Vienna and surroundings
 

Please give me sightseeing and restaurant ideas in Vienna and also overnight trip ideas from Vienna for end of March for 2 weeks. 3 adults traveling. Thanks

Check the Destinations link above to see Fodor's recommended itinerary for Vienna.

Salzburg can be done overnight from Vienna as can Budapest. Both can be done easily by train.

If you don't have a good guidebook, you need to start your plan by buying one. From there, get ideas about what interests you most, and come back to this forum with more specific questions. Vienna and its surroundings are beautiful. Good luck.

Thank you. I was a bit vague. I am planning to start in Vienna and take the train to Salzburg and return to Vienna Do I need to see Innsbruck or what would be a better stop? What is the most popular Sound of Music tour? I will be traveling with a college student and high school student.

I would also spend a few days in St. Gilgen on Wolfgangsee. It's a 45 minute bus ride from Salzburg. From St. Gilgen, you can take a paddlewheel steamboat to St. Wolfgang and a old steam train from St. Wolfgang up to Mt. Schafberg. From St. Gilgen, there is also a cable car you can take up to Zwölferhorn.

http://euroalps.eu/countries/austria...st__gilgen.htm
http://www.wolfgangsee.at/

we really enjoyed the outskirts of vienna
we saw a video clip from a local travel show and i remember how lovely the view was over vienna and the danube canal

when we were in vienna we stopped for lunch in the Hundertwasser village ( where the quirky apartment building is)
food was delicious and reasonably priced in the upstairs cafe/lounge

the waitress gave us explicit directions to KAHLENBURG

from swedenpl (U3) we caught the U4 to heiligenstadt ( end of the line) and then caught a bus 38A to kahlenburg at 930am
this bus comes every 10mins
the train fare included the bus fare

the bus went through Grinzig ( this is a nice village to explore - we did that on our return trip)
coblenz offered a nice view of vienna but it was foggy so we didnt stay

we decided to take a couple of stops further up to Leopoldsburg
there is only church and restaurant up there but the view is amazing - even in the fog
we had coffee in the deserted restaurant in a lovely cosy booth and called home
it was really a lovely way to spend a morning

we decided to walk the route of the bus and this was very special for me cos home is nothing like europe
i loved walking through the woodlands

we caught a bus back to helingenstadt - kahlenburg was under reconstruction so the view was obscure ( luckily we chose to go to leopoldberg)

it was quite cold and storm was brewing
we still managed to go to grinzig
tried to find elizabeth kirsche but couldnt despite the efforts of a young girl

we caught the train back into central vienna - we paid but that wasnt necessary
the original tickets were still valid
we caught the number 38 train to schottentor and walked to the markets in schottengasse along the dr karl reuger ring past the burgtheatre
and die katze auf dem heisse blechdach( tere was going to be a mozart concert that night)
walked past the museum quarter along 1 burgring
had to stop for directions cos the markets were eluding us

finally found Nasch Market and sat in one of the red and black coffee shops called Segafredo cafe espresso for a great afternoon tea of apple cake and wonderful sacher torte

the day was still young- 4:30 but OH's feet were aching ( shoes hadnt been broken in yet tut tut!)
so we headed back to pension Nossek for a rest
i took the eyewitness travel 'top 10 vienna' with us
thats where i got the Leopoldsburg idea from- glad we had it with us

Thank you for the precise details. They are very helpful.

The trip to St. Gilgen sounds wonderful. We will be staying a few days in Salzburg.