Tickets for visiting the Berchtesgaden Salt Mine are available online. There is no discount for purchasing tickets in advance. But you can choose the time to visit, and you don't have to wait at the ticket counter when you arrive if you purchase in advance.
Summer can be very crowded in Berchtesgaden, but it is when the weather is the most beautiful. Lines to catch the boats can become very long in the afternoon.
Visit the salt mine on the first tour in the morning (9 a.m. in the summer) so that you can get to the boat dock before the afternoon rush. If possible, take a boat to St. Bartholomä before 11 a.m.
Late spring, summer and early fall are the best times to visit Lake Königssee. The boat tours are open year round unless the lake is frozen, but the hours are cut much shorter in the winter. The Berchtesgaden Salt Mine is also open year round with slightly shorter hours in the winter.
Both the salt mine and the boat tour offer family passes which will be a better deal if you have several paying children joining you. I would recommend packing a picnic lunch if you don't want to have lunch in Königssee or at the biergarten near St. Bartholomä.
HELLO eDIE,
wE DROVE TO BERCHTESGADEN, BUT AFTER DOING A LITTLE RESEARCH, IT APPEARS THAT YOU CAN ARRIVE IN bERCHTESGADEN EITHER BY TRAIN OR BY BUS. bUS NUMBER 840 CONNECTS sALZBURG WITH bERCHTESGADEN. YOU CAN ALSO USE THE TRAIN SYSTEM (DB) TO CONNECT FROM BERCHTESGADEN TO MUNICH. I DO NOT KNOW SPECIFIC TIMES FOR THE TRAIN DEPARTURES, SO YOU WILL NEED TO LOOK THAT UP ON THE dEUTSCHES bAHN WEBSITE. SINCE SALBURG AND bERCHTESGADEN ARE VERY CLOSE TO ONE ANOTHER, I WOULD THINK IT IS POSSIBLE TO DO THE SALT MINES AND THE KONIGSSEE BEFORE TAKING THE TRAIN TO MUNICH. I HOPE THAT HELPS! HAVE A FANTASTIC TRIP!
My son and I are arriving in Salzbourg 20 September of this year. We need to leave sometime on 21 September for the Munich area to stay with a niece. We were wondering if we could take some form of public transportation on the 21st and visit both the Salt Mines and Kongissee (with a boat ride) Would it be possible and then still be able to catch a train to Munich that same evening?
Thank you so much.
Edie Smart