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A salt mine tour Salzburg visitors can book on these listings costs $77: the Hallein Salt Mine package, 3.5 hours, rated 4.8 across 86 reviews. Its description names a tour through tunnels it dates at 2,600 years, a ride on the original mine train and wooden chutes to slide down. There are two listings here, not ten, so this page is short. The second is a private full day in Hallstatt for $941, 8 hours, where a salt mine is one of two options. Both are listed as trips from Salzburg; the meeting point is on the listing.
Quick answer
The short answer. The one dedicated salt mine tour Salzburg has on this site is the Hallein Salt Mine package: book it if the mine is the point. It costs $77, 3.5 hours, 4.8 across 86 reviews, with the mine train and the wooden chutes in the description. Book the private Hallstatt day only if you want Hallstatt first and a mine second: $941, 8 hours, 5.0 across 32 reviews, and you choose between the mine and the 5 Fingers Viewing Platform.
Side by side
The two listings a salt mine tour Salzburg search leads to on this site, line by line. A dash means the description does not say.
| Detail | From Salzburg: Salt Mines Package - The White Gold Adventure | From Salzburg: Private Full-Day Tour of Hallstatt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $77 | $941 |
| Length | 3.5 h | 8 h |
| Rating | 4.8 · 86 | 5.0 · 32 |
| The mine | Hallein Salt Mine | One of two options; the mine is not named |
| Inside the mine | Mine train, wooden chutes, tunnels | — |
| Also named | — | Hallstatt, the 5 Fingers Viewing Platform |
| Private | — | Yes |
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The Hallein package and the private Hallstatt day where a mine is an option. Live prices and review counts.
★ 4.8 · 86 reviews
★ 5.0 · 32 reviews
The Hallein package
A mine train, wooden chutes and tunnels, in 3.5 hours.
For a salt mine tour Salzburg has one dedicated listing on this site, and it goes to the Hallein Salt Mine. The title calls it a package. The description names three things inside the mine: a tour through tunnels it dates at 2,600 years, a ride on the original mine train, and wooden chutes that you slide down through the mine.
The numbers: $77, 3.5 hours, rated 4.8 across 86 reviews, with Free cancellation shown on the listing. Among the nine trips out of the city on this site it is the cheapest and the shortest.
The description does not say how you get from Salzburg to Hallein, what the word package covers beyond the mine tour, whether there is a minimum age or height for the chutes, or what to wear underground. Each of those is a line on the listing, under what is included and what to bring. Read them before you book, above all with children.
The Hallstatt option
A choice between a viewing platform and a mine, on an 8-hour private day.
The other listing is a private full-day tour of Hallstatt: $941, 8 hours, rated 5.0 across 32 reviews. Its description sends you into what it calls Austria’s Lake District, to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hallstatt, and then gives a choice: the 5 Fingers Viewing Platform or what it calls the world’s oldest salt mine.
Two things follow. It is one or the other, by the wording, not both. And the description does not name the mine or say that entry is inside the fare, so both are questions for the listing. The Hallein package costs $864 less; the private day is a Hallstatt tour with a mine as an option, not a mine tour with Hallstatt added. The six other ways to reach Hallstatt, from $95, are on the Hallstatt page.
Which one to book
Two listings, so the choice is short. Each figure is the listing’s own.
The Hallein package: $77, 3.5 hours, 4.8 across 86 reviews. It is the only listing here whose description is about the inside of a mine.
The same listing. At 3.5 hours it is the shortest trip out of the city on this site, and it leaves the rest of the day for town: the Salzach boat ride takes 40 minutes for $21.
The private full day: $941, 8 hours, 5.0 across 32 reviews. You pick the mine or the 5 Fingers Viewing Platform.
Skip both. The half-day Hallstatt tour is $95 for 5.5 hours, rated 4.7 across 4,201 reviews.
The honest answer
One dedicated listing, rated 4.8 across 86 reviews.
With one dedicated listing the answer is not a ranking. The Hallein package is rated 4.8 across 86 reviews. That is a high score on a small sample: the half-day Hallstatt tour, the most reviewed trip out of the city here, has 4,201 reviews at 4.7.
What speaks for it is the price and the time. $77 is the lowest fare among the nine trips out of Salzburg on this site, and 3.5 hours is the shortest. What you cannot tell from the description is what the package covers, so that is the line to check. The private day at $941 stands at 5.0 across 32 reviews: a strong rating on thinner evidence still, and a fare that pays for a private day in Hallstatt rather than for a mine.
Comparing the mine with the other trips out of the city? Hallstatt, Berchtesgaden and Königssee sit next to it on one page, nine listings from $77.
All nine trips compared→Planning the rest of the day in town? The 35 Salzburg tours start at $21 for the Salzach boat ride.
See the 35 Salzburg tours by price→Common questions
$77 for the Hallein Salt Mine package, 3.5 hours. The only other listing with a mine in its description is a private full day in Hallstatt at $941, where the mine is one of two options.
On the numbers it holds up: $77, 3.5 hours, rated 4.8 across 86 reviews, the cheapest and shortest trip out of the city on this site. The sample is small, so read the recent reviews on the listing as well as the score.
The Hallein package is listed at 3.5 hours. The description does not split that into travel and time in the mine. The private Hallstatt day with a mine option is 8 hours.
By the description: a tour through tunnels it dates at 2,600 years, a ride on the original mine train, and wooden chutes that you slide down through the mine.
The title says from Salzburg and calls it a package, but the description does not list what the package covers. Check the included list on the listing before you book.
On one listing: the private full day at $941 offers the 5 Fingers Viewing Platform or a salt mine. The other six Hallstatt descriptions do not mention a mine.
Go deeper
The original tour, the Hallstatt combination and the marionette show.
Day tripsHallstatt, the salt mine, Berchtesgaden and Königssee.
HallstattThe half-day tour, the combination tour and private day trips.
PrivatePrivate walks in town and private day trips.
Walking toursOld Town walks with a guide, shared and private.
On the riverThe Salzach boat, the Hellbrunn boat and the amphibious tour.
