Salzburg Super Saver: Austrian Lakes, Mountains and Salt Mines

As others have said, these are 2 different trips. The morning was spent exploring the salt mines on a train, a slide and a raft - great fun! The afternoon trip to lake Wolfgang was beautiful. Quaint little villages and stunning scenery.

This really is 2 separate tours, even with separate guides. Both were great, just seemed like a lot of wasted time driving back and forth to Salzburg. Also, spent a lot of time dropping other tours off, since one bus can be used for multiple tour groups.

The tour was split into 2 parts: salt mine and then lake districts. The view to the salt mine and dropping by the bavarian town was beautiful though the salt mine was a little too commercialize for my liking. However the lake district tour to st gilgen and st wolfgang was great! Pretty towns!

The salt mines visit was excellent. We had a good time sliding and riding onto the cart

great tours, both the guides were excellent, small group so nice time was had by all, thanks to Walter and Daniel for giving us great days out

Salt mines and visit to Bivaria Germany was magnificent. Austrian lakes shows a beautiful part of Austria a must see

Had a great time on the tour with Wolfgang and Ben. Even in the wet/overcast weather both tour guides made sure that we got the most out of the day. Amazing locations and views to remember, definitely a must to do in beautiful Austria!

Lovely places and looking forward to stay few days by the lakes some other time

This was a great tour. Beautiful sceneries all the way, and a great experience visiting an underground salt mine.

The trip to the Salzburg salt mine was really fun, and my father enjoyed the company and guide a lot. The guide was experienced and fluent with his introduction and jokes. We really enjoyed the slides down the salt mine, they were the highlight of the trip! There was an elderly tour group with us on the same train ride, and they sang a German folk song which I think has reference to the salt mines, and this really heated up the atmosphere. The guide for our salt mine tour was entertaining. The duration was appropriate to enjoy ourselved without being overtired. The tour to the lakes and mountains was more disappointing because of a combination of factors which should not be the fault of the agency. We took this tour in early November, which was the transition period between the tourist season and the christmas market. As such the towns were closed for preparation and nearly all the shops were closed. The tour guide different guide from the salt mine tour was shocked that we finished touring the town within 20mins. I felt that the tour guide could have checked before bringing us there. Furthermore, the weather was wet and gloomy, and started getting dark after 3pm, so we could not do much sightseeing. We also missed the cruise ride which was closed for winter season, which I feel would be the highlight of this trip. The scenery would be so much more beautiful in sunnier weathers. I will suggest to either do this trip in the morning, or scrap this tour during the winter season. P.S. If you plan to travel from Hallstatt to Salzburg via the bus route, you would not need to go for this tour unless you are keen to visit the towns or go for the cruise ride, as the bus will pass by the same route as this tour.