A very nice and friendly pharmacy located in a beautiful old building. Staff are very helpful and…read morealthough English is not spoken well here a bit of sign language and a few German words go a long way in solving your problem :-)

I travel here to Austria every year from California and stay for 1-2 months. Seems like every year…read moreI manage to need something from the pharmacy. Roman one of the pharmacists always greets me with a smile and goes above and beyond to help me with what I need. The pharmacy is very organized and everyone seems to be happy to be of service to the customers. I give Roman 5 stars for being pleasant, efficient and a great pharmacist.

Rathaus Apotheke! Saves the day!…read more Despite my best wishes and most humble efforts to rid myself of the cold I picked up somewhere between Newark Liberty Airport and MUC, the cold was sticking. Boxes of tissue, cough drops, gallons of healing tea (or I hope so, all the labels were in German). Coupled with jetlag, well...things were starting to get ugly. I was pointed in the direction of the International Pharmacy near Marineplatz. It, like other German pharmacies, is very clean and orderly. And ONLY sells medicine. This is not like in the States where you can buy anything from pantyhose to hairdryers to whatever else you might dream up. MEDICINE things only. And face creams...haven't quite figured that out. I'll report back. But, my research leads me to this advice for foreign travelers unaware of German pharmacies... Protocol: 1. Enter pharmacy. 2. Wait in line. 3. Speak with assistant or pharmacist, describe your ailment. 4. They will pick something out for you. 5. They will ask you several health questions as required by law. (do you take such and such, which will react conversely with this, etc) 6. They sell you the drugs. Then you go home, you down that Nyquil with your last bit of effort, watch The Notebook through half-glazed eyes, fall asleep for 10.5 hours and wake up a new woman! Ok, well that part is not in the typical protocol, but there you have it. I finally got down on my knees and begged the sleep-inducing gods to bless me, and they did so here. At Rathaus-Apotheke.

Ok, I was visiting Germany. However, I needed to buy some homeopathic medicine that is no longer…read moreavailable for sale in the US. Rathaus Apotheke had only one bottle. They order more for me and said it would be ready by 16:00. It was there on time. The salesperson (very nice lady) also had all my tax free paperwork for Global Blue ready. She even improved the date code of the bottles by checking around for other suppliers in the area. Not many people would take these extra steps after I agreed to buy an earlier date code and paid and left to shop until I returned at 16:00 for the pickup.