i think it is important to mention, that you visited very touristy locations...cafe museum, sacher, cafe central...there are so many beautiful, authentic, yet reasonably priced Kaffeehäuser in Vienna, like Cafe Eiles, Cafe Alt Wien, Cafe Korb, Cafe Sperl, Cafe Savoyen (especially LGBTQI friendly), Cafe Ritter, and also more modern options like TopKino, Cafe Krimhield, Cafe Z...Also I would recommend to see the (real!) Vienna outside the 1st district, e.g. the "Heurigen" in the 19th, 18th and 17th district, the Prater in the 2nd district, the ethnic center of the 10th district...Vienna has much more history then the one of the Habsburg Era. The socialist history ("das rote Wien") is knowledgable too! Also, what you saw on your bike tour was not the Danube river, but just a side canal of the Danube that goes through the city center. I would recommend to visit Donauinsel to get the real Danube experience. Lastly, to defend the quite plain Sachertorte and Apfelstrudel..note that these pastries were invented like more than 100 years ago and the recipes were kept traditional :) so you have a taste of the past there.

I live in vienna and i love how you just call out some of the most useless tourist traps like cafe central or cafe sacher. There is really no need to wait 30min for an overpriced sachertorte or apfelstrudel, because there is a LOT of other very very good and historical cafes with very good apfelstrudels or cakes (torten) like cafe Eiles, Cafe Korb, cafe Demel ... or just any other cafe that looks nice and historical from the outside. Also try to avoid events on the rathausplatz (city hall square) if you want to find something authentic.

Vienna IS a museum all on its own. Love it! Ring - circle Strasse - street. An "e" is never silent.

7:09 shows the memorial of Franz Lehar. Yes, in Stadtpark there is also a memorial statue of Franz Schubert, and also of composer Anton Bruckner and of Robert Stolz. I live nearby and see these statues nearly daily. I found your channel, as I was preparing for my recent trip to Rome.

small correction @10:35 that's not the Danube river but the Danube canal (basically one of the old side arms of the Danube before it was regulated in the 1870's, which was locked off from the main river). The Danube river is about 6x wider and flows past about 3km northeast of the city center. @12:05 Café Central is "popular" mainly for tourists :-) @16:03 Sachertorte at Hotel Sacher isn't necessarily the original: the creator of the recipe, Eduard Sacher, actually worked at Café Demel at the time, before opening his own Café/Hotel (which later went bankrupt and sold the rights to the name & recipe back to Demel). So arguably Café Demel now serves the "correct" version (albeit, they changed the recipe multiple times over the years). Hotel Sacher also ship their cakes worldwide and adapted the recipe for this purpose (i.e. to last longer), resulting in a dryer cake & thicker (many say: too thick) chocolate. Generally speaking: You can get better Sachertorte for cheaper in basically _any_ other café or bakery in Vienna. As for the prices: you definitely chose to eat/drink on the pricier side. Even in the inner city (btw. is usually everything inside the Gürtel road is considered "city" by the Viennese, not just the 1st district, which is usually specifically referred to as "inner city") there are many restaurants and cafés that are considerably cheaper. E.g. a Melange or Cappuccino is usually (and often considerably) less than 5€ in most cafés. And in most bakeries you can get a _large_ (i.e. around double the size) cappuccino for less than that (and it's usually of comparable quality; often even brewed using organic and/or fairtrade coffee, e.g. in the ubiquitous 'Ströck' bakeries).

I think I put on a few calories just watching this video. Vienna: I was there in 1990, alone, and in 2011, with my wife. Impressive place, of course. Some highlight memories of mine include walking through the Zentralfriedhof to visit Brahms’ grave, riding the Riesenrad, seeing Otto Wagner’s Kirche am Steinhof, and experiencing the repurposed gasometers and the neighborhood around it.

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Thank you both for all you do to put this KZfaq channel together. I’m taking notes and it is on our stop after Warsaw and Kraków in September & October 2024. ❤

Great info! I'll be visiting in April.

What a lovely video. Loved your honest opinions of some of the dishes you tried while in Vienna. There have been times I’ve tried local specialties only to discover they were not all that great. I’ve also tried some that were even better than anticipated. When we go to Switzerland next year we were originally going to have Vienna on our itinerary, but it didn’t work out to do it on that trip. Will probably do Vienna on a river cruise instead. 🥰

Great vid. I found a lot of takeaways from it. Thank you. We’re heading over in Sept.

Thank you for this interesting video,we booked our trip to Vienna this coming May and I can’t wait for that day to come,I learned a lot from your experience and thanks for sharing it with us by the way I am from SF too, I heard that you guys are from SF once again thanks for the video.

Yes, we visited Vienna in 2015 and it was interesting to hear Judy’s that impression of the sacher torte and apple strudel was my experience as well. They didn't live up to the hype; sacher torte was dry and the strudel tasted like cardboard. Wow, the price of those cappuccinos is high! I enjoy watching your videos.

Thanks Judy! Ming-Teh is still worth the hassle of bridge traffic but not much else is. I’ll check out the rest of your channel as I’m off to Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest as well. Safe travels to you both.

Where to stay when you are on a budget is such an interesting topic. Erin and I just completed our first full day in our new nomadic journey. We are in Guadalajara. We are staying “just outside” of the Colonia Americana neighborhood. We were just talking today whether we should have spent a little more to be in the heart of the neighborhood. It’s ok but there are very few restaurants and coffee shops, etc., nearby. It is something I’m sure we will be working through as we move forward.

THANK YOU, JUDY and KEVIN! ♥ Vienna is one of the last places on my Bucket List! I don't KNOW why I have left it for last since I am an amateur classical musician (maybe not very good!) Now - I am getting excited! ♥

This coming December (2024) my hubby and I will spend 5 days in Vienna. My favorite classical composers are Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Strauss so of course I want to see their homes and the Mozart Museum. WE will also take in the Christmas Market. We want to take at least one day trip by train. There are so many choices and we only have five days there.

5:52 university building in the Ring Strasse was not built in 1365, but around 1860-1890 when all the buildings in the Ring Strasse were built.

Thks for this video ! I also feel that making the right choice of the AirBnB is key to how much we will eventually enjoy the city, esp if we are going to stay in that AirBnB for one whole month. Aside from the location of your AirBnB, did you know beforehand that there is no aircon in the unit? Is it true that many AirBnBs in Vienna do not have aircon? Btw, many thanks again for this Vienna video. Really helpful. 😊

I've been meaning to ask you about going to Amsterdam. Can't wait for that one! Once again, great job you two. So much wonderful information. Thanks!

0:51 One month to visit the city and sorrounding area and culture? I like you! Couldnt agree more, thats the way to travel properly! 1:29 Kardinal-Nagl-Platz...hmm...next time try to be closer to the U3 station Rochusmarkt, there is a really nice local market there. There is a traditional coffee house there aswell, like 50m from the station. 5:45 The twin museums together with the Museum Quartier are actually all part (aswell as the Burgtheater) of the Hofburg. The Museum Quartier used to be the Imperial Stables and the twin museum hosted some of the Habsburg private collections. The main issue of the Habsburg was the financial difficulty, they always ran out of money which is why the Hofburg was only half-finished (yes, the original plans involved a building double the size of what we have now). The last step would have connected all the pieces together. 6:00 The university institution dates back to the 14th century, the building is from the late 19th. 6:25 Oh cmon...you had ONE MONTH.....U3 Westbahnhof + Tram 60, like 30min travel..... 7:09 Thats Franz Lehar, not Schubert. 7:46 No! The Musikverein (musical association) is the club who built and still owns the building. The building itself has several concert halls, the largest and most famous one of them is the Golden Hall. 7:50 No! Those are very specific small concerts for tourists. Other then that musicians dress in normal black suits. btw personally I would say the Golden Hall has probably one of the best acustic quality possible, while the Konzerthaus (concert hall) near Stadtpark has more confortable seats. 10:33 Thats not the Danube river...why do so many tourists do that mistake......thats a small artificial channel built some centuries ago to allow local ship transports closer to the markets. For a bike tour along the Danube (aprox 50 times the size of that channel) I recommend U1 Donauinsel (Danube island) which is a 40km long island along the (actual) Danube without cars. You might encounter some FKK during the summer times there. 12:00 Its one of the top results on google, I dont personally recommend it to experience the actual coffee culture anymore - far too crowded and rushed. 15:56 General rule, if there is a long line of tourists and no locals its either not worth it or there is a way around it^^ In this case I would recommend buying the cake at the shop around the corner, avoid the line completly and rather visit a less crowded and more peaceful coffee house. I dont like a place where I have to look at the time to drink a Melange.

Hello, I really liked your video! Here are some hints regarding pronunciation: The German "v" is always pronounced like an "f" (unless it's used within a loanword from a Romance language). So "Volksgarten" is pronounced "Folks-Garten". The German diphthong "ei" sounds the same as the English personal pronoun "I" or like "eye". So "Musikverein" is "Moo-seek-Fair-eyen" and as the German "z" sounds like "ts", "PEZ" is "Pets". However thumbs up for you correctly pronouncing the "ch" in "Sacher"! 👍 Best regards from Vienna! 🙂

With climate change happening quickly, July and August are the worst months to visit here. Most locals will try to leave the city in the summer months (which also are school vacations) and go to the surrounding countryside on "Sommerfrische". Also, if you're interested in classical music, the summer months are not the best time to visit Vienna, the main orchestras (Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony) are away to play at the famous summer festivals in Salzburg and Bregenz, as are a lot of professional musicians. State Opera and Volksoper are closed (bc much of their personnel is at Salzburg or Bregenz or one of the smaller summer festivals), as are the two main concert venues (Musikverein and Konzerthaus, which are open for guided tours, however), except for tourist concerts. If you can visit any time from September to May/June you will encounter so many concerts and opera performances you will be quite at a loss where to go first. Order your tickets online or at the venues' ticket offices, it's cheaper than ticket vendors. The film festival on Rathauplatz takes place only in July and August (as a kind of excuse to tourists for much of the cultural life closing down in the summer). Don't stand in line for food, there is always a good coffeehouse or eating place only a few steps away. You can get excellent quality Sachertorte in every coffeehouse in the city.

Pez is Austrian? Had no idea. Great video!

I will be going to Vienna in a few days and am also staying in the third district. Looks like it's less than 20 minutes away from the city center -- a 10-minute walk to the station, then 7 minutes on the metro. I can't even imagine how this could be a problem. I enjoy staying in non-touristy areas when I go away, so I can experience how people actually live. And to be 20 minutes away (about 35 if I just choose to take a nice walk) from all the touristy areas seems quite minimal and not something that could remotely take away from the enjoyment of the trip? You could even take an uber and be there in 5 minutes. There are so many other interesting districts aside from the first district, too! Some of the coolest spots, per insiders, are not in that area at all.

Wait... you're from Buffalo? I grew up in Fort Erie.... I'm claiming you as a neighbour. I'm off to Vienna in early May, hence my interest in your Vlog. :)

Which air b&b to you recommend in Vienna ?

are the sausages there high in animal fat? Are there lower fat options?

You did not try the “ Leberknödel Suppe”…., Sorry you missed out…..

What are the vegetarian or halal options in Vienna ?

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Hi. I have an impression, that you are used to luxus and good things were not good enough dor you.