We are going in May from Vienna Austria to Melk to Krems. Rick Steves book says we can get on Austrian Railway and get the Kombi ticket which would take us by train from Vienna to Melk, give us a ticket to see the abbey in Melk and then put us on a boat to Krems. This Kombi ticket then brings you back to Vienna ON THE SAME DAY by train. This will not work for us. We want to disembark the boat in Krems and stay there two nights. We already have reservations there paid for. After the two nights we need to take a train to Vienna....I already know this train probably take us to the small train station of Franz Josefs Bahnhof. So I assume we would have to take a taxi from this small train station to the train station where we would go from Vienna to Salzburg. We will use out Austria/Germany rail pass for this portion of the trip.
How can we do this? My husband and I are seniors and all this train stuff is very confusing to us. We will have our hotel help us reserve the Vienna to Salzburg part after we know when we get into Vienna from Krems.