U-BAHN : UNDERGROUND AS IT SHOULD BE! and other Vienna, Austria Transportation Tips

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Subway/Metro
Getting TO/AROUND: If London's Underground could be said to link Dante's 'Nine Circles Of Hell', then I'm sure that it will be Vienna's U-bahn system that will shuttle you away once you manage to get past St Peter's Pearly Gates! No doubt about it, compared to my beloved capital city London, Vienna has a public transport system to be proud of. The shops found within the major stations and their underpasses make the system feel that little more lived-in and safer, litter is under control and the station I visited seemed light white and bright. Admittedly a number of guidebooks do flag up warnings about Karlsplatz and its addicts butI found it generally unthreatening and well policed.

Thankfully the underground trains certainly seem to run on time and they glide around in an impressively efficient manner - even the automated station announcements that sound out on board before each stop sound reassuringly confident and precise. No doubt about it, the underground system makes Vienna easy to get around and with the various passes on offer, good value for money too!

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'Mode': AROUND
Category: Other
Getting TO/AROUND: Together with the underground system, the tram is a superb way of getting around Vienna. Don't worry if you've just missed the one you wanted - we found that another usually turned up within 5-10 minutes. A trip around the inner ring on a tram (Lines 1 and 2 I believe), is a spendid way of familiarising yourself with some of the sights of this wonderful city - and it's pretty cheap too! Best of all, as long as you get the right tram you'll keep going around in circles, which means dozing off wont make you miss your stop!

Some excellent value tickets covering tram, underground and bus are available if you are staying in the city for a few days...I'll sum them up in a different section soon.

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