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My girlfriend and I are going to drive to Vienna from Germany tomorrow to visit some friends. We bought a vignette to drive in Austria for 10 days so it's all good. We would also like to visit Bratislava for a few hours since it's so close but my question is, can we go there without a vignette?

From what I read, you need a vignette (around 10€) to drive in the motorways but since we are coming from Vienna and from the border to city is only a few kilometers, I'm not sure if that count as motorway or toll road.

I wouldn't mind paying the 10€ but I would really want to be sure that is needed (specially because it would only be a few hours).

Nighthunter22
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You are not at all obligated to use the border crossing at the D4 motorway as Nicolas Formichella is claiming in his answer, but can easily drive from Vienna to Bratislava and avoid road toll in Slovakia.

The easiest way is from the Austrian side to approach the border on the B9 road, cross the border at the Berg/Petržalka border crossing and then follow the Slovakian road I/61 until you can turn left onto the Most SNP bridge crossing the Danube and after that, you are almost immediately in the city center. It is just a 5 minute drive from the border crossing to the city center and absolutely no need to use a toll road.

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The Motorway Patrol has a comprehensive map of what roads are considered charged or not on their site (roads in Orange are charged (i.e you need the vignette))

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