Imperial Hotel Vienna

... Also close by is a hotel Clinton spend the night at a couple of years ago which over looks the Iraq Embassy (Ironic). The Imperial Hotel, which is next door, costs 3,500 Euro for a junior suite not including breakfast, which is reserved for famous people ...

... seat of  the President of Austria. Our female guide made a comment about President Bush wanting the best suite in the Imperial Hotel and was refused because the Rolling Stones were in town for a concert, so they got it instead. But the Stones ...

... attractions. I figured this would keep me busy all day... How right I was! I spent a really long time admiring the imperial rooms, following the audioguide on my ipod (downloaded earlier) which was far more comfortable than the audioguides they had there, ...

... , we went to a few museums (Moderner Kunst (modern art), Leopold (Austrian modern art), and Esparanto) and the Kaisergruft (Imperial Crypt). I wanted to see the crypt because it's alternate title (Kapuzinergruft) was the name of a book I'd just read in ...

... gardens on a grand scale. University of Music – a more human scale after the grandness of the religious and imperial buildings. State Opera House St Augustine Church St Michael’s Church The Hofburg Palace, housing the Silver Collection, the ...

... English-language audioguide - you better be able to read and understand German... next to the Hofburg Treasury are the Imperial Apartments where Emperor Franz Josef I lived with his wife Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary (nicknamed Sisi)...even today ...

... the days and years that Austria was under Nazi control.  We strolled by Kaisergruft, which is a church housing the Imperial crypts. Returning to Karntner Strasse, we walked past the trendy department stores and fancy chocolate shops.  We next ...

... coffee, which here means coffee with ice and vanilla ice cream. Then went down to the Hopsburg. We saw the Silver Treasury, Imperial Apartments and Sisi Museum all in one ticket. They charge a lot for museums here, but they include "free" audioguides, ...

... at the evidence every day... the pictures show you why. Charlie and I did a bit of self-discovery on our first day in Vienna ... for such a thriving metropolis it was surprising to see so much closed on a Sunday.  Then the next day we joined a ...

... left wanting more and, sadly, had to say goodbye before feeling we had gotten a true flavor of this imperial capital.  Dana found a great hotel (all of her finds have been good and within budget!), comfortable and well located.  However, between ...

... around.  It was still rainy and cold, but we got to see the sights of the city (including the museum district, imperial palace, rathaus, and parliment building... but no time to look inside).  With the cold numbing our extremities, we stopped ...

12/21/2008 Vienna- Schoenbrunn Derag Hotel And Living Hotel Kaiser Franz Joseph Day 2 Using the sehr sehr (and very) efficient Austrian rail system, we went to Schoenbrunn - the Hapsburg's imperial summer palace.Superb. Spent the day there touring the ...

... “Schonbrunn” stop. The Palace Gardens were a very short walk from here and you enter through some massive gates and the Imperial Palace just smacks you in the face...massive! We didn’t buy a ticket to go inside a)cos we are pretty much ...

... Tintoretto, an enormous mural by Caravaggio, and the large collection of Rubens.   Wien Museum at Karlsplatz - the Vienna Museum.  A fun history of Vienna through the ages, worth a quick visit.  Also the area where the museum ...

... Swiss court, is home to the Vienna Boys' Choir (Wiener Sangerknabenchor).  For over 500 years the Vienna Boys' Choir has participated in Mass at this Imperial Chapel most Sundays. It is the oldest boys' choir in the world and has produced ...

... aren't crazy about mixing in some chocolate, and I hadn't had a mocha done my way in a long time. Ahhhh. The imperial apartment tour was mediocre - first you get to tour the imperial dinner service (yawn). Thousands of silverware, candles, table ...

... we arrived in the late afternoon to a lively, urban city outside of the train station, I really felt like Vienna WAS waiting for us to explore! The first hotel was full, and the receptionist told us that the next two places on our list were also ...

... the shopping district but bought only candy for the boys for Easter.  It was wrapped in Mozart wrapping to remember Vienna! Sacher Hotel is across from the Hofburg Palace and is the home of the famous Sacher Cake. Hofburg Palace, directly in ...

... most of the people were spending their public holiday - sunbaking on the grass. I had complete my full circle as I passed the Hotel Imperial, St Charles Church and Albertina back to St Stephen's Cathedral. With legs feeling like they would drop off at any ...

... After about ten rooms of dishes and twenty different place settings we walked quickly through the rest of the exhibits to the Imperial Apartments.  This exhibition focuses on the life of Empress Elisabeth, also known as Sisi.  She died young in ...