Waltz over to Vienna for a trip full of music and culture

August 29, 2009

Vienna, the city Mozart and Strauss made famous still sings to visitors today, an easy trip from Paris.

Looking for a change of pace and culture while visiting France? Try Vienna, with a musical heritage as rich as its famous Sachertorte cake. From Paris, Vienna is easily reached via air, with the CAT train whisking you from the airport to central Vienna in just 15 minutes. Or if you prefer rail travel, you could go by comfortable sleeper train from Paris to Munich, connecting to a train to Vienna the next morning.

There is so much to see and do in Vienna, it’s hard to know where to start. Schoenbrun Castle, the seat of the Hapsburgs, is a magnificent palace with sweeping gardens. Its rival for opulence, Belvedere Castle, also boasts beautiful gardens, plus a permanent exhibit of artworks by Klimt. Famous churches abound, such as St. Stephen’s with its famous striped-tile roof, the Baroque Karlskirche, and St. Peter’s, a Catholic church said to be Vienna’s oldest, to name only a few. Museums are also plentiful, and include the world-famous Museum of Art History that houses the Hapsburgs’ art treasures. But of course, the star of Vienna’s culture is music, the opera and the stage. Theatres, halls, churches and opera houses that first echoed to the strains of Austrian homeboys Mozart and Strauss–and still do–can be found all over the city, but especially clustered in the old city center.

For a base of operations, you’ll need the right Vienna hotel. As a capital of hospitality for centuries and a gateway between Western and Eastern Europe, Vienna is full of hotels of every description.  How to choose the right hotel in central Vienna for your trip?  As any tourist knows, while price and amenities certainly do matter, once you arrive, you always find that location is key. But if you don’t know the city, and you’re trying to reserve in advance or online, a simple address doesn’t tell you much.

One website allows you to make Vienna hotel reservations, without a fee, while choosing your hotel in central Vienna based on its precise distance from the sights that interest you most. Atel Hotels lists a host of hotels in the heart of Vienna lets visitors to its website search for hotel availability in Vienna by stars rating, price and by exact location. For example, if you wanted your Vienna hotel to be close to Schoenbrunn Palace, you might choose Hotel Altwienerhof, a lovely three-star that is only a mile away, according to Atel. On the other hand, if you preferred being walking distance from a cluster of historic museums, you’d be smart to make your Vienna hotel reservation at Hotel Graf Stadion in the Josefstadt area. Atel’s website lists exact distances of each of its Vienna hotels from important sights and monuments, and offers real-time, 24/7 information on hotel availability in Vienna and current rates. Photos and detailed decriptions of each hotel will help you know what to expect. Vienna hotel reservations made through Atel are confirmed immediately and incur no extra fees, which is amazing for this level of service.

If you are looking for a hotel in the heart of Vienna that will conform to your budget, meet your expectations and place you nearest the things you want to see and do, make your Vienna hotel reservation online with Atel. Then, the only surprises you’ll encounter will be the happy ones as you discover the art, music and charm of this beautiful, historic city. And whatever you do, don’t miss the Sachertorte!

Atel hotels is a reservation network of fine hotels all over Europe, offering travellers pinpointed location information, real-time hotel availability and 24/7 immediate confirmed reservations.

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Atel Hotels
10 rue Louis Vicat
75015 Paris
Tel : +33 1 45 31 25 45
Fax : +33 1 45 31 22 21
Email : Contact form
Web : http://www.atel-hotels-vienna.com

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