<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by hotturnip:
Vienna has a good subway system, and I believe that is the best way to get around. That's what I did this summer. </font>
We stayed at some off the beaten path Holiday Inn for 89 Euro per night at the very end of June. We had to take the bus and subway downtown and it was really easy to use (even for me
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> If you don't like that much art, you could go out to Schoenbrunn Palace. </font>
Take the tram tour located inside the grounds. We picked it up beside the restaurant and main building tour exit (5 euro I think). It takes you through some very beautiful areas. There is a gorgeous view from the top of the property where you look down from a large hilltop and can see the city in the distance with the palace and it's gardens below you. Stunning.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Learn some German if you don't know any. Your hotel people will speak perfect English, but that's not always the case elsewhere. Less English spoken than in Germany. [/B]</font>
We didn't have any problems with speaking English but it is of course always polite to learn some words in the language of the country you visit
I would go back in a heartbeat to Austria but Mrs Cattle and I have decided that we should really see more of Europe as well before the kids come. Still if she said, "what they heck lets go back" I would go without a second thought.