Get a three day or one week public transport ticket and get to know the trams. You will find that U-Bahn and tram combined will get you anywhere you want to go with no fuss.
"delzep":3mlalxac wrote: I'm heading to Vienna in a few weeks for a short holiday...could anyone recommend any bars and/or great beers I should look out for there?
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Wieden Brau is a good bar, with a beer garden too, food not great though.
Down near Haas House (really good restaurant) is a bar called Loo,s American bar. Its not a beer bar, but is defintely the best bedroom sized cocktail bar in the world.
As for the language, the Vienna people are the nicest i have ever met, and they all speak english.
Iremember a beer called weinstephan, a really good weiss beer, available in a hotel just behind the opera house.
Enjoy