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Innsbruck - Graz Driving Route Advice, Please Help
Date: 2008/01/24 08:23 By: Adam Status:  
 
I really would appreciate some advice here if someone can help.

We will be visiting Austria in September, after 2 nights in Vienna we will be renting a car and heading out on a road trip. Having never been there before I have been doing a lot of reading and I think I have formulated a semi-educated itinerary : ) But I would really appreciate any input.

From Vienna we will be going to Salzburg for 2 nights, I understand that’s about a 2 hour drive? From Salzburg we’ll then be heading for the Innsbruck area for a one week rental, I guess that’s likely about another 2 hour drive? From there we’ll be daytripping, Switzerland, Germany, Italy… I imagine we’ll be all over the place.

After the week rental, we’ll be leaving to head back to Vienna for our flight out the next evening. We’d like to see a different part of the country so we would like to put together a route through the southern part of Austria, or northern part of Italy, or a combination, heading towards the Graz area for an overnight. I’m really looking into a staying somewhere around Koflach or Voitsberg? We really want to visit the Piber Stud Farm. Any reasonably priced triple room suggestions in that area? So far I’m checking accommodations using the Steiermark tourism website right now.

I’m really having trouble mapping out that type of route from Innsbruck – Graz without using the autobahn through Salzburg. Mapquest and Mappy aren’t helping so far. My research so far has told me that it would likely be a 4 – 5 hour trip to Graz by that type of route? Then 2 hours to Vienna to next day? We’d have to be at the airport by 3 – 4 pm.

I know this is quite the ramble, and I apologize, but if anyone can help I would be very grateful. Any tidbits or nuggets of info would all be appreciated. I really don’t want to bite off more than I can chew and have trouble getting to Vienna for our flight.

Thanks in advance
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