In & Around Vienna

A terrific resource for exploring Vienna on your own, for learning more about what this beautiful city has to offer, for connecting to local customs & culture, and for wonderful & informative travel tips to get you started on your adventure in Vienna is the website:  www.vienna-unwrapped.com.  Here you can find a wide variety of pages expounding on such topics as: 

• Tips For Getting Started
• The Viennese Balls (Good things to know...)
• Self Guided Walks
• Guided Walking Tours
• Popular Tourist Activities (Page to Buy Tickets)
• Great Restaurants
• Great Coffee Houses
• Famous Cake Shops
• Getting Tickets to the Opera
• Museums & Historical Sites
• The Spanish Riding School (Lipizzaner Stallions)
• Vienna Spas
• Therme Wien or HERE (Kurbadstraße 14, 1100 Wien) Mon-Sat, 9am-10pm, $20/3hrs
• Things To Do in February
• Shopping Tips
• The Naschmarkt (Saturday Open Market)
• Boat Trips
• Day Trips
• Local Culture
• Local History
• Learn About Austrian Food
• Outdoor Ice Skating Rink
• Rathaus Ice Skating 
• Hundertwasser House

                                            .....and MORE!

This is a great site -- informative, well-organized , and very easy to navigate.  Be sure to check it out!

1.  City Tours:

There are numerous ways to explore Vienna -- by foot, by bicycle, by bus, or by boat.  There are tours for city sights, local countryside excursions, or specific venues.  These are available for a few hours, half a day, all day or night, or for several days.

• A good resource for tours you can arrange on your own is at Vienna City Tours:  
• For a simple self-guided tour of the city, check out the "Hop-On-Hop-Off" Bus:   

2.  Self-Tour with the "Hop-On-Hop-Off" bus

See Vienna at your own relaxed pace with Vienna's Hop-On-Hop-Off bus tour. Get on and off at any of their 15 stops, as often as you wish. Commentaries are in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese and Russian. Tickets first used after 3 p.m. are valid the whole next day.  Buses run from 10am-5pm.