Vienna > Vienna Attractions

Advantages: Impressive views
Disadvantages: A concrete monstosity amid beautiful baroque and neo renaisance architecture

The Danube Tower: Donaturum Rising majestically from Danube Park and dominating the landscape for miles around the Danube Tower and cannot be missed. At 826 ft (252m), this the best place to get a birds eye view of Vienna (unless you hire a plane or helicopter and sadly this option was somewhat out of my price range). It was constructed from 3,750 cubic meters of concrete and 514 tons of steel was used as reinforcement. It is anchored in foundations ...
...sounds impressive but is by no means a comfort if you don’t have a head for heights. The visitor to the tower is informed as a reassurance of safety that even at wind speeds of 166km/hour the tower only sways 1.25 meters. This sounds a hell of a lot of movement to me however whilst at the top we did not detect any swaying motion at all. To ascend the tower you must first pay (well if you want to use the lift that is). Tickets for the lift are 5.20 ... Read review

Advantages: great fry-ups, fish and chips
Disadvantages: can get very crowded

...deal of football here, but Flanagans has stronger links with rugby than most Irish pubs, being the sponsors of the Vienna Celtics rugby club, and generally they tend to post a full schedule of forthcoming sport well in advance (in case you plan your weeks around it!) The beer is the usual standard assortment, with Guinness of course, although as with all places serving Guinness in Vienna there is quite a hefty premium on the price of a pint. There ...
...is plenty of seating space, generally made up of tables for two to six people. There is also a bizarre kind of booth too, which stands out in the middle of the bar. The staff are courteous and helpful, with service on the whole being speedy and good. I am not sure if there is a pre-requisite of being Irish to work at Flanagans, either officially or unofficially, but all the staff I have seen there are Irish. Where this place really comes into its ... Read review

Advantages: serves great Aussie food
Disadvantages: Worth booking in advanced to get a table downstairs

Cross Field is an Australian bar in the centre of Vienna, on the Maysedergasse, bang slap next door to the Restaurant of Hotel Sacher and only 100 metres or so from the Opera House. Usually I expect Australian bars to be very boisterous, but this one is certainly more sedate than most. The bar is on two levels, on the ground floor there is a bar which serves your usual range and drinks, and then downstairs, in the basement there are the toilets, ...
...then there is the food. Cross Field boasts “genuine bush-tucker” and you can get all sorts of Australian food, i.e. Kangaroo meat, grasshoppers. Generally portions are large, and for the price they offer good value. The beer is normally priced, although the bottled beers do carry a slight premium. I can remember having seen anything about a happy hour, but there may be one. The table football table is a real hit, with a game (10 balls) ... Read review

Advantages: good food and football
Disadvantages: flooded toilets

I go to Billy's Bones for their covering of British Football. While other pubs (Charlie P's, Flannigans and Shebeen) show a lot of British football, Billy's Bones shows football on a Saturday afternoon too, which is great as you can see a premiership match as it happens rather tahn waiting until Match of the Day. On Sundays they also show live games and it is really great to watch whilst eating one of their Irish breakfasts, whic are only ATS80. ...
...the football. The website of Billy's Bones has all the latest infos on what football will be on TV, and so you can plan your going out there by it. It is easy to get to, either by foot from Schottentor or by tram on the D route. The only bad thing is that there are often floods in the gentlemens toilets. ... Read review

Advantages: Worth seeing for the fact that it is so different
Disadvantages: You can only see the outside

If you were told that one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions was a block of council flats, and not one from the inter-war period when Rotes Wien spawned such monoliths as the Karl-Marx-Hof, then you would be forgiven for thinking that your leg was being pulled. Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist and architect, who is either loved or loathed by the Austrians, was commissioned to design a "Gemeindebau" - or council tenement block in the ...
...near "Hansel and Gretel" appearance, being a multi-coloured, convention defying building to say the least. There are trees on the roof and there are irregularly shaped windows, pavements (deceptively flat!) and as with a lot of Hundertwasser's works, a large amount of Vitreo-ceramic tiling. The effect is certainly different, especially when seen from a distance surrounded by blandish Jugendstil blocks. Because it is a tenement block, you cannot go ... Read review