Travel Vienna: Which Vienna Hotel To Choose?

Dear Ms. Bennett,

thanks for the compliments on Vienna Unwrapped, it’s great to know I’m aligned with those travellers I’d like to attract to my site!

As to your best hotel choice, based on your likes and preferences:

I would recommend for you to stay 2 nights at the Grand Hotel Wien, and three nights at Hotel Das Triest. The Grand Hotel definitely covers your likes for luxury and old world charm. The Triest is an old adaptive reuse project par excellence – a 300 year old exchange for stage coach horses which would move between Vienna and the North Italian sea port of Triest. The interior design by Sir Terence Conran is fab.

The Topazz is great but the smallest luxury hotel in Vienna. If you like more spacious rooms, you may want to consider your alternative option, Hotel Lamee, which is right next door, and where rooms are a little larger. Just make sure your room has enough privacy, as some of the windows from Lamee and Topazz are very close to each other.

As for wine tours, most of them take place in the spring, summer and autumn. However, you can take part in a private wine tasting in an old wine cellar with vaulted ceilings, right underneath the Albertina museum in the city centre. Alternatively, there is another wine tasting experience in Vienna’s oldest wine cellar on offer during the winter.

Visiting the Vienna Woods is great because it will give you an idea of where the Viennese like to spend their week ends. The best way to see the surroundings is either by renting a car, or by doing a local tour, such as the Vienna Woods and Mayerling half day tour. Alternatively spend a day in Baden, walk through the historic Biedermeier city centre, visit the modern spa (it has a warm sulfur water outdoor pool which can be used in the winter), walk up the Kurpark through the woods, and go to the grand casino.

I hope this helps. Do let me know if you need anything else.

Have a lovely trip to Vienna!

Barbara