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The best train tours in Austria
128 hotel-based trips in Austria had enough verified data to score; hostel and self-guided rail-pass trips are not ranked here. The ranking below is fully mechanical; here is exactly how it works:
- Eligibility: only hotel-based tours are ranked. Trips built around hostels or self-arranged accommodation are left out, since these guides recommend hotel-inclusive tours for the general traveller.
- Rail share (35%): the estimated share of itinerary days with a train leg (a share of days, not distance or time); trips not assessed are not ranked.
- Value (20%): price per day against the other hotel-based trips on this page (cheaper per day scores higher).
- Data completeness (25%): full day-by-day itinerary, imagery, inclusions, and verified price.
- Departure breadth (20%): how many months the operator publishes departures for.
London to Paris via Alps and Tuscany on nine named trains
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 88
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
11 days · from $2,025 ($184/day)
Seven-day rail loop from Turin through Venice and Vienna with Alpine crossings
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 84
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
7 days · from $1,417 ($202/day)
Twelve-day rail loop through Vienna, Budapest, and Prague from London
- Rail share
- 92
- Value
- 92
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
12 days · from $1,957 ($163/day)
Cologne to Vienna by rail via Lake Constance and Alpine pass
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 69
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
6 days · from $1,417 ($236/day)
Seven-day Munich base with daily rail trips to Alpine castles and cities
- Rail share
- 86
- Value
- 93
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
7 days · from $1,089 ($156/day)
Self-guided rail journey through 11 European cities in 29 days
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 94
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
29 days · from $4,321 ($149/day)
Seven-day independent rail journey from London to Venice through the Austrian Alps
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 88
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
7 days · from $1,282 ($183/day)
Eight-day independent rail journey from London to Lake Garda through the Swiss Alps
- Rail share
- 85
- Value
- 87
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
8 days · from $1,485 ($186/day)
Nine days London to Paris via Vienna and Salzburg on first-class rail
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 60
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
9 days · from $2,425 ($269/day)
Eight-day Alpine rail journey from London to Zell am See via Munich and Zurich
- Rail share
- 100
- Value
- 60
- Completeness
- 100
- Departures
- 0
8 days · from $2,155 ($269/day)