Travel Information

Land area: 19,173 km2 (nearly 1/4 of total land area of Austria)
Population: 1.55 million
Capital city: St. Pölten

Niederösterreich Information
Postfach 10.000, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Phone: 0043/1/536 10-6200
Fax: 0043/1/536 10-6060
info@noe.co.at  
www.niederoesterreich.at

Vienna:
Tourist Information, Am Albertinaplatz, A-1010 Vienna
Written inquiries: Wien-Tourismus, A-1025 Vienna.
Fax: 0043/1/216 84 92.

Calls to Austria from
GB:          0043*
USA:        01143*
Australia: 001143*

* Drop "0" from city codes indicated in this brochure when dialing from abroad.

Calls from Austria to
GB          0044
USA        001
Australia  0061

www.austria.info

GB: Phone: (0845) 101 18 18, Fax: (0845)101 18 19
e-mail: holiday@austria.info

U.S.A.: Phone: (212) 944-6880, Fax: (212)730 4568
e-mail: travel@austria.info

Australia: Phone: (02)92 99 36 21, Fax: (02)92 99 38 08
e-mail: info@antosyd.org.au

GB: A-1030 Vienna, Jauresgasse 12; Phone: 0043/1/716 13-0
U.S.A.: A-1090 Vienna, Boltzmanng. 16; Phone: 0043/1/313 39-0
Australia: A-1040 Vienna, Mattiellistr. 2-4; Phone: 0043/1/512 85 80-0

Rooms are available in all categories, from five-star hotels to cozy country inns. In many place there are also private rooms available at farms or in private homes.
Your travel agency is happy to give you information on Niederösterreich hotels and lodgings. 
Niederösterreich has 58 campgrounds for campers.
Electricity: 230 Volt.

Emergency road service numbers of automobile associations:
ÖAMTC: 120; ARBÖ: 123
Parking: Several towns have short-term street and lot parking ("blue zones") with mandatory fees. Parking vouchers can be purchased at tobacco shops, banks and from dispensers.
Mandatory vignette (sticker) for Austrian autobahns and expressways: Vacationers travelling by car are recommended to buy the 10-day vignette for EUR 7.60 or the 2-month vignette for EUR 21.80. For further information: www.vignette.at
Traffic news on the radio: On the hour after the regular news on Ö3.
Wearing a seatbelt is mandatory for everyone in the car.
Helmets are mandatory for riders of motorized two-wheeled vehicles.
Blood alcohol limit: 0.5 per mille.
Speed limits for cars and motorcycles: 130 km/h on autobahns, 100 km/h on overland highways, 50 km/h within city limits.

Fire department: Phone 122
Police: Phone 133
Ambulance: Phone 144.

Located 19 km to the east of Vienna in the heart of Niederösterreich. Served by 60 regularly scheduled airlines with over 1500 weekly departures to 130 destinations around the globe, including all the capitals and finance centers of Europe and direct connections to the US, the Far East and South America.
For general flight information, call 0043/1/70 07-222 33.
The Vienna Airport can be reached by public transport. There are also chauffeur and rental car firms, e.g. AVIS, ARAC-Eurodollar, HERTZ-Autoverleih, BUDGET-Rent-A-Car, DENZEL EUROPACAR INTERRENT, SIXT-Autoverleih.

Niederösterreich has many direct international train connections to cities throughout Europe. Fast and comfortable EuroCity and InterCity trains offer perfect and affordable connections. International trains stop in St. Valentine, Amstetten, St. Pölten, Vienna, Wiener Neustadt, Bruck/Leitha and Hohenau. Regional connecting trains and a bus line system throughout the country. For timetable information, please inquire at your local train station or travel agency.

Post offices are generally open from Monday to Friday,
8 a.m. to noon and 2 to 5 p.m. (6 p.m.).

Around the clock from over 300 ATM machines (Bankomats) in Niederösterreich with "ec-international" sticker using a bankomat-compatible card and code (ec-cards, customer bank cards) or with credit cards and code (VISA, EUROCARD). Withdrawals up to the limit set on your card.
Cash can be gotten at banks (open usually Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m. to noon and 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.; extensive system of banks throughout the country, e.g. over 600 Raiffeisen branch bank in Niederösterreich) with euro checks and ec-cards and at some machines with credit cards (VISA, EUROCARD) or in the self-service machines in the lobbies of banks with bankomat-compatible cards and code (ec-card, customer bank card).

Stores are generally open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (some closed at midday), Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
VAT refunds: Tourists not residing within the EU are eligible for the refund of VAT on purchases amounting to EUR 75,- and more. Ask in the shop for a TAX FREE refund form. The refund occurs after customs at every border crossing from which travelers leave the EU.

Ö1: News daily in English and French from 8:05 to 8:15 a.m.

January 1 (New Year’s), January 6 (Epiphany), Easter Monday, May 1 (State Holiday), Ascension, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, August 8 (Assumption), October 26 (National Holiday), November 1 (All Saints’ Day), December 8 (Immaculate Conception), December 25 (Christmas Day), December 26 (St. Stephen’s Day). Provincial Holiday in Niederösterreich: November 15 (St. Leopold’s Day).