The Austrian motorway vignette system

l'm driving to Italy for the bank holiday weekend and l wonder if anyone can let me know about those annoying vignette thingies that you need on the Austrian motorways.

l know you need one to drive there but this winter l seemed to keep buying weekly/10day ones whenever l went skiing - l ended up with 4 of them

Is is better to go for the yearly vignette and if so how much does it cost?
Or is it cheaper to just keep paying for the weekly ones if l only go there, say 4 times a year?
Finally is there a date when the yearly ones start so that if you buy it then you get the best value

Thx alot

for a normal-sized car, a vignette costs

€7,50 for 10 days
€22 for 2 months
€70 or so for a year

And by law you may not have any more than 2 of them on your windscreen at any given time.

http://www.vignette.at/maut/vignette/files...ettenfolder.pdf

The yearly ones are valid from 1st December to 31st January.

Don't forget you're gonna have ANOTHER toll on top of that for Brenner; €7-8 or so IIRC.

yeah for the stretch to the northern part of lake garda, it is €8 for the brenner. don't forget to pick up your coffee and espresso in italy. much cheaper than d-land.

If it's Venice you're going to then you can read about my experience of driving there at the following link...

http://www.keydeck.com/galleries/venice_09...nice_090302.htm

cheers for the info

will also remember to fill up with petrol in Austria since it's always cheaper there.
it's damn expensive here in munich at the mo

l blame bush and blair (and osama and saddam and let's not forget maggie thatcher while we're at it too!)

What? A toll for Brenner? Where? How? Seriously, I've driven that route a few times, and never paid for anything other than the Austrian vignette.

randy how the fcuk did you manage that, foot down crash through the barrier???

Oh my...long day, getting old, short-term memory loss. When "toll" was mentioned - I was thinking "vignette". As I've only purchased a sticker for the autobahn...

Yep - there's a few tolls in Italy

Oh, and you shouldn't pass up downtown Padova for anyone traipsing to Venice...

The Munich price of petrol is being forced up not totally by heavy taxation on fuel and the international situation. Munich has MUCH less competition amongst the petrol stations, fewer independents and much more of the big companies who of course never never ever ever do any illegal price fixing.

Go to the country and I heard it can be 10 cents a litre cheaper.

Anybody ever been hit by a fine for not carrying a vignette?

I just crossed into Austria on Sunday with a friend and after debating whether or not to buy one, did so. 1 minute after putting the sticker on, a cop pulled us over. When he saw the sticker though, he let us travel on.

I got done when I first arrived in Germany in '99. I was driving a German rent-a-van with my stuff from Vienna and stopped at a rastastop for a bite to eat. When I got back to the van there was the equivalent of a €75 fine on the windscreen.

BTW, the Brenner Video Maut is cool: you pay at a petrol station (in Germany for example) and give them your Reg number, then there is a special lane in the brenner which scans your reg. You don't even have to stop, just reduce your speed to 20kmh.