anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
Posted 10 years ago
I've been looking for getting from Budapest to Linz, likely in the daytime, for the cheapest possible. I'm also open to busses, but I'm guessing a train will be about the same price-point and faster. :)
Any tips on the best sites to use to get these tickets? I don't seem to be having a lot of luck on the hungarian train site. No availability is coming up for January. Perhaps those dates haven't been released yet.
Does anyone have an estimate on how much these tickets would be around 7:00am, and if they should be purchased in advance or if I'd be safe buying 2 tickets at the desk when I get there. This will be in September...
Peter
Traveller
9333 comments
Hi iamalighthouse.
For the Hungarian ticket you have to wait a little bit as tickets/schedules/online booking is only available until the second weekend of December for now. This is the date where European train schedules changes (in fact they won't change a lot).
Check [ux]https://rail.shop/mav[/ux] frequently and soon you will be able to book a one way ticket Budapest-Wien for EUR 13.
Then in a second step book Wien-Linz via [ux]https://rail.shop/oebb[/ux] - available from EUR 9.
Total: EUR 22.
Peter :)
nltrainer
Traveller
1405 comments
Bus most certainly will be cheapest option. check eurolines-or any of the major HU IN buscompanies.
By train: for this ALWAYS state if you also want to spend more time or not. It can in this case make quite a difference, as LOCAL HU tickets are much, much cheaper as same distance for INTernational. AND state age-if you are EU and >65, its even free In HU.
Cheapest with no prebooking: by train to SOPRON. From there (in train or maybe there is now a machine-cash EUR only!!) to Wien VOR ticket-8 zones, then use the WESTbahn train (half price)-and precheck if they do any special offers, as more likely you too young to know all.
IF you can preplan and able to stick to it (if not-money lost) check on mav-start and/or oebb.at for any low priced special fares on your day. a break in Wien may again help you to lower price. Thats mentioned by peter