SKPKCP11

Please can you advise us the City Star Ticket details. We will be in Vienna in the first week of May for 4 days. We will be 2 adults and 2 children.

Our itinerary takes us to Vienna/Salzburg/Zell Am See/Seefeld/Munich. We thought of taking the Einfach Raus ticket but that would waste one day for travel on regional trains only.

If we do a day trip to Bratislava, can we buy the City Star ticket for travel within Austria in Bratislava? Is this ticket valid on high speed trains? What are the restrictions and is it really worth it i.e. does it really work out cheaper?

Kind regards,
SKPKCP11

SKPKCP11

Dear Fodorites,

Any info on City Star ticket?

Kind regards,
SKPKCP11

singfree

If I am reading the website correctly, the City Star ticket does not include any part of Austria.

lavandula

Bratislava is a very short trip from Vienna - I think you can simply purchase a Bratislava Ticket from the ticket machines at any station in Vienna, which gets you to Bratislava, and when you get there, you can use that on the buses to get you to the old town, and back to Vienna. The trip from Vienna to Bratislava is only 50 - 60km (about an hour in the train...? short period, don't remember). I don't even know if that's a high speed rail route, because as far as I understand they're regional trains between the 2 capitals. A tip: buy /download a Bratislava map before you get there and research which bus number takes you to the old town. English isn't spoken much there; we were lucky in that we happened to run into some locals who were willing to interpret when we bought a map, and again ran into a German who knew what to do when it came to a bus. But had things been different we might have been floundering. Restaurants were no problem as we found tourist menus.

Lavandula

SKPKCP11

Thanks Lavandula.

Kind regards,
SKPKCP11