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.