Holidays from Memmingen Airport: travel-day tips for city breaks, beach weeks, ski trips and visits home
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Allgäu Airport serves a very mixed crowd. Students and young professionals from Ulm fly out for a weekend with a backpack. Families from the region head to the Mediterranean for a week or two. Winter-sports fans combine a few days of sun with a ski week. And many international residents use cheap flights to visit family in Poland, Romania, the UK or elsewhere. Each type of trip has its own pitfalls when it comes to parking. Here is a short guide for each, followed by tips that apply to everyone.
Key points
- City break: hand luggage saves bag drop, but not security.
- Beach week: check both Bavarian and Württemberg holidays.
- Ski trip: snow, ski boxes and the vehicle class.
- Visiting family: more luggage, longer absence, return dates that slip.
- For everyone: right sat-nav address, one call, luggage before the phone on return.
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Trip type 1: the weekend city break
Friday evening out, Sunday night back, a backpack under the seat. Low-cost weekends to Barcelona, London or Rome are what Memmingen does best. Your risks are timing ones: Friday rush hour on the A7 and A96 and a late landing on Sunday.
- Base your arrival on the airline's recommended terminal time. No bag drop does not mean no queue at security.
- For a Sunday-night return, check that the provider's regular operating hours cover your landing. Outside them, handover may be possible for a one-off surcharge.
- Shuttle parking is often the simple choice for one person with little luggage.
More on budget flights in low-cost flights and parking at Memmingen.
Trip type 2: the family beach week
Two adults, two or three children, suitcases, car seats. The main risk is the holiday calendar. Baden-Württemberg usually starts its summer break in late July, Bavaria in early August, and the overlap is peak season at Allgäu Airport. Whitsun holidays in Bavaria are two weeks long and also busy.
- Book parking weeks ahead; cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the service starts.
- Valet saves loading children and luggage into a bus.
- For a shuttle, count every child and ask about child seats.
- Arrive a little earlier than the airline minimum on peak days.
See travelling with family from Memmingen and valet or shuttle at Memmingen.
Trip type 3: sun and snow in one winter
Many people in the region fly south for a week in February and then go skiing. The car may carry a ski box, and the drive to the airport may be on snow.
- Allow 30 minutes or more when snow is forecast, especially from the Oberallgäu or Austria.
- A ski box adds about 40 centimetres; choose an open-air site or take it off.
- Leave a snow brush, scraper, gloves and a warm jacket in the car for your return.
- Clear the roof before you drive away after pick-up.
Vehicle questions are covered in parking a large vehicle at Memmingen.
Trip type 4: visiting family abroad
Christmas, Easter, a wedding, a birthday: international residents fly home regularly. These trips tend to involve more luggage, presents in both directions and return dates that change.
- List extra suitcases in the remarks if you take a shuttle.
- Enter the return flight number; if the date changes, update the booking straight away.
- Give a friend in Germany your booking number and the provider's number in case you need to extend.
- For trips of three weeks or more, switch off all consumers and have an old battery tested. See long-term parking at Memmingen.
Trip type 5: the group trip
Stag weekends, club tours, a choir's concert trip, a hiking group heading to Madeira: groups from the region often fly together from Memmingen. If you share one or two minibuses, each vehicle needs its own booking with its own plate and passenger count. Agree beforehand who drives, because shared or club vehicles often allow only named drivers – in that case the shuttle, where you park yourself, is the right choice. Sports bags, instrument cases and walking poles go in the remarks. Most important of all: fix one meeting time well before the bag-drop deadline, because a group is only as early as its last member.
Packing for strict airlines
Several airlines at Memmingen check bag sizes and weights carefully. Weigh your suitcase at home and leave anything extra in the car rather than paying at the desk. If you plan to bring back local food or wine, leave space – or keep a soft bag in the boot for the return.
For everyone: the sat-nav trap
The airport is in Memmingerberg, not in Memmingen town. Enter the address from your confirmation, especially for private sites in nearby business parks. Check the route on the map the evening before.
For everyone: getting there
From Munich and Landsberg you come on the A96; from Ulm, Kempten and Füssen on the A7; from Lindau and Lake Constance on the A96 from the west. They meet at the Memmingen interchange, a few minutes from the airport. From Vorarlberg, Tyrol or Switzerland, allow time for the border. Details: getting to Memmingen from the region.
For everyone: early departures
Many flights leave between six and seven. That means leaving home at four or earlier from further away. Check overnight roadworks and weather the evening before. See early flights from Memmingen.
For everyone: the evening before
- Read the confirmation; note the meeting point or site address.
- Save the provider's phone number.
- Check in online and weigh your bags if your airline is strict.
- Put valuables in hand luggage.
- Check fuel or charge.
For everyone: one call on the way
About half an hour out, let a passenger call the provider: booking number, plate, airline. If snow or a jam slows you down, call immediately. See running late.
A sample morning
A family from Biberach, flight to Crete at 6:20 on the first Saturday of the Württemberg summer holidays, valet booked.
| Time | Step |
|---|---|
| Fri 20:00 | Checked in online, bags weighed |
| Sat 3:30 | Leave Biberach |
| 3:55 | Call the provider from the A7 |
| 4:10 | Photos, key handed over at the kerb |
| 4:25 | Bag drop, well before the deadline |
| 4:55 | Through security |
At the handover
Photograph the car all round and the dashboard, take papers and valuables, hand over only the car key. See car security at Memmingen.
Coming back
Collect your bags, then call. Walk round the car before you drive off. After a late flight, drive the last country roads carefully – deer are common at night in the Allgäu. Details in collecting your car after the trip and late arrivals at Memmingen.
A box in the boot
Keep a small box within reach for the drive home: water, a snack, a phone cable, a sweater and, in winter, gloves and a hat. After a late flight you will not want to open a suitcase on a cold, dark car park.
When plans change
Illness, a cancelled flight, a strike: tell the provider straight away. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the service starts. See flight cancelled and changing a booking.
Conclusion
Whatever kind of trip you take from Allgäu Airport, the basics are the same: the right address in the sat-nav, a plan built around the airline's deadlines, a buffer for snow and borders, one well-timed call and a warm jacket in the car for the way home. Valet and shuttle providers are compared on parking at Memmingen Airport.
