Vienna, Austria

Almanac Palais Vienna

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR289.48), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Artist’s-muse mansion

Setting

Parkring warden

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Luxury hotel Almanac Palais Vienna is an indie work of art set to win your admiration. Its backdrop — the leafy Stadtpark in the capital’s First District — is classically Viennese, populated with a cast of local suppliers that roots this unique stay in its community. Contemporary suites and a basement spa and pool bolster the hotel's aesthetic allure; plant-led dining and a vegan café tender (delicious) proof that this is a masterpiece of many dimensions.  

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

111, including 81 suites.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability; you’re welcome to store your luggage and use the spa, if desired.

More details

Rates include breakfast, served in the Donnersmarkt Restaurant, à la carte; complimentary access to Belvedere 21 gallery with your room key card, and free scheduled yoga sessions at The Club.

Also

At Almanac Palais Vienna, there are four Almanac Accessible Rooms adapted for wheelchair access and lifts to reach all floors. The hotel’s communal spaces and bathrooms are also wheelchair accessible.

At the hotel

Gym, concierge, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: climate control, TV, minibar, coffee- and tea-making kit, bathrobes, slippers and Damana bath products.

Our favourite rooms

There’s a subtle serenity to the clean lines and shades-of-chocolate palette in all rooms at Almanac Palais Vienna. Proportions are spacious throughout and a Junior Suite strikes a good balance of practicality and indulgence. It’s hard to overlook the wishlist-worthy extravagance of the Vienna Art Suite — a corner residence showcasing artworks curated by Gallerie Bei Der Albertina. The Two Bedroom Family is your great-for-groups option; Duplex and Duplex Park Suites have home-from-home apartment-like appeal.

Poolside

Built around the palais’ broad columns in the soaringly-ceilinged basement, the hotel’s pool plays out like a series of rooms, differing in depth and linked by steps. Shallow spa-jet areas bring hydrotherapy pampering into play, and bijou changing areas kick the need to drip, robe-clad, in the lift back to your suite.

Spa

This modest basement space is made up of a fitness suite, steam room and sauna, and two treatment rooms primed for your choice of facial and/or body therapies. Towels, tea and water are also provided, and you’re right beside the pool for pre-treatment dips.

Packing tips

Unleash your inner artist with silk-print scarves, moody-hued polo necks, and jaunty millinery.

Also

Just when you thought the art ended with the Albertina-loaned works in the lobby, you discover that your room or suite’s fretwork panelling was handcrafted in Spain.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs are welcome at Palais Almanac Vienna in any room for a nightly charge of €50. See more pet-friendly hotels in Vienna.

Children

Little Smiths under six stay for free at Almanac Palais Vienna; up to two extra beds can be added to some suites and the Family Two Bedroom is ideal for clans of four.

Sustainability efforts

Connection to community runs deep at Almanac Palais Vienna: Almanac Hotels focus on plant-led dining and Elias Coffee Shop stocks vegan bakes exclusively, and kitchen staff source local produce and ingredients wherever possible. Energy- and water-conserving measures are built into day-to-day operations; there’s a waste management plan in place, a focus on avoiding the use of plastic; the housekeeping team sticks to Earth-kind products for cleaning, and the organic bath products in your bathroom are full-size and refillable. The hotel collaborates with the city’s Belvedere galleries and Gallerie Bei Der Albertina to curate art across its spaces; you’ll also have complimentary access to Belvedere 21 with your room key card.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Look for a spot that gives you good views of Spanish artists Alejandro Jaler and Nicolas Lucas’s room-spanning mural.

Dress Code

Ready-for-the-day threads fly here; no need to step up the glamour.

Hotel restaurant

In a bright, gallery-like space edging the front of the hotel, Donnersmarkt Restaurant takes its name from the market-to-table ethos that informs its seasonal, mod-Austrian menu and the regular showcase (on the last Thursday of each month) of edible bounty from local artisans and producers. Dining here is plant-led and prettily plated, with dishes such as yellow beet with dashi, cashew and kohlrabi, and leek cannelloni. Sandwiches, soups and salads are your lighter lunch options. And breakfast is an à la carte affair of eggs Benedict, waffles and avo-topped hash browns, supplemented by a bar-set buffet of cereals, pastries, fruit and yoghurt that you can help yourself to. Elias Coffee Shop, beside the restaurant, also has a direct entrance from the street, and welcomes locals as well as hotel guests to buy coffees and vegan viennoisserie and pastries. 

Hotel bar

Set between the hotel and the restaurant, Donnersmarkt Bar is a cosy spot for playfully titled signature cocktails (‘Explicit Content’, ‘Dill or No Dill’), a menu of Negronis, draft or bottled beers, and wines by the glass. The enjoyment of tipples here is amplified by the mid-century decor — a retro-inspired space with a circular bar at its heart, Thirties-style curved plasterwork and a Campari-red palette. 

Last orders

Breakfast is served 7am–11.30am (until 2pm at weekends); lunch hours (Monday to Friday) are noon–2pm; for dinner, it’s 5pm–10pm. Elias Coffee Shop opens 8am–5pm (9am–6pm at weekends). Donnersmarkt Bar pours 4pm–midnight.

Room service

A dedicated menu of bites and heartier plates can be whisked to your door during restaurant hours.

Location

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Address
Almanac Palais Vienna
Parkring 14-16
Vienna
1010
Austria

Almanac Palais Vienna sits on Parkring, overlooking the leafy Stadtpark and only a 10-minute walk from the cathedral and Stephansplatz in the city’s Innere Stadt.

Planes

International and domestic arrivals touch down at Vienna Airport, which is connected to the city by train, with express and local stopping services that take between 15 and 25 minutes to reach Wien–Mitte (a 10-minute walk across the park from the hotel). By car, the journey takes around 25 minutes and private transfers can be arranged from €95 each way.

Trains

Vienna Hauptbahnhof is a 10-minute cab ride from the hotel and your onboarding point for Austrian and international routes; private transfers can be arranged for an extra charge. Stadtpark (U4 line) and Stubentor (U3 line) are your nearest U-Bahn stations.

Automobiles

The Austrian capital's precision-run public transport system means you’re unlikely to need a car. If you’re intent on driving though, Almanac Palais Vienna has a private carpark with valet parking from €55 a night.

Worth getting out of bed for

Let the gallerist credentials of Almanac Palais Vienna spark art-led adventures around the Austrian capital, starting with indulgent hours whiled away among the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions at Albertina art museum. The Belvedere Palace’s clutch of galleries — Upper, Lower and Belvedere 21 — are an U-bahn or tram ride away, and entry to the latter is free with your Almanac key card. Imperial grandeur is the aesthetic indoors and out at the Schönbrunn Palace and Gardens.  

Other Viennese hits that are reachable on foot from Almanac include Gothically splendid St Stephens Cathedral, the storied kaffeehausen of the Innere Stadt and Vienna State Opera, for which affordable standing tickets go on sale at 10am on the day (or 80 minutes before the performance, if you rock up to the box office in person).  

Local restaurants

Mariahilferstrasse is known for its stretch of high-street stores but tucked-away steak house Door No8 is another of its charms, dishing prime cuts and potent cocktails in an exposed-brick-lined, speakeasy-style dining spot. In the polished Third District, Heunisch & Erben is a light-filled wine bar that also serves an evening set menu of finessed farm-to-table plates. Also on the grape trail, oenophiles will want to make a date with Glasswing Bar & Bistro, where Alexandru Simon’s haute cuisine and a wine cave of dreams ensure a passionate match.  

Local cafés

Book ahead for 19th-century kaffeehaus Café Landtmann — one of Vienna’s less obvious heritage hits. Café Schwarzenberg is another enticing historic option that’s within walking distance for slices of Sachertorte and mugs of Wiener Melange. 

Local bars

Goulash, bratwurst and schnitzel are the optional Austrian classics you can pair with a well-chosen vintage or two at wine bar and dining spot Gulasch & Söhne. Cocktail-accompanied rooftop views promise to stir at skyline-gazing Neue Hoheit restaurant and bar.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this indie art-adorned hotel in the Austrian capital and unpacked their Klimt posters and opera house programmes, a full account of their cultural break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Almanac Palais Vienna… 

It would be all too easy for a First District hotel in Vienna to rest on the laurels of its gentrified locale, but Almanac Palais Vienna is an independently owned luxury hotel that goes the extra mile to excel at the personal.  

The service you’ll find at this Innere Stadt stay is warm and welcoming, slick and well informed. There’s community in its raft of local suppliers for the kitchen, city-sourced art collection and monthly ‘Thursday Market’ epicurean showcases. And there are even hints to hotel owner Herbert Haselbacher’s personal taste — breakfast served till late (not an early riser); ceilings high enough for a pro basketball player (which Haselbacher was), and far more suites than rooms with soothingly simple decor throughout.  

Twenty-first-century touches, such as a pool, spa and complimentary yoga, bring modernity to this heritage mansion retreat. Its central location, plus its ability to entertain from breakfast right through to nightcaps, are this polished palais hotel’s timeless strengths.  

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