VIENNA · CASTLES
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The 15 vienna castle tours worth your time, walls and all. The keeps, palaces and forts travellers leave the best notes about, with what each visit costs, how long to set aside and who runs it.
Skip-the-line Schönbrunn Palace and gardens with a licensed guide, live narration via audio device, and time to stroll the grounds.
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Skip the line at Schönbrunn with timed entry, a partner-only 22-room palace tour, and gardens toward the Gloriette, led by a licensed guide.
One ticket to the Hofburg’s Imperial Treasury in Vienna, home to Habsburg crown jewels, relics, and legendary objects in about 1 hour.
“Really impressive collection of crown jewels, religious and royal objects. Well laid out and easy to navigate your way through.”
Priority entry to Schönbrunn Palace and gardens with a guided highlights tour, headsets, and flexible morning/afternoon timing.
“This was my second visit to Schonbrunn and this experience with a knowledgeable guide was so worthwhile and enjoyable. Our guide Eddie added colour and texture to what I remember experiencing the first time I went through the palace with just the recorded audio guide. Bonus points for Eddie offering us recommendations on places to…”
Skip the line at Schönbrunn Palace on a 2-hour small-group tour with Maria Theresa’s rooms, gardens, and highlights in English or German.
Ride Vienna’s Panoramabahn with a full-day ticket through Schönbrunn Park, hop at 9 stops, and make Gloriette the highlight.
Skip-the-line guided tour of Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace and gardens: 22 rooms, Great Gallery, Roman ruins, Gloriette, priority entry.
Skip the line at Schönbrunn Palace plus a Ringstrasse coach tour from Vienna State Opera, with time for the gardens.
“The best guide ever ! great sense of humor , made tour very interesting and informative I would recommend”
Vienna after-hours at Schönbrunn: audio tour by phone, 3-course Austrian dinner, then Mozart and Strauss in the Orangery.
“Don't trust the instructions to find the starting point for the tour. The instructions might say to proceed to a building "inside the main gate" to meet. What they really mean to say is to do a 2 minute walk after entering the main gate, going past the first building inside the gate (which is…”
An after-hours Schönbrunn Palace tour, Austrian 3-course dinner, and an Orangery concert with Mozart, Strauss, and opera singers in Vienna.
Mozart and Strauss in Vienna at Schönbrunn Palace Orangery. Intimate 90-minute classical concert with VIP drinks, priority entry, and smart casual dress.
“The concert was very good but I signed up for VIP package from Viator and did not receive it. I was supposed to get free coat check, a free drink for my party, and a program. I received none of this. So I paid extra and got nothing extra. Viator please refund the extra money…”
Skip-the-line Schönbrunn Palace with timed entry and a licensed guide plus 22-room highlights and gardens walk in about 2.5 hours.
“Great tour and our tour guide was very informative and enthusiastic. He made our tour fun and we learned a lot about parts of the history of Vienna.”
Enjoy an 80-minute classical concert at Eschenbach Palace in Vienna with Strauss, Mozart, Schubert, plus opera and ballet.
“The concert was fabulous. We enjoyed every part. The musician offered great insight into most famous melodies especially the Turkish March and the Blue Danube. it was over an hour of romance and magic night in Vienna Supreme Concert. Wish to be there again and again.”
After-hours Schönbrunn Palace, a 3-course Austrian dinner nearby, and a classical concert in the Orangery with Mozart and Strauss.
“The staff at the palace were very helpful & friendly. The first part of the evening was a self guided tour around the palace with an audio guide but the staff were there on hand throughout. Dinner was served at Gerstner’s inside the palace grounds - again the staff were friendly & helpful. We had…”
Vienna combo ticket for the Imperial Treasury and New Hofburg Palace with audio guide: Habsburg crowns, armor, and historic music.
“National museum of Vienna. The best museum I’ve ever visited around the world.”
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