What a magical Christmas market! We received discount admission vouchers from our hotel, shout out to Hotel Das Regensburg😉(and it was a very short walk). There are so many beautiful lights at night. Many food and gluwien options. Great handmade items for sale as well. Definitely worth the admission price. Don't miss this one!

LONG tour (90min) in German only and they are weird about taking photos. There are only a couple of German tours daily so plan ahead. The tour provides pretty basic audio guides in English. It IS odd to an American to keep hearing about German princes and princesses in the present tense, as well as 'princely' this and that. The old town bus does not loop even remotely close by, for unknown reasons. Once you're on the tour you're stuck for the duration. (I'm not much of a tour person). The tour areas inside are not air conditioned. Regensburg old town is fairly small but expect a full day of walking to and from everything.

Really good christmas market but not our favorite. Was more pricey than others. Great food and drink vendors. Couldn't find a Regensberg hand painted glass bulb ornament so that was a bummer. Parking is super close and convenient.

I'm writing this mainly as a warning for well-meaning people who don't want to waste their money on some of the most disgusting people on the planet. The tour is nice and the tour guide was lovely, the house looks pretty but is not necessarily something super special and you can find castles like this all over Germany fortunately. The problem is the people who own this place. Not only do they actively ruin it by showcasing their own terrible taste, they also force the poor tour guide to praise them to high heavens... And for what? The matriarch of the family who's currently still alive is a racist and fascist who definitely should get some painting lessons because her self-made portraits are terrible, and her son, the little prince, is a failed racecar driver whose racing record I had to look up is nothing but failure. These people have the audacity to think that anyone in their right mind is coming to see this place for THEM, rather than for the possibly interesting history and art in the house. And my goodness do they like to showcase how entirely out of touch they are. One room has their "official portraits" in white tie, tiaras and all the jewelry money can buy to show off how rich and important they are (they are not important by the way), and the next room has 5 screens of the entire family who was still alive at the time of installment with "blinking portraits", which amount to a gif of them staring into the camera for 5 seconds showing them blinking, about which the guide said "they want to show they're just normal people like us", because they are in street clothes on these million euro portraits?? Other "highlights" of the tour include an 18th century room with a giant out of place model of a racecar, and an old marble staircase with some random fried egg looking art piece called "the sun rises over the Kilimanjaro". All in all, just don't go, you'll just leave angry at how obnoxious such a family is and you don't want to waste your time on them. If you want to go see some royals or something, go to the Netherlands or Belgium and check out their palaces, at least these people know how to shut up. If you want to see pretty castles, Bamberg, Munich, Würzburg, Bayreuth and Augsburg have equally or even more castles and there's a direct train going twice every hour to Vienna if you feel like visiting Schonbrunn. The great thing about those castles is, at least their residents didn't ruin it with terribly out-of-place modern "art" installations about themselves (mind you, I am a fan of actual modern art). At least you won't spend your hard-earned money on these out-of-touch good-for-nothings.

A brilliant guided tour of the castle, unfortunately you can not take photos inside. Our guide was excellent, her English perfect. We were also incredibly lucky to be able to use the stables venue for a party, it's only permitted to be used twice a year!!