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FAQS ABOUT THE TREK: Getting There: There are regular flights to Munich from Heathrow with the airline BMI and Lufthansa or from Stansted with Ryanair. I bought a return ticket from Heathrow for approximately 85 pounds. From Munich there is a regular train service to Innsbruck for around 35 Euros. Be sure to buy the train ticket at the airport as the queue to buy a ticket at Munich Ost was very slow moving. At Innsbruck, the Neustift bus service leaves every hour, 50 metres to the left of the station entrance. Maps Needed: Kompass Wanderkarte: Sheet 83 1:50,000 Stubai Alpen: Serleskamm. Alpenvereinskarte: Sheet 31/1 1:25,000 Stubaier Alpen: Hochstubai. Book Needed: 'Trekking in the Stubai Alps' by Allan Hartley. ISBN 1-85284-354-3. Cicerone Press. This book can be bought from Amazon.com Click Here To Order Online! Accomodation: As this is a hut to hut tour, I became a member of the Austrian Alpine Club (30 pounds) which gave me preferential treatment and reduced costs at the huts, plus mountain rescue insurance. Most of the huts were really mountain hotels owned by Austrian and German Alpine Clubs (OAV/DAV). All huts have a resident guardian, and provide simple accomodation in the form of mixed dormitories or bedrooms. In addition to sleeping accomodation they have a restaurant service providing traditional Austrian meals (vegetarians beware!). They do not provide self-catering. In most huts washing and toilet facilites were good (especially Dresdner Hut and Franz Senn Hut). The most expensive hut was Elfer Hut (non OAV) at 38 Euros for half-pension, at most club huts a mattress in a dormitory was 6/7 Euros, a bed 10/11 Euros. The cheapest meal on the menu was Bergsteigeressen (climbers meal) at around 6/7 Euros, Weiner Schnitzel was around 9 Euros. Fruhstuck (breakfast) which was basically 3 slices of bread plus butter/jam was 5 Euros and not very good value. The youth hostel in Innsbruck was clean but busy, a bed was 10 Euros and Fruhstuck 4 Euros.

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