Tours to Austria from Almaty: prices from 1,417,000 ₸

The manager at the travel agency suggested a convenient transfer to the center, though I do know my way around such things pretty well myself, but with him everything went smoother and without the whole fuss with maps. The cathedral and the palace really impressed me, especially when I stepped into the inner courtyard — it was so quiet there you could hear your own footsteps on the gravel, but the coffee at the tourist-cafe on the main street disappointed us, meh, overheated and bitter, though later I found this tiny pastry shop in an alley with the best apple strudel of my life. Came back home with a feeling that I wanna go again, but somewhere quieter.

Came back from Innsbruck last night and still blown away. The mountains are so breathtaking even when you just look out the hotel window, not when you climb them with a backpack, although we did take the funicular once and up there coffee cost like a small plane, but the view was worth it. The manager from the agency picked us a hotel so that downtown was fifteen minutes on foot and it was convenient, but the coolest part was when we wandered into a park and fed swans — that’s what you travel three thousand kilometers for.

We had a force majeure situation, work needed me to fly to Innsbruck urgently, and there was no time at all to deal with tickets and hotels myself. So I went to the agency, not too far from home. The task was simple but strict: fit everything into 24 hours and do it turnkey. The guys in the office handled it very quickly. Within a couple of hours they already sent the confirmation to email, gave the info on the layover in Munich with spare time right away, they did account for the fact that I wasn't flying alone, but with equipment. Once in Innsbruck I realized I worried for nothing, the organization on the ground was top notch. They picked a cozy little hotel, breakfasts were fine, though the construction site nearby did add some local flavor in the mornings. And the views of the mountains, the cable car up to Nordkette — that’s something else, got some really great shots. The trains are convenient to use there, once I almost went the wrong way, but the city is small, no big deal could've been worse. So yeah, a solid five, especially since we held the work meeting right in the hotel lobby

came back yesterday and still walking around impressed. Innsbruck in winter is something else, snow up to the waist but the city is as alive as it gets - walked the streets and the snow crunched so loud my ears rang for a second. took the cable car up the mountain, the view there takes your breath away, and at the top coffee for 6 euros but fine I forgave them all that because the view is unreal. the trip organization went so smoothly I didn't even get nervous, the manager laid everything out for me and even sent a tip about bus routes later on whatsapp, a nice touch. my husband loses everything all the time, so he lost his gloves and I almost freaked out but then he found them in the bag and we were laughing across the whole funicular. tried the local mulled wine it's spicy but surprisingly has a cranberry kick, it's tasty, overall Austria turned out way simpler in a good way than I feared. cash was barely needed but I never got to try their famous schnitzel, regretted it already on the plane when the woman next to me smelled of something amazing

Finally got to Salzburg in Austria — what a gem of a city, though the weather let us down. Some nasty drizzle hung around all three days, but staying in felt like a waste. Definitely hike up to Hohensalzburg Fortress, the view from up there is gorgeous even in the fog. Touched the old stone walls with my hands, imagined the archbishops living here and them not giving a damn about anything from that height. At some point my feet went numb from the cold, I ducked into a cafe, had an apple strudel — hot, with cinnamon, better than any restaurant. Mozart-Geburtshaus — a funny place, but feels more like a museum for show than something alive. But I bought a bunch of magnets and even found an umbrella with a Salzburg view, yeah. It’s quiet there, clean, people are friendly, everything’s close — walked the whole center on foot. Came back totally happy, already sending photos to my friend, she wants to go too))

Had to urgently notarize documents for the Austrian side for work, so off to Salzburg I went, lucky the visa from last year was still valid. The manager at the travel agency suggested a decent route so I'd both get the job done and see the city. Hohensalzburg Fortress is a beast, sure enough, I tramped the old streets all day, and in the evening found a pub where locals looked at me like I was one of them, though I only know "danke" in German. Nice when everything falls into place, and the service here, by the way, isn't nearly as washed-out as people tend to think about Europe after all that news

Got a power of attorney notarized, turned out it wasn’t needed for the visa, but we’d already decided to go to Austria, and picked Salzburg because my wife’s a fan of “The Sound of Music”. Realized her eyes weren’t glowing from the movie, but from the fact that every street in the old town looks like a set for it — yet still totally alive, with the smell of coffee and pastries from the bakeries. Went up to the fortress, the sun was blasting so hard I even sweated, though I stood in the shade, but then I found a beer hall where they brew great dark beer, and came home totally happy with the money spent on the travel agency)))

ostavshiesya dni v Zaltsburge proleteli kak odin mig, i pogoda budto po zakazu — solntse, tolko veter na gore Zaltskammerguta meshal shapku nadet... no vid s kreposti perekryvaet vse, dazhe etu duratskuyu tolpu turistov u Motsarta, hotya i sam gorod kakoy-to igrushechnyy s etimi vitrinami i cherepitsey, da i kofe v konditerskoy byl tak sebe na vkus)) vernulsya etim reysom s peresadkoy i teper spokoyno mogu skazat chto poezdka togo stoila.

Needed a vacation, and I had absolutely no energy to organize anything myself. Walked into the agency near work because a colleague goes there all the time, asked for just "a week in Vienna". Departure was in mid-July, and I was really scared it'd be insane heat, but the weather, luckily, didn't let me down. The hotel was picked in the center, but I'll say right away — the view from the window was of a construction site, which upset me a bit on the first day. But I got to St. Stephen's Cathedral in five minutes at a leisurely pace and went there every evening for ice cream, it's unbelievably creamy there. Out of the palaces we only saw the Belvedere, and didn't bother with the second one, the lines — that's insane, I don't vacation like that. Transfer from the airport was included, and that saved me, because in a foreign city knowing right away where to go is priceless. Found the cafe with apple strudel myself by the smell, though later a friend said it's a tourist trap, but I liked it. It's super convenient that on buses and trams you can buy tickets right from your phone via an app, I figured it out in about ten minutes. The only real downside — on the last day it started pouring, and I had to blow the whole remaining budget on a cab to the hotel for our bags. Came back overall satisfied, good impressions, but I probably wouldn't take a tour with fixed dates again, for Austrians it's better to plan on your own)))

When I was applying for a Schengen visa (with these their new biometric rules), I decided to look for a ready-made tour so I wouldn't have to stress about flights and transfer — a travel agency in Astana offered me Innsbruck for a week, because there are mountains there, and I just wanted to walk around, no skiing and no crowds of tourists... and the most surprising thing is that everything turned out better than I expected: the city is compact, you can walk both sides in a day, in the Alps even in June it's cool and smells like grass, on the way back I stopped by a pastry shop and had such an apple strudel that you'd lick your fingers, and the free audio guide at the castle I hung around my neck and then swung it like a pendulum for two hours, such a nice little keepsake from the trip

Зальцбургқа жергілікті агенттік арқылы тур сатып алдым, қызықсыз болады деп ойладым, ал шын мәнінде жай ғана ертегі. Қонақүйдің терезесінен тікелей таулар көрінеді, ауасы сондай, бас айналады, тіпті бірнеше рет тоқтап, ақымақ сияқты дем алып тұрдым, ауасы сондай дәмді, ал мына черепица шатырлы үйшіктер — ашықхаттағыдай ғой, қаланың өзі кішкентай болса да, екі күнде жүріп өттім. Бәрі жақын болғаны ұнады, бірақ Моцарттың үйінің жанындағы мына туристер легі — бұл азап, кезекте қырық минуттай тұрдым да, неге мұнда келдім деп ойладым, кейін кірдім де түсіндім, осы үшін тұрарлық екен. Жалғыз ренжіткені — ауа райы, күндіз ыстық, кешке кенет суып кететін де, бір кофтада тоңатынмын, куртка алу керек еді, бірақ кім білсін. Жалпы жақсы бардым, ұйымдастыру үштікке, себебі фирма экскурсия уақытының ауысқанын ескертуді ұмытып кетті, бірақ қатты ренжіген жоқпын…

Had been meaning to fly to Vienna for a long time, and on top of that I needed to sort out a power of attorney for the car, no real necessity, just wanted it done properly and not half-assed, so I took a tour with flights and hotel to not have to think about it. Flew in the morning, landed and immediately liked that at the airport I got on the train without any hassle and made it to the center — the city is kinda toy-like, all the facades are neat, like they were painted yesterday, and I had imagined it would be boring, and I was wrong. Of course, the coffee at the local pastry shop turned out a bit sour for my taste, plus the strudel portion was so generous that I didn’t even notice how I ate it all and walked around stuffed like a boa, but then I filled my whole backpack with souvenirs in the old town. Got pretty tired (that’s Imperial, the museum and the cathedral in one day, my legs are buzzing), but came back happy and already have my eye on the next trip, so fully satisfied with the whole thing)

We got to Salzburg fine, although at the airport during baggage loading our skis almost stayed behind, but it worked out — once we were there it was wildly beautiful, snow all around like from a picture and the city itself so compact and cozy that I wasn't even expecting it, we managed to walk everything, and this Mozart is everywhere, even on the candies! The fortress we saw from the outside, touched the stairs in the courtyard, old stones, — returned happy, five points this is exactly my trip and the organization was great, flew back without any adventures too.

poezdku bral dlya semi v dekabre, pered novym godom... gorod konechno krasivyy, rozhdestvenskie yarmarki ogon. no takoe chuvstvo chto vsya Evropa syuda priehala v eti dve nedeli, tolkotnya esche ta vse hodili po muzeyam i soboram, v mestnoy kofeyne zavtrakali kazhdoe utro, tam shokoladnyy kryuassan prosto taet vo rtu. otel hot i bronirovali cherez eto agentstvo zaranee, no selili na okraine, prihodilos po dvadtsat minut katatsya v tsentr na tramvae, hotya v zayavke prosili poblizhe no eto ladno, glavnoe vpechatlenie ostalos horoshee, sam gorod chistyy kakoy-to ochen spokoynyy i bezopasnyy. kstati syn poteryal varezhku v pervom zhe parke, prishlos potom v magazine brat novye, no eto uzhe nasha zabota v tselom poezdku otsenivayu na chetyre, minus tolko za organizatsiyu transfera, dolgo zhdali avtobus v aeroportu pri vozvraschenii. navernoe v drugoe vremya goda bylo by esche luchshe, no i seychas ponravilos, vernulsya dovolnyy i otdohnuvshiy

needed a visa and decided to take a tour so i wouldn't have to struggle with paperwork, chose this firm because my mom recommended it, they by the way immediately offered the optimal option for money and timing. Vienna in august — that's heat, crowds of tourists and queues at the palace, but inside it's so beautiful you forgive everything, coffee with apple strudel in some basement pastry shop — that's what it was worth flying for, though my feet still ache from the cobblestones. came back satisfied, everything went smoothly without any hiccups, but they didn't exactly reach for the stars — an ordinary trip for your money, which i could've organized myself, if it weren't for the laziness of dealing with bookings

Vienna is definitely something else. Walked around the center like I was bewitched, St. Stephen's Cathedral just blows your mind while you look up at it from below. Such a city... Breathed in the air and realized our travel agents can put together a route without any soul, but here at least everything's on time and the hotel's decent (the elevator did creak, but that's a minor thing). For some reason dragged my wife to that cafe with apple strudel, thought it'd be sickly sweet, but it was straight fire, I still remember the vanilla taste. Came back home totally pleased, like I was born again, definitely coming back to this Vienna when I save up some cash!

Went to Innsbruck because we urgently needed to get my mom out of her endless routine, and just then the manager from the travel agency jumped in with a last-minute deal, she generally grabbed everything fast and sent it to me on whatsapp, even though I myself had no clue what I wanted. People, this isn't a city but some kind of fairy tale about mountains and apple strudel pastries, we roamed the little streets every day and for the first time in my life I touched snow at the summit, went into the cathedral and there it felt so light in my soul.. and I still see that golden roof in front of my eyes, when the light hits it in the evening.

Жена попросила интернеттен Австрияға тур тауып беруге, ал өзімнің сол агрегаторларға кіргім келмеді, сөйтіп жұмысқа жақын жердегі бірінші кезіккен агенствоға кірдім. Инсбрукты таңдадым себебі қаланың дәл өзінде таулар бар деп естігем, қателеспеппін, қонақүйдің шатырынан көрініс тамаша. Нордкеттеге фуникулёрмен бардық, жоғарыда жүрек тоқтап қала жаздайды бірақ қорқынышты да болды, ауа райы ашық еді және айнала жүз шақырымға дейін бәрі көрінеді, жалғыз кемшілігі орыс тілімен ол жақта мүлдем жоқ, саусақпен түсіндіруге тура келді және бірнеше рет кездейсоқ бір француз көмектесті.

I contacted the agency for a trip to Vienna because I wanted to see the Christmas market myself, and I had no experience at all with organizing such trips. Picked up the ready package of documents and off to the airport, in the end everything went smoothly, although I was mentally prepared for some kind of hiccup. I was especially pleased with the transfer map, thanks to which I got to the center without any trouble and found the hotel.

Went to Salzburg through a local agency, thanks to the manager for the tip on the route – without him I'd definitely have gotten lost in those passages by the station, though actually the city is small and cozy, kinda strange, so many tourists cramming into the fortress in crowds, and I just strolled along the embankment and got glued for an hour to a window display with Mozartkugeln, tasty but pricey damn.. the tour itself was organized conveniently, hotel right in the old town, but the wi-fi in the room only picked up by the door, lying on the bed no way, had to grumble and step out into the hallway in my pajamas.. love these trips when you don't have to decide anything yourself, everything's planned and you just walk around and stare, but next time I'll take a backpack instead of a suitcase – the cobblestones in Salzburg are pretty but murder on wheels, that's probably the only thing that dampened the mood, well and the weather was fussy in the morning, by lunch it cleared up anyway.. came back happy a hundred percent, the company did their job well, five plus