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Vienna Tours/Sightseeing
2008
Regular
Sightseeing Tours 2008 |
| Tour |
Departure |
Description |
Tour 1 |
Daily
09:45 am (S+W)
02:45 pm (S), 02:00 pm(W) |
Vienna City Tour - most
important sights located at the Ringstrasse
and interior visit of Schonbrunn Palace
Duration: 3,5 h |
Tour 2
Sisi Tour |
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
09:45 am (S+W) |
Walking Tour - most beautiful
parts of the city like Hofburg, Imperial Burial
Vault (interior visit), Spanish Riding (training
AUD not included)
Duration: 3 h |
Tour 3
Danube Panorama
Tour: bus and boat |
Daily
09:45 am (S+W)
02:45pm (S) |
Brief City Tour with Grinzing including
the major sights by bus and by boat.
Duration: approx. 4 h
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Tour 4
Mayerling - Vienna
Woods |
Daily (S)
Daily (W:except Wed.)
09:45 am (S+W)
02:45pm (S) |
Visit of Southern Vienna
Woods
including interior visit of Abbey of Heiligenkreuz
and Convent Mayerling
Duration: 4 h |
Tour 13
Music Tour |
Thu, Sat(S: May-Sept 30)
09:45 am |
Grave of Mozart at St
Marx; Figaro House, monument of Schubert and
Beethoven, Musikverein or State Opera; House
of Music
Duration: 3,5 h |
Tour 14
Mozart/Strauss Tour |
Daily (S)
Fri, Sat. (W: Dec 2-17)
06:30 pm |
Visit of a Mozart concert,
3-course dinner, short walking tour
Duration: 3 h |
Tour 5
Wachau - Danube Valley |
Daily (S)
Wed, Sat (W)
09:45 am |
Full day trip by bus and
boat, interior visit of Abbey of Melk (lunch
optional), walking tour through Durnstein
Duration: 8 h |
Tour 6
Burgendland - Lake Neusiedl |
Sat (S)
09:45 am |
Full day trip by bus and
boat; visit of Lake Neudsiedl close to Hungarian
border, afterwards walking tour through Baden
Duration: 8 h |
Tour 7
Grinzing |
Daily (S)
Tue, Fri, Sat (W: Nov 4 -Jan 3)
07:30 pm
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Trip along the illuminated
Ringstrasse passing by the famous sights to
Grinzing;entrance to a Heurigen show including
dinner and 1/4 of wine.
Duration: 4 h |
Tour 9
Salzburg/Mozart |
Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun (S)
Tue, Sat (W)
07:15 am |
Excursions via Lake District(Salzkammergut)
to Salzburg, (optional lunch) walking tour
through the city centre, transfer back
Duration: 1 day |
Tour 10
Budapest |
Mon, Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun
(S)
Tue, Thur, Sat (W)
07:15 am |
Trip to Budapest, sightseeing
tour(optional lunch) and transfer back. PLEASE
ASK FOR ENTRY REGULATIONS
Duration: 1 day |
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Private
Halfday -Fullday Excursions Vienna
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1) Private
Historial City Tour with Schonbrunn Palace
Pick up for sightseeing tour by private guide
and limousine
This tour will give you an overall impression
of the most significant sight of Vienna. Along
the Ringstrasse we show you numerous magnificent
buildings, such as the MAK, the State Opera
House, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Natural
History Museum, the cultural destrict the
MuseumsQuartier, the former Habsburg winter
residence, the Hofburg, the Parliament, the
City Hall and the Burgtheater. The highlight
of this tour will be a visit of the showrooms
of Schonbrunn Palace. In this former summer
residence of the Habsburg family lived e.g.
Maria Theresia.
Drive back to hotel.
Duration:3,0 hours
English speaking guide(3 hours): EUR 180,-per
guide
Additional hour guide: EUR 50,-per hour
E-class Mercedes (max. 4 hours) EUR 208,-
S-class Mercedes(max. 4 hours) EUR292,-
Entrance Schonbrunn Palace at EUR12,- per
person
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2)
Empress Elisabeth - The Enigmatic Sisi
Empress Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Emperor
Franz Joseph, affectionately called Sisi, was
one of the most beautiful women of her day.
Forever discontent with life at court and always
in search of personal hapiness and fulfilment,
she was also dubbed "the reluctant empress"
and became a myth alreadt in her lifetime. In
the 60s many popular films were made about her
life starring Austrian-born actess Rmy Schneider
as the young empress. Let me tell you more about
this fascinating woman on this informative walk
to places connected with her life: The Imperial
Apartments in the Hofburgh Palace, the Church
of the Augustinian Friars and the Imperial Burial
Vault.
Duration: 2,5 hours
English speaking theme guide(2,5 hours): EUR
210,-per guide
Entrances EUR 20,- per person
And transfer if Hotel is not located in the
city centre
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3)
For lovers of music and opera - including
a guided tour through the opera-house
On this tour we follow the footssteps of the
most famous composers. The guide will show
you where Joseph Haydn's career began, where
Mozart and Constance got married, Beethoven's
Eroica" was performed for the first time
and much more of this. We finish with a tour
through the Vienna State Opera, still reflecting
a touch of the Imperial Glory.
Duration: 2,5 hours
English speaking theme guide (2,5 hours):
EUR210, -per guide
Entrance State Opera EUR 12,-per person
Add transfer if Hotel is not located in the
city centre
4) Private Guided
Tour Spanish Riding School
The Spanische Hofreittschule is the oldest
and last Riding School in the world where
classic dressage is still practised in its
purest form. This Institute was founded in
1572 and its very name gives away the fact
that the horses were of Spanish origin. The
Lipizzaner is regarded as the oldest classic
horse race in Europe. The superb arena- the
Winter Riding School in the Vienna Hofburg
(Imperial Palace) in which the RIders of the
Spanish Riding School train the horses and
where they perform was commisioned by Emperor
Karl VI. His potrait decorates the white baroque
hall built by Josef Emanuel Fischer von Erlach
from 1729 to 1735. Since 1920 the presentations
of classical dressage have been open to the
public.
Duration: 1,0 hours
English speaking guide "Spanish Riding
School" (1,0 hour): EUR 180,-per guide
Add transfer if Hotel is not located in the
city centre.
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5)
Discover the splendour of Imperial Vienna
Walk along Vienna's most celebrated sights.
See the Imperial Palace (Former Residence of
the Habsburgs) their beatiful Gardens, the Imperial
Vault, the Spanish Riding School, the Opera
House, St. Stephen's Cathedral, which marks
the very heart of the city. But Vienna also
stands for "savoir vivre" winning
and dining. The guide will explain the background
of Austrian's favourite culture.
Duration: 2,0 hours
Entrance Imperial Apartments at Imperial Palace
EUR8, -per person
Entrance Imperial Vault EUR4,-per person
Entrance St.Stephen's Cathedral EUR5,-per person
Add transfer if Hotel is not located in the
city centre
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6)MuseumsQuartier(MQ)
"In"-Meeting Place MuseumsQuartier
Art & Culinary Delights Side by Side
Vienna's exciting arts quarter offers not only
prominent museums such as the Leopold Museum
(Schiele!), the Museum of Contemporary Arrt
and Kunsthalle. A lively restaurant and bar
scene make the museum quarte even more attractive.
To look and to be looked at is the motto, but
above all: to enjoy oneself...
The MuseumsQuartier Vienna (MQ) is one of the
ten largest culural quarters in the world. Located
at the border of the old city in the former
imperial stables, it combined instituions of
different art fields, restaurants, cafes and
shops in an area of over 640,000 square feet
in a postmodern ambiance, a combination of baroque
buildings and modern architecture.
Duration: 2,5 hours
English speaking theme guide EUR 210,-per guide
Entrance Leopoldmuseum at EUR 12,-per person
And transfer if Hotel is note located in the
city centre
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7)
Wine Tour Vienna - Grinzing
in a typical Heuriger at Grinzing, "Heuriger"
is the word the Viennese use both for the wine
from the last grape harverst and for the establishments
at which it is served. And the Viennese exhortation,
"Gemma zum Heuriger" (Let's go to
a heuriger!') is an invitation to an afternoon
or evening of relaxation and pleasure oiled
by heuriger music and good wine. Though the
wine-growing districts are within the city limits,
most have retained their original village character.
In each of these places you will discover idylic
side roads and byways. "Ausg steckt: means
that the heuriger is open. This expression comes
from the pine that hangs above the entrance
to a heuriger to signify that it is open. For
there is a law that a winegrower can only serve
wine (and it must be his own) for a maximum
of 300 days a year. Experience unique trip through
the historic vineyards if Vienna's most famous
grwoing area: Grinzing
Picked up by a multi-lingual driver guide and
/or a licensed guide you will enjoy a ride over
the hills surrounding VIenna. Have a wonderful
view over VIenna and the viineyards where the
guests are going to meet the owner of the vineyard.
. Tour og the wineyward with wine tasting. Afterwards
dinner at the Heuriger with music and 2 glasses
of wine. (dineer at heuriger not included!)
English speaking guide (4 hours): EUR 225,-
per guide
Additional hour guide: EUR 50,-per hour
E-Class Mercedes (max 4 hours) EUR250,-
S-Class Mercedes (max. 4 hours) EUR 350,-
Starting from EUR 35,-- per person 3 course
heurigen Dinner incl. 2 glasses of wine
8) Vienna Woods Excursion
Duration: 3 hours
Entrances: Abbey of Heilgenkreuz, Chapel of
Mayerling
Trip from your hotel to the most beautiful sights
located in the southern part of the VIenna WOods.
FIrst stop at Abbey of Heilgenkreuz, a cistercian
abbey with a medieval cloister. During the tour
your guide will point out as well historical
facts as the way of living of a friar. Afterwards
visit of the former hunting lodge Mayerling,
today a commemorative chapel, where Crown Price
Rudolph and Barnesse Vetsera died. Driving through
the romantic valley "Helenental" we
will arrive at Baden, famous for numerous poets
who stayed there. Transfer back to Vienna.
English speaking guide (3 hours): EUR 180,-per
guide
Additional hour guide:EUR 50,-per hour
E-Class Mercedes (max 4 hours) EUR250,-
S-Class Mercedes (max. 4 hours) EUR 350,-
Entrance Abbey of Heiligenkreuz and Mayerling
EUR 15,-per person
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9)
Grand River Daube Cruise in Vienna
AFter boarding in Schwedenplatz, the first
leg of the cruise takes you past some Vienna's
most significant buildings - Ruprechts Church,
the Ringturm, the Rossauer Kaserne, and the
architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser's industrial
masterpiece. AFter passing through the histroic
look at Nussdorf the ship will give you an
unforgettable view of Viena's tallest buildings
- the 202 m Millenium Tower, the Danube Tower
and UNI-City. This leg of cruise ends at Reichbrucke.
The second leg, from Reichbrucke back to Schwedeplatz
gives you the chance to appreciate some of
the natural beauty of the area in addition
to more of the spectacular man-made structures-
Freudenau hydro-electric power plant, KunstHausWien
and the planetarium Urania. Duration 3,5 hours.
English speaking guide (3 hours): EUR 180,-per
guide
Additional hour guide:EUR 50,-per hour
Boat-ride "Grand River Danube Cruise"
EUR 17,-per person
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10)
Wachau valley - romance at the River Danube
Departure from your hotel. One of the highlights
of your excursion is the visit of the Abbey
of Melk, where a guide shows you the interior
and the garden of this exciting baroque momument
which has always been the spiritual and cultural
centre of Austria. Lunch will be served in
a cosy restarant at the River Danube. There
you will enjoy a wonderful view over the River
Danube and the vineyards. Adterwards boat
ride to Durnstein, one of themost historically
impressing villages of this valley. Walking
tour with your gudie thorough the small lanes.
King Richard Lionheart was once imprisoned
while waiting for his ransom to arrive from
England. Transfer back to Vienna.
Duration: 8,0 hours
English speaking guide (3 hours): EUR 450,-per
guide
Additional hour guide:EUR 50,-per hour
E-Class Mercedes (max 4 hours) EUR 450,-
S-Class Mercedes (max. 4 hours) EUR 650,-
Entrance Abbey of Melk EUR 12,-per person
Boat-ride Melk -Durnstein EUR 16,-per person
3-course lunch starting from EUR 30,-per person
No beverages included!
Beverages can be charged upon consumption
with a surcharge of 10% handling fee
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