Train: Vienna to Prague

We leave from Wien Mielding.The website basically tells us to take buses or commuter trains. But it's like 3 buses. That sounds confusing. I prefer the Metro. Maybe we'll figure out the tram system, but it doesn't appear to help us here. From our apartment to Wien Mielding, here's what we have to do:

We can take the 0 tram back towards Landstrabe Wien Mitte. Get on the Green Line U-Bahn (U4). Take that towards Hutteldorf. Get off at Längenfeldgasse. Transfer to the Brown Line U-Bahn (U6). Take that towards

Siebenhirten. Get off at Philadelphiabrücke. That should be Wien Mielding.‎‎

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We can get into our place in Prague after 3 pm.

We can leave at 9:33, get in at 2:18

12:33 - 5:15

2:33 - 7:18.

If we feel ambitious, we can take the 9:33. Otherwise, the 12:33 works pretty well. We can get into Prague, find our apartment, and head out to dinner. It is the 5-year anniversary of our first date.

Vienna: Train Station to Apartment

Let's just say we take 1:10 train from Budapest Keleti P.

We get to Wien Meidling at 3:46 and Wien Westbahnhof at 4 PM. I think those are the east and west train stations, respectively.

Either will work. Westbahnhof looks a little less confusing via public transit. And we use that to get to Prague, so probably worth learning it.

Westbahnhof is at Europaplatz 1, 1150, Wien, Austria. The house is at Dampfschiffstrasse 12.

Their public transit website it nice. It tells you what direction, what line, and has pretty little maps.Here are the directions. We can get a 72-hour card for about $19. Obviously we are there for more than 72 hours.

Basically, take the U3 U-bahn line (orange) towards Simmering. Get off at Landstrabe Wien Mitte. You walk a little southeast towards Invalidenstrabe Street. Take the O tram north toward Praterstern S+U.  It says to get off at Hintere Zollamtsstraße and walk, which we can. Franzenbrucke is two stops after that, might be closer. We just walk back across the bridge and hand a right, should be there.

16:01 16:05	from Wien, Europaplatz 1 to Westbahnhof	PDF   PDF		Walk/escalator down//escalator down about 4 minutes about 0,0 km
16:05 16:14	from Westbahnhof to Landstraße	PDF		U-Bahn U3 Simmering
				escalator up/elevator up/walking distance about 5 minutes
16:19 16:22	from Landstraße-Wien Mitte S+U to Hintere Zollamtsstraße	PDF		Straßenbahn O Praterstern S+U
16:22 16:28	from Hintere Zollamtsstraße to Wien, Dampfschiffstraße 12	PDF		Walk about 6 minutes about 0,4 km

Train: Budapest to Vienna

We travel from Budapest to Vienna on Monday, May 21.

Looks like I have us staying near the wrong train station. We need to get to Budapest Keleti P for the train to Vienna. It's here. We can cancel Radisson Blu, but the Novotel Centrum (which is walking distance from the right train station) is sold out. On the plus side, the Centrum is a little harder to get to from the airport. My bad, I screwed this up.


We can take the 6 tram east/south from Otakon towards Móricz Zsigmond körtér felé . Get off at Blaha Lujza tér ‎red line metro station. Take that towards Örs vezér tere M+H, get off at Keleti pályaudvar‎ - the train station.

Link to the public transportation website.

For $17 each, we can get unlimited rides on the buses, trams, and metros for 72 hours.

Trains leave every 2 hours on the 10s. 9:10, 11:10, 1:10 and take 2.5 hours to Vienna. We can get into our place at 3:15. I think we aim for the 11:10 or 1:10.

To Do List

Some things I want to do before our trip:

• research train schedule
• figure out power adapter situation
• figure out our phone/data plan situation in Europe, i.e., can we use them
• Can we move photos from  our camera to your iPad? Or should be buy a bigger data card for our camera
• Buy new shoes
• Discuss what we want to pack - jeans, nicer clothes, tennis shoes, nicer shoes, travel sized laundry detergent?
• See if there's a hockey game we can see anywhere
• Money issues - currency, transaction fees, credit cards, etc.

Budapest Airport to Hotel

Our flight gets into Liszt Ferenc International Airport Terminal 2a at 8:50 am.

We can't check into the Radisson Blu until 2 pm. The hotel doesn't appear to offer transportation from the airport. It is in Zone 6.

Zona Taxi runs from the airport to Zones 1-4. It costs $25 for the two of us, but I'm not sure if it will go to our hotel.

For $20, we can take a shuttle. Basically we tell the driver where we want to go, and when the shuttle van is full, it leaves the airport. It may go all over the city, depending on who else is on board.

Or we can take bus 200E to the blue line metro station Kobánya-Kispest. From there, we ride the blue line to Nyugati pályaudvar‎, (the main train station) then walk a little southeast down Terez Korut Street to our hotel. It will probably take about an hour. Transit pass is $2.50 each. I assume we'll need one for the bus and one for the train. I imagine there's a public transit pass we can buy for our 3 days there if we think we'll need it.


It looks like we can also take bus 200E from Terminal 2 to Terminal 1. From there, we get on Személy train towards Nyugati pályaudvar‎. Trains leave every half hour and cost $1.75.


I think we should plan to take the bus to the blue line. Hopefully we can buy one pass for both.