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Dachau Private Tour with Licensed Guide by Train from Munich

Recommended by 96% of travelers
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Munich, Germany
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Booked 5+ times last week!
  • 4 to 5 hours (approx.)
  • Pickup offered
  • Group discounts
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English

Why travelers loved this

4.8
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· Suzanne_M ·
Apr 2026
Tony was the best. Provided us with so much information. Pace was perfect. Good food and drink and lots of laughter… recommend this to all . A must do in Munich
· Sonia_B ·
Sep 2025
Jason was a great tour guide with a wealth of knowledge and information. He was very detailed and very sensitive given the nature of the tour. We really enjoyed this excursion. Would highly recommend.

Overview

    What's Included

    • Private guide
    • Train tickets from Munich to Dachau
    • Gratuities
    • Food and drinks

    Meeting and Pickup

    You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

    Pickup points

    Select a pickup point

    Pickup details

    You can begin your tour at your centrally located Munich hotel, at the Munich train station (Hauptbahnhof) or at the Dachau memorial.

    or

    Meeting point

    • Hauptbahnhof
      80335 Munich, Germany

      In the train station, we meet in front of track 11. It is by the south entrance to the Munich train station (Hauptbahnhof). The guide can also meet you at your centrally located Munich hotel if you prefer.

    End point

    This activity ends back at the meeting point.

    Itinerary

    Munich Central Station (Pass By)

    Dachau (Pass By)

    1

    Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site

    3 hours Admission Ticket Free

    Munich Central Station (Pass By)

    Additional Info

    • Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 9 days of travel. In this case confirmation will be received within 48 hours, subject to availability
    • Not wheelchair accessible
    • Near public transportation
    • Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
    • Children under age 13 are not allowed to participate in tours of Dachau
    • Please advise at time of booking if you prefer to meet your guide at your centrally located Munich hotel or at Munich train station
    • The total time of the tour is 4 to 5 hour. This includes meeting the customers at their hotel in Munich, taking the train to Dachau, touring the memorial site (approximately 3 hours) and bringing them back to their hotel in Munich.
    • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

    Cancellation Policy

    You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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    Reviews

    4.8
    based on 189 reviews
    Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

    Private door and drink tour

    Suzanne_M, Apr 2026
    Tony was the best. Provided us with so much information. Pace was perfect. Good food and drink and lots of laughter… recommend this to all . A must do in Munich

    Response from Host, Apr 2026

    Thanks for the 5-star review but this is posted to the wrong tour.

    Very good and informative

    Dennis_M, Apr 2026
    This was a private tour of Dachau with Jason who was very knowledgeable and a wonderful guide. We are so glad we did this and he really took care of us and gave us a lot of information and attention.

    Lucia was amazing!

    mshook6619, Mar 2026
    Lucia was amazing! She met us at our doorstep and guided us by train to Dachau and then proceeded to give us an amazing and knowledgable tour of the Concentration Camp. HIGHLY recommend this tour AND Lucia!

    Moving visit to Dachau...

    Erin_S, Mar 2026
    Moving visit to Dachau concentration camp. Our guide Nick was knowledgeable and we learned so much about this horrible time in history.

    Sadly non professional guide made this not a great experience

    Sandra_L, Dec 2025
    I read all the amazing reviews of the informative guides. So I booked the tour thinking we would have a informative guide also. Sadly we did not have one. Yes we were met at our Hotel. Yes we were guided to the train then bus to get to Dachau. Our guide Eric was more focused on talking about his life story on walk and the train. We did not receive information about Dachau on the way to Dachau, the way others stated they did. We received a highlight of items throughout while there. He made jokes laughing during the tour which I felt were completely inappropriate for the place we were at. Sadly I see his name not mentioned in any of the reviews. We felt like he helped out when they had no one to fill in. We visited during Octoberfest. We would have rather not been able to book the tour than given a guide not good at his job. We just returned from Poland from visiting Auschwitz Birkenau. The guides we had were top notch, professional and informative. So now I can positively say this tour of Dachau was not done well all due to the guide we received.

    Response from Host, Dec 2025

    Very sorry you were disappointed in the tour, although it is a bit unusual to wait 2 months to post a review. All of our guides, including the one you had, are officially trained, licensed and certified by the Dachau Memorial and have years of experience. We received a complaint from you shortly after the tour stating that you “experienced discomfort” when our guide, an older gentleman, complimented you, so we issued you a partial refund for this tour immediately (that being 2 months ago). Oftentimes our customers enjoy it if our guides share some of their story on the train ride and are personable, especially during Oktoberfest. Sorry if you found that to be unprofessional.

    Lucia met us in our...

    Lamar_V, Dec 2025
    Lucia met us in our lobby, and led us to the train and to Dachau. She did a magnificent job patiently giving our family of six (3 teenagers and a 20y old) context of ww2 and how the concentration camps started and developed. Tough assignment and she was flawless. I can’t think of anything could have done better. She also helped us navigate to the soccer stadium for a game that afternoon which we would have struggled with otherwise.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you very much for your positive review and very glad you found the tour worthwhile.

    Our guide was very...

    Daniel_R, Oct 2025
    Our guide was very impressive with his passion for the tour and thorough competence on history with dates and many, many stories. I can't imagine a better guide for a tour like this. He went out of his way to make sure we were comfortable and also helped us find the train back to our hotel. A+ experiene.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you very much for your positive review!

    Jason was a great tour...

    Sonia_B, Sep 2025
    Jason was a great tour guide with a wealth of knowledge and information. He was very detailed and very sensitive given the nature of the tour. We really enjoyed this excursion. Would highly recommend.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    It was a pleasure giving you the tour that day and thank you for your review.

    Powerful private tour of Dachau

    Clifford_R, Sep 2025
    Had a very well done private tour with Richard that was very powerful. He is very knowledgeable and was able to answer all of our questions and also helped us with returning to a great restaurant in the Munich old town

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for your review and glad that you found the tour worthwhile.

    Lucy was excellent and...

    Sue_C, Aug 2025
    Lucy was excellent and extremely knowledgeable. She was a joy to spend the day with and we learned so much from her about a very sad time in history.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for your review and glad that you found our Dachau tour worthwhile.

    Lucia was an absolutely...

    David_W, Aug 2025
    Lucia was an absolutely amazing guide — knowledgeable, thoughtful and kind on what was a difficult, emotional visit to Dachau for us.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for your review and glad to know you found the tour to Dachau worthwhile.

    Insightful

    Marnie_H, Aug 2025
    We enjoyed our guide Lucia’s knowledge and friendly conversation. She gave depth & eye opening insight to the gravity of the situation.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for your review.

    This tour was sobering...

    Erin_S, Jul 2025
    This tour was sobering and humbling. We took our teenage sons (one has been already) and he was just as powerful the second time. Must do while in Munich.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for taking the tour and for your review.

    I did a lot of research...

    Marinelle_R, Jul 2025
    I did a lot of research of how to make this experience happen for our group of 4 during our visit to Munich. I was very nervous about the public transportation and getting to the destination. It was one of the main reasons I started researching experiences. This one did not disappoint. Our tour guide (Lucy) was remarkable. She was considerate of the weather and pace of our tour. She started giving out information from the time we got on the train until we arrived back at our hotel. Our group agreed that visiting the memorial would not have been the same without her.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for booking the tour and for the nice review!

    Excellent Tour of Dachau

    Jennifer_H, May 2025
    Achim was unbelievably knowledgeable. We all learned so much about Dachau’s history. It’s a sober travel through a horrible time in human history, but he he kept everything in a linear timeline and made it all easier to understand all the complexities of how things came to be. As a historian, he was excellent and he was so respectful of sensitive topics and of us. I highly recommend him as a Dachau guide or anything at all Munich related.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for your review and glad that you found our tour worthwhile.

    Very informative tour

    Edward_K, May 2025
    Very informative tour Jason our guide was very knowledgeable about the area and the camp. We learned a lot we did not know. Part of history every person should visit and understand. We ended up spending some time in the town had lunch it was a nice day.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    It was a pleasure giving you a tour that day, thank you for leaving a five-star review.

    Great experience

    Heather_C, Apr 2025
    Super knowledgeable provided a great deal of background and shared information chronologically. Had a great pace which kept us moving and ahead of the crowds.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for booking the tour of Dachau and leaving such a positive review.

    Highly recommend- our guide Lucia was amazing!

    mjiuorno, Apr 2025
    Our personal guide Lucia was very helpful and highly informative. She gave us the background of Dachau’s history before WW2. She discussed the cultural and economic changes after WW1 that lead to the rise of Hitler. She showed us all the important areas of the camp and memorials and provided us with complete context . This was a very powerful experience for us as Americans who are concerned about the future of our world and country. Wish every American could have visited with Lucia!

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for your kind review!

    Dachau - the darkness is neigh

    Kurt_R, Feb 2025
    No matter how well versed in the episodes of depravity in human history, seeing the physical evidence of the Nazi concentration program is still shocking and will still increase your sense of how close we all remain to the re-emergence of such darkness.

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for leaving a five-star review.

    Jason was great ...

    Kathy_K, Jan 2025
    Jason was great He knew his stuff and met us at hotel Very easy The tour was great and Jason added to the tour with extra stories and answered all our questions Only thing overpriced costing we thought

    Response from Host, Jan 2025

    Thank you for your review. We’ve never before received a review for this tour that felt the tour was overpriced. This is a well-reviewed private tour including hotel pickup, train tickets to Dachau and back to Munich for all members of the group and a certified Dachau guide. There are large group tours of Dachau available for less for those who find this type of tour overpriced.

    Lucia was such an amazing...

    Shannon_D, Dec 2024
    Lucia was such an amazing tour guide. She was so knowledgable and really taught us a lot. I also loved that she met us at our hotel and helped us navigate the metro and bus to get there. Definitely recommend this tour!

    Response from Host, Feb 2026

    Thank you for booking our Dachau tour and for your kind review.

    Dachau concentration camp private tour

    Lisa_W, Dec 2024
    Lucia was the most amazing guide. Her knowledge of the history of Dachau was incredible. The conversations we had on the train going to the site were incredible as we gained an understanding of the history of Germany as well as the camp. Lucia’s personality is most suited to this job and you can quite clearly see that she enjoys what she does.

    Our Guide was the BEST

    Glover_J, Dec 2024
    Our guide Lucia was OUTSTANDING! Really answered all of our questions and gave us real insights and context that I don’t think we could have gotten any other way. She is an expert!

    Exceptional

    JoanneWeiss, Dec 2024
    Our guide, Lucia, was extremely knowledgeable, friendly and patient with any questions we had. Highly recommend!

    This is an experience of...

    MaryEllen_B, Dec 2024
    This is an experience of history that everyone should take time to see. Our tour guide was knowledgeable, thoughtful, and compassionate when our emotions overtook the moments. This is not an easy tour, but well worth the time and journey. I highly recommend this tour.

    Lucia was an excellent...

    Kristie_C, Dec 2024
    Lucia was an excellent guide. She really took the time to ensure we got what we needed to out of the experience. She provided excellent information and teaching on such a complicated subject. I do not think I would have gotten much out of this tour without her guidance. Bravo!

    This tour was very moving...

    Maria_A, Dec 2024
    This tour was very moving and sad but well worth the time and Nick our guide was wonders and caring. It is not a fun time but important to do!

    very inpactful Dachau tour

    Luis_G, Dec 2024
    Whole experience, standing in rooms and crematorium. learning details of premises and overwhelming ways in which people were treated.

    Highly Recommended

    Steven_G, Nov 2024
    Our tour guide Nick was exceptionally informative and knowledgeable about Dachau and German history in general. He was able to point out things we would have never seen or known on our own. Highly recommend this tour and Nick as our guide.

    Dachau - An Important Experience

    APRIL_P, Oct 2024
    This was my favorite tour of our entire trip, which may sound odd considering how devastatingly sad spending time in and learning about Dachau is. Our tour guide, Lucia, was brilliant. From the start of our journey to Dachau Lucia began teaching us the history of Dachau and helping us to fully understand all that happened at Dachau. She took us through the camp and explained, with great empathy, knowledge and compassion, everything we saw. We brought our 25 year old daughter with us and she was incredibly moved by what she saw and learned. It is so important for the younger generations to see places like Dachau and to know about the atrocities that took place. It was an emotional day for everyone, but an experience I am so grateful we had.

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