About Activity
The Best Way to Discover Salzburg: Scavenger Hunt & Self-Guided Tour! Play, learn, and walk! Explore at your own pace with a 100% self-guided activity. Start anytime (24/7) with no guides or schedules. Pause for a traditional Mozartkugel or a coffee in the UNESCO-listed Old Town and resume whenever you're ready—even the next day. This unique team-building activity is perfect for couples, families, and groups.
The "Complete City" Package - Everything you need in one app:
Interactive Game: Solve puzzles and discover 10+ major attractions, plus hidden gems revealed along the way.
Learn the history/legends of each site.
Insider Tips: Access hand-picked local restaurant and shop recommendations.
What you will visit: Mirabell Palace, Andräkirche, Mozart Residence, Pferdeschwemme, Mozart’s Birthplace, Residenzplatz, Salzburg Cathedral, Stift St. Peter Salzburg, Kapitelschwemme, and Fortress Hohensalzburg.
Includes
- Custom Finish: Choose where to end; doesn't finish at starting location.
- Insider Tips: Access to local recommendations for authentic restaurants and shops.
- World City Trail App: Download app and use the 10-digit ticket number. Select "Create" to start.
- Each stop includes optional AI text-to-speech narration, so you can listen instead of reading.
Excludes
- Live Guide: 100% self-guided; no one will meet you at the start—start anytime you want.
- Not needed for our activity, every puzzle is related to the outdoor areas of the attractions and you won’t need to pay anything extra or enter the attractions.
- Max 15 people per booking in Salzburg. For larger groups, make multiple bookings.
Departure Point
- Open your booking confirmation email and tap “Get Ticket”, read carefully the ticket details. Download World City Trail app, select create at the first page, use your booking reference (found in your ticket) and select your starting location.
Return
- Open your booking confirmation email and tap “Get Ticket”, read carefully the ticket details. Download World City Trail app, select create at the first page, use your booking reference (found in your ticket) and select your starting location.
A Seamless & Flexible Start: Download the World City Trail app and use your 10-digit booking reference to log in. Note: This is 100% self-guided; no one will be waiting for you. Start anytime 24/7. We suggest starting at Mirabell Palace for the best route, though you can start/finish anywhere.
Interactive Exploration: Navigate a 2.5km walk (~31 mins walking time). Solve riddles using imagination and observation at stops like Mozart's Birthplace or the Hohensalzburg Fortress to unlock your next spot. Total activity lasts ~2.5 hours on average, depending on your pace, visits, and breaks.
Your Tour, Your Way: Customize your route, change the order of places, or skip stops to fit your schedule. Pause for a break or to explore a site and resume exactly where you left off. There is no time limit—your access lasts for a full year.
Stories & Tips: Unlock legends and history at sites like the Salzburg Cathedral. Includes hand-picked local restaurant and shop tips. Available in 7 languages: EN, DE, FR, NL, IT, ES, ZH. Note: Outdoor-only; internet required.
Public transportation options are available nearby Suitable for all physical fitness levels Total Flexibility: Start anytime you want—there is no fixed schedule. You can pause and resume as often as you like. Weather & Health Guarantee: If bad weather or illness prevents you from going, you can do the tour any other day. You can even contact us to change the tour to a different city! Technical Requirements: A fully charged smartphone and an active mobile data connection are required. Important: Please disable any VPN and avoid city Wi-Fi, as these will cause the app to malfunction or disconnect. Essential Gear: We recommend wearing weather-appropriate clothes and comfortable walking shoes. Support Policy: We offer 24/7 live assistance via worldcitytrail.com/chat. Please note that we do not offer phone support; the chat link is the only way to contact us. Operated by World City Trail For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Reviews
Absolutely loved this treasure hunt. It was great value for money, included some fairly simple riddles and problems to solve which took us all over Salzburg and gave us fun facts about places we’d been to the day before but also led us to lots of places we wouldn’t have otherwise seen.
This is exactly what we want from a treasure hunt and yours are the best we’ve done abroad. We have done several others that have been absolutely shocking, hard to download and expensive.
World City Trail is great-will use in other cities!Dottie_B
World City Trail game was great. Everyone enjoyed doing the puzzles along the way. Zero pressure to rush through, it just gave us a great "itinerary " to start from that led us through the highlights efficiently. We strayed and saw other places, did things along the way, and picked it back up as we liked. The info provided about each place was interesting. The puzzles made us look closer and we saw details we would never have noticed on our own. Well worth the $4.
Good tour to start and finish at your own time.C2646ZNadityam
Best for group of friends who want to explore the city at their own pace and time. We did not have the time to try the suggestions in the app but overall the experience was good. Some clues are a bit difficult to understand especially at the end.
Best $4 I spent this tripdottieb662
Fun way to see the city. It allows you to just follow their path but veer off of it at any time, no pressure to decide what to do ahead of time AND no pressure to stick with their plan. Made us look closer at each place and gave us some cool info on the way.
Great way to discover Salzburg’s old townaconroy
A great way to discover the old town of Salzburg. Easy to navigate. The I’ll definitely do this on our next trip!
Great Tour with great riddles! Do it as the first thing so you naturally experience Salzburg and don't walk everything twice. :-) Can be started 24/7. The App is installed in a minute an can be used globally, perfect if you plan to visit several cities. Only need to buy ticket for 1 person, there is no add-on if several Tickets are purchased. We did it as a family with kids 6 and 8 year old and Oma. Would be good for kids to be 8+ to fully enjoy!
Adventurous sighseeinghibahzaidi
What a fun snd convenient way to explore Salzburg. The clues took us to amazing location all on walking distance and kept us engaged. Definitely recommend
It was an interesting way...Shanna_C
It was an interesting way to see the city and I appreciated how flexible it was. The order of how it determined locations to see seemed off but since it was easy to stop and start it didn’t matter too much. The descriptions and facts about the locations were fun and interesting.
City tour that motivates with riddlesF4357HCdorisk
We did the self-guided scavenger hunt through Salzburg. You are playfully encouraged to visit new places, and we saw a lot of the city in a very short time.
The tour works with older children who can read.
The app itself worked great, everything was explained clearly and vividly. A small point of criticism: The email for registration in advance was designed a bit confusingly.
Very expensive for what it offers, I expected more recommendations
Absolutely recommendederikagW4813UY
An absolutely great idea to explore a city. At your own pace through the city. We are thrilled.
Interesting and flexibly customizablePatriciaF5032
Sep 29, 2026, 12:18:35 AM A varied way to get to know Salzburg and hear history/stories.
It was fun ✌️Passenger47782134309
Beautiful and very interesting tour for young and old. We had fun with the whole family.
I can only recommend it. 👌
Clear recommendation!Judith_M
Jul 18, 2026, 12:29:44 AM Exciting and lovingly made with general explanations for the individual stations, then there are puzzles and legends as a reward.
The paths are kept short and yet you can take a lot of time at the individual stations. Clear recommendation!
Mar 25, 2026, 10:43:53 AM Was very good and for everyone something sometimes tricky but still good to solve certainly something for children
A relaxed family experienceSteffi_B
Great experience for the whole family. We wandered through Salzburg, and discovered many new things, although we have been to Salzburg before. It's really worth it.
However, one station was not manageable, as the well wintered from November
Fun tour of the cityNiek_S
Fun tour through the city where you will learn more about the history of Salzburg. You walk past all the beautiful places.
Nice entertaining tour to explore the city on a day trip. Since you have no time pressure and can always pause, perfect to stay in your own rhythm.
For smaller children, the puzzles are only possible with the help or not at all. But adults have their fun.
Fun to do. An active way to discover Salzburg. Puzzles are easy to make. Information at the parts is too over the top in my opinion
It was a beautiful...Marlene_K
It was a wonderful opportunity to get to know the city with children. The puzzles were great for everyone and the highlights of the city were explored in a fun way
Netter Spaziergang durch SalzburgAnja_V
Lösbare Rätsel, netter Stadtrundgang. Gerne wieder. Aber wo ist die Frau vom Mann auf der Goldkugel ?
