Salzburg Day Trip from Vienna

Vienna, Austria

While in Vienna don't miss your chance to visit Austria's other great city, Salzburg - home of Mozart and beautiful Mirabell Gardens and Palace. Travel through the stunning Austrian alps and lakes on this fantastic day trip to Salzburg. The tour includes guided walking tour of the city of Salzburg.

Traveling to Mozart's town of birth you'll be enchanted by the beautiful Salzkammergut landscape with its mountains and lakes, and where the Emperor Franz Joseph and his family used to spend their holidays. Skirting the Lake Fuschl and Lake Wolfgang you will reach Salzburg, where you will have free time for lunch.

Discover Salzburg with an afternoon walking tour through the old city. Your guide will show you the most important sights of the old Bishop's Seat including the Cathedral, the Festival Hall, St Peter's Abbey Church and its graveyard (the tomb of Mozart's sister Nannerl).

Among the busy shopping streets you'll see no. 9 Getreidegasse, where the famed Wolfgang Mozart was born and lived until he was 17 years old.

While passing through the gardens of Mirabell Palace you will see the statue of the Pegasus, the winged horse and perhaps here, the song 'Do-Re-Mi' from the movie Sound of Music will come to mind?

On your return journey to Vienna, enjoy great views as your coach passes through Fortress Hohensalzburg, one of the largest medieval castles in Europe. Your tour concludes with a drop off at Vienna State Opera.

USD $126.40

Review by: HEANG HWEE T	April 2012
I enjoyed the dap trip very much ! The guide is very resourceful and the journey is superb with the visit to the beautiful Moon Lake village before reaching Salzburg. I strongly recommend this trip !

Review by: Sing Moon C	March 2012
The arrangement is appropriate overall

Review by: Diana N	March 2012
I think it is a better idea (and cheaper) to take the train to Salzburg. This tour means approximately 4.5 hour each way (with train is 2.45 hours), including 2 stops of 30-45 minutes in 2 restaurants on the highway and only 4 hours in Salzburg. Also we had to wait for some of the tourists that were always late. As we took this tour in March, the scenery was not impressing at all.

Review by: ALLEN T	January 2012
very well orginased worth the money and time_br/_ interesting place Salzburg.

Review by: CHLOE T	December 2011
very scenic worth the drive and service was excellent

Review by: Michel Z	November 2011
very nice tour especially the Mondsee lake on our way to salzburg where we took lovely picture. our guide Karl was very interesting he gave us lots of explainations during the whole trip.

Review by: Jeena	November 2011
It was good trip, everything on time and very good guide. We had a wonderful trip.

Review by: BRUCE R	November 2011
Excellent - long day but well worth it - very good guide

Review by: Rania	November 2011
We left on time, the bus was nice and clean. Our tour guide was nice and gave us lots of info. It took too long. and I wanted to stop in some nice area's on the way and we did not since we were part of a tour. We rented a car the next day and went to Budapest. We like that option more. This tour was over priced too.

Review by: alda	October 2011
Great trip to a great city. the guide was knowledgeable and friendly she kept us interested all the time and kept everything on schedule. Salzburg is so beautiful,green with mountain and lakes everywhere. i do recommend.

Review by: Stanislaw S	October 2011
The trip itself and Salzburg were very nice. However, there was a problem, a three languages tour was guided by a single person. It became very annoying after short period of time.

Review by: Roger A	October 2011
Very nice trip.

Review by: bulat1977	October 2011
Excellent...really recommended for this trip.

Review by: Sandra K	October 2011
very well planned and pleasant guide. Would suggest highly, though it is a long day!

Review by: Ronald R	October 2011
This trip was great. Very well organized and the our tour guide was knowledgeable and friendly and kept everything on schedule. We travelled with our two sons, 15 and 12, and they loved the experience of Salzburg. The motor coach was punctual and the stops were sufficiently spaced apart. I very highly recommend this tour.

Review by: Donald T	October 2011
My understanding was this was an english speaking tour. The guide spoke also Spanish and Italian and repeated the same story in 3 languages which was not what was expected as the translations took far too long.

Review by: Kira G	October 2011
Adding general naration about Austriia and iits history while driving would be nice_br/_ Too much Mozart!_br/_ Loved the city.

Review by: robbo	September 2011
.Worth visiting. although felt it did not need so long in Salzburg_br/_ Georg the guide, and interpreter was very professional and knowledgable which made the tour exciting

Review by: Susan H	September 2011
An excellent day, plenty to see and do.

Review by: MRS A L P	September 2011
This is lovely but a lengthy tour expect to spend many hours on the bus. If you have a lousy tour director as we had it can be agony. He would dismiss questions mostly by saying "NOT NOW" In Salzburg he was only interested to end the tour as fast as possible so that "we" could have our free time. There were some people who could not move fast enought for him and pass rude remarks about them, a very unpleasant person. Salzburg is delightful and it would have been even better if the tour director would had been more forthcoming than "that is the bishop palace" and then move on without further explanations, and dont dare to ask (not now). Again with all this tours have them pick you up at your hotel.

Review by: John P	September 2011
Salzburg is a wonerful destination and deserves more than the few hours afforded by this day tour from Vienna. However if time is limited this tour also gives you a glimise of some wonderful Austrian countryside on the jouney from Vienna to Salzburg, albeit the journey is largely driven using major highways. Having booked an english speaking tour we were surprised to find out it was dual language (english / spanish), which meant than there was a lot of waiting around on the walking tour whilst the commentary was given in two languages. Unfortunately our tour group were not very punctual and this lead to a long day been even longer by the time we returned to Vienna.

Review by: J Michael w	September 2011
Cramped bus, unfriendly tour host and bad translation. Left bus in Salzburg and caught train back, suggest u have more PR oriented hosts and drivers

Review by: Elizabeth K	September 2011
Too little time on own. I was not expecting Spanish as well as English. Walking tour in Salzburg a bit hurried, disjointed, and vague. The guide was extremely knowledgeable and friendly.

Review by: DEMETRES P	September 2011
The bus trip was rather long but the tour guide was excellent. He kept everybody interested, talked about the area , the history , the people and their care for the enviroment, very friendly. Salzburg itself was well woth seeing. The countryside is truly beautiful, very green with lakes everywhere. I do reccomend this trip.

Review by: Carol I. B	September 2011
The trip to Salsbury was terrific, tour guide was also great! Would have been nice to stay there longer and get back to Vienna later at night. Thank you!

Review by: Meira S	September 2011
The bus, the trip, and the day were good. Unfortunately the tour guide was not good. Did not have patience with the guests and did not explain what we were seeing.

Review by: Winnie L	August 2011
Well organised and enjoyable day trip to Salzburg. The journey to there was comfortable and full of beautiful scenery. The guide we had was knowledgeable and helpful. The only down side was the group being big and it was not easy to follow the group. Also the guide had to explain everything three times in different languages, so it was rather time consuming.

Review by: Pauline F	August 2011
All this was was transportation to Salzburg. Very little information about Salzburg, Mozart, history. Disapointing

Review by: Brian K	August 2011
Not enough time in Salzburg, as I had no time to go back to Mozart birth house or shopping plaza after spending a great deal of time after looking for a place to eat on my own. Also the bus spent simply too much time at the rest area in both directions unnecessarily.

Review by: Abdulrahman A	August 2011
Every thing was smoth

Review by: Ranjana G	August 2011
the tour guide was a bit of a bore, and played uninspiring music all the way - he was also a bit impatient with tourists who were obviously excited with being there for the first time. Not a bad sort of person, but not terribly well informed.

Review by: Yee Chern C	August 2011
I personally enjoyed Salzburg a lot. The tour guide was not very informative and we were given only 3 hours to explore the town, that includes lunch time as well. So by the time you finish your meal you only have a very limited time to go to one place before you leave.

Review by: kiwibuddy1	July 2011
A long day. It's basically the Sound of Music tour, but the scenery is spectacular, great tour guide, and Salzburg well worth seeing.

Review by: Terri G	July 2011
We had a wonderful guide - from the area. The alps are beautiful and worth seeing as is the town. We actually ate in a restaurant which has been serving food since 803! Long bus ride and sort of felt like a "sound of music" tour. I would definitely recommend this tour.

Review by: ACE V	July 2011
Very interesting and worthwhile trip. Salzburg is a must see. Long bus trip but a very comfortable and smooth ride.

Review by: Anthony P	July 2011
Excellent - very good guide (Hans)

Review by: Katharine H	July 2011
Brilliant day tour! Highly recommended. Very knowledgable and helpful guide and lots of time to explore the city by yourself. The walking your provided by the guide was also very interesting.

Review by: SUNIL K	July 2011
excellent trip. guide was good and the trip offered all that was advertised. highly recommended.

Review by: Carmen T	July 2011
Salzburg is a beautiful city and that is why I am giving three stars. However, the tour should be organized differently. Stopping for breakfast was good because we started early and everybody was hungry but stopping for dinner was time we could have used exploring more of Salzburg. I would not recommend this trip.

Review by: Joseph S, United States of America	July 2010
Tour guide was extremely knowledgeable and upbeat. She sparkled with her enthusiasm for the city. She has very clear pronunciation and could very easily be understood. But the main reason for the rating, there was sufficient time to actually see some museums and other sites that I came to Salzburg for. The lake area was very nice, but if so much of what is pointed out is dealing with the film "The Sound of Music" then ride by the church so we see a very clear view of it, maybe even take 20 minutes to go inside. But I loved the trip and would recommend it highly to friends.

Review by: James v, Austria	July 2010
The entire trip was very well organized and a lot of fun. Our tour guide did an excellent job in sharing all of her knowledge. A great way to see Salzburg and Austria.

Review by: David F, Bermuda	July 2010
Salzburg is beautiful. We also lovely the trip to and from Salzburg with the beautiful lakes and majesty of the mountains on the warm summer day we took this tour. It was cool to visit the spots were the Sound of Music was filmed. Highly recommended.

Review by: Daniel C, United States of America	June 2010
all day tour with stops along the way to Salzburg and on the return to Vienna--small group--nice walking tour of the city with excellent guide--When you go on Sunday you see the locals in native dress--singing in the park and in the squares--A wonderful tour!!

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	June 2010
Best part of our trip. Guide was raised in Salzburg and incredibly knowledgeable and organized. Driver that day was also outstanding.

Review by: Gaetano B, Canada	May 2010
Nice city and a great guide.

Review by: Kevin W, Canada	May 2010
Great tour. The guide was very friendly and Salzburg was beautiful. Highly recommended!

Review by: Dale W, Belgium	May 2010
The tour was well organised, enough time with a dedicated tour guide and then time to wander around on your own with your own itinerary. A beautiful city and well worth making the day trip.

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	April 2010
Not what we thought, but enjoyed it. It was much more dense and we were expecting a bit smaller and quaint. It has good shopping and lots of tourist areas to look at.

Review by: Shams E, Egypt	January 2010
I loved everything about it! A bit of mix up at the beginning regarding the pick up place, but aside from that everything was awesome! I would have preferred to have it for a longer time but I guess in summer this would be avoided!

Review by: Louis V, United States of America	December 2009
Great.