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Austria: It is one of the European Union nations, the Eurozone nations, and the Schengen region. With stunning Alpine landscapes, Baroque architecture, and rich culture, Austria has many attractions to offer to its visitors.
Region: 83.858 m2 Population: 8.2 million
Capital: Vienna
The currency used is: Euro
The most important cities in Austria:
- Vienna
- Salzburg
- Brock
- Innsbruck
- Linz
The origin of the name Austria in German is ÖSTERREICH, meaning "Eastern Realm" or "Eastern Empire".
General tips for travelers to Austria:
1- Arranging Travel + Booking flights
1. If you decide to travel to Austria (or any other country), read a lot of the reports of your predecessors to this country to benefit from their experiences and avoid what they have fallen into, and to make your trip more organized and choose what suits you from hotels, airlines, tourist places and others. Praise be to God, Al-Zad is filled with topics that meet more than your needs, and members will answer your questions.
2. Do not be a duplicate of others. Material capabilities, as well as taste, interests and hobbies, differ from one person to another. Choose what suits your financial capabilities without burdening you with unnecessary expenses.
3. Make sure that you book your flight early (at least 3-4 months before your travel date) in order to guarantee a confirmed reservation, and get seats in Q class if you wish to travel in guest class, which is divided into 3 categories, the lowest priced Q. Note that Q seats are limited and are reserved on priority, but (for example, the price of Q was about 3600 on Saudi Airlines, and about 5400 riyals, I think, for the next category...although they are all hospitality and there is no difference between them at all in services).
4. Try not to book transit flights because it consumes your time and effort. And if it happened and you did not find another, try not to have a layover time of more than 24 hours, because the airlines take care of securing the accommodation. Why does not wait for them to reach 48 hours (meaning the first night on them and the next on you)
5. If you can make your travels outside the peak seasons (usually the months of July and August) and the working conditions help you to do so, that is better. Some may say that he prefers to travel in the summer to escape the heat. They are right, but everyone knows that the weather is almost the same during June and July, but prices vary. For example, tickets for Saudi Airlines: Riyadh-Vienna-Munich-Riyadh were 1,800 riyals during the month of June and rose to 3,600 riyals in the following month, compared to hotels and others.
6. Make sure to book the trains from your country online early because this will reduce the cost for you. This is what I unfortunately discovered later when the ticket clerk at the Munich train station told me that the discount includes booking for train travel 3 days before the date of travel (I bought tickets from Munich to Frankfurt one day in advance for 178 euros for two seats and this is very expensive).
It is possible to refer to the subject of our honorable professor, the last of the knights, about the reservation of trains in Europe, as he gave, as usual, a detailed explanation and pictures.
2-The Hotels
7. Arrange travel reservations from your country before traveling, whether through the hotel itself directly or famous booking sites such as Booking, Expedia, and many others, or through your travel agent. It is not necessary that the reservation through one of the ways is cheaper than the other. Some hotels are recommended to be booked from booking sites, others are better to be through a travel agency where special prices are given, and others can be booked directly from the hotel's website.
8. Choose what suits you best, and you are not obligated to live in 5-star hotels. And let your attention focus initially on the location of the hotel, and then the level of services and dealings. (East Asian and Gulf hotels, in general, are more elegant than some Austrian and German hotels, which have old buildings and small rooms).
3- Money
9. Look for exchange places that give you a suitable price in your country (for example, here in Riyadh, Al Batha is undoubtedly the best place to change currency).
10. Carry a reasonable amount of cash (maybe 7-8 thousand riyals would be appropriate for a period of two weeks) and stay away from carrying a large amount of cash (one of my colleagues carried large amounts of cash with him so that he would not have to use credit cards and lose due to the currency exchange difference, but his keenness Make him lose a 500-euro note, which is much more than the exchange rate, even if he stays there overnight). And vice versa, do not rely entirely on credit and debit cards so as not to lose because of both the currency difference and withdrawal commissions.
4-Transportation
11. Rail travel isn't cheap. So be sure to rent a car there but not in Vienna or Salzburg because of the difficulty of free parking, cheaper alternatives in the first, and the small size of the second.
12. If you decide to move a car around Austria, let it be rented from Germany and returned to Austria. That is, your first destination will be Munich, including Austria.
13. Try to book a diesel car (the price of a liter of gasoline is slightly higher than diesel, but the real difference is in the rate of consumption) with a regular transmission because automatic is much more expensive, provided that you take the GPS navigation device with you in your country so that you do not have to rent it there.
14. Perhaps the famous car rental companies that have branches in the Arab countries such as Europcar, Hertz, Budget, Sixt… are more expensive than others. Try to compare prices and stay away from luxury cars.
5- Eat and Drink
15. Do not use the minibar in the hotel room, but buy what you need from water, drinks, chocolates, and other kiosks or supermarkets such as Bella.
16. Reduce what you can eat at the hotel because of the high prices, as well as the service charge that you incur, which varies between 15-30% of the value of the meal.
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