All guides

The guides hub is a library of essential-reading articles built around the questions that trip up first-time visitors. A Nordkette guide covers the three-stage ascent, the funicular and cable car link from Hungerburg to Hafelekar, and why it is the fastest climb from a European city centre to high mountain terrain. A Stubai Glacier guide is blunter still: a long alpine day with a real weather risk, so it is never presented as an easy outing. An Inn Valley guide compares seeing the region by car, by regional VVT train, or on foot from viewpoints like the Nordkette and the Patscherkofel.

An Innsbruck Old Town guide covers the pedestrian streets around the Goldenes Dachl, the Nordkettenbahnen linking the city to the mountains, and how the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics put the city on the world map. A Wattens guide explains the Swarovski Crystal Worlds' entrance through the Giant's head and its waterfall, one of the best-known attractions near Innsbruck. A currency and budgeting guide is direct about Austria using the euro (€) and displayed prices already including VAT. A weather guide corrects the common assumption that an Alpine city this far north means uniformly cold conditions rather than a valley climate that can turn warm within the same afternoon.