Pfingstferien 2027: Day Trips and Kids' Festivals

KiKS is Munich's big children's culture festival, built each year from the workshops of many local institutions and clubs. It opens with KiKS unterwegs, a few days of events in neighborhoods across the city, then gathers on the Theresienhöhe around the Schneckenplatz and inside the Alte Kongresshalle.

Kids hammer, print, film, code, run experiments, play sport and watch stage shows, moving between nine color-coded theme islands.

Each summer, Munich throws itself a birthday party in the old town, marking its first mention in a document in 1158. Kids get hands-on workshops inside the Alter Hof, the old ducal court, plus a Ferris wheel, carousels and folk dancers in costume. Parents get live bands, beer gardens and craft stalls.

It gets very crowded, so it suits kids who are happy in a busy street fair.

LEGOLAND Deutschland is a LEGO theme park with 68 rides and attractions in 11 themed areas and more than 58 million LEGO bricks. Kids ride the Fire Dragon and the interactive 4D LEGO NINJAGO The Ride, then wander the miniature landmarks of MINILAND.

Covered attractions like Temple X-pedition and LEGO Studios keep a wet day going, and the holiday village next door turns it into a two-day trip.

Allgäu Skyline Park is a big amusement park in the Bavarian countryside, with rides sorted into thrill rides, family rides and a kids' section. Younger kids get the Kids Farm play area, a pony ride, a digger school, trampolines and a water playground. Older kids head for the Sky Dragster coaster, the log flume and the Allgäuflieger swing tower. Each ride posts its own height and age minimum.

Märchenwald im Isartal is a woodland fairy-tale park in Wolfratshausen, south of Munich, with more than 20 fairy tales told through over 260 moving figures, from Snow White to Hansel and Gretel.

Between the scenes are gentle rides: a small railway, a balloon ride, a vintage car track, a ladybug carousel and horse and wild boar riding tracks, plus a slide area, climbing garden, maze and a baby playground.

A 57-hectare park of native European wildlife along a 4 km forest and meadow trail. Fallow deer and mouflon roam free and walk right up to visitors, and many animals can be petted or fed. The trail passes brown bears, wolves, lynx, wild boar and bison.

By the picnic meadow and kiosk, a big play area has a water playground and a western fort.

Munich's largest climbing forest has more than 110 elements over 13 courses, strung through 21,000 square meters of woods. Expect wobbly nets, rope bridges and flying foxes up to 11 meters high, with a continuous safety line that can't come unclipped. The smallest climbers get a low course 1 to 2 meters off the ground.

On the ground: a playground, a forest nature trail and the Fater Alm hut restaurant.