Travel advice: Austria’s big cities on ‘orange’, the Weissensee stays ‘yellow’

A few big cities in Austria went to ‘orange’ today. The colour code (Essential travel only) applies to Vienna and Innsbruck. The Weissensee nature park stays ‘yellow’ (Take care, safety risks).

The colour codes and travel advice explained

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs gives travel advice to Dutch travellers. Those advisories come with four colour codes, from green to red. With green there areno particular safety risks. You can go on holiday with an easy mind. With yellow holidays are still allowed. You simply have to pay a little more attention; there are safety risks.

From orange onwards everything changes. The advisory is then negative. “Only travel to orange areas if it is necessary”, the ministry says. And travel stops altogether at colour code red: “Do not travel”, says Foreign Affairs.

The situation in Austria

The online travel magazine dionvacation is monitoring the situation in Austria with the skating holiday in mind. “In the capital Vienna and the city of Innsbruck the number of coronavirus infections has risen seriously”, the ministry says. It now applies code orange to those cities. Outside them colour code yellow still applies. For now that is good news for the Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour. The organisation had already been given the green light by Austria's highest authority.

Foreign Affairs: “You can holiday in Austria, apart from the capital Vienna and the city of Innsbruck, but stay alert. The situation can change suddenly at local level.” Travellers also have to allow for rules along the way. The idea is to drive straight through as much as possible. “Only short stops at service stations are allowed.”

Looking forward to it in autumn

The sun is shining in the Netherlands today, but by the calendar autumn is beginning. The season of looking forward to it. Holidaymakers and skating enthusiasts are already keen for the ice season on the Weissensee. Rinks are opening, the recreational preparation is starting. People are collecting as many laps and kilometres as they can. Legs are being made ready for the skating holiday in Austria.

The skating heart of the world

Thialf is open again for recreational skating from this evening. The indoor rink is known as the skating heart of the world. Skating enthusiasts from far around come here to put in their laps. All for the best possible fitness. And rightly so, because the Weissensee is a physical challenge. Planning to skate? Because of the corona measures, booking is compulsory.

Counting down to the Weissensee Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour

For recreational skaters the Weissensee is the highlight of the year. The Alternative Dutch 11-City Tour above all. And you can take part yourself just as well. On dionvacation.nl you can read everything about skating the Weissensee. New blogs appear every week. That is how we count down to the Weissensee in January 2021.