Getting There
By Air -- The nearest airport is Salzburg Airport (tel. 0662/85800). It has regularly scheduled air service to Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, London, Paris, and Zürich. Major airlines serving the Salzburg airport are Austrian Airlines (tel. 0662/854511), Lauda Air (tel. 0662/854511), Lufthansa (tel. 0180/58384267), and Tyrolean (tel. 0662/854511). From Salzburg you can take a 1-hour train ride to Berchtesgaden, although you'll have to change trains at Freilassing.
By Train -- The Berchtesgaden Bahnhof lies on the Munich-Freilassing line. Twelve trains a day arrive from Munich (trip time: 1 1/2 hr.). For information, call tel. 01805/996633 (www.bahn.de). Berchtesgaden has three mountain rail lines -- Obersalzbergbahn, Jennerbahn, and Hirscheckbahn -- going to mountain plateaus around the resorts. For information, contact Berchtesgadener Bergbahn AG (tel. 08652/95810) and Obersalzbergbahn AG (tel. 08652/2561).
By Bus -- Regional bus service to alpine villages and towns around Berchtesgaden is offered by RVO Regionalverkehr Oberbayern at Berchtesgaden (tel. 08652/94480).
By Car -- Access by car is via the A8 Autobahn from Munich in the north or Route 20 from the south. The drive from Munich takes about 2 hours.
Visitor Information
Contact the Kurdirektion, Königsseerstrasse 2 (tel. 08652/9670). It's open Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm and Saturday 9am to noon.
