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On my City Star ticket is written Kledering*Kittsee*(as a border station)*Bratislava. I see if you want to go to Bratislava hl.st, the border station will be Marchegg. Does it really matter which train you choose to go to Bratislava. We'd like to go to Bratislava hl.st, not Bratislava Petržalka.

Actually it does, because via Marchegg it is fully different route and, if to be precise, your ticket doesn't cover that. Usually in such cases they simply write Wien*Kittsee/Marchegg-Bratislava (which means that you can choose either route, as result "For connections from and to Vienna, you can use the ticket either via Vienna Simmering/Marchegg, via Gänserndorf/Marchegg or Bruck an der Leitha/Kittsee" http://www.oebb.at/en/Travelling_abroad/EURegio/EURegio_ticket_Slovakia_%28Bratislava_ticket%29/index.jsp), but in your case it seems that cashier just went with the first option that came up in her/his computer. From tariff question it doesn't matter and conductors probably doesn't even notice it, but CityStar isn't familiar to them EURegio ticket Wien-Bratislava, so some questions might arise.

It's very easy to get from Bratislava-Petrzalka to Bratislava hl.st., you just need to take bus nr. 93 to its terminal stop (7 stops, 10-12 minutes)

There is actually very limited number of trains from Bratislava-Petrzalka further to Bratislava-Nove Mesto, where you can change to Bratislava, hl.st. and thus go by train all the way, but this option is unpractical as it takes too much time and the service is sparse. Moreover, all passenger traffic from Petrzalka to Nove-Mesto will be canceled from 1.5.

I have one more question...since renovation of Wien Suedbahnhof our train will arrive in Wien Meidling station. From there we need to take S Bahn to Wien Suedbahnhof for Bratislava directions. Does the S bahn departs from the platforms inside Meidling train station? Do we need to buy separate ticket for Vienna transport or will be ok to make this part of route with our City Star ticket? Thank you.

Does the S bahn departs from the platforms inside Meidling train station?

Yes, actual station isn't that big, so maximum you will have to change platform, thus go via the tunnel. For some connections they even list exact platform number for S-bahn, so you might check yours.

Do we need to buy separate ticket for Vienna transport or will be ok to make this part of route with our City Star ticket?

No need for separate ticket, CityStar should work fine. S-bahn anyway is run by OeBB and they easily sell through tickets with S-Bahn part in it, so your case is exactly like this.

So, we are back, safe and sound Some infos. There wasn't possibility to buy sleeper in Bratislava on day of departure, it was full. Also we couldn't buy City Star ticket Čierna-Lviv-Čierna in Bratislava because of 1 ADULT, 1 CHILD rule. But  it was fine. We took the same train in sitting compartment till Chop. We bought return Čierna-Chop-Čierna in Bratislava for about 4,5EUR. Then we bought ukrainian train in Chop. Return Chop-Lviv was about 15 EUR, depends of train. Connections went fine.That way travelling is a lot cheaper so I suggest not buying City Star tickey by travelling to Ukraine instead of to/from border seperate tickets.

There wasn't possibility to buy sleeper in Bratislava on day of departure, it was full.

Wow... a bit unexpected. Since when this carriages became so popular??? Look at them: travel time isn' that good because of a long ride via Slovakia, ticket expensive since number of km, night border etc.

Also we couldn't buy City Star ticket Čierna-Lviv-Čierna in Bratislava because of 1 ADULT, 1 CHILD rule.

This sounds even more strange. You mean cashier didn't sell it to you because you had no child? If so, then it is a mistake since in the rules it is "at least 1 adult and 1 child", we never heard of "child" as a must.

Then we bought ukrainian train in Chop.

Did you wait till morning? Or used train #15?

Return Chop-Lviv was about 15 EUR, depends of train. Connections went fine.

Glad that you managed Ok. UZ trains actually tend to be one of the cheapest in Europe, especially counting the fact that those are sleeper trains mainly, so it definitely makes sense to 'exploit' UZ domestic tariff as much as you can.

We haven't asked about UZ carriage in Bratislava just for RZD since we couldn't buy City Star ticket. Actually there was 1 free berth in RZD carriage but we were two of us. Maybe the fact was end of holiday time. Yea I was surprised about that 'child' rule I didn't know what to say hmm:) And cashier spoke english so there's wasn't lack of communication. We actually could buy regular ticket Čierna-Lvov and ask then for UZ carriage but it would be too expensive. Return Čierna-Lvov as I remember is 31EUR and UZ carriage 19EUR one way. We used train departing 4.19AM. We took kupe on route Uzhhorod-Moscow and cost 12EUR till Lviv so more expensive than usual. Waiting at the station wasn't problem. We killed time by conversation with ukrainian lady using the same train. They were all nice and helpful in Ukraine we met.