Austria

Austria will give you an air of sophistication. It is an MLMT promise!

Austria. The lush alpines cradle the roads freckled with flowers that zip through streams that call you home. Step out of your cars in your boots and bust out a musical number amidst the meadows. Austria. The land that makes the least athletic ones get out and hike across the landscapes. In the winters the slopes are dotted with skiers and boarders, and the summers let loose with the exhilaration of whitewater rafters.

When to visit?

Austria tourism depends mainly on where one wants to go. Most rural areas have a summer special and a winter palooza. The more urban parts of Austria are suited to welcome visitors anytime during the 12 months. But for the best experiences, one must try the extremes in the year.
Fasching the Ball festival during July and August also has a steady stream.

Visa Requirements
If to get through to Austria one has to file for the Austrian Schengen Visa since Austria became a part of Europe and the Schengen region, this has been a firm yes. One must submit the employment certificates and such to get in. If on a student basis you must send the letter of admission. If retired carry along your pension statement for the last 6 months.

Where to stay?

Vienna:
Vienna speaks to you of grandeur. It speaks to you of heads held high and sophistication running in every red blood cell. The architecture there is really something to behold. It catches your breath by its throat and makes you gasp in the name of the Habsburg dynasty.

Vienna is a work of art. Vienna, with museums to get lost into and music to tap your bodies too. The home to the most prominent composers in the world. Vienna is the place that teaches you how to appreciate the more beautiful things in life.

Best Places to stay in Vienna

• Hotel Sacher Wein
• Magdas
• myMOjOvie
• Benediktushaus
• Das Triest

Salzburg:
If you lived here 250 years ago, down the lane where Mozart lived and you suddenly just woke, you would not notice many changes. You will not be able to draw your eyes away from the spiraling domes and the cliff top fortress that looks over the mountains.
You will walk the broken streets; the cracks filled with soul and not help but hear music in the background. Going during the Salzburg festival would be the greatest of all. Here’s one event you mustn’t miss out on.

Best Places to stay in Salzburg

• Hotel Schloss Monchstein
• Villa Trapp
• Hotel Elefant
• Hotel Am Dom
• Cool Mama

Graz:
Graz is the city that visited Italy and got enamored by it. A lot of the architecture and the red roofs hint at a resemblance with Italy. It is a city sitting with its legs stretched out and will invite you towards its perpetual state of relaxation. Over the top of your calm, you will hear only one sound. The silent gushing of the river that flows throughout.
Surprisingly it also hosts some youth spirit with a handful of giggly enthusiastic art schools and nightlife that beckons all.

Best Places to stay in Graz

• Hotel Wiesler
• Hotel Drei Raben
• Hotel Strasser
• Augarten Art Hotel
• Gapsite Hotel

 

Innsbruck:
Cowbells chime, and the smell of freedom and country roads get stuck in your nostrils. One goes to Innsbruck to run to the mountains. The summer and winter activities here know no bound. This might just seem like the microscopic view of Austria. The Austrian experiences via Innsbruck.

A lot of people spend barely any time in the actual city before hiking to peaks. But there are a lot of beautiful things in the town itself. Once atop a mountain, you will find yourself both at a loss for words and air. 

Best Places to stay in Innsbruck:

• Penz hotel
• Mondschein
• Stage 12
• Nala Individuellhotel
• Gasthof Walzl

Linz:
You will have to skip to keep up with the speed of Linz. With most of Austria savoring the calm with its eyes lazily half open, Linz is doe-eyed and the capital of enthusiasm. The city with its technological skills up to mark and boldness in its veins, Linz snatched the title of European Capital of Culture in 2009 before anyone could step up to the pedestal.
Austria’s third largest city hence found itself as a UNESCO City of Media Arts.

Best Places to stay in Linz

• Hotel am Domplatz
• Hotel Kipling
• Spitz Hotel
• Sankt Magdalena
• Kremstalerhof

 

Top Experiences

Schonbrunn Royalty
Put on your dresses, lift your chin way up high and venture out into the palace of the Habsburgs for a day. Sip your tea in delicate vessels and look into the landscape that lies below. This is the complete TV show experience from the get-go.

Sachertorte
There lie a lot of essential things in the world. But very few of them supersede food. And almost none go above this densely layered cake with a surprise of apricot jam. The confectioners of the early nineteenth century had a stroke of genius in this region.

Viennese Balls
The Fasching festival gives birth to more than 400 black tie formal balls per year. Never give up the chance to feel like you belong to the 1800s. Would rate this activity an infinity on a scale of 10. This carnival season lasts all the way from New Year to Mardi Gras.

Skiing
With as many slopes as Austria contains, not mentioning skiing and snowboarding would be a crime. This remains one of the most awaited experiences for all tourists. Whether one knows how to ski or not, there is something for all. It not just an activity for Austrians it is all they talk about.

Food
With such complicated fusion food going around, coming to Austria would be finally boiling back to basics. The simplest of food prepared in the most delicious of ways. Their main components are always meat and potatoes. Most of their cuisine revolves around this, and the taste will mesmerize you.

Travel Smart with these tips

Austria is the most elegant and sophisticated of places, and there are things you must alter to fit in perfectly here.

• Austrians are NOT Germans

Austrians are as far as it is possible from being German. They are very proud of their own heritage and traditions and will bite your head off if you compare the two. It would be like comparing samosa and vada pao, and that makes no sense.

• The Day of Rest

Austrians sleep on Sunday. Sunday is regarded as a day of rest and rightly so. Everyone deserves a day off. So, do not be shocked if you find a majority of their specialized shops shut on this day. You might have to shift your market plans just a day ahead.

• Water comes straight from glaciers

The water here is so fresh it might as well have been bottled ice. It comes under the list of top five countries with the best drinking water. Austria is the quencher of all thirsts.

• Honour system

It might look like their public transport is free as almost everyone in sight gets on without paying anything. But this is not the case. The transport system here works on an honor system. It would be advisable to book your tickets well in advance to avoid all kinds of traffic. There is a hefty fine if caught without a ticket.

Countries that can be clubbed together
Germany
France
Prague

 

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