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I'll be driving to Austria this winter and know that I need to buy a vignette to drive on their motorways. Was googling to find out more and found this on our very own FCO travel website:
"If you use Austrian motorways ('Autobahn') and 'S' roads you must display a Motorway Vignette ..."
So: do I need the vignette to drive on S roads, whatever they are?
More specifically, do I need it for the roads that go from the border to Zell am See and then along the Salzach valley to Gastein, Bischofshofen, etc?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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S means Schnellstrasse and you need the vignette for those as well but they are always marked.
You can buy a 10 day one, 2 months and a year. The 10 day one is currently 7.90 Euro and can be bought at any of the service areas on the approach to the border between Munich and Salzburg. You will need one before you actually cross the border on the motorway. Last chance saloon for buying the vignette is the border crossing at Walserberg and you can have some quite long queues there at peak times. So a tip is to drive on to the petrol station and buy it there.
You need it if you are driving down the A10 Tauernautobahn (Salzburg to Bischofshofen) where you turn off to the B311 which takes you to Zell am See.
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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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is it true that I can buy a 2012 vignette on 1 Dec2011 and get 13 months out of it?
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stevev, That's the case for a Swiss one I believe.
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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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Samerberg Sue, thanks,and for the tip about the queues.
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| 1gunsalute wrote: |
| do I need it for the roads that go from the border to Zell am See and then along the Salzach valley to Gastein, Bischofshofen, etc? |
If you drive down the motorway (past Salzburg, rather than by Zell am See) to get to Bischofshofen, etc., you will need the vignette.
However, if you intend taking the route via Zell am See, leaving the autobahn at the second exit after the border at Kuftstein/Kiefersfelden (Kufstein Süd) and then driving to Saalfelden (via Fieberbrunn or Lofer) and on past Zell am See, then you don't need a vignette, as long as you don't end up at any stage back on the autobahn, A10 (including the dual carriageway east of Bischofshofen, I think). The route via the autobahn is probably easier, though.
stevev, you can buy the Austrian vignette for the following year (and two extra months) in December (actually valid for 14 months, e.g. the 2012 vignette is good from 01.12.2011 - 31.01.2013).
Last edited by You'll need to Register first of course. on Thu 20-10-11 18:49; edited 3 times in total
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| 1gunsalute wrote: |
| Samerberg Sue, thanks,and for the tip about the queues. |
If your going from Munich to Salzberg on a ski season weekend your going to see a lot of queues, the autobahn was always stacked up worse then the m25
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