driving to austria - any advice please?

done both routes and the times are as Tony says ..Have a good time I'm jealous

Hello Benny
If you choose the Stuttgart, Munich, Innsbruck route which would be my choice, expect some delays on the A99 Munich ring road especially if you hit it around tea time the Friday before Christmas, factor this into your travel schedule. I shall be on the same section of road at the same time heading for Austria.

Finn

benny12345 wrote:thanks daved, appreciate the petrol point. the resia pass is important to us though as we are not heading across to the dolomites but staying around this area - try to hit all the glaciers in this area alolng with a few other resorts too.

Take some chains then, just in case.
You have a great choice of places to ski taking that route.

at least I know were you are going now ..the maps call it
"Reschenpass" ...took some searching lol

Finn wrote:Hello Benny
If you choose the Stuttgart, Munich, Innsbruck route which would be my choice, expect some delays on the A99 Munich ring road especially if you hit it around tea time the Friday before Christmas, factor this into your travel schedule. I shall be on the same section of road at the same time heading for Austria.

Finn

Very wise words!

Thanks for the words of wisdom. I especially take note of the Munich bit, which is why I am plannign tio avoid and head up Bregenz bass instead.

@daveds, yes the Reschenpass - the german/italian bit meant my spelling was a bit off. Always go this area as love the variety around there. used to be by car from milan bergamo, but more recently by car from innsbruck. this will be the first time by car from the UK though.

anyone got any more suggestions on where I should make my stop off on the way back? Luxembourg has been suggested along with a final day's snow in St Anton. I like the idea of being no further than 5 or 6 hours from the calais/dunkirk chunnel when i wake up.

it does sound like everyone reckons it's easy. which is nice. so anyone got any horror stories, pitfalls to avoid?

or should that be a new thread?

Pretty much did this last year. I live in Belgium (but am not Belge) and took the E411 down thru Lux. Then skirted Stuttgart and crashed the night in Karlsruhe. Then onto Filzmoos, in Austria. Then popped down to Venice and but came back thru the Brenner pass. Drove thru blizzard in the Brenner pass and things got hairy (rear wheel BMW 3 series, no winter tyres, chains in the boot where they belong) with us sliding all over the place. Luckily a salt truck showed up and we shadowed that until it eased off as we dropped into Switzerland. Left Venice and got home to grey old Brussels in 12 hours.
German roads were very ordinary I thought. Lots of roadworks, zero lighting and no "cats-eye" reflectors, which are everywhere in Oz and out weather is a lot better.

I think Austria may now have some vignette system (a la the Swiss)?