Analise

Thanks Roberta. Can I verify with you that I can buy a weekly pass at a ticket machine on a Thursday afternoon when I arrive at VIE?

shonamac

Not Roberta but AFAIK you can also buy the pass at VIE airport from the Tourist Info office

roberta_h

sorry, i'm not that familiar with the weekly passes -- the tourist info office is a good suggestion, or online...

Fanjet

Vienna uses the honor system for public transport. You don't even have to show the bus driver your ticket when entering one. However, they do have "fare police" which randomly board to check for free riders; and ticket them with a fine.I always buy my ticket to Vienna from the machines on the train platform. (Which also sell the Weekly Ticket for Vienna Zone 100, BTW). However, you do have to purchase a ticket to get you form the airport station to the first station in Zone 100. And I want to say that station is called Kaiser(something). IIRC, it's two stops before the one for the Central Cemetary. I think it's just under 2 Euros in price for that ticket.

railways

It's just gone down, surprisingly, from EUR 2.20 to EUR 1.70. There is a destination option on the ticket machine: "Zone 100 boundary" or "Vienna city boundary" or similar, which selects the correct station (Schwechat).

Analise

So I have to go to a tourist office to buy the weekly pass at VIE? I'm a bit confused.

Here's what I want to do: When I arrive at VIE around 12:30pm on a Thursday, I want to buy the weekly pass and then get the reduced price ticket on the S7 because I have the weekly pass. Is this possible? If so, how do I get the reduced priced S7 ticket with weekly pass?

Thanks.

Fanjet

On the train platform, the automated ticket machines there sell both. I actually don't know anything about the tourist office at VIE. However, the question which you need answered is whether or not they will still be selling the weekly pass on Thursday (and I cannot confirm that they still do). Perhaps you can e-mail them the question on the wienerlinien.at website. I think I saw a "Kundenfrage" or "Kundeninfo" link on the homepage.

BTW, you're not purchasing a reduced price ticket for the S7 train. It's just the normal price ticket to get you from the airport station to the boundary station for Zone 100. At which point the weekly pass becomes valid for use on your journey.

ctrlf

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ctrlf

You can select to choose the start of your week.

Works in the online shop https://shop.wienerlinien.at/index.p...ow/0/0/0/0/buy and at ticket vending machines - where i happened to pass by recently.
The machines at the airport are most probably from VOR (Verkehrsverbund Ost Region) and not wiener linien - the system should be similiar.

Buying the single-ticket from Airport vienna to city skirts

a) Select „VOR single ticket with choice of destination“


b) FROM: Flughafen Wien / To City limits € 1,70

Buying the weekly ticket you

a) click onto „weekly ticket“ on the first screen.
b) modify the week via MODIFY


c) clicking „current week“ assuming it is thursday of the week you want to buy the pass starts the week backdated


Hope that clears everything for you.

Analise

Very helpful, ctrlf. Thank you! I especially appreciate your highlighting a screen that makes sure I pick the right week.


Ok. I'll email them.

From my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong, by having the weekly pass, I would pay less for the S7 ticket than if I bought the S7 ticket alone. If that's the case, do the ticket machines sell S7 tickets from the airport to the boundary in which the weekly takes effect?

Analise

I did. Got nowhere.

From me:

Their response:

Didn't even answer my question about buying a weekly ticket from their machines at VIE on a Thursday. The respondent assumes I'm a group of men.......bizarre.

Fanjet

The airport is outside Zone 100. The weekly pass is only valid within Zone 100. There are several "normal" tickets on the S7 train and which one you need depends upon your desired destination. The ticket you need to get to the boundary station with Zone 100 costs less than if you need the ticket to get you to central Vienna. Once you get to that boundary station on the S7 train, your weekly ticket kicks in. So, since you are trying to get to central Vienna and you will have the weekly pass, you do not need to purchase the higher priced ticket (for central Vienna) on the S7 train. Just the single journey ticket to the boundary station.The ticket machines on the train platform at the airport sell both the single journey ticket to the boundary station, as well as the weekly pass for Zone 100 (even though the airport station is not within Zone 100).

Analise

Fanjet, I will be taking the S7 to Wien Mitte and then walking to my hotel. Google maps says it's an 11 minute walk so that sounds easy. At the S7 ticket machine, what is the name of the boundary station so I select it and purchase a ticket to that boundary station since I will have purchased the weekly pass that will cover the rest of the trip to Wien Mitte?

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After going back and forth in my emails, a representative wrote back this morning confirming that I can buy a weekly pass on a Thursday afternoon at a ticket machine at VIE. I wanted to let you know. May I assume that the ticket machine to buy the weekly pass is different from the S7 ticket machine? If so, I hope they're nearby!

railways

No: you get them - and all Vienna and OeBB tickets - from the same machine (there are several). The only tickets bought from a different machine are for the CAT.

Analise

Thank you!

Thank you for that too! Is it a separate transaction to buy the ticket to "Vienna city boundary" or do I have the option of buying both the weekly pass and the ticket within the same transaction?