Sightseeing Tours Vienna
City Tour with Schoenbrunn Palace Ring, Schönbrunn Palace (visit), Belvedere
This tour will give you an overall impression of the most significant sights of Vienna. Along the Ringstrasse we show you numerous magnificant buildings, such as the State Opera House, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Natural History Museum, the cultural district, the Museums Quarter, the former Habsburg winter residence, the Hofburg, Parliament, City Hall and the Burgtheater.
The highlight of this tour will be a visit of the showrooms of Schönbrunn Palace. In this former summer residence of the Habsburg family lived, for example, Maria Theresia. On the way back to the opera we pass by the Belvedere Palace, the former summer residence of Prince Eugen. Here you can get off and walk for ten minutes to the city center. Or, free of charge, you can transfer with the Hop-On Hop-Off bus back to the Opera house.
Tour Duration: 3.5 hours. Cost: EUR 35 per person, children EUR 15,-
The tour starts at 9:00am, 10:00am or at 2:00pm.
Winter schedule: daily 09:00am, 1:30pm (Nov. 2nd until March 31st)
Vienna Woods | Mayerling Heiligenkreuz | Subterranean Lake
This half-day excursion will show you the most beautiful sights of the southern part of Vienna Woods. Passing the Roman city of Baden, famous for its thermal springs, we drive through the romantic valley of Helenental to the former Mayerling hunting lodge, today a commemorative chapel where Crown Prince Rudolph and Baronesse Vetsera died tragically in 1889.
In the mornings we visit the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz (1133) with it medieval cloister and grave of last the Babenberger. In the afternoons we visit the amazing life-size figures Koryphäum. We then pass the Höldrichsmühle and arrive at the Seegrotte. After a boatride on the largest subterranean lake in Europe you leave the Vienna Woods and return to Vienna, finishing at the Opera House.
Tour Duration: 4 hours. Cost: EUR 42 per person, children EUR 15,-
The tour starts daily at 9am and at 2:00pm. (on Mo., Fri., Sat&Sun.) There is no tour on Wednesdays.
Winter schedule: daily at 09:00am (Nov. 2nd until March 31st)
Mozart Concert in Historical Costumes or Johann Strauss Concert at the Kursalon
You will meet our tour guide in front of the Opera House. After a typical Viennese meal you will be taken to the concert. The popular Vienna Mozart Orchestra in period costumes plays for you many of the everlasting melodies by W. A. Mozart. The musicians at the Johann Strauss concerts in the Kursalon play mainly works by Johann Strauss and other composers of his time.
Tue., Thu. and Sun. - Mozart/ Strauss at Kursalon
Mon., Wed., Fri. and Sat. - Mozart Concert (only these days we present to you with a CD of the Mozart Orchestra free of charge - worth €19,-). No hotel pick up, tour ends at the concert.
Advance booking necessary!
Price includes dinner, concert ticket and transfer from the Opera House to the concert.
Attention: From April 1st to April 30th 2006 we only offer the Strauss concert at Kursalon - daily! Subjet to changes.
Duration: 3 h
Summer 01.04. - 31.10.2006
daily - but no hotel pick-up
18:30 only German/English
EUR 59,- adults, EUR 30,- children
Romantic Danube Valley
A full-day excursion, which will show you the beauty of the Wachau. Through this romantic scenery full of history and legends the Danube winds its way past charming old villages and steep vineyards. The old castles tell us about the former importance of this trade and trafficway. One of them, Dürnstein, is especially famous because here King Richard Lionheart was imprisoned while waiting for his ransom to arrive from England, raised by his true minstrel Blondel.
During a romantic boat-trip the history comes alive. The heart of the Wachau is the old vine-merchants town Krems. To complete this day of highlights you will visit Melk, the “Cradle of Austria” , the magnificent Benedictine Abbey, a pearl of the Austrian baroque. In the winter we stop for lunch in the Abbey Restaurant at Melk. The tour finishes at the Opera House.
Daily until Nov. 1st, 2005, winter schedule Wednesday and Saturday only, until March 31st, 2006, thenafter daily again
Tour Duration: 8 hours. Cost: EUR 61 per person, children EUR 30,-
The tour starts at 9am. The boat ride takes place from April 8th to October 29th 2006. In the winter season we invite you for lunch. The price includes entrance fees, guide, boat ride (in winter with lunch) and pick-up from your hotel.
SALZBURG - Mozart - Festival Town - Sound of Music
On our way to Mozart’s town of birth you become acquainted with the beautiful Salzkammergut landscape with it’s mountains and it’s numerous lakes, where the Emperor Franz Joseph and his family used to spend their holidays. Skirting the Lake Fuschl and Lake Wolfgang you reach Salzburg, where you will have time for lunch. The afternoon will be dedicated to a stroll through the old city, showing you the most important sights of the ols Bishop’s Seat. These are the Cathedral, the Festvall Hall, St.Peter’s Abbey Church and it’s graveyard (tomb of Mozart’s sister Nannerl) Of course we will show you Mozart’s birth place in the Getreidegasse. The Edelweiss-Song from the movie Sound of Music will come to your memory, while passing the horse-pond and from the gardens of Mirabell-Palace you will have a marvellous view of the Hohensalzburg Fortress. The tour ends at your hotel.
Duration: 1 day
Date: daily - minimum attendance (4) four persons (which is very likely during summer), and due to wheather conditions in winter
Duration: 13 hours, pick-up from your hotel at 07:00AM
Price: EUR 100,- adults, EUR 49,- children
Budapest One day trip to Budapest
A drive to the enchanting countryside of western Hungary will take you to Budapest, a city rich in traditions, situated on the banks of the Danube (time for lunch). In the afternoon during an extensive drive you will be able to appreciate the historical and cultural importance of this city. At 5:00 p.m. we start the return journey to Vienna. The tour ends at your hotel.
Duration: 1 day
Advance booking and a valid passport necessary!
Visa cost according to nationality, is to be paid additionaly.
Date: daily - minimum attendance (4) four persons (which is very likely during summer), and due to wheather conditions in winter
Duration: 13 hours, pick-up from your hotel at 07:00AM
Price: EUR 100,- adults, EUR 49,- children
Passport required: USA, Canada, Japan and “new” EU countries
English citizens need only a valid identity card, or a passport
Prague - The Golden City
After a drive through the characteristic landscape of Moravia you reach Praghe the golden city on the banks of the Moldavia, the economic and cultural centre of Bohemia. Possibility for lunch. Afterwards drive to Hradschin (Royal Palace). In the afternoon we take you on an extensive city tour, showing you the wonderful panorama of the city from Charles bridge, the National Theatre, the elegant residences on the Moldavien river banks, the Jewish cementary (individual visit possible), the Parisian street, the old town square and Wencels square. There will be certainly enough time for shopping or exploring the old quarters of Praghe. The tour ends at your hotel.
Duration: 1 day
Advance booking and a valid passport necessary.
Visa cost according to nationality, is to paid additionally.
Date: every Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa - minimum attendance (4) four persons (which is very likely in summer), and due to wheather conditions in winter Duration: 13 hours, pick-up from your hotel at 07:00AM
Price: EUR 109,- adults, EUR 49,- children
Passport required: USA, Canada, Japan and “new” EU countries
English citizens need only a valid identity card, or a passport
Bratislava by Hydrofoil
An unforgetable Danube boat trip which unites both the untouched countryside and the flair of an old city. You see the Vienna skyline from the Danube River and then travel through the National Park Donauauen. After cruising through the naturally preserved Danube River landscape and forested wetlands, you see the first glimpse of Bratislava. Passing the castle of Bratislava you leave the boat in the center. Your guide will be waiting for you at the central boat station of Bratislava and on a walking tour, will present to you the historical town center. Lunch is included. You have the possibility to spend the afternoon individually visiting the numerous coffee houses, restaurants, shops and cultural sights - most important being the castle of Bratislava. At 5 pm (5.30 pm) the hydrofoil will leave to return to Vienna. Tour ends: Reichsbrücke
Advance booking and a valid passport necessary.
Visa cost according to nationality, is to paid additionally.
Date: 1.6.2006 - 29.10.2006
Tour: We, Th, Fr, Sa, Su
Duration: 8 hours, pick-up from your hotel at 06:45AM
Price: EUR 57,- adults, EUR 30,- children
Passport required: USA, Canada, Japan and “new” EU countries English citizens need only a valid identity card, or a passport
Bookings
Tickets for these tours may be ordered via our secure order form. No additional fees do apply for sightseeing tours. For more information, please contact us at info@viennaticket.com.
Sightseeing Tours Vienna
Technorati Tags: Sightseeing Tours Vienna