

I've never played with candles, either, SiM - they'd get in the way of my enjoyment of my tea and biscuits.
But a man in the pub once told me that the wax from the white ones is a lower temperature.
The coloured ones might blister the skin and leave permanent marks.

Yeas, coloured candles and ones with glittery bits in can lead to injury.
Plain white candles are the way to go for all your wax fun.
I read. On the back of a cornflakes packet.

Only on Toytown could a simple thread about Easter weekend opening hours turn to sex using hot wax.

also note, there is a near-full-on grocery store, which I've never seen closed, in the airport.

I can't remember the exact name, something like "Edeka". but it's easy to find - in the shoping / check-in hall directly above the S-Bahn station, walk towards Termninal 2. Just before you would exit the building, the shop is on your right (when you are still in the shoping hall, standing before the glass doors that open to the outside plaza, and facing terminal 2 which is on the other side of the plaza). the shop's sign is blue and yellow (if I remember correctly).

This might help if you also concerning Chicago's post. I was once asked if I was traveling that day while at the store(sunday). I automatically said yes and nothing was said more. I never thought about untill a few weeks later I was traveling on a sunday through the Regensburg bahnhof and the gentlemen in front of me at the grocery store was asked the same question. He said no and that he was there just to buy beer and snacks. They took his would be purchases away and informed him it was only for travelers. So if they do ask sayYes you are traveling. Granted I have only been asked once but it can still happen to anyone. By the way they never let the guy buy his beer and snacks even though he changed his story.

It is an Edeka at the airport, situated in the main shopping area between the two terminals.
It is open on Sundays (But I don't know about Easter Sunday) when other stores are normally closed.

We have often used this when we needed something urgently and never been asked if we were travelling, even when we had what was obviously a lot of normal grocery shopping.

Compared to many other Edekas I have seen, this store is kept pretty clean and the fresh things are mostly fresh.
There cooked meat counter also has some good warm edibles if you can't be bothered cooking.

I love their "Squeeze your own orange juice" machine and can never resist it.

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I agree whiskeyhammer, I have only been asked once and never again. It was the one next to burgerking in the covered open air part of the airport. I believe that was just a new person being trained and had to ask this. I talked to a german friend of mine that said that it is only meant for travelers but no one gives a crap. Its a buisness so they really dont give a crap and that my situation was unusual but it could happen.