Recently, I got a chace to go to Stockerau on weekly basis. If you do not know much about the areas outside Vienna. Stockerau is north of Vienna, requiring you to take an S-Bahn. I have already been frequenting south of Vienna, Modling because my boyfriend is from there. But Stockerau is further away from Vienna than Modling, making the trip more expensive.

So obviously, as a poor student, I began to look for a discount option: OBB’s Vorteilscard. Originally, I thought the card is only available to Austrians for some reason. But it turns out, anyone can get it! There are a few options of OBB’s Vorteilscard. With this card, you can get 50% discount on all OBB’s tickets and 25% on all abroad rail trips with Railplus. These are only some of many benefits of this card.

If you are younger than 26 years old, you can get the Vorteilscard Jugend for 19 euros a year. More importantly, you do not even have to be a student in Austria. If you are older than 26, Vorteilscard Classic is available for 99 euros per year. I think there is an Vorteilscard Family as an option as well.

Once you apply for your card, you can get it in the mail within two weeks, but you can also get OBB’s app to access your card immediately. So get your card now and go sledding or skiing in Semmering or go hiking in Salzburg or go out in Bratislava for half its price. Even better take a weekend train trip to Budapest!