5 essential tips for traveling to Austria

With this rundown of tips for traveling to Austria, we want to assist you with arranging and sort out your trip to one of the most complete and incredible countries in the world, where you can enjoy dreamy landscapes, both natural and urban, charming towns and activities like never before outdoors that we are sure will become part of your list of unforgettable trips.

 

Based on our trip to Austria by rental car, in which we wrote this guide to Austria, we leave you a selection of what we believe are the 5 essential tips for traveling to Austria. We started!

1. What is the best time?

 

Although, as happens in other countries, we could say that any time is good to make a trip to Austria, especially taking into account the climate, we can divide the year into three distinct stages.

High season (from June to August): these summer months are those that are included in the high season in the country, being the most touristy places, especially the lake areas, more crowded. Similarly, prices in most of the country soar.

Mid Season (April and May / September and October): Spring and Autumn bring mild weather to Austria and fewer tourists visiting its most famous places. Despite this, it must be taken into account that the snow usually begins to disappear in some mountain areas from June.

Low season (from November to March): these are the coldest and rainiest months of the year and also the most discouraged for visiting the country, except in some areas if you want to practice winter sports or enjoy one of the best Christmas markets.

 

2. Entry requirements

If you are a Spanish or European Union (EU) citizen, you only need your ID or Passport to enter Austria. In case your country of origin is another, one of the tips for traveling to Austria is to check the website of the Austrian Embassy or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to see the entry requirements.

 

In addition, and although this is not an essential requirement, when traveling in Europe we recommend that you carry the European Health Card, which will allow you to have medical assistance if necessary.

In addition to this, if you want to have the best coverage and above all, that include extras such as repatriation, it is highly recommended to travel with the best travel insurance for Europe. In addition to this, if you are going to practice extreme sports in Austria, it is important to have the optional adventure sports coverage, which you can easily include.

 

We always travel insured with Mondo, with whom we carry insurance totally adequate to the needs that we are going to have on the trip. By contracting your insurance with Mondo here, just for being a reader of Viajeros Callejeros, you have a 5% discount.

 

3. Security

Austria is safest country all over the world, although we must not forget that whatever your destination is, it is important to travel with common sense avoiding leaving valuables in cars and not losing sight of personal belongings, especially in places tourists with many people and on public transport.

If your destination includes irrigation sports, remember as we said before the importance of having optional adventure sports coverage in your travel insurance.

 

If you are going to rent a car in Austria, remember that driving under the influence of alcohol represents an administrative offense, but if you have an accident and someone is injured, the crime becomes criminal.

 

Another tip for traveling to Austria, like any destination, is to carry a copy of any type of important personal documentation, such as passport, ID, insurance policy … etc in the cloud, so that in case of loss or theft, doing any type of procedure or management is much easier for you.

4. How to start the trip to Austria?

The most important thing when starting to prepare an Austrian trip to is to see how much days you have to be able to define if it is better to do a road trip throughout the country or choose to visit some of its main cities.

In our experience, as long as you have 10-12 days, the option of doing a rental car route through Austria would be the best option.

Whichever option you choose, the most common is to arrive in the country by plane, using the Vienna airport as a gateway or Bratislava in Slovakia, used by low-cost flights, since it is a short distance from the capital of Austria. You can find all the information about transport in the post How to go from Vienna airport to the center.

To search for the flight, we advise you to use this flight comparator, with which you will have the best options at the best prices.

The next step, especially if you travel in high season and are going to visit some of the essential places to see in Austria, is to find accommodation. For this we suggest using this hotel search engine, where you will find all the options available at the best prices.

In this case, we recommend you use Rentalcars, with whom, in addition to having the best price, you can contract a Premium Insurance, with which you will have full coverage, for a much more adjusted price than if you contracted it directly with the rental company.

5. Route through Austria

As we mentioned before you Austria travel, In our opinion. we would recommend a minimum of 15 days to make a route by car through the country that allows you to enjoy most of its attractions.

Taking into account that you will be entering Vienna, we recommend you spend 2 or 3 days in the city or start directly with the route, visiting the Danube Valley from Vienna. During this route you will get to know Wachau, surrounded by a beautiful landscape dotted with vineyards on one side of the Danube and Melk Abbey, one of the most impressive in the world.

If you don’t have a car, a good option from Vienna to visit this valley and Melk Abbey is this bus tour with a guide in Spanish, considered one of the best tours and excursions from Vienna.

The next stage of the trip to Austria will take you to the Mauthausen and Salzburg concentration camps, two essential in Vienna, the first being an extremely hard place, but which we believe is a mandatory visit to know the history and above all, to avoid that occur again.

After spending one or two days in Salzburg, depending on how long you have the route, continue visiting the Swarovski Museum in Wattens and all these places to see in Innsbruck that we are sure, will leave you with an open mouth and a permanent smile for the rest of the trip. , making a brief intermediate stop at Hall in Tirol, a typical Tyrolean town, where you can take the opportunity to eat.

The next day will be dedicated to touring the impressive Stubai Valley in Tyrol from Innsbruck, one of the most incredible landscapes in Austria, where in addition to the valley you make sure you cannot miss a visit to the Stubai Glacier.

After this brief foray into nature, the road trip continues to visit Krimml Falls and the Grossglockner Road, considered by many to be one of the most beautiful roads in the world.

After the nature day, another of the tips to travel to Austria that you cannot ignore is a visit to Hallstatt, the most beautiful town in Austria and the one they say is the most beautiful town in the world on the shores of a lake. There, get to know Bad Ischl, St. Wolfang, St. Gilgen and finish in Graz, another of the cities that you cannot miss in Austria, where you can enjoy a route through the things to see and do in Graz, before returning to Vienna.

In case you did not enjoy this incredible city at the beginning of the trip to Austria, at the end of the trip, we recommend you not to miss a visit to the Schonbrunn Palace, Sissi’s summer residence, Hobsburg Palace, Church of the Capuchins, Vienna Cathedral, considered some of the places to see in Vienna and the Belvedere Palace, The Prater and Hundertwasserhaus