Read on before you book your cheap business class flights to Vienna. We have compiled some helpful information to prepare you for a visit to this beautiful Austrian city.
Vienna is the capital of Austria and the largest in the country. It is located in the northeastern part east of the Dnaube River. Vienna is known world over for its magnificent architecture, its magnificent churches and grand museums. It is the quintessential city of opera and classical music nicknamed the City of Music famous for past residents such as Mozart. It is also considered the ‘City of Dream’ as the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, was also born in Vienna. It is known for its high quality life with a continual high ranking in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s study for world’s most livable cities, ranked first in 2005.
Vienna has a long tradition of opera, classical music, theater and fine arts. It is well worth booking tickets to venues such as the Burgtheater, the Akademietheater, The Theater in der Josefstadt, and the Volkstheater Wien. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is not something to be missed, visitors are frequently treated to the works of Johann Strauss, Beethoven and Mozart. Other leading tourist attractions in Vienna are the grand imperial palaces of Riesenrad, Schönbrunn and Hofburg. The Schönbrunn palace houses the oldest zoo in the world – the Tiergarten Schönbrunn. There are also hundreds of art museums that you can find in the city and collectively, receiving more than eight million visitors every year.
Visiting Vienna will give any traveler a huge number of things to experience. It’s the perfect place to take in sights, do some high-end shopping and bask in the air of tasteful and civilized culture. Year round there are a number of festivals, open air concerts and stunning markets. Vienna is both culturally and musically one of the richest cities in the world, and has a good, lively blend of bohemian cafés, bars, independent galleries, shops and street markets. So whether it’s out of luxury or a budget is in mind, Vienna has something for everyone.
Some of the top visitor attractions are as follows:
If this is your first trip to Vienna it may be worth investing in the Vienna Card. This official city card offers more than 210 discounts at museums and sights, theatres and concerts, in shops, cafés, restaurants, the ‘Heurige’ wine tavern, and free travel on Vienna’s public transport system for 48 or 72 hours – with the benefit card for just €21.90 / €24.90.
The Vienna card is available in hotels and from Tourist Info offices at Albertinaplatz (09:00–19:00 daily), as well as at the Vienna Main Station (09:00–19:00 daily) and at the airport (07:00–22:00 daily), at the Wiener Linien ticket and information offices (e.g. Stephansplatz, Karlsplatz, Westbahnhof, Landstraße/Wien Mitte) or online.
It’s valid from the date of issue The included metro ticket is valid for 48 or 72 hours after validation. However, discounts offered by the Vienna Card can still be enjoyed throughout the final day of the card’s validity.
There are numerous offers so be sure to check with your hotel or other accommodation if they have any special deals. Whether it’s a cheap option of a free walking tour or historic pub crawl or if it’s private and intimate look at the galleries and museums you’re interested in, Vienna will have you spoilt for choice. Here’s a selection of highly popular tours found in and around Austria’s capital.
Polawalk Tours: This quirky tour has become increasingly popular and offers a unique perspective to the city. The company provides each participant with a polaroid camera giving everyone an introduction lesson to instant photography. Come home with an album of personal photographs from your tour. For €55 an expert local and photographer shows you a host of things: there is the standard Vienna tour covering palaces, city hall and parliament buildings (and much more) as well as the Urban Tour where you explore hidden gems and street art, not to mention the personalized tours of the Schönbrunn Palace and Prater amusement park.
Hiking in Austria: This company offers one-day excursions with an experienced hiking guide. Do something different by hiking in the eastern part of the Austrian Alps in Lower Austria and Upper Styria without lodging, returning to Vienna in the evening. Private trips that meet individual group preferences and needs are also available. No experience is necessary and standard hikes are only 90 minutes away from Vienna. There are various ways to experience a destination but this tour truly is intimate and rewarding. Hiking in Austria will get you close to nature and allow you to get to know the people and the wonderful traditions in Austria.
Vienna Food Walk: Walk through of Vienna’s historic first district and find hidden culinary gems. Your native guides will walk and talk you through authentic Viennese food. This marvelous tour lets you see the lesser known byways in Vienna. The food stops are plenty and no good meal is complete without the right drinks. Be sure, everything is included in the price of the tour. The tour takes 3- 4 hours with 5 food stops, beer, wine, and schnapps stops, and Private tours are also available.
Traditional Viennese cuisine is typically heavy with a love of meat, bread, pastries and other culinary treats unique to the city. There is no dish more Viennese than wiener schnitzel, a boneless cut of veal, doused in egg and rolled in breadcrumbs before being fried.
Steirereck im Stadtpark: Using local and organic products, the renowned chef crafts refined and one of a kind dishes that are exceptional as they are visually appealing. The love for historic Styrian cuisine shows, bringing the menu almost daringly up to date with a light Asian touch, adding excitement to the finest aromas. Menus change regularly and depend on availability and quality of fresh seasonal components. Be sure to book reservation in advance.
Zur Eisernen Zeit: Located towards the end of the Naschmarkt gastronomic mile, this retro-establishment serves what many say is the best beef goulash in Vienna. The menu is small but full of local specialities and includes the ubiquitous Schnitzel (pork or veal). Step back in time to experience a typically old-fashioned Viennese Gasthaus, where you can share a table, chat with the locals and enjoy good home cooking.
Gmoa Keller : Just under the street, across from the Konzerthaus, is this informal little restaurant offering some of Austria’s best-known dishes: Zwiebelrostbraten (tender roast beef covered with crispy onion rings), Filet vom Wildzander (wild Zander on chanterelle risotto), or the delicious Blunzengröstl mit Kren und Krautsalat (fried black pudding with horseradish and cabbage salad). Deserts include Apfelstrudel and Palatschinken (pancakes filled with chocolate or apricot jam). Daily specials are chalked up and the menu changes weekly and there’s no need to reserve for lunch.
There are many shopping districts, boutique shops and markets in Auckland. You’ll be sure to find many designer brands some unique to New Zealand as well as fine crafts and traditional items from Maori culture.
Mariahilfer Straße: Found next to the Westbahnhof, “Mahü”, as this street is known as by the locals, has the greatest number of shops and stores in the city. Filled with practically all major department stores are here selling leather goods, furniture and accessories, books and stationery. Hidden away between these big stores there are the small boutique shops selling weird and wonderful treasures. Quaint street cafes offer a chance to relax between the shopping and you can even try some of the famous Viennese “Gemütlichkeit”.
Landstraßer Hauptstraße: Located in Vienna’s 3rd District this is the capital’s second largest shopping street. When it was being reconstructed in the mid 80s a subway stop was installed and the entire area was made more appealing. Today the Landstraßer Hauptstraße boasts wide sidewalks lined with trees and, the most important thing for a shopping street, a great number of stores to any budget.
Naschmarkt: Since the 16th century people in Austria has come to the Naschmarkt get to enjoy the many different products which would be brought here by vendors of the city farmers from the outside of the city. Today the market serves a wide variety of different purposes, serving not only the local residents of the area who come here to do their daily food shopping, but also visitors from around the globe who come to enjoy the main sights and sounds of the market.
Christmas Markets: The Christmas Market season starts on Saturday, 15th November as the Advent season descends upon Vienna once more. During Advent Vienna is a city of nostalgia and romance, concerts and nativity displays and traditional Christmas markets. Classics include the Christmas market in front of City Hall, the traditional Viennese Christmas market on Freyung, the markets at Spittelberg, Am Hof and in front of the church of St. Charles Borromeo (Karlskirche), and . The aromas of candied fruits, cotton candy and other delicacies like Christmas punch and roasted chestnuts wafting around the small wooden market stalls still retain their magical power.
The Donau is unique in Vienna for a number of reasons: visitors can listen to electronic dance music from some of the hottest underground DJs in the capital with an excellent drinks menu that’s fairly cheap, as well as excellent cocktails, seven days a week. The range of music is diverse: Techno is presented in all its types and facets – whether Minimal, House or Dubstep. Donau also offers a sophisticated type of light show, as the entire space is illuminated with a giant slide projection, which changes daily.
The Innere Stadt has Vienna’s highest density of bars, especially the playfully called Bermuda Triangle off Schwedenplatz. However, apart from the dark, sensuous First Floor cocktail bar, it’s filled with tourists and travelers. Be sure to explore city centre classics such as the Loos Bar and the beery Café Alt Wien, full of funky youngsters and ageing bohemians.
No capital city in the world produces as much wine as Vienna, which boasts over 700 hectares of vineyards within its boundaries. If there’s no time for a trip to a heurige (suburban wine tavern), an excellent introduction to Viennese and Austrian wines can be had under the roof of WEIN & CO, both a seller and server of the fines wines and whose city-wide branches have a reputation for pulling in a mature and sensuous crowd. For something more ambient, try the delightful garden of Weinstube Josefstadt or Panigl in the 8th district, both good destinations on the way to the bars in Gürtel.
The best time to visit Vienna is during the summer and the Christmas time. In the winter there’s an air of magic with Christmas markets, lights and song harmonizing through the city. Be warned though it gets extremely cold during winter months. In the summer a large proportion of resident holiday in smaller towns so there’s often space and accommodation for renters and visitors. Summer also boast outdoor symphonies and concerts as well as the bustling nightlife with unique parties in irregular places.
There are many major airlines that fly regularly to Vienna including British Airways, Virgin, and Lufthansa so prices can vary. Flights from London Heathrow is 2h, from Los Angeles it’s 14h, from New York it’s around 8h 35m and from Sydney is around 23h flight time.
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