![]() Concert cafés have free music performances, like Café Schwarzenberg (Thursday and Friday 7.30pm–11 pm, Saturday and Sunday 5pm–8.30pm), Café Weimar (Monday–Saturday until 7.30pm and Sunday afternoons) and 1950s-style Café Prückel (Monday, Wednesday and Friday 7pm–10pm).Ī tasty looking Viennese sachertorte Low-cost Vienna transport The most famous cafés can be expensive but there’s no hurry so you can sit there and watch the world go by. ![]() You can’t visit Vienna without coffee and sachertorte in a traditional café. And if you’re self-catering, there are also several Spar supermarkets in the city centre. You can also head to the Naschmarkt which has over 120 market stalls selling food and drink (open Monday–Friday from 6am–7.30pm and Saturday from 6am–5pm). Other ways to save on food are to eat in the cheaper studenty areas like Neubau or Josefstadt. Many restaurants offer a cheaper mittagsmenü, where you can get a two- or three-course meal from a set menu for under €10. Restaurants in the busy central area of Vienna can be expensive, but you can save on eating out by having your main meal at lunchtime. Inside Vienna’s Spanish Riding School Budget food and drink Over the summer months the performing horses aren’t in Vienna, but there’s ‘Piber Meets Vienna’ show, where young horses from the stud are brought to the school, with tickets from €12–€45. Standing room tickets for performances (which you can book online in advance) cost €25–€37 or you can watch the horses’ morning exercise to music from 10am–12pm for €15. ![]() Seats for gala performances cost €63–€217, but there are a few options to see the Lipizzaner horses for less. You can also get standing tickets for performances at the Volksoper and Burgtheater for a similar price, but you can book these online in advance.Īnother popular but pricey attraction is Vienna’s Spanish Riding School. Get there early, be prepared to queue, and you can only buy one ticket per person so if you’re in a group you’ll all need to line up. Standing tickets are only available from a special ticket office on Operngasse. Standing tickets for the Staatsoper or State Opera House go on sale 80 minutes before the performance and cost €4 (in the parterre on the ground floor) or €3 (in the balcony or gallery higher up). But you can get a bargain if you don’t mind standing up for the performance. Vienna’s a city of music, but tickets to its famous operas sell out months in advance and can cost over €150. St Stephen’s Cathedral Inexpensive entertainment But some of the best free views over Vienna are probably from the hills around the city – you can reach Mount Leopoldsberg and Mount Kahlenberg by bus from the city centre. At the top there is an expensive rotating restaurant, but a cheaper option is the viewing platform which costs €14.50 (€11 for seniors or €9.90 for children aged 6–14). ![]() Or there’s also the rooftop D-Bar at the luxurious Ritz-Carlton hotel.Īway from the city centre on the northern banks of the Danube is the Danube Tower, or Donauturm, Austria’s tallest structure. If you prefer your views with a cocktail, try the Sky Bar Restaurant on Kärntnerstraße, a rooftop bar on the top floor of a department store which has a great view of the cathedral. Entry to the cathedral is free but if you want to climb the 343 steps to the top of the tower, it costs €5 for adults or €2 for children aged 6–14 (open daily 9am–5.30pm). One of the best views in the city centre is from the South Tower of St Stephen’s Cathedral, 137 metres up. ![]()
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