 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello,
Found cheap flights to Memmingen and just wondering if anyone has taken the train from there to St.Anton and what it was like. Normally go via Zurich but this year the flight times don't suit.
Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Typically 4 - 5 hours, with 3 changes.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@rjp123, Be much easier with a hire car, 2 hours max.
Who flies in there these days, Ryanair?
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It maybe a cheap flight but it will cost you around €45 each way on the train unless you have a discount cards for Germany & Austria and take about 4-5hrs.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thanks all,
Have booked the flights already I'm afraid. Price of same was attractive (€100 return incl. baggage) however overall decision was dictated by the flight times.
Return flight ex. Zurich was departing at 1000 meaning a very early start on the Saturday - non runner.
Good to know re. train thanks and I think I can live with €45 transfers.
By the way what would one expect to pay for car hire - normally avoid this like the plague due to vignettes, insurance, snowchains etc.
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@rjp123, Vignette 12€ for 10 days.... hardly a major cost.... snowchains not required from there to St Anton, all motorway. Car hire have a look on Holiday Autos, should be cheap from there.
Who flies there?
Considered a bus transfer?
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@rjp123,
FYI
Munich Airport in travelling time is nearer by train & probably has more regular & frequent flights
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Flying with Ryanair. Will look at bus option also.
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2 hours in a car. Easy drive via tunnel as well.
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Cheers.....looks like the way to do it alright!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Beware that if you don't have proper winter types (I think in Germany it isn't mandatory), you may struggle when you get to some of the surrounding villages to St Anton. In the days when Ryanair flew to friedrichshafen, we didn't pay the massive supplement for winter types assuming they would be fitted anyway. We were staying in Pettneu and one of us had to sit on the bonnet of the car to weigh it down and allow us to reach our hotel. We couldn't get into the parking slot as the Hyundai we'd rented behaved like a hovercraft in snow. We just got out on the folllowing weekend without buying snowchains. Hopefully you'll get enough snow to worry about winter tyres...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Winter tyres are a legal requirement in Austria but (as far as I am aware) not in Germany. You will therefore most likely be charged extra for them (as we were, last time we hired a car at Munich Airport & drove to Austria).
Having said that, Auto Europe may include them in the hire price. Best to shop around & check, I think.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@rjp123,
I hired a car from Sixt, was just simpler all round for 4 of us. And means you can ski in the afternoon 
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Poster: A snowHead
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@kevinraine, starting your post with the word “Fact” does not make what follows it factually correct...
It is NOT mandatory to have winter tires from 01 November to 15 April in Austria. So that is er not a Fact.
See below from the Austrian government (and I‘m guessing they know) website which I linked to.
“PLEASE NOTE
The obligation to use winter tyres or snow chains on passenger cars and trucks up to 3.5 t only applies in winter conditions and only if the vehicle is operated in these conditions.”
So very similar to Germany. That said I was as I said being pedantic. The reality is that unless you want to only drive in Austria between those dates when you are sure that there are no winter conditions you are better off having winter tires...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I’ve never had a car from any hire company operating out of Memmingen that didn’t have winter tyres, so not sure this whole debate is relevant....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@SteveKirby, +1 they all do...
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