Advantages: quick, easy, cheap service, reliable Disadvantages: badly signed at both ends
...the 21st century with the City Airport Train (CAT) - although as I have pointed out, CAT also stands for Coital Alignment Technique - 16 minutes of which is guaranteed pleasure for all concerned. The project to build the CAT link into Vienna’s Wien Mitte station has taken a long time to complete, but was completed on time and after years of Schnellbahn trains at erratic intervals you can finally really get the train to the airport, or rather the ... ...validate the ticket as per city travel passes. Please note though that your City Travel Card is not valid for the service. I have also been informed that if you are in a massive hurry you can buy tickets on the train – although for a surcharge – EUR 10 for a single ticket.
As with the Heathrow Express it is possible to check-in at Wien Mitte in a similar way to the way which one can check-in for a flight at Paddington. The somewhat stupid thing ...
Morgenhund 05.01.2004
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Advantages: Fast, efficient, modern, cheap Disadvantages: Bit of misleading advertising could spoil your trip back
...'Take the cat to the city centre.'
What was my friend talking about? I'd left the cat at home with a pile of food and two housemates jumping at the chance to spoil her rotten. I was trying to work out to get into Vienna from the airport which, like most city airports, is stuck in the middle of fields about fifty miles away from civilisation.
Perhaps my friend was a secret agent and I was being recruited into the Austrian security services. I had ... ...talking about the CAT, the City Airport Train that links Vienna Airport to the City Centre roughly twice an hour.
As a fluent French speaker, this was actually the first time I'd been anywhere where I didn't understand the native language since my first trip to France, and I was feeling like a grubby tourist for about the first time ever. It was with a guilty sense of relief that I noticed all the signs relating to the CAT were in both German and ...
Olly_Plimsoll 02.07.2006
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