Oktoberfest advance tickets now on sale

By Doug Alder · August 24th, 2010 · 9 Comments

Fremont’s Oktoberfest is still one month away, but advance tickets for the big event are now on sale. $20 will get you inside, a souvenir tasting mug, and five tasting tokens. Advance ticket holders also get to cut in line ahead of people purchasing at the gate where prices will be $5 more. This year’s Oktoberfest runs September 24 - 26. You can find more information here.

9 responses so far ↓

1 Drew // Aug 24, 2010 at 8:59 pm

This event is a bust. Too crowded for the small space, long lines for sips of beer served by volunteers who know nothing about the beer they are pouring… Ridiculously long bathroom lines that lead to trough urinals literally overflowing … Think I will skip this year
2 Mike // Aug 25, 2010 at 12:35 pm

+1 to the above
3 Laurie // Aug 25, 2010 at 4:21 pm

Lame lame lame event. Come on — can’t we pull off anything at all like a real community Oktoberfest event? We went last year after spending months in Germany. Brought our kids, got all dirndl and lederhosened up, and had revelers take pictures of us through the 8 foot chainlink fence cause we couldn’t get within 20 feet of a beer or the music with children. Stupid and extremely disappointing. We went home all dressed up with no place to go and had beer and lemonade in our kitchen.
4 Tamarinbean // Aug 25, 2010 at 5:16 pm

Good point Drew - the people pulling the taps know little about the beer they’re being paid to serve. Not sure if I’ll go this year; I remember thinking it was had a cheap frat-party feel about it. Will they have real glass vessels, like they do at the SIBF? Maybe at $12, I wouldn’t mind drinking from plastic, but at $20, please treat me with a little respect.
5 Tamarinbean // Aug 25, 2010 at 5:17 pm

“It HAD a cheap frat-party feel about it.”

My apologies for the typo.
6 BallardLass // Aug 26, 2010 at 3:44 pm

Ahhh, the good old days, when Oktoberfest was held in a few tents behind the Red Door (when the Red Door was on Fremont Ave).. I even enjoyed it when held on the Amazon lawn a few years back, but the setup now is rediculous, and it attracts to many frat types who get out of control. I won’t be in attendance anymore either…
7 RF // Aug 26, 2010 at 9:59 pm

Fremont Oktobefest is bad,as indicated by the comments above.I was there in 2008 and it was crowded.The beer lines were too long for the few beers they had,the food was no better than Occidental stadium fare and there were too many dirty,lazy hipsters there trying to be edgy.WABL Festivals totally beat the Fremont Oktoberfest.
8 SPG // Aug 27, 2010 at 12:47 pm

I hate to point this out as it saddens me, but in case you haven’t noticed all of Fremont has had a bad frat infestation that has gotten progressively worse over the last decade to the point where I can’t stand to go out there after dark.
No, I don’t live there anymore, and yes there is still so much that Fremont has to offer outside of the frat traps, but I do miss it sometimes.
9 Emme // Sep 1, 2010 at 1:51 pm

I cannot say how happy I am that I’ll be out of town for Fremont ‘Octoberfest’ this year. All Fremont seems to attract these days is the frat-pack type. Hell, they even had some ‘toga party’ event a week ago. Sweet. What about the rest of us who hold 9-5 jobs and like to enjoy a bit of alcohol so that we can function before noon the next day? No thanks to $20 and lines that put me shoulder-to-shoulder with stumblingly drunk idiots to fist pump with glee.