Trip Details

• Total time: 2.5 days in June 2015
• Part of a 10 day family trip to Budapest, Vienna, and Prague

Itinerary

• Day 4: afternoon walking tour of city
• Day 5: MAK and Prater plus other sightseeing on our own
• Day 6: Schonbrunn Palace and last minute things in the city

Hotel

• Ring Hotel
• Very nice hotel but expensive and not practical for students
• Great location

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To See

• Hofburg Palace
• Spanish Riding School Stables
• St. Charles Church
• St. Stephan’s Cathedral
• Opera House
• Judenplatz (Jewish Square) with holocaust memorial
• Schonbrunn Palace- RECOMMEND!
  • Nice gardens and a tiny hike to overlook the palace and gardens
• Mariahilferstrasse- large pedestrian shopping street

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To Do

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• MAK Museum of Applied Arts
• Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt  (not really necessary to go but nice to get outside the city)
  • Weiner Riesenrad (oldest Ferris wheel still standing- also the tallest when it was built)
• MuseamsQuartier- a bunch of museums built next to each other with outdoor restaurants in the middle

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Blog

See all my blog post on Austria here!

See all my blog posts from our Vienna, Budapest, and Prague trip here!