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Travel to Vienna in August

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Hi all, can anyone help me on this as I dont know where to start. Whats the best website to get tickets for travel from the UK to Vienna by raila and what sort of price am I looking at for this. There are that many websites out there I dont know where to start. Is there something simial to our National Rail Enquiries website? Cheers:)
 
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Hi all, can anyone help me on this as I dont know where to start. Whats the best website to get tickets for travel from the UK to Vienna by raila and what sort of price am I looking at for this. There are that many websites out there I dont know where to start. Is there something simial to our National Rail Enquiries website? Cheers:)

You can get as far as Salzburg, with Eurostar from London to Brussels, then ICE via Frankfurt and Munich, for as little as €49 one-way 2nd class, or €99 one-way first class (including Leisure Select on Eurostar). This can be booked on the DB website. Salzburg (being a border station) is treated as a German station by DB. Then you could get a ticket Salzburg to Vienna on the OeBB website.
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Note that if you use the DB website:

1. Bookings open 90 days before departure.

2. For international journeys, they will post tickets to your UK address. (Self-printed on-line tickets are only available for journeys within Germany, and some international journeys originating in Germany).

3. Quite often, the cheap 2nd class tickets sell out before the cheap 1st class tickets. You might see, for example, a second class fare of €89 while the first class fare of €99 is still available. :D
 

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Seat61 is very good for such things:
http://seat61.com/Austria.htm

I did the reverse journey a couple of years ago, and I'd recommend the sleeper (CityNightLine). Eurostar to Brussels, then train to Cologne (Thalys or normal IC train - it's not a highspeed line so Thalys isn't much faster) and take the sleeper (the 'Donau Kurier') direct to Vienna. Have a look at the above site to check current times: when I did it I left Vienna at about 8pm and got back to London about 5pm (but I did have a few hours wandering round Cologne).

You can book online for the sleeper here:
http://www.citynightline.ch/nachtzugreise/view/en/index.shtml

Tickets go down to about €30 IIRC, if you book well ahead! You print off your ticket and take it along.
 

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try www.tgv-europe.com for tickets from London through to Vienna, it works for London-Munich so I see no problems, this site cannot do regional UK stations though

I think it can handle Munich because there is a TGV service Paris-Munich and also a direct overnight train. It doesn't seem to handle Vienna.
 
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