Favorite thing: Bratislava is in just a short distance from Vienna and you may take the S-Bahn from Gaenserndorf - it will take you in less than 1 hour to Bratislava.The return-ticket on S-bahn is less than 10 Euros !
On the Danube you can go to Bratislava also by hydrofoil during the summer.
Fondest memory: "Vienna Sightseeing" offers an 8-hour-tour by hydrofoil to Bratislava. It includes a short walking-tour through the centre of Bratislava, a lunch and in the afternoon you have some time left for shopping !
That tour is 55 Euros, including lunch
it is available Wed-Sun at 09.30a.m. may 4th-sep.6th,2005
and already at 09.00a.m. april 6th-may 1st + sep.7th-oct.30th,2005
Updated Oct 27, 2009
Favorite thing: I appreciate, that you liked your stay here in Vienna, like many tourists coming to Vienna, who are very welcome! - please do not mind my open words re "touristy" or "less touristy" places.It is a fact, that -especially in Viennas city and / or the most frequented "Heurigen"-areas there are restaurants and expensive places, mostly frequented by tourists, - because they pretend to be "very local". So you can experience there a mix of "Austrian culture" from Mozart to "Edelweiss"as well as those austrian dishes, expected by most tourists coming to Austria. - Those places are mostly liked by the majority of tourists. In contrast there are some more quiet, less expensive and less "hip" places, mostly frequented by Austrians. I assumed, that you would prefer the latter.
As to your questions regarding the best lookouts to Vienna: if weather is fine, there are 2 superior places to be recommended:
1. The "Cobenzl- castle and -restaurant on top of one of the northern hills, surrounding the city of Vienna. Take U4 subway to Heiligenstadt, from there Bus 38A to Cobenzl. More infos on my Cobenzl-page !
2. Villa Aurora - a restaurant on Wilhelminenberg, the first northwestern hill overlooking thé city. Take U3-subway to Ottakring, from there Bus 46 B to Wilhelminenberg. More infos on my "Villa Aurora" or "Schloss Wilhelminenberg" - tips!
Have a nice stay and enjoy it!
Written Aug 13, 2008
Favorite thing: Today we did the tour with Vienna sightseeing to the woods and the underground lake. The underground lake is the largest in the world, pity that the ride was so short. It was quite cold down there. 9 degrees is the temp there all year round. We were not quite prepared for such cold weather. The cost of the tour was 49 Euro and I felt like I got my money worth from it.
Written May 19, 2008
Favorite thing: Bratislava is very cheap but you need to have the right currency for some things - museum entries for example - our friendly graduate of the Rosa Krebs School of Charm at the Prelate's Palace made that perfectly clear. If you are in Bratislava at the weekend when the banks are closed, the Tesco store has an exchange office that will be open - and the girl there was delightful.
The unit of currency is the koruna. At the time of writing (October 2006) the exchange rate is approximately 30 koruna = us$1.
Don't change too much, you will find you will almost certainly have money left over at the end of the day. We changed $80 between four of us and even after we'd bought lunch and some beers, icecreams, coffee and a pile of nuts and dried fruit, visited the Prelate's Palace, left money in a donation box at the Cathedral, caught trams and paid for our train tickets back to Vienna, we still had money left over. We could have bought a trinket or two from the souvenir booths near the Town Hall, or caught one of the jolly open-topped red tourist buses around the city I suppose, but even then I think we wouldn't have spent it all.
Updated Oct 13, 2006
Favorite thing: Kinsky Palace is a grand city mansion and is one of Vienna?s most impressive buildings in terms of art history. Built between 1713 and 1716 for Philipp Laurenz, it is a gem of baroque architecture which was hailed for its artistic finesse right from the outset. Michael (globetrott) showed it to us (me and Holger - HORSCHECK).
Written Mar 1, 2006
Favorite thing: The building of the university is situated near of Parliament and Rathaus. The building was built in 1873-1883 by Heinrich Ferstel in renessainsa style. This building is the main among other ones that university owns.
Written Mar 1, 2006
Favorite thing: Monument to Goethe, the famous German writer, is situated near of Hofburg Park and opposite Schiller Platz. Interesting thing is Goete haven't been to Vienna. In any way, the monument was placed in 1900. The interesting fact is the special comission gathered money but they needed 13 years that to get the exact ammount :-)
Written Mar 1, 2006
Favorite thing: Schillerplatz is a square that is situated in front of Fine Arts academy. There is a monument to Friedrich Schiller. It is the first bronze monument that was placed to not-army-person. The monument was built in 1876 by Iogann Schilling.
Written Mar 1, 2006
Favorite thing: Theophil Hansen created the parliament building, constructed from 1873 to 1883 in the style of the Greek Revival. Until 1918, the elected representatives serving in the Council of the Empire met here in legislative session for the Austrian half of the dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy which extended from Galicia (now Polish and Ukrainian territory) all the way to Dalmatia (the Adriatic coast of modern-day Croatia). In modern Austria, this is the seat of both the National Council, the lower house of Austria's bicameral parliament whose representatives are elected by popular vote, and the Federal Council, whose members are chosen by the various states to serve in the upper house.
Written Mar 1, 2006
Favorite thing: Friedrich von Schmidt, who had been the architect of the Cathedral of Cologne, designed and built Vienna's City Hall, the most important secular building in the neo-Gothic style in the city, between 1872 and 1883. It also houses the Municipal and State Libraries and Archives which hold many key documents of Vienna's history and a large collection of local memorabilia.
Written Mar 1, 2006
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