Trips To Vienna is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague and Budapest.
What this site is trying to be
Most writing about Vienna is about the Habsburgs, and Vienna has been getting on with other things for a hundred years. This site is as interested in the fact that a standing place at the State Opera costs about the same as a coffee, that tram 1 does the sightseeing tram’s route for a fraction of the fare, and that Karl-Marx-Hof explains more about how the city works than Schönbrunn does.
That specificity is the point: not that somewhere is beautiful, but when to go, what it costs, what to book, and where the city stops performing.
How it is researched
Opening times, ticket structures and access rules come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it is because it has not been checked recently enough to print.
Vienna’s museums vary their closing days and their combined tickets, and the palace ticket structures change. Treat anything quoted here as an indication and check before you budget around it.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, café, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the Café Central entry suggests going somewhere else for the actual experience, and why the airport page says plainly that the CAT is not worth its fare.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date — a tram route, a closing day, a ticket rule — please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
The contact form goes to a person, or write to [email protected].