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City transport
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Vienna's Innere Stadt is best explored on foot, but for covering larger distances you'll need to use the enviable
public transport system
, known as the
Wiener Linien
(
www.wienerlinien.co.at
). Predictably enough, the trams and buses are punctual and the ever-expanding U-Bahn clean and very quick. The whole system runs from between 5 and 6am to between midnight and 1am. The only way of getting home in the small hours is to catch one of the NightLine
night buses
. These run every thirty minutes from 12.30am to 4am, and all 22 routes pass through Schwedenplatz at some point.
Taxis
are plentiful and fairly reliable too, with the minimum charge around A¶S25/a?¬1.82, followed by an extra A¶S10/a?¬0.73 or so per kilometre or couple of minutes. You can't flag down a taxi, but you can catch a cab at one of the taxi ranks around town, or phone 31330, 40100 or 60160. The most expensive way to get about, of course, is by
Fiaker
, one of the horse-drawn carriages driven by bowler-hatted, multilingual coachmen. There are
Fiaker
ranks at Stephansplatz, Heldenplatz, Michaelerplatz and Albertinaplatz. It's best to settle on the price and duration of your ride beforehand; the going rate is A¶S500/a?¬36.34 for twenty minutes, or A¶S800/a?¬58.14 for forty minutes. Other useful information
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Austria,
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