Public Transport

You can find connections and timetables at the the web site of the Wiener Linien and city maps here.
For example, to find a connection from the airport to the hotel Kaiser Franz Josef, enter town: Wien, stop: Flughafen, town: Wien, address: Sieveringer Strasse, and the desired date and time.
Then click on submit twice.

Public transport is convenient and safe. Trams, buses and underground trains generally run until about midnight: first and last trains are listed at each stop. There are also night buses on some routes which can be used with the same kind of tickets and are also found by the route finder mentioned above. On fridays and saturdays, underground continues through the whole night.

Inside each bus, underground or tram carriage there is a list of all the stops on that line. All stops are signposted (at bus and tram stops at the top of the stop sign). Free subway maps are available at information offices. Ticket vending machines take € 10 bills but it is advisable to have some small change with you. 'Zone 1' covers all of Vienna; the other zones apply to lines to nearby towns, or to Vienna Airport. In particular, if you buy a single ticket (= Einzelfahrkarte) at a vending machine you should press yellow button 1 under the 'Einzelfahrkarte' table for adults.

The following tickets are available at vending machines (at every subway station), tobacconists, or ticket offices at railway stations. Single tickets are also available (slightly more expensive) inside each tram or bus.

Single tickets (Einzelfahrkarte) for € 2.20. Each single ticket allows travel for one person on a single journey in one direction, and allows any number of transfers between buses, trams and underground trains. The ticket should be stamped once at the beginning of the journey at a blue `Entwerter' machine found at the entrance to underground stations and in buses or trams.
Daily Ticket (Einkaufskarte) for € 5.70. Valid from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. (no matter when stamped). Not valid on Sundays!
24 Hrs. Ticket (24-Stunden-Karte) for € 7.60. Valid 24 hours from the moment of stamping.
48 Hrs. Ticket (48-Stunden-Karte) for € 13.30. Valid 48 hours from the moment of stamping.
72 Hrs. Ticket (72-Stunden-Karte) for € 16.50. Valid 72 hours from the moment of stamping.
8-day strip ticket (8-Tage-Karte) for € 38.40 for a total of 8 (not necessarily consecutive) days of travel. One of the eight strips has to be stamped at an Entwerter for each day used, at the beginning of the first journey of that day. After that you just have to carry the ticket with you. These tickets can also be used for several persons travelling together, provided that one field is stamped for each person once for each day,
Weekly tickets (Wochenkarte) for € 16.20, valid from Monday to Monday 9 AM.
Monthly tickets (Monatskarte) for € 48.20, valid for a calendar month. These are available from ticket offices and tobacconists. When buying your first weekly ticket ask for the (free) white card onto which the ticket should be attached. Each card is issued with a number and each weekly/monthly ticket must have this number entered into the space provided---otherwise the ticket is invalid. These tickets are transferable, but if n people travel together, you must be able to produce n tickets!

Transportation from the airport to Landstraße or Schwedenplatz
Taxis from the airport to Vienna are expensive (starting from € 30.00 if you order in advance), so you should either take the airport bus service from the airport to terminus Schwedenplatz (price € 9.00, every 30 min., tickets available from the driver), or use the Rapid Transit train (Schnellbahn) line S 7 from the airport to Landstraße/Wien Mitte (price = 2 single tram tickets = € 4.40, about every 30 min.; tickets are available from ticket machines on the platform from which the train leaves and also cover the continuation of the journey to the hotel) or take the (faster) train CAT from the airport to Landstraße/Wien Mitte (price= € 12.00; € 11.00 if booked online; a combined ticket CAT + public transport in Vienna at € 14.00 is also available).

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