Vienna

Wien (Vienna / AUT)

Wien (Vienna) is the capital of Austria and is located in the north-east of the country. It has a population of around 1.7Mio and it is (according to some statistics loving economy gurus from all over the world) the fourth or fifth richest area in the world (or something like that. Who cares...). Its dimensions are about 22km (north-south) times 30km (east-west). Thanks to the fact that Vienna is by far the biggest city in Austria (second biggest city is Graz with about 300.000 inhabitants), and due to its universities you'll find a lot of students (nearly everyone who wants to study in Austria moves to Vienna) and many different sorts of clubs, bars, restaurants, cafés and so on.

How to get there?

By car

Via autobahn (from the German border to Vienna it will take around 2 hours). But be careful: In Austria you have to have a motorway permit sticker. For 10 days it cost around 8EUR. If you are stopped by police and you have no permit sticker it'll cost you up to 1000EUR. There is no fee for the use of federal higways, but there speed limit is 100km/h.

By train

ÖBB (Austrian federal railway) gives you the possibility to create your personal railway schedules online. In Austria, as opposed to some other European countries, you dont have to "book" your seat. You just buy your ticket and, as long as it is no short-range ticket, you are allowed to travel that certain route once within the next four weeks.

By plane

Vienna's airport is outside the city (Wien-Schwechat) but there are several possibilities to get into town. Usually loads of taxicabs are waiting for international passengers, but try to fix a money amount before entering the cab. On the airport there is also a railway station where you can chose between CAT (the socalled city airport train that goes directly to Landstraße/Wien Mitte, a station near town center, and takes about 20 (?) minutes) and rapid transit railway (cheaper, one of its stations is also Landstraße/Wien Mitte, and it will take about 35 (?) minutes)

Public transport

In Vienna you'll find five metro lines, a rapid transit railway/city train and several bus and tramway lines. Online Schedule

Metro

In Vienna you can use the metro in the time between 5 a.m. till 12:30 a.m., the intervall is something like 3-5 min (day) and 5-7 min (night). This unofficial metro system homepage contains loads of general information as well as timetables and network maps.

Bus/Tram

To be honest, i dont use bus/tram that often, mainly because their intervall is 10 minutes and because the metro network enables you to reach lots of waypoints in no time. By the way, a walk through Vienna is always nice ;-) . At night, there are several night buses, the so called Nightline, whose tour starts either at Schwedenplatz or at Karlsplatz (both in the centre of Vienna) depending in what direction you want the bus to go.

Signs

Here you can see the typical signs that indicate public transport stations. (From left: Metro, Tram, Bus, City Train)

Daylife

Shopping

For shopping purposes there are two main streets, that have loads of clothing/shoe/lifestyle shops on it. record stores:

Nightlife

Clubs

Flex[1] is Vienna's best known club with definitely one of the best coordinated soundsystems in the world. Its besides Danube Canal in the first district, so you can consider it a great place for meeting interesting people, chillin around outdors, clubbin indoors, smokin pot and enjoyin a great evening. Flex has, although it is located quite central (metro U2 & U4 station Schottenring, tram 1, 2 and some others), considerably moderateprices (Entrance fee: 5-10EUR, usually free entry after 3:00am, pint of beer sth like 3EUR)

Programme

Monday: DubClub (Dub)

Tuesday: Crazy (Techno)

Wednesday: London Calling (Indie/Brit/Alternative Rock and Pop)

Thursday: Beat It (DnB)

Friday/Saturday/Sunday: Alway changing (Guest DJs/London Calling Special/Future Beatz/Live Acts/...), you have to check the schedule for exact informations.

FLUC[[2]] is quite a new club, nevertheless it looks like...uhm...very alternative, if you know what i mean. It consists of two separate rooms, one is called FLUC, which looks more like a bar and which is open the whole week, the other one is the so called FLUC Wanne, which is more like a club and which hosts electronic music of all sort on fridays and saturdays (breaks, breakcore, dubstep, grime, electroclash, techno). The club is located right besides North Central Station in a former underpass, so you can go there by metro U1 (Praterstern), by city train S1, S2, S3 and S7 (Bahnhof Wien-Nord/Praterstern), by bus 80A and 82A (Praterstern), by tram 21, 5 and 0 (Praterstern) and by Nightline N25, N26 and N29. Entrance fee should be sth around 10EUR, beer and shots also arent that expensive.

Programme

Always changing (Live Acts, Record Presentations, Local Residents, International Guests DJs and Producers @ FLUC Wanne), so you have to check the website for further inforrmation.

Wuk

Leopold

Camera

Donau

Passage

U4

Volksgarten

Wirr

Bars

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