Not finding my answers by searching so am asking y'all for help:

Am planning on taking the train from Vienna to Prague and then later to Berlin. Will be staying at Hotel Austria in Vienna (Innere Stadt), Residence Mala Strana in Prague, and City Partner Am Gendarmenmarkt (Leipziger StraBe), Berlin.

Anyone familiar with these and know which train stations are best? (Thinking of reserving tickets before I go.)

Thanks much!

sal

You don't really have a choice of which station to use, at least in Vienna and Prague.

Trains from Vienna to Prague leave from the Wien Südbahnhof and arrive at Prague Holesovice station.

The Prague Holesovice is at the N end of the red subway line, so it's easy to get from there to points all around Prague quite easily, or you can use a cab.

Same for Berlin - you don't have a choice. Trains from Prague to Berlin stop at the Hauptbahnhof (hbf).

From there you can take public transport or taxi to your hotel on Leipziger Strasse (that's a double s, not a B).

Also, there's not a need to either purchase a ticket before you go, or even reserve a ticket. These are frequently traveled routes with plenty of seats.

Well, <b>most</b> trains from Vienna goes to Prague Holesovice, but the evening EC70 goes to Hlavni Nadrazi closer to city center. So is the sleeper D202/D376 that arrives at 3:29am (enroute to Dresden).

Hi Sally-
I'll be staying at the Hotel Austria too, in early March. When are you going?

I recently posted a question about buying train tickets in advance for Budapest-Vienna-Prague and the general consensus seemed to be that it would be fine to buy them on arrival.

As the others said, you don't have a choice really. You go where the train takes you. It is not possible to pick a station in Berlin from, say Hamburg.

From Vienna to Prague, you are going to leave from the S&uuml;dbahnhof unless for some unusual reason you leave from the suburban Floridsdorf station. You don't really have a choice.


The same is true of a city like Paris which has 6 major train stations. If you wanted to arrive at Gare St. Lazare, for example, and you were coming from Strasbourg, there is no easy way you are going to get there without taking a taxi after you arrive at Gare de l'Est. I suppose you could take some round about way of getting there but the deviation in route is hardly worth it. You would go around your elbow to get to your nose.

Thanks for the info. Less to fret about now.

Thanks for the heads up on the double s, J. Couldn't figure out what that was in my guide book...

Hi, Kristina. Going in May. Shoot, would have been nice to have a mini-GTG!!

What am I doing wrong? I went to the Die Bahn website to get an idea of costs, etc. I was given numerous names of stations in Vienna and Prague...none of which are the ones given by the nice posters above....

Any guidance for me??

As Gilda Radner used to say on SNL: &quot;Never Mind!!&quot; I figured out what was happening!
Thanks anyway!

When you arrive in Prague, do not use a taxi at the taxi stand unless it is AAA Taxi or City Taxi. Prague has a problem with unscrupulous taxi companies but the above two are reliable. If you contact your hotel in Prague they may send a car (fee) for you - ours did. It is not expensive. If you use the subway in Prague take the usual pickpocket precautions (same in the railway terminal)and be sure to hold on to your ticket because it may be checked. An alternate route from Vienna to Prague is by bus. It takes about the same time - maybe 20 minutes more - and costs less than half the train fare. It makes just one stop where you can buy a snack, use the WC etc.