I read in an old trip report that a fodorite took a daytrip from Salzburg to Venice. How is this possible? I assume one would need to fly?
We are planning a future trip to Munich and Salzburg and the comment intrigued me....

Hi T&L,

Hmmmm. It's not something I would do.

It's about 4:40 hr by car, about 6:30 hr by train. To fly, you would want to leave from Munich.

Are you sure it wasn't an overnight?

Are you sure they didn't go to Vienna?

I read an old trip report like that as well. I *think* it was a bus tour that they took. It left Salzburg very early in the morning and got back into Salzburg fairly late in the evening. I wish I remembered the name of the company, but I don't.

Otherwise, as Ira mentioned, its a long train or car ride. If you drove and left early enough you could spend the day there, but it would make for a terribly long day.

Tracy

OOOPS,

It can be done.

There is the 01:38 train arriving in Venice at 08:33.

You can sleep on the train.

Return from Venice to Salzburg on the 22:52 or the 00:37. You have to change trains however.

Thanks for the replies-- We're not seriously considering it, just wondering how it would work.

>.. just wondering how it would work.

Well, it was an interesting problem.

topping as again we're planning a trip to munich/salzburg... we were distracted by our Barcelona and Rome, Venice, Florence trips....

We may be taking my in-laws who have never been to Venice (or Europe for that matter).

Anyone know more about a daytrip to Venice from Salzburg?

If we were able to secure open-jaw flights and could spend a few nights in Venice at the end of our trip, what day and night train tickets are available?

You are not serious about that daytrip from Salzburg to Venice, are you? Ira gave you the only possible solution (aside from flying via Vienna), and it is pretty insane, costing a boatload of money for two nights in sleepers on trains (unless you want to sit up and "only" spend the regular fare and be an absolute wreck the next day - both of them), and most people don't really sleep too well even in sleepers compartments, plus you don't get a full night's sleep - look up the connections at www.oebb.at or www.bahn.de or http://plannerint.b-rail.be/bin/quer...n?L=profi& and you see what I mean.

To be even close to reasonable, it would have to be an overnight stay in Venice.

In 2000 I took a picture of a board outside the travel agency in the Bahnhof in Berchtesgaden. They were advertising the tours they offered each day. On Tuesday there was a tour to Venice(by bus, I would assume) leaving Berchtesgaden (which is pretty close to Salzburg) at 4:45. Nothing was said about the return time, just that it featured a "longer stayover".

The cost in 2000 was shown at DM 78.

I have posted in the past about taking the bus trip from Berchtesgaden to Venice as a day trip. Hubby and I did this some years ago as it sounded like a "fun" thing to do. We got on the bus about 4:45 AM near the bahnhof in B'gaden. Got to Venice about noon. They stopped along the way for bathroom breaks and coffee breaks. Met a lot of nice people doing this trip for the day - mostly Germans that were in B'gaden for the week. We had the whole afternoon with a guided tour from the bus company and then some time on our own. I enjoyed it....while it may seem silly (and it probably is) we simply didn't care that it was a long day - we slept on the bus going home. Got back in about midnight. The bus also stopped in Bad Reichenhall and Salzburg to pick up other passengers.

Thanks EmilyC!

Do you happen to remember the general cost and the name of the bus company or any contact info?

Tim and I aren't really considering doing this, but might send my in-laws one day, if they're interested. I don't know if they will ever be back to Europe (seriously). My first choice would be an open-jaw ticket, but it's too early to price itineraries.

A few more comments....bus trips like this are very popular in the area of B'gaden and Salzburg. You can see large boards advertising destinations and times poted outside of every travel agency in the towns or in Salzburg city proper. Some trips are to Hallstadt, Munich, Prague, Vienna, Venice, Garmisch, St. Anton and many others. It's generally a good deal and you don't have to drive. In the summer, there is a nice one on Saturdays that takes you from B'gaden to the Chiemsee for an evening of chamber music in the castle.Most of the tour operators can speak at least a little English.

Some of the trips were as little as about $15 a head and generally, the longer the trip the more it costs. I think the Venice trip was about $50 a head but that was about 10 years ago. Still not a bad deal...