10 of the best hotels in Vienna

It’s no surprise Vienna wins titles for liveability — the Austrian capital suits imperial-scale cultural riches within its compact metropolis limits, and yet vineyards and wooded hills are dazzling a 15-minute metro gallop away. Baroque mansions crowd the historic core around the cathedral and girdling the ragged metropolis is the Ringstrasse, a series of mammoth avenues, home to palaces, art galleries and concert halls. Vienna’s other districts are no less fascinating, with quirky museums and cherished local coffee properties. Wherever you stop, you’re more seemingly to scrutinize Viennese character in the detect of your lodgings — the metropolis offers rather a lot of area cloth for imaginative hotel designers to work with. 

1. Resort Sacher

Best for: living heritage
Omit Waldorf salad — for a hotel namesake dish, it’s exhausting to beat the chocolate-and-apricot cake served at the Sacher since it opened in 1876. Resort guests find to skip the queues at the two on-internet site cafes where the Sacher-Torte is unruffled made to its original 34-step recipe. The metropolis’s totally family-flee luxurious hotel also offers a generous nick of Viennese history in its interiors and setting, neighbouring the opera home on the Ringstrasse. Musically named suites and classically fascinating rooms construct totally a minute bit less imperial employ of the chandeliers and velvety wallpaper that grace the public spaces, including the Blue Bar, and Red and Green restaurants. The Marble Hall’s bountiful breakfast buffet includes a cake nook. For all the grandeur, although, the hotel’s many nooks mean it’ll unruffled truly feel surprisingly intimate. Rooms from €590 (£505).

2. Resort Motto

Best for: weekend brunch
After years building a restaurant community considering Austrian cuisine, Motto’s Francophile owner wanted to bring a bit of Parisian spirit to his first hotel project. There are chandeliers and sofas rehomed from the Paris Ritz and tasselled touches of the boudoir in the 91 bedrooms. The avenue-level bakery masters both French and Austrian pastries, while wiener schnitzel rubs shoulders with coq au vin on the menu at high-flooring Chez Bernard, location at the nook of the 1870s building, below a striking unique lattice roof. The restaurant is especially novel for its a la carte breakfast and brunch on weekends, for which hotel guests have to unruffled book forward. There are local touches, too, akin to in the custom lavatory tiles and toiletries from the metropolis’s Saint Charles Apothecary model. A couple of rooms beget balconies correct above Mariahilfer Strasse, Vienna’s main shopping avenue. Rooms from €160 (£140).

3. Die Josefine Resort

Best for: cocktail fans
Opened in 2021, right here is the most up-to-date incarnation for a on the whole tall and slim Viennese zinshaus (residence block) that has hosted a series of hotels since the 1920s. Its form has been reset succor to the jazz era vogue of its first ancestor, and the 49 rooms and two split-level suites are kitted out with art deco mirrors and plush, scallop-shelled armchairs. By the entrance, the ‘Phonothek’ lounge holds around 3,000 records, covering classic jazz and rather a lot of other genres, which guests can decide to play on the turntable by the honesty bar. Downstairs is the velvet-draped Barfly’s Membership, which opened in 1990 below a outdated incumbent and has constructed a stable local reputation as a end result of of its speakeasy vibe, signature rum cocktails and library of a whole bunch of uncommon whiskies. Rooms from €170 (£145), B&B.

4. The Leo Big

Best for: quirky form
The restoration of this baroque building dazzling yards from the Stephansdom Cathedral modified into a challenging one, but the house owners unruffled stumbled on time to beget some fun. The vogue attracts on Viennese life and politics in the era of Emperor Leopold I (1640–1705), in mutter smartly as salvaged roof timbers in some of the bedrooms, best of all in the split-level Leopold Suite, you’ll find headboards inspired by the form of the namesake ruler’s notoriously jutting ‘Habsburg lip’. The era’s fondness for royal menageries is translated into bedside lamps with monkey supports and feathered shades, and fanciful murals in the foyer. In the central courtyard — below a cover that opens and shuts — is a restaurant serving sushi platters with Asian-Austrian fusion prospers. Rooms from €350 (£300).

5. Resort Indigo Vienna Naschmarkt

Best for: a aloof haven
A short inch from the food stalls of the Naschmarkt, the Indigo shields itself from metropolis hubbub with a bit of succor from its neighbours. A tall but slim entrance building — home to 21 of the 158 rooms — outcomes in the inner gardens of a immense residential block. Here, the main portion of the hotel spreads out around a sunken courtyard. Lounge areas are full of mid-century-vogue furniture while, in the rooms, Wiener Geflecht (Vienna’s attribute rattan weave) makes an look in the furniture and the rug patterns. Rooms from €129 (£110).

6. Resort Topazz Lamee

Best for: movie-large name appears to be
This hotel is separated into two distinct yet complementary halves on either facet of a central ragged metropolis avenue. The Topazz is a novel obtain from 2012, inspired by the Wiener Werkstätte, an area craft movement that modified into a forerunner to art deco. The vogue is reflected in the bedrooms’ immense, oval windows. In a Nineteen Thirties building at some point of the boulevard, the Lamee has touches of that era’s Hollywood glamour — it modified into portion-named for Austrian-American movie large name Hedy Lamarr — with patterned-ebony wall panels and fearless floral carpets. Every guest gets a bottle of wine from the hotel’s be pleased natural winery within Vienna’s metropolis limits. Rooms from €230 (£200). 

7. JO&JOE Vienna

Best for: socialising
An IKEA retailer has the first four flooring of the building next to the Westbahnhof role, while 5 and 6 belong to JO&JOE. The globe-trotting hostel community has brought a pair of Alpine apres-ski touches to Vienna, with ski lift chairs in the foyer-lounge and a mountainous, dirndl-clad Lego determine by the bar. Deepest rooms and dorms sleeping four to 12 characteristic wood-framed beds in uncooked concrete spaces softened with spray-painted cityscapes. There are weekly karaoke and salsa nights and a roof terrace hosting a bar in summer. Rooms from €80 (£70).

8. Henriette Metropolis Resort

Best for: families
Breakfast devices the tone at Henriette: certified natural products, homemade muffins and granolas and honey from the rooftop hives. The hotel is in a nondescript ragged residence block, with a makeover planned, but there’s individuality in the 72 rooms, akin to the specially commissioned characterize prints of Vienna. Families will esteem the adjoining room alternatives and availability of shuttle cots. The hotel is in unruffled Leopoldstadt, two stops on the metro from the ragged metropolis, and finish to the distinguished Prater amusement park. Rooms from €115 (£100), B&B. 

9. Resort Beethoven

Best for: song-enthusiasts
Successfully positioned between Ringstrasse museums and Naschmarkt snack alternatives, the Resort Beethoven faces the theatre where its namesake aloof his totally opera around 1804. The nook townhouse has rooms at some point of six flooring, every with its be pleased Viennese theme, from coffeehouse custom to stable females of the fin de siècle. The rooms are named for more than just a few historic figures and phenomena, and embellished with rather a lot of individuality; you’re going to find a boldly graphic poster from the Secession movement — Vienna’s take on art nouveau — paired with a chair in the homely Biedermeier vogue from earlier in the Nineteenth century. Below the guest rooms is a cocktail bar and, adjoining the breakfast buffet, a salon for complimentary afternoon coffee, tea and cake, with a mammoth piano for chamber song concert events every Sunday. Rooms from €145 (£125), B&B. 

10. Ruby Lissi Resort & Bar

A fantastical departures board hangs in the foyer-bar, promising trips to Atlantis and Outer Draw. Mosaic shelves of vintage suitcases and telephones continue the theme of travellers past. This solidly location Nineteenth-century building on the edge of the ragged metropolis has 127 bedrooms in a more sparing vogue than the foyer, but with classic touches in the cherry wood panelling and button-tufted headboards. One surprising perk is the acoustic or electric guitars it is seemingly you’ll possibly possibly borrow to your be pleased jam session. There are two other ‘Rubies’ in metropolis, otherwise styled, east and west of the centre. Rooms from €135 (£115).