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Enjoy also the daily sightseeing tours offered by Vienna Sightseeing Tours, Red Bus City Tours or Cityrama. A varied program with the most beautiful sights in Vienna awaits you – from Schönbrunn Palace to the Giant Ferris Wheel.
The “Wienerwald Tour” is also very popular: it includes visits to Mayerling – the location of the sensational tragedy of the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf – as well as Heiligenkreuz Abbey. There are also bus tours in the footsteps of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Strauss, and Gustav Klimt. Theme: Bus
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A large city transport map ('Verkehrslinienplan Wien') showing all metro, railway, tram and bus routes and stations is available from all railway stations, WL ticket offices ('Vorverkauf') and from the information offices listed below. It costs a mere €1.50 and is an invaluable tool for finding your way around the city. Have a look at a section of the transport map showing the Vienna city centre.
VOR Tickets
These tickets are valid on all means of public transport (train, metro, tramway and buses including night buses) in Vienna and the surrounding area with the exception of the City Airport Train and the special airport buses.
Fares quoted below are valid as of June 2007.
Type Price Remarks
Single ticket Advance tickets
€1.70
On tram/bus
€2.20 Valid for one journey within one zone. You can change as often as is necessary, but you may not travel on a circular route, go back to your starting point or cross a zone boundary (unless you pay for an additional zone). Also available as strip tickets for 4 journeys.
Vienna Shopping Ticket €4.60 Valid for unlimited travel within zone 100 on the day of validation between 8:00am and 8:00pm. Not valid on Sundays and public holidays.
24-hour ticket €5.70 Valid for unlimited travel within zone 100. Valid 24 hours from the time of validation.
72-hour ticket €13.60 Valid for unlimited travel within zone 100. Valid 72 hours from the time of validation.
The Vienna Card t.b.a. Valid for unlimited travel within zone 100 for 72 hours, plus discounts or benefits at museums, sights, theatres, concerts, shops, restaurants and cafés. Available at hotels, Tourist Information Offices, at Vienna Transport (Wiener Linien) sales counters and information offices, or from outside Vienna with your credit card by phone +43-1-798 44 00-128. Click this link for more information.
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The public transportation is clean, reliable and easy to navigate. The one thing to remember is to validate your ticket. Validation machines(small blue boxes) are at the entrance of the subway as well as on the trams. Because we were constantly using the public transportation while in Vienna, we bought a 24 hour ticket which was 5 EUR, instead of the single ticket which was 1.50 EUR. The 24 hour ticket allows unlimited travel. There is also a 72 hour ticket for 12 EUR. Theme: Subway/Metro
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After I had visited the beautiful Palace of Schonbrunn (and its gardens), I headed bock to the Subway (U-bahn).
From the Schonbrunn subway station towards the Simmering U-bahn station (which is on the blue line - U3).
From there I took the Tram, if you want to go to the Zentral Friedhof, you can choose Tram 71 or 72.
As I had a Vienna Card (free access on public transport for 3 days), I did not need to buy a ticket.
I was a short ride to the central cemetery (about 10 minutes), take care to get off the Tram at the Main entrance, as you also can enter the cemetery at the corner entrance, but then you will have to walk a while towards the main entrance, as this cemetery is very, very big. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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I was so impressed by the underground system in Vienna! Even though there were masses of football fans in addition to the usual tourists plus of course the commuters of Vienna themselves, the trains were fast, efficient, mostly clean and inexpensive. If possible I would love to send some managers of German public transport companies to Vienna to do their homework.
The ticket machines - touch screen - worked each time, while here in Germany someone once told me to clean the screen first. A single ticket within Vienna was 1.70 Euro, Mannheim, where I live, is much smaller and asks for 2.10 Euro. Leave a Comment Theme: Subway/Metro
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Trams are the most frequent form of public transport in Vienna and the tram system dates back to the 1800s. I should point out that one or two upgrades have taken place, since.
The entire city is criscrossed by tramlines, whereby most go to and from the city center (like spokes on a wheel) and fewer go across town. Each tramline is powered by overhead electric cables, and has a number or letter designation. Most lines run from the early morning until after midnight, with special night trams also in operation on selected lines. Theme: Other
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Metro is everywhere under Vienna, it even comes under Danube river. The cost of one ticket is approximately 3 euros and it was too expensive for me, but I have tried the metro in Vienna just to go to Prater funfair.
In the picture is the place - Danube canal and it is near metro station. Leave a Comment Theme: Subway/Metro
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Vienna has a very efficient subway system that makes everything in the city extremely easy to access. There are five different lines, with a sixth being built, identified as U1, U2, etc. There was literally a stop right outside everything we wanted to go to. It makes it very easy to get to the city centre, the stadium, the main train station (although that required very a short walk or bus ride), zoo, Gasometer and several other attractions. You can also access the U-bahn from the Vienna Airport, by taking the S-Bahn train, which brings you into the city. There are lots of maps in each station, and even though they are in German, they are clear and easy to understand.
The system was very clean and appeared to be quite safe. We never felt uncomfortable on any of the trains. We still used common sense, ie: I kept my purse in front of me, didn't flash my camera around, and kept my eyes up.
There were several different options for tickets and we chose a three-day pass, which was 13.60 Euros. It worked out to be very cheap for how much we used it. A single trip will cost you 1.70 Euros.
We didn't even consider taking a cab or find ourselves wishing we had a car because the system works so well.
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On original way to discover the historical centre of Vienna, is by Old-timer bus.
The Old-timer Website describes this sightseeing tour as a nostalgic experience that is appealing for visitors young and old.
The old-timer tour starts at the Heldenplatz, Hofburg complex. The tour last 1 hour and passes the most important eye-catcher monuments of Vienna like the Parliament, Town Hall, St Stephens Cathedral . . .
The guiding does not happen with a pre-recorded tape, but with a local guide which is multilingual, and they use headphones like this all passengers can hear the guiding (volume can be adjusted individually)
By the way, on rainy days the roof of the open bus can be closed.
Departures : (from June till October 2006) : daily 10.00, 11.30, 13.00, 15.00, 16.30
Fee:
- Adults : 18 euro
- Children : 8 euro Leave a Comment
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The U1 ran from Reumannplatz (10th district) to Kagran (22nd district) until the start of September this year. Now the U1 runs further - there are five new stops in the 21st and 22nd district. They are:
Kagraner Platz
Rennbahnweg
Aderklaaer Straße
Großfeldsiedlung
Leopoldau
Whilst there are no really sites of note on the extended U1, it might be of interest in that accommodation is very affordable and you have good access to the centre of town - a direct trip to Stephansdom take take only 20 minutes by U-Bahn. Leave a Comment Theme: Subway/Metro
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