Planning on travelling through Austria to get to Slovenia. We need to display a vignette when travelling through Austria. It would be obviously easier to buy the vignette before leaving home so dont have to worry about stopping and buying one. My question is this: there are websites that sell these Vignettes, has anyone bought one on line, are they valid for a period of time or do they become valid ewhen you stick them on the windscreen? In other wods can you buy them in advance? Thanks
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Thanks everyone. Of course its easier to buy on route, especially when they charge a postage fee. Its just easy to forget and then you're at the border before you know it, with no vignette. I'm not complaining, however, €7.90 to cross Austria and probably something similar in Slovenia is a hell of a lot cheaper then the tolls you have to pay travelling through France and Italy!
Slovenia Vignette is quite a bit more expensive than the Austrian one. 7 days 15 euro's and 30 euro's for 1 month. Two months in Austria 23 euro's We prefer to stop in Karnten, Southern Austria and travel into Slovenia for days if we want to keeping off the motorways. There are 4 excellent passes you can go over on other than the Karawanken Tunnel.
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Whatever you do Ciarri make sure you do have vignettes for the outward and return legs of your journey.
Last summer we travelled to Slovenia and Croatia towing our caravan, we have a Bailey Senator. On way down Cary, my wife, bought a 10 day Austrian vignette on the way down, at the Germany/Austria border, as I was driving at the time. I bought a Slovenian one for a month at the services just before the Karawanken Tunnel. I think I was planning to buy another Austrian one on the way home and thus avoid paying for a longer vignette than we needed.
On the way home the Slovnian one was still valid. I was driving and asked Cary, my wife, to check whether the Austrian one was still valid when we stopped near the Slovenia/Austria border - it WAS 4 weeks later. She misread the visa and thought it was still okay. We carried in blissful ignorance until we were stopped by an autobahn official as we left the toll booths at one of the tunnels. He pulled us over and carefully checked our car documents and licences very thoroughly. He then asked if we had a valid vignette. I cheerfully replied that it was on the windscreen. That was when he hit us with the "bombshell" that vignette has expired. He then relieved us a 100 Euro fine!! Things were rather quiet in the car for the next few kilometres!!
We were only in Austria for one day and the vignette would have cost us under 10 Euros!!! I've heard since that the Austrian autobahn authorities are very "hot" on checking vignettes both with cameras and patrols. The Austrians, also, charge additional tolls for some of the motorway tunnels.
So whilst I would recommend buying the vignettes enroute at petrol stations near the borders or at the borders themselves make sure that you DO buy them!!
We enjoyed our time in Croatia and Slovenia but it was a LONG drive. Our mileage from St Helens to Croatia and back again, via Dover to Dunkerque, was 3,303 miles!
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Those are the site we stayed at,inlcuding on both legs of the journey, in the order we used them. We used toll free motorways through France, Belgium and Germany.
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Topic: Austrain Vignette
