Vienna Visit

[Fidelio]

I am sure this has been requested before, but please stay with me....This time last year I was in Bonn. Early next year, I plan to visit Vienna. Can anyone recommend a cheap, central hotel please?

Many thanks.

[Rutradelusasa]

I stayed at this one and was pleased, but I've never been on any others so I can't compare...

http://www.hotel-continental.at/

It is about 10 minutes (top) to the Haydnhaus going on one direction of the Mariahilferstrasse and other 10 minutes (top) to the centre going the other one.
It is also next to a beautiful statue of Haydn

[heidi]

I am sure this has been requested before, but please stay with me....This time last year I was in Bonn. Early next year, I plan to visit Vienna. Can anyone recommend a cheap, central hotel please?

Many thanks.

When I was in Veinna with my daughter we stayed at the Hotel Prinz Eugene. It was very nice and accomodaiting. We were with in walking distance to the inner city and there was a bus/tram station across the street. The best way to get around Vienna is with their transit systems and not hard to use. The first night I was there we walked to the Belvedere Palace (now a museum) and walked around the grounds. It was only two blocks away. How did you like Bonn?

Heidi

[heidi]

I am sure this has been requested before, but please stay with me....This time last year I was in Bonn. Early next year, I plan to visit Vienna. Can anyone recommend a cheap, central hotel please?

Many thanks.

I forgot to add: Make sure you look up Andrea when you are there. She posts under the name Hollywood here on this forum. She loves to take you around and show you all the great Beethoven sites. I spent two days with her and we had a great time. She was so much help.

[Hollywood]

I forgot to add: Make sure you look up Andrea when you are there. She posts under the name Hollywood here on this forum. She loves to take you around and show you all the great Beethoven sites. I spent two days with her and we had a great time. She was so much help.

Heidi's right Fidelio. If I am not busy at the time you are here in Vienna I can show you around some of the Beethoven must see places. Here also is a list of sites that have holiday flats or hotel rooms here in Vienna that you can check out:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/kastner/

http://www.apartments-vienna.net/

http://www.apartment.at/index_eng.php3

http://www.1st-vienna-hotels.com/cheaphotels.html (this one is a list of hotels in Vienna that are under 100 Euros per night)

[Peter]

I forgot to add: Make sure you look up Andrea when you are there. She posts under the name Hollywood here on this forum. She loves to take you around and show you all the great Beethoven sites. I spent two days with her and we had a great time. She was so much help.

Absolutely Heidi! I also was privileged to experience the Andrea-Beethoven tour! We had a terrific time which you can read about on the site
www.kingsbarn.freeserve.co.uk/viennatrip.html

[Fidelio]

Thanks Heidi

Visiting the Beethovenhaus was one of my life long ambitions (Vienna is the next!). It was a bit emotional but a fantasic trip.

The Stage for Music Visualisation had a 21st 3D light representation of Act 1 of Fidelio. All I can say is that it was an interesting display!

The house and its contents were breathtaking. I felt very humble to be in such presence. The staff were very helpful.

Went also to the various other houses and to visit his mother's grave.

I think Vienna will be just as enjoyable, perhaps even more so, to think that Beethoven walked those streets and stood and played in the various rooms where you can visit........can't wait.

Thanks again.

[Quijote]

I think I once replied to you before Fidelio ('Eroica' in your other guise elsewhere) that we might meet up in Vienna ('sounds like a project' were your words, I seem to recall). Whatever. I had planned to go this September to Vienna, but funds were short, I'm afraid. The New Year for me, then. You?

[Fidelio]

Thanks Philip.

I do recall......I'm hoping early Feb. Project is still on.....even if re-scheduled.

[PDG]

"When will you realise
Vienna waits for you."

(Billy Joel - from The Stranger album).

[Fidelio]

......but life is short!

[PDG]

Yes, and Only The Good Die Young...

[Fidelio]

I'm not sure about a life after this
God knows I've never been a spiritual man
Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river
That is running to the promised land

[terry]

[Visiting the Beethovenhaus was one of my life long ambitions (Vienna is the next!). It was a bit emotional but a fantasic trip.
The house and its contents were breathtaking. I felt very humble to be in such presence. The staff were very helpful.
Went also to the various other houses and to visit his mother's grave.
I think Vienna will be just as enjoyable, perhaps even more so, to think that Beethoven walked those streets and stood and played in the various rooms where you can visit........can't wait.

I completely agree about Bonn. As for Vienna, try here:
KOLPING GASTEHAUS 1060 Gunmpendorfer Str. 39
tel. 587 56 31
fx 586 36 30
I dont' know email, supposedly they have a site.
It's a big hostel for students, with a section for tourists in summer (and also in winter perhaps), very nice, a great big breakfast and good prices. (But I went there 9 years ago... )

[Cetto von Cronstorff]

I am sure this has been requested before, but please stay with me....This time last year I was in Bonn. Early next year, I plan to visit Vienna. Can anyone recommend a cheap, central hotel please?

Many thanks.

The cheapest (cheapest!) way to stay right in the heart of Vienna is this: http://www.schottenstift.at/Hauptseiten/Benediktus.html