We are two adults, one sixty years of age and the other fity nine, and are travelling for a holiday to Vienna in September. This is the first time we are planning a holiday on our own and sure are not accustomed to transport in Vienna. So may you help us, with best tickets we may get for our transport during the week we have over there, and the best itenararies if possible?
Our time table is:
Arriving at Vienna Airport on Saturday at 16:00 and be travelling by Sbahn commuter train S8(Airport -Vienna to Pension Peck, Simmering.
Guess we will be using transport Saturday evening and during all of Sunday, leaving at 14:00 for Grinzig and possibly to Neustift am Walde, if this is possible, after attending Mass and the Spanish Riding performance.
We intend going for a day visit of Schonbrunn Palace, grounds and all.
Another day we are taking a train to Melk, then take the boat to Krems and using public transport back to Simmering.
One day in Bratislava using train. Evening we try make it to Belvedere or a museum that remain open late.
We will be spending the other two days visiting Palaces, Museums and shopping in city centre and of course, not missing a concert.
On Saturday morning we intend taking a train to Salzburg to spend the night there and travelling to Munich on Sunday evening.
We then take the train from Munich hotel to Munich airport on Monday evening. We do not expect that tickets in Vienna covers our transport after arrival in Salzburg.
Your posts in this forum have helped us loads to plan all this (always hoping we are on the right track). It is not clear enough to us
What best we can get out of the 24hrs and 72hrs tickets? If we take four 72hrs ticket and two 24hrs ones, will they take us throughout the 7days in Vienna, covering also 1. Schonbrunn and 2. Grinzing %26amp; Neustift am Walde, always if we can make it to both on the Sunday afternoon 3. Trains to the Wachau?
Correct where we err.
GabriellaMalta
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Saturday to Saturday actually gives you 8 days in Vienna. I would get two 8-day strips. As the name suggests they have 8 strips and you fold them over to punch one strip at the beginning of each day%26#39;s travel.
You can read a little more about them on this TA page:
tripadvisor.co.uk/Travel-g190454-s303/Vienna…
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Thank you for leading us to this link. We did not come across it before.
We take it that two %26quot;8 Tage Wien%26quot; will cover all our trips in Vienna until we take train to Salzburg (not included) accept train to Bratislava. Are we right?
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It covers all travel within the city boundaries ie within all of the 23 districts.
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In this case the 8-day ticket (27.20€) is not really good as it is only efficient if you use it as group ticket (e.g. 2 people and 4 days) or stay longer with interruptions of your (public) activities. Assuming that you will also use public transportation on the days you leave for Krems and Bratislava, I suggest to purchase the regular weekly travelcard for 14€ (which is always valid from Monday to Monday) and an other pass for the weekend you arrive on. You could acquire a 24h ticket at the airport which would be valid 24 hours from the point of validation, hence good until Sunday afternoon. For the rest you would need to buy single tickets. Or get the 48h ticket which would be good until Monday morning.
The city of Vienna is entirely covered by all passes. The Wachau is not Vienna and therefore you need a more expensive ticket for the regional train ride, although the pass would be valid on the train towards the city border - but not beyond. You are right that ticket for Vienna are not valid in Salzburg.
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Mikey makes a valid point. As you%26#39;re not staying in the centre you will probably use transport on most days, though possibly on Saturday you may eat in the hotel or its area.
It%26#39;s an anomaly of the Vienna transport systeam that the 72 hour ticket costs €13.60 and a weekly ticket €14.00 and a great annoyance for visitors that the latter stubbornly runs from Monday to Monday!
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Thank you all for your posts.
We hope we understood your guidance.
Two tickets each of the following are what we concluded are good for us:-
Airport by S-Bahn
48hr tickets covering Saturday 17:00 hr to Monday 17:00 hr
7 day Zone 100 travel tickets
Bratislava
Wachau Kombi tickets
Train to Salzburg
Hopefully these do cover all of our 7 days in Vienna.
We have just another question. We were told `The Wachau is not Vienna and therefore you need a more expensive ticket for the regional train ride -although the pass would be valid on the train towards the city border`. Does this mean that when we ask for the Kombi ticket we make it start and end at Ottakring, for example?
Thanks again
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I assume that the combo (trains + admission abbey + ship passage) only accepts VIENNA as origination point meaning that the portion within Vienna is included (because the journey normally commences in Vienna). In the end it should not worry you as the price of the combo is basically better than single acquisitions. If you purchased a regular train ticket, then you could demand issuance from the city border instead of the actual train station you leave from. For instance, the (zonal) border station of a train from Vienna%26#39;s Railway Station West to Melk would be Purkersdorf-Sanatorium. As I am in possession of pass valid for an entire year, I always purchase train tickets, whose validity starts at Purkersdorf-Sanatorium. Ottakring is not a border station of the Vienna Zone #100.
Regarding airport transportation you should know that passes for the Vienna zone do not cover the entire trip. For the portion outside Vienna you need to buy a supplement ticket costing 1.70€ each person.
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Mikey - how much do you save when you book your tickets from Purkersdorf-Sanatorium? Is it a significant amount?
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Thanks loads.
Very helpful.
Yes, thanks to this forum we had known that we have to buy the 1.70eu ticket each from Vienna Airport.
Really looking forward to visit Vienna!
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