Arrived into Vienna the other day via train and I was stunned at how convenient it was! By merely…read moretaking the escalator to the street level, I was right where the tram was into the city! I got off my train and was on my train in a merely minutes! The tram was easy as tickets were available on the app with a slight discount. There are also tickets available for sale on the tram.

European train stations are so nice. This one has 3 floors of restaurants, shops and even an IKEA…read more. Didn't have enough time to see the IKEA but I saw the elevator stop. It's a large railway station with multiple platforms on different floors. It's spacious and very clean. Signage is so very clear and also in English. Besides the shops and the cafes, there is something so touching and always worth noting. There's a statue memorializing the Kindertransport. The statue is of a young boy sitting on a suitcase. This was the train station in 1938 that took over 10,000 young children from Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia, separating them from their parents, and transporting them to England so they wouldn't face Nazi Persecution. It's a poignant statue and the trauma these children faced should never be forgotten

I have mixed feelings regarding this station, as first it stops at SCS and SC17, which is really…read moregreat as all the bog stores are here. So for convenience it is really great. However this stop is just one stop outside the Vienna City area, which means you need to by another transport ticket to travel this one stop, which for me is a not worth spending 2.20 Euro to go one stop. Lucky for me this cost is covered by my IKEA Family card, so i do not need to pay it, but for other people they have this extra cost to get here. I would actually like to see an additional stop an other 300 meters down the line, to give faster access to the Multiplex part of SCS shopping City.

We were in a few different train stations throughout my mother and I's European trip and this was…read moreone of the better ones. And it has some stores inside. The signs were easy to follow and navigation throughout the station was pretty easy. All in all, this was a good train station that was pretty easy to navigate. We wouldn't mind if we had to transit through here in the future.

Picture a large metro station and a mall…read more I took the CAT from the airport to here. Then easily caught the U4 to my hotel. A very clean and busy station. Every U, S and CAT are well marked. The ticket kiosks were easy to find and use. They are available in several languages. There is also a OBB office here. I stopped back in a few days later to purchase a day trip to Bratislava and a round trip to Budapest. I found it easier to talk with a representative in person. Glad I did, as he gave me better station options and a reserved seat. I wish the States had a great rail system.

Really clean train station right near the amusement park and University of Vienna. The last stop of…read morethis train takes you to Karlsplatz which is where the Opera House is as well as other sites. The train runs until midnight on Sundays.

I am always a little unsure of how to rate subway stations. Especially those that are like this…read moresmall, and extremely simple. While I do not have to take the U-Bahn to get to school, since this station is closest to my flat, if I need to get almost anywhere else not in immediate walking distance, this is the station I go to. Like I said earlier, the station is very simple as is the architecture, but I like that there are those windows to let some daylight into the station. There are two entrances, on on the far side of the exhibition center, and another near the Prater amusement park garage. Right across the cross walk from Motel One. Platform is the kind where trains arrive on both sides, so not one where you can accidentally end up on the wrong side, and take a train in the wrong direction. Elevators on both sides, but from what I have seen, the elevator on the Prater side has a tendency to get stuck. One time the thing broke while I was walking down the stairs next to it. The good news, however, is that in both cases, when I returned in a few hours, there was already a technician working on it. Escalator only on the Messe side. There is a station supervisors office in the station, but in the times I have been to that side of the station, the office was closed. Station is clean! it is not shiny, and I would not eat off the ground, but relative to some other train stations I have seen around the world, this one is pretty neat.