Graz Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

Postbus (82 06 06; www.verbundlinie.at) services depart from outside the Hauptbahnhof and from Andreas Hofer Platz to all parts of Styria. Indirect GKB buses (59 87-0; www.gkb.at) run to Bärnbach (€6.50, 1¼ hours) and Piber (€6.50, one hour) several times each day from Monday to Friday; more frequent services go to Deutschlandsberg (€8, two hours) Monday to Saturday. All leave from Griesplatz, though a few begin at the Hauptbahnhof.

Train

Trains to Vienna’s Südbahnhof depart every two hours (€30, 2½ hours), and to Salzburg every two to three hours (€43, four hours). All trains running north or west go via Bruck an der Mur (€10.90, 45 minutes, every 20 minutes), a main railway junction with more ­frequent services. Almost all trains to Klagenfurt (€32, 2¾ hours) require a change in Bruck.

International direct trains from Graz include Zagreb (€31, 3½ hours), Ljubljana (€31, 3½ hours), Szentgotthárd (€16, 1½ hours) and Budapest (€43, 5½ hours).

Car rental

Car rental companies include Avis (81 29 20; Reinighausstrasse 66), Hertz (82 50 07; Andreas-Hofer-Platz 1), which is also at the airport, and DenzelDrive (050105 4130; www.denzeldrive.at; Wetzelsdorfer Strasse 35).

Note that much of Graz is a Kurzparkzone (short-term parking zone); tickets are available from parking machines on streets (€0.60 per 30 minutes).

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Air

The airport (29 02-0; www.flughafen-graz.at) is 10km south of the town centre, just beyond the A2 and connected by train from the Hauptbahnhof. Austrian Airlines (05 17 89) has frequent flights to/from Düsseldorf (Germany), Vienna and Linz, and weekly flights to/from Salzburg, while Welcome Air (0800 210 211) has regular flights to/from Innsbruck, and Göteborg via Stavanger and Hanover. InterSky (0557 448800) connects Graz with Berlin-Tempelhof and Friedrichshafen several times a week. TUIFly (0820 820033) has weekly connections with Hanover and Cologne-Bonn in Germany. Lufthansa (0810 1025 8080) has frequent flights to Frankfurt am Main, Munich and Stuttgart in Germany, and Ryanair (0900 210240) has frequent flights to/from London Stansted. Facilities at the airport include an information desk (29 02-172; departure hall; 5am-10.30pm), free internet terminals, and a bank with an ATM in arrivals, ground floor.

An infrequent airport bus also runs to the airport from the Hauptbahnhof but is less convenient than the train.

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