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35 days central Europe road trip

Posted by (Montréal, Canada ) on

Hi !

We (2 adults, one 13 years old and one 17 years old) will do a 35 nights trip (july 2 to august 6) around Central Europe. After reading blogs, travel guide we made some tough choices. What do you think abouth that itinerary ? Anything we miss ? any obvious mistake ?

Thanks in advance !

Arrival in Vienna ( 4 nights).

Take rental car in Vienna Airport , head to Banska Stiavnica ( 1 night)

Leave Banska Stiavnica, stop Bojnice castle, and Cicmany. one night stop in Zilina.

Head to Tatras (stop in Orava castle and Vlkolinec. Poprad (our base for Tatras, Spiss and Levoca. (4 nights)

Krakow (4 nights). Auschwitz and Wieliczka salt mine

Leave Krakow, stop in Bardejov, Head to Kosice (2 nights)

Leave Kosice, Aggtelec cave (Hungary), Eger (2 night)

Budapest (5 nights) . Daytrips to Szentendre and Esztergom, Visegrad

Gyor (1 night) Stop for the Pannonhalma abbey

Graz (2 nights)

Bodensdorf (2 nights). If weather is good we would do the Grossglockner road

Bad Aussee (3 nights) For the Salzkagermmut region

Krems (2 nights) Melk

Head to Bratislava , drop the car, no fee for that (2 nights). Take a bus, head to Vienna airport, fly back home.

What do you think about that ? Any obvious mistake/miss ?

Thanks !

Posted by
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You are certainly going a little off the beaten path that most tourists take. There is nothing wrong with that. Many travelers might be better traveled going to places where you can get closer to the locals.

Obviously you have done quite a bit of planning already.

Go for it.

Posted by
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I am curious how you won't have a drop off fee for returning the car in another country. Since you are leaving from Vienna, why not drive there and drop the car there? Just curious.

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Ensure that rental car contract fulfills condition that you are allowed to cross the border to all listed countries. Austria is zone 1, most countries on your list are zone 2. Most often some brands and type of cars are not rented / offered if zone 2 countries shall be visited.

Ensure you have driving permission for all countries and that the rental car fulfills all requirements of other countries, e. g. LEZ badges, toll vignettes, ...

Make yourself familiar with different traffic rules and road signs.

Agree to comment of returning car in Bratislava. Likely cheaper to keep the car until you head back to the airport.

Any obvious mistake/miss ?

Hard to say without knowing any preferences or interests.

In general it looks doable. You seem to spend enough time at places with lot of things to see.

Be aware that 35 days living out of a car can become exhausting, same is valid for traveling with the same persons in one car day-by-day. It is possible that this gets an own dynamic in a settled family structure.

For navigation I recommend to use Sygic Navigation app, so you are independent of any mobile network connection. Country maps can be pre-downloaded. Sygic's HQs is in Bratislava by the way.

Important: Always when leaving the car after parking be very sure that nothing is left in the car visible from outside - to prevent thieves stealing from cars.

Posted by
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Thanks for the answers/tips/ideas !

We will rent the car from a small rental company based in Bratislava. They deliver the car in Vienna airport and take it back in Bratislava (at our Airbnb) without any fee. They also allows travel un Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Austria.

It will be our 8th european trip (and we also have done many other trips in Canada and USA). We always travel between 25 and 35 days, so we are kind of use to travel together and we know how each other is !

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