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35 days central Europe road trip

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.

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 !