The Meininger, just a ten-minute walk from Central Station and the Oktoberfest fairgrounds, offers fresh and simple dorms and private rooms at decent rates.

With 68 rooms, a Central Station locale, and a bubbly staff, the three-star Hotel Mirabell is a cheap and cheerful pick in the middle of Munich.

The two-star Hotel Monaco, located south of Central Station, offers reasonably priced rooms with a bed and breakfast charm that sometimes veers into kitsch.

Boasting a posh setting on a quiet street near the English Gardens, the beautiful Hotel Opera is a four-star show-stopper.

Pension Haydn offers 15 rooms in an apartment building on a quiet, leafy side street near the restaurants, cafes, and tourist attractions clustered around Sendlinger Tor.

On a tiny street in the center of Munich's gorgeous old town is Pension Lindner, one of the least expensive and most reliable city-center pensions in Munich.

It's all about location at the simple and friendly 20-room Pension Locarno.

Situated in the heart of Old Town and minutes from Marienplatz and Hofbräuhaus, the four-star Hotel Platzl is an authentic Bavarian lodge with plenty of luxurious extras housed in a 17th-century building.

The smoke-free Hotel Royal sits on the border between Schillerstrasse's tourist land and a seedier side of town.

The three-star Hotel Schweiz sits south of Central Station and offers cheap and basic rooms with a few attractive extras.

The massive, 201-room Tryp Hotel towers over the busy Paul Heyse Strasse near Central Station.

Hotel Uhland is a four-star, family-run hotel housed in a fabulously grand mansion.