I was there for Oktoberfest in 2005. It reminded me of the stampede grounds...a big midway with 12 Nashville North sized beer halls instead of all the stampede stuff. There's one for each major beer...Hoffbrau, lowenbrau, etc. The only tip to getting into the tents is to be there before 11:00am. That's really about it, no lederhosen, beautiful women, or anything else will get you in. But each tent has a huge outdoor beer garden area. I was with a bunch of girls who wanted to sightsee, so I hit up the Hoffbrau gardens solo. Pretty soon I had made a bunch of friends and slammed 1L beers for 12 hours. Made off with 5 of the mugs as well. Another thing to see might be the Hoffbrauhouse. It Hoffbrau's massive massive beer house, not located on the Oktoberfest grounds.
Prague...cool city. Pretty self explanatory - there's a handfull of tourist sites like any city that will be obviously shown on any town map. I remember the castle at the top of the hill being cool. Otherwise, it's a great party town. Beer (0.5L bottles) are about $0.30 and bars/clubs seem to be open all night. Hit up the huge square in the town late at night. It's flooded with kids just boozing on the streets. The women are beautiful.
Budapest...don't remember much, but I was fortunate enough to unintentionaly end up there during the Hungarian Grand Prix. Saw a Renault party at some museum and Ferrari's home base at some hotel. There's not that much to see...the chain bridge, a huge church with some holy guy's severed hand in a box...just like any big city, grab a tourist map. It'll tell you the obvious sites. The women are beautiful.
Wear a money belt in all of these cities, but especially Prague. The women were not beautiful in Munich.
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