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Popular Tourist Traps | Miscellaneous Tourist Traps Tips | All Tips (129) These lovely chocolates are something everyone should try in Vienna, but do not buy them in the centre of town, especially in the tourist stores near and on Stephansplatz. If you go to a Spar or any other supermarket where the locals buy their food you will find these, and many other Austrian foods for half the price. This goes for most of the alcoholic and food items in the tourist shops.
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You will see them all over Vienna, outside every major tourist attraction. They are dressed up like stereotypical artists from the 18th century, and speak English in a variety of accents from all over Europe. They are selling "discount" tickets to music concerts at various locations, but none of them at the famous places in the city. I would normally avoid them like the plague, but for once I ended up being suckered in so you can actually hear about what the trap was like. I was caught out because the friends who I met up with in Vienna had already bought tickets from them. I had wanted to go out with them that evening so I was forced into buying a ticket myself. At 44 euros I thought it was damned expensive, but it was being held at the Kursalon, which I'd seen earlier in the day and looked impressive. For 44 euros I got herded into the Kursalon with hundreds of other people, and put on a small side chair in a small room with not particularly good acoustics. The musicians themselves, however, were excellent, and so after the performance I didn't feel too ripped off, although I know that I could have seen at least a good a show at the Staatsoper for as little as 9 euros, and probably had a more comfortable seat, a better view, and vastly superior acoustics. Go there instead.
The Wiener Staatsoper. Leave a Comment
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It is some kind of a lovely tourist-trap: The Fiaker Better fix a price before you enter, so it will not be a surprise afterwards... But it is of course a very elegant way to go through town. Fiakker are found in front of St.Stephens Cathedral (Stephansdom) or here on Heldenplatz/Hofburg Leave a Comment
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All along the pedestrian walkways you will see stores called Everything Mozart. Kindly avoid these stores as they ar absolute tourist traps. Drinking out of mini bar in the hotel was cheaper than buying a soda at one of these establishments. Likewise, everything else is EXPENSIVE!
If you must buy chocolate, you will find all the same products cheaper in confectionaries around the city or even the airport. Leave a Comment
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Tourist stores do offer a lot of "made-in-China" stuff, which has nothing to do wth Astria or Vienna. Music CDs are cheaper, if you buy them in a local warehouse. Chocolates are cheaper from a local supermarket. Austrians do not wear grey alpine hats and also the wine and liquor in the tourist stores is heavily overprized.
Typical Austrian quality products are: - pumpkin seed oil, which you can get in very beautiful bottles at the local BILLA supermarkets for half the price you pay in toursits stores or at the big "Naschmarkt" - dont buy wine at the "Naschmarkt" - better enter small wine stores in the inner circle districts or also check the BILLA for higher-priced Austrian wines - Svarovski is an Austrian company producing jewellery. Not everyone's taste - but for sure produced in Austria - further products, where Austrians are leading in high quality: ski and skiing equipmment, hiking boots, outdoor gear - if you can bring it over the border "mountain cheeese" (Bergkaese) and Salami or other dired saussages (partially also from Hungary) are very delicious Leave a Comment
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