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Austria tips please

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Y0gamummy · 01/12/2023 21:59

Planning a trip to Austria next summer. DC will be 13 & 10. Looking at Tyrol, any recommendations for which area and for specific accommodation? Ideally self catering but with facilities. Might stretch to hotel. We'll then spend a weekend in Vienna or Salzburg, undecided as to which...

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greyhairnomore · 01/12/2023 22:00

Definitely go to Vienna

Forgottenmyphone · 02/12/2023 07:20

In the Tyrol area, we stayed at Camping Otztal. The children never got bored - there was lots to do in the area and onsite. We spent a few blissful days without driving anywhere and just enjoyed the local walks and facilities on the park.

Havanananana · 02/12/2023 11:06

Many of the traditional winter mountain resorts in the Tirol and Salzburgerland now also have extensive summer programmes - hiking, biking, mountain biking, zip wires, outdoor pools, Go Ape-style climbing parks, summer toboggans (on rails), paragliding, rafting etc. Some resorts have special "Tourist Cards" for visitors that include reduced prices (or even free access) on buses, cable cars, pools, museums.

The tourist information offices have good websites that usually also include an accommodation booking service, or you can look at Airbnb, Booking.com, vrbo etc. for self-catering. Austria has lots of basic but clean self-catering apartments, and "apartment hotels" which might also have a restaurant/pool/spa etc.

Flying onto Salzburg puts you within 60-90 mins. of plenty of resorts - e.g. Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Zell am See, Kitzbuhel in the mountains to the west, or the Wolfgangsee / Salzkammergut lake district to the east of Salzburg.

Vienna is on the other side of Austria from the mountains - 3-4 hours by car or train from Salzburg. Vienna is well worth visiting, but the travel will take a day out of your holiday and you'll need at least 2 days there. There is plenty to see in Salzburg if you want to spend a couple of days in a larger town.

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