Traveling around Salzkammergut - your advice?

Hello!
There are many bus connections each day, but you have to change in Strobl. The journey will take about 2 hours. Please find detailed information on the website: www.oebb.at

You can buy the ticket in the bus.

You can make a boat trip on the lake Wolfgang until 28 October: http://www.schafbergbahn.at/ You can also go buy bus from St. Wolfgang to St. Gilgen with one change in Strobl. There are also direct bus connections from St. Wolfgang to Bad Ischl.
If you go to Munich you have to take the bus to Strobl, then another bus to Salzburg and from Salzburg you can go by train to Munich. The train ticket from Salzburg to Munich costs about 34 € in 2. class.

Best regards
Isabella_W

I also would like to see St. Gligen, Bad Ischl, Hallstat. I understand that boat ride will not be an option after October 24, right? How to travel around that area?

To get to Hallstatt from Bad Ischl, just take the train, and, at Hallstattersee, a boat will meet the train to take you across the lake...if you start early enough, you could do all these places in one long day...

if you take german regional trains you can buy the so called BAYERN TICKET for just 22 Euros...Best regards, Ottavio from the Austrian National Tourist Office in Vienna

Welcome to TT, Ottavio...any plans to introduce an equivalent ticket in Austria?...the Einfach-Raus ticket seems to operate the same as a group Bayern-Ticket but no Austrian version of the single Landes-Ticket which seems odd?...

Practical advice:
Raincoat + umbrella. This is one of the rainiest areas of Europe.
October? Kinda chilly.

*2. I'm not from the Railways but I don't think this will be done like in Germany as the Austrian Länder are very small. Vienna, which is city as well as region can be passed in 45 minutes. Bayern is a very big region and that's why such a ticket is of great value. Some rail freaks used to buy Einfach-Raus-Tickets and travelled, for example from Vienna to Linz, before the Sparschiene Tickets were intruduced, which permits you a tremendous saving, if the tickets are booked in davacne on specific trains. I think this Einfach-Raus-Ticket is ok for more then 2 persons if the trip is slightly longer than 60 or 70 km.

O.N.

I'm not from the Railways but I don't think this will be done like in Germany as the Austrian Länder are very small. Vienna, which is city as well as region can be passed in 45 minutes. Bayern is a very big region and that's why such a ticket is of great value. Some rail freaks used to buy Einfach-Raus-Tickets and travelled, for example from Vienna to Linz, before the Sparschiene Tickets were intruduced, which permits you a tremendous saving, if the tickets are booked in davacne on specific trains. I think this Einfach-Raus-Ticket is ok for more then 2 persons if the trip is slightly longer than 60 or 70 km.

Thanks for the reply, ON, but I don't really think that is entirely logical...the Einfach-Raus+ ticket treats Austria as one +Land+ already and applies for 2-5ppl so the only difference would be to offer a single ticket version like in the German system...I take your point about +Sparschiene tickets but tourists/travellers can't or won't always commit themselves so far in advance, particularly the type that use this kind of forum...and, to be honest, I'd say most don't even know it exists whereas a discount ticket you can buy on the day makes far more appeal...

I agree with you. It shouldn't be a big deal introducing a similar product as well in the single regions of Austria (except Vienna, as in that case you can travel by public tramnsportation with various travel passes).

In effect not a lot of tourists know the Sparschiene tickets (wherefrom should they know it if not from people living in that country).
You probably know this: it's been almost a year know that a private train competitor, called Westbahn, serves the route from Vienna to Salzburg. In that case everyone can jump into the train without even having a ticket, pay on board (cash or card) and the price is always 50% less then the regular price of the other company in 2nd class. The train trip is about 15 minutes longer as there are 2 or 3 more stops. The only "inconveninece": there are'nt any different classes. But this is a very good alternative if the limited Sparschiene tickets aren't any more available.

You probably know this: it's been almost a year know that a private train competitor, called Westbahn, serves the route from Vienna to Salzburg.

Thanks, NTO...and, yes, I've been advising here about the Westbahn service for a while now...