Hotel Sacher Vienna, 152 rooms and suites opposite the State Opera, in Vienna’s first district, family-owned since 1934 and home of the Original Sacher-Torte
A week here, month by monthFor a weekend of museums and long dinners, the Sacher puts the Albertina within walking distance and Austrian cooking downstairs, with the lowest one-night seller price on Google from €489 for 2 adults in late January 2027. For a break built around swimming, choose a hotel with a pool.
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For a city outlook, I would ask for a Deluxe Room with View: its 27–39 m² look onto the State Opera, the Albertina or Kärntner Strasse. Specify the landmark you want when booking.
The 24–28 January 2027 run shows individual nights from €489 to €512 on Google, read on 13 October 2026. The dearest night shown is 1 January at €2,115; some dates have no price.
Allow €62.50 per person for breakfast when your room rate leaves it out; an inclusive rate says so during booking. Bringing a car adds €45 a night for the hotel’s valet parking.
Ask the concierge for a private tour of Hotel Sacher itself, available on request. The desk is staffed 24 hours, so the hotel’s own history can have a place in your plans alongside the museums.
The Sacher stands on Philharmonikerstrasse at the corner of Kärntner Strasse, 123 metres from the State Opera and 2 minutes from the Albertina. Eduard Sacher opened it in 1876, his wife Anna made it the meeting place of Viennese society, and the Gürtler family took it over in 1934. In 2026, its 150th year, it ranks 42nd in The World’s 50 Best Hotels, the only Austrian hotel on the list, and holds 3 MICHELIN Keys.
The ground floor is half the reason to come: the Rote Bar’s red damask and its pianist from 7pm, the Grüne Bar’s tasting menu under chandeliers of 1883, the Blaue Bar before the opera, breakfast in the Marble Hall. Upstairs, the rooms were furnished with the French designer Pierre-Yves Rochon: marble bathrooms, original paintings and a minibar of soft drinks at no charge.
The Sacher is a city palace. The spa has a sauna, a steam bath and a gym but no pool; Deluxe rooms start at 27 m² and those without «view» in their name face Maysedergasse or the courtyard. The cafés belong to the whole city, and hotel guests book a table online or have the torte sent up to the room.
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Gives more than the other hotels of its place and price range.
The Sacher has faced Vienna’s State Opera since 1876 and has belonged to the same family since 1934: 152 rooms and suites, and the home of the Original Sacher-Torte.
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500 reviews read: the location pleases almost every guest who mentions it, the room 9 in 10.
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We found rooms furnished with Pierre-Yves Rochon, with marble bathrooms and original paintings, a pianist from 7pm amid the Rote Bar’s red damask and the Grüne Bar’s chandeliers of 1883.
What we found reading the hotel’s own pages, one thing at a time.
Opposite the State Opera, 2 minutes from the Albertina and 10 from St Stephen’s Cathedral, with the U-Bahn at Karlsplatz.
A lobby kept as it was in 1876, a gallery hung with framed portraits and one family as owner since 1934.
12 categories up to 180 m², with terraces at the top; Deluxe rooms start at 27 m² and rooms «with view» look at the State Opera, the Albertina or Kärntner Strasse.
2 restaurants, one with 2 Gault&Millau toques, 3 cafés and a bar; the Grüne Bar serves dinner only, 3 or 4 evenings a week.
A Finnish sauna, a steam bath, a 24-hour gym and 3 treatment lines, free to hotel guests; no pool.
Google Hotels, read on 13 October 2026: individual nights for 2 adults include the isolated €474 on 13 January 2027; the bookable 24–28 January run ranges from €489 to €512 a night.
A badge is an experience travellers look for, that is really here and that few hotels in the guide have.
Here: opposite the State Opera, 2 minutes from the Albertina and 10 from St Stephen’s Cathedral, with the U-Bahn at Karlsplatz.
113 of the 116 guests who write about the location are pleased. 17 hotels of 335 hold it.
Every hotel with this badgeHere: a lobby kept as it was in 1876, a gallery hung with framed portraits and one family as owner since 1934.
A history that goes back to at least 1876. 31 hotels of 335 hold it.
Every hotel with this badgeWhat do Hotel Sacher’s guests say? They write it in their reviews, even those who only came for a drink or dinner: we read every one and tell the 5 things that matter, from the location to the bill.
Nearly every guest who mentions it is happy with it. The State Opera is across the street, Kärntner Strasse at the corner and the museums a walk away: it is the first thing guests write about.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Guests write about large rooms cared for down to the details, the view of the State Opera, the marble bathrooms and the beds.
8 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. The doormen, the concierge, the front desk and the breakfast staff recur in the reviews, as do the birthdays and anniversaries the staff remember.
9 in 10 guests who mention it are happy with it. Breakfast is a buffet in the hotel’s ballrooms, from 7am to 11am: guests praise the choice, the service and the chandeliers above the tables.
A slice of Sacher-Torte with cream costs €11.50 in the café; hotel guests happy with the bill write of a luxury worth the money.
On the room it shares first place with Rosewood Vienna among the 6 hotels compared in Vienna.
On breakfast it comes ahead of the 5 other hotels it is compared with in Vienna.
| What | Score out of 10 | Guests who mention it | Happy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | 8.7 | 116 | 97% |
| Room | 8.1 | 75 | 91% |
| Staff and service | 7.9 | 299 | 80% |
| Breakfast | 8.1 | 74 | 86% |
| Price | – | 75 | 28% |
The scores come from 500 Google reviews with text, left from 19 September 2025 to 7 October 2026. The other hotels are the ones weighed for a stay in Vienna: for each we read its latest 500 Google reviews with text, or all of them where there are fewer, as of 8 October 2026. The score is the average of what they say, from 0 if they speak of it very badly to 10 if they speak of it very well. Where only a few mention something, the score stays close to the guide’s average: a handful of voices does not make a reputation.
The hotels we weigh it against in Vienna:
Price: for two on the night of 25 January 2027, from €489 (seen on Google Hotels on 13 October 2026).
The December-to-early-January period has single-night prices from €924 to €2,115, against €474 to €1,765 from 3 January to 31 March 2027. With flexible dates, I would look through the later winter calendar before committing to December.
| Period | Euros a night |
|---|---|
| 14 Oct–30 Nov 2026 | 604–1,316 |
| 1 Dec 2026–2 Jan 2027 | 924–2,115 |
| 3 Jan–31 Mar 2027 | 474–1,765 |
| 1 Apr–8 Sep 2027 | 518–1,142 |
The lowest seller price Google Hotels showed for each night searched alone for 2 adults, read on 13 October 2026; the calendar ends on 8 September 2027. Individual dates include 28 October at €1,245; on 17 December the figure is €1,093, and on 13 January the isolated low is €474. For 9 October 2026, read on 8 October 2026, the lowest seller showed €984 and the hotel’s own listing €1,074 for one night for 2 adults, taxes and fees included. Booked as 7 nights from 16 November 2026, the lowest seller Google listed on 13 October asked €931 a night; the hotel’s own listing, €994.
A red dining room with a pianist, a green one for the tasting menu, a blue bar, 2 coffee houses and a spa under the roof.
Viennese cooking in a red damask room and a winter garden facing the Opera, open daily from noon to midnight. A pianist plays from 7pm; the menu of 3 courses is €75, and the Wiener Schnitzel also comes plant-based. It holds 2 Gault&Millau toques.
The dinner-only room: green walls, paintings and Lobmeyr chandeliers of 1883, among the first electric ones in the world. The chef’s menu is €209 and the martini is mixed at the table; from 1 to 8 November 2026 the room is closed.
Royal-blue brocade beside the lobby of 1876, open from noon to midnight and until 1am from Thursday to Saturday. House cocktails cost €18 to €22; 2 of them are built on the cake’s apricot and chocolate.
The coffee house on the ground floor, open daily from 7am to 11pm. A slice with unsweetened whipped cream is €11.50; with a hot drink and mineral water, €24.50. Tables can be booked online, and dogs are welcome.
A room in the style of the 1920s at Philharmonikerstrasse 6, under a stucco ceiling uncovered during the redesign. Tea is served from Thursday to Monday at 1pm or 4.30pm: €89 a head with a glass of Champagne, finger sandwiches, scones and Sacher cubes.
«Above the rooftops», in the hotel’s words: a Finnish sauna, a steam bath and a gym open 24 hours, all free to hotel guests, and treatments with Seed to Skin, Royal Fern and Ligne St. Barth. A 60-minute massage is €185.
There is no swimming pool, as the hotel itself says; the spa offers a Finnish sauna and a steam bath from 3pm, and the gym never closes. Source: sacher.com
Café Sacher is open to everyone, and without a booking you queue on the pavement: hotel guests can book a table online or have the torte sent up to the room for €11.50. Source: 500 Google reviews read, 19 September 2025 to 7 October 2026
Rooms sold “with view” look at the State Opera, the Albertina or Kärntner Strasse; the rest face the quieter Maysedergasse or the courtyard. Source: sacher.com
Breakfast is generally not included: the buffet costs €62.50 a person, and a rate that includes it says so when you book. Source: sacher.com
There is no swimming pool: the hotel’s own FAQ says so. The spa offers a Finnish sauna and a steam bath from 3pm, earlier at weekends or on request, and a gym that never closes.
Café Sacher is a city landmark, open to everyone. Many of Google’s 14,171 ratings come from café visitors, and without a booking you queue on the pavement; a hotel guest can book a table online or have the torte sent up for €11.50.
A view is a category here. Rooms «with view» look at the State Opera, the Albertina or Kärntner Strasse; the rest face the quieter Maysedergasse or the courtyard, by the hotel’s own account.
The Grüne Bar opens for dinner only: Wednesday to Saturday on its own page, Thursday to Saturday in the hotel’s FAQ. It is closed from 1 to 8 November 2026; the Rote Bar serves every day.
Valet parking costs €45 a night and is the only parking the hotel describes. The MICHELIN Guide also lists self-parking and an electric charging point, which the official pages do not mention.
Under-16s stay free in their parents’ room, but extra beds begin with the Junior Suite: a Deluxe room does not take one. Expedia prices a rollaway at €90 a night; the hotel’s FAQ says children’s extra beds are free.
Dogs are welcome for €55 a day, with a basket, bowls, blankets and towels in the room and leads at reception. Café Sacher admits them too, in memory of Anna Sacher’s French bulldogs.
By taxi or the hotel’s car from the airport, by U-Bahn to Karlsplatz/Oper, or by car to the door, where the porters park it
| Vienna Airport | 19.3 km away: about 30 minutes by car according to the hotel’s FAQ, 20 to 25 by our route without traffic. The porters arrange a private transfer for a fee; no price is published |
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| By train | Wien Hauptbahnhof is 2.6 km away, about 15 minutes by car according to the hotel. From the airport the contact page names the S-Bahn and the City Airport Train, then the U-Bahn to Karlsplatz/Oper |
| U-Bahn and tram | Karlsplatz/Oper, lines U1 and U4 in the hotel’s FAQ, is 6 minutes away on foot (525 metres by one router, 314 by the other). Trams stop at Kärntner Ring/Oper; Stephansplatz, on the U3, is 10 minutes away |
| By car | Follow the signs for «Wien Zentrum/Stadtmitte», says the contact page. Valet parking costs €45 a night and the porters take the car at the entrance |
| At the door | The entrance is at Philharmonikerstrasse 4, level with the pavement, with lifts throughout. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by noon |
Distances and driving times are computed on OpenStreetMap’s roads on 8 October 2026 with 2 routers, from the hotel’s position and without traffic; the hotel’s own times come from its FAQ, read the same day.
The hotel, the opera house and the concert hall, the museums, the cathedral and the U-Bahn, with the minutes on foot.
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Take breakfast before going out; the buffet runs until 11am, with its last reservation at 9am.
The Albertina is a short walk from the hotel, a museum morning without arranging a car.
Back at the Boutique Spa, the Finnish sauna and steam bath open for the afternoon; earlier access is offered at weekends or on request.
At the Rote Bar the pianist begins while dinner unfolds in the red damask room or the winter garden.
Settle into the Blaue Bar for a last drink; it closes at midnight, or at 1am from Thursday to Saturday.
The platforms’ scores, read on 8 October 2026, and what guests say about the staff, the rooms, the café queue and the bill.
On 8 October 2026 Google showed 4.5/5 from 14,171 ratings, 70% of them 5-star and many left by café visitors; Tripadvisor showed 4.7/5 from 2,670 and Booking.com 9.5/10 from 1,028. These are accounts of stays we have not checked.
6 accounts left on Google between December 2025 and October 2026.
GoogleIn July 2026 a couple marking a wedding anniversary were given a room with a large balcony. Their advice: say what you are celebrating when you book, and watch the staff go to work.
GoogleIn August 2026 a guest chose the Sacher as the quintessential Viennese hotel and found it so: a view of the Opera House from the room, breakfast and drinks under chandeliers, and nothing that felt stuffy or old.
GoogleIn October 2026 a 2-star review calls the hotel pleasant, well located and perfectly comfortable, with nothing particularly wrong. At this price, the guest writes, it delivers less than its reputation promises.
GoogleIn May 2026 a visitor to the café waited 50 minutes on the pavement while tables inside stood empty. The verdict on the plate: a dry torte, the best chocolate glaze ever tasted and excellent coffee.
GoogleIn December 2025 a guest found the room’s decoration dull and missed complimentary tea. The lobby is small and beautiful, the review adds, but its tables were reserved and stood empty for hours.
GoogleIn September 2026 a guest writing in German praises the service all through the house, from the concierge to the breakfast rooms. The one exception is the Blaue Bar, where bottled water was pressed on them with the long drinks.
What people ask before booking Hotel Sacher Vienna, answered from the sources read on 8 October 2026.
A 5-star superior hotel of 152 rooms and suites at Philharmonikerstrasse 4, opened in 1876 by Eduard Sacher, son of Franz Sacher, who created the Original Sacher-Torte in 1832. It is privately owned and run by the Winkler and Gürtler families, says its anniversary page, and belongs to The Leading Hotels of the World. In German, and on the booking portals, it is Hotel Sacher Wien.
The same company runs Hotel Sacher Salzburg and a resort at Seefeld in Tyrol, which share the website; Hotel Sacher Baden is unrelated. The room count is 152 on the official site, Expedia and the MICHELIN Guide; the hotel’s history page still counts 86 rooms and 63 suites, 149 in all, after the refurbishment completed in 2012.
12 categories on the official rooms page. Deluxe Rooms measure 27 to 39 m², with twin or king beds; Junior Suites 40 to 55 m²; Signature Suites 50 to 65 m², each of the 3 sold with or without a view, and the Signature also with a terrace. Then come the Grand Signature Suite with View from 95 m², the Family Suite of 144 to 148 m² and the Opera Penthouse Suite of 170 m².
The 2 Presidential Suites are the Madame Butterfly, 180 m², and the Wiener Philharmoniker, 155 m² with 2 bedrooms. Every room has air conditioning, a coffee machine, a safe and a free minibar of soft drinks; most have a bath and a separate shower. Connecting rooms exist in some categories and are booked by phone or e-mail only.
In the Innere Stadt, Vienna’s first district, on Philharmonikerstrasse, directly opposite the State Opera. Kärntner Strasse, the pedestrian shopping street to St Stephen’s, passes the corner, and the Albertina is 183 metres away. Google scores the location 5 out of 5, with 4.7 for public transport and 3.8 for access to the airport.
The corner is busy by day, and the queue for the café forms on the pavement. The hotel’s FAQ says the rooms without a view overlook «the quiet Maysedergasse or the courtyard». Light sleepers should ask for a room on Maysedergasse or the courtyard.
Computed on OpenStreetMap’s paths on 8 October 2026: 123 metres to the State Opera, 183 to the Albertina, 6 minutes to the Spanish Riding School, 7 to the Hofburg, 8 to the Musikverein, 9 to the Kunsthistorisches Museum and 10 minutes, 760 metres, to St Stephen’s Cathedral.
Further out: the Naschmarkt is 12 minutes away, the Karlskirche 11 and the Upper Belvedere 25, or 1,943 metres. Google’s card gives 3 minutes to the Opera and 7 to the Hofburg; Schönbrunn Palace is a drive of 5.8 km.
By car the hotel’s FAQ gives about 30 minutes from Vienna Airport and about 15 from the main station. Our route measures 19.3 km from the airport and 2.6 from Wien Hauptbahnhof. The hotel arranges transfers and a limousine service for a fee, by e-mail to its porters; the fee is not on the site.
By public transport the contact page lists the S-Bahn and the City Airport Train from the airport, then the U-Bahn to Karlsplatz/Oper or the tram to Kärntner Ring/Oper, «just a short walk» away. The City Airport Train ends at Wien Mitte, which is 19 minutes from the hotel on foot.
Valet parking, at €45 a night: the porters take the car at the door and park it, says the official FAQ. The site describes no garage of its own and no self-parking.
The MICHELIN Guide lists «self service parking (charges apply)», valet parking and an electric charging station; Google’s card shows parking and valet parking without a price. Only the valet service and its rate are confirmed by the hotel.
No: Vienna is far inland, and the hotel stands in the old town with no water beside it. What the concierge arranges on request is a cruise on the Danube, a horse-drawn carriage ride through the old town or a tailored city tour.
For swimming there is nothing in the building either: the hotel has no pool.
No. «Unfortunately, we don’t have a swimming pool on site», says the hotel’s FAQ, and none appears on Google’s list of amenities. The Sacher Boutique Spa has a Finnish sauna, a steam bath, a «Vital Bar» for refreshments and a gym.
Expedia adds an ice fountain to the sauna and steam room. Travellers who want to swim should look at other 5-star hotels in the first district.
The sauna area is indoors and works all year: the Finnish sauna from 3pm to 10pm every day on the spa page, and earlier at weekends or when a guest asks.
With no pool there is no water temperature or season to report. The terraces of the top suites are furnished for the warmer months, by the Opera Penthouse page.
The Rote Bar serves Viennese cooking daily from noon to midnight, with a menu of 3 courses at €75. The Grüne Bar is the gastronomic room, dinner only from 6pm: a menu at €209 or the carte, where the pigeon is €62 and the wagyu €98. The Blaue Bar opens at noon. Both restaurants ask for smart casual dress and advise booking well ahead.
Café Sacher runs from 7am to 11pm, Café Bel Étage on Kärntner Strasse from 8am to 10pm with its kitchen from noon to 9.30pm. Salon Sacher opens daily from 10am to 7pm, according to its own page, read on 15 October 2026, whose German version the hotel edited on 21 September 2026. Room service works round the clock, and every restaurant has a children’s menu. No half board is published.
Generally no: the FAQ prices it at €62.50 a person and says a rate that includes it shows so when you book. The buffet is served in the ballrooms from 7am to 11am, with the last booking at 9am, a limit of 2 hours and tables of 6 at most. Children eat from the buffet free, the FAQ says; Expedia puts the age at 16 and under.
Breakfast also comes to the room, from 7am to 3pm on the page and until noon on the room-service menu, or à la carte in Café Sacher: €12 for bread, butter and jam, €37.60 for Anna Sacher’s set breakfast with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. Leaders Club members get breakfast for 2 with their rate.
Booking is advised: Café Sacher asks guests to reserve in person or with its online tool, and Café Bel Étage and Salon Sacher show their free tables the same way. Without a booking you join the line outside, on the pavement.
A slice with whipped cream costs €11.50 in Café Sacher, Salon Sacher and the Grüne Bar, and €11 in the Blaue Bar. The «Sacher Sweet Treat», a slice with a hot drink and mineral water, is €24.50, or €33.50 with a glass of the house sparkling wine. Whole cakes are sold in the confectionery on Kärntner Strasse and shipped worldwide from the hotel’s online shop.
A boutique spa, in the hotel’s own phrase the only one in Vienna: treatment rooms, a Finnish sauna, a steam bath, a «Vital Bar» with healthy refreshments and a gym. The spa page places it above the rooftops of the city and publishes no floor area.
There is no pool and no whirlpool. The fitness room is open 24 hours with treadmills, cross-trainers and bikes, and a personal trainer can be booked. Make-up, manicure, pedicure and depilation are on the list of beauty services.
For hotel guests the sauna, the steam room and the gym are free of charge, says the hotel’s media information; treatments are paid for.
Outside guests are admitted with a treatment: the FAQ gives them the sauna and steam bath free for an hour before or after a treatment of 60 minutes or more. It adds that there is no standalone day spa without a treatment, so no day pass is sold.
Treatments from 11am to 7pm, Monday to Sunday; the Finnish sauna from 3pm to 10pm; the gym at all hours, as the spa page lists them. The FAQ gives 3pm for the steam bath as well.
Treatments should be booked early, by e-mail to sacherspa@sacher.com, on +43 1 514 56 1352 or with the form on the site.
3 lines, on the published menu. Seed to Skin: facials at €210 for 60 minutes and €310 for 90, a face and body ritual of 80 minutes at €300, a men’s ritual of 45 minutes at €170 and express treatments of 30 minutes at €130. Royal Fern: an activating facial at €220.
Ligne St. Barth massages cost €95 for 30 minutes on part of the body, €185 for 60 and €275 for 90; a hot-stone massage of 60 minutes is €195, and a body scrub is €120 to €140 when taken with a massage. Lymphatic drainage and foot reflexology are on request. For guests aged 8 to 14 there are Petit Sacher treatments.
Yes. Children up to 16 stay free in their parents’ room, and from the Junior Suite up an extra bed for them is free too, says the FAQ; cots are available on request. The Petit Sacher welcome brings a gift, a child’s bathrobe and slippers, board games, a children’s turndown and a menu in every restaurant; babysitting is arranged on request.
For larger families there is the 3-bedroom Family Suite, and the Sacher Family offer: from 2 nights, breakfast, half price on a second room for up to 3 children of 16 or under, and tickets for the Giant Ferris Wheel and Schönbrunn Zoo. Expedia lists a rollaway bed at €90 a night, and Booking.com counts guests of 17 and over as adults.
Yes, for €55 a day, on the Sacher Pets page: the room is prepared with a dog bed, blankets, towels and bowls, there is a «do not disturb» sign for the dog, and reception keeps leads and bags. Dog sitters can be arranged.
Expedia gives the same charge per pet and night and a limit of one pet; the MICHELIN Guide says only that charges apply. The café’s page admits dogs.
2 restaurants, a bar, 3 cafés, the confectionery, the spa and gym, 4 event rooms and a concierge desk staffed round the clock. The concierge books opera, theatre and concert tickets, private museum visits, limousines and, on request, a private tour of the hotel itself, according to the FAQ.
Wi-Fi is free everywhere. The hotel is non-smoking indoors, with rooms that have a balcony for smokers; it is step-free from the street, with lifts on every floor. It has no app of its own: guests use the Leading Hotels of the World app, a tablet in the room or WhatsApp to order.
No formal one. The FAQ asks guests to dress in keeping with the house and recommends «smart casual to elegant» in the restaurants; the Rote Bar, the Grüne Bar and the Blaue Bar each print «smart casual» on their pages.
On the offers page: a fourth night free on stays of 4 nights or more, with cancellation until noon on the day of arrival; the «Imperial Duo» with a hotel in Prague, for suites, with first-class train tickets, breakfast and a €200 credit for museums, the opera and tours in Vienna; and the «Sacher Triple Treat» across the 3 Sacher hotels.
Leaders Club members get breakfast for 2, a welcome gift and priority for upgrades, early check-in and late check-out when available. One Leaders Club rate adds a private 2-hour guided tour of the imperial apartments at the Hofburg.
Yes. The weddings page offers civil ceremonies, receptions and dinners: up to 110 guests for a seated wedding dinner, about 80 for a ceremony with rows of chairs, and about 10 for a ceremony on the terrace of a suite. The Marble Hall takes 150 for a cocktail party and divides in 2; its own sheet lists 80 for a banquet, fewer than the weddings page allows.
The smaller rooms are Salon Metternich, 26 at one long table, Salon Mayerling, 24 for a banquet, and the Schönbrunner Loge for 30 standing; events reach 220 guests in all. The kitchen caters everything, the patisserie makes a wedding cake on the Sacher-Torte, and an outside cake may be brought for a corkage fee. Prices are quoted on request.
Yes, in the ballrooms on 31 December 2026, by the festive programme: a menu of 4 courses at an early sitting from 6pm to 9pm or a late one from 9.30pm, or a gala menu of 6 courses from 6pm with no closing time. Each costs €585 a person with wine pairing and drinks. The Rote Bar and the Grüne Bar have menus of their own that night.
On 1 January 2027 a menu of 4 courses is €165. Christmas Eve is €445 for 5 courses, Christmas Day €325 for 4, wines included; children of 6 to 12 have a menu of 3 courses at €59 on each date.
None: the offers page lists city, family and multi-hotel packages and nothing with golf or green fees. The group’s resort at Seefeld in Tyrol, which shares the website, is a different hotel.
All year: the official pages carry no closure, and Google Hotels, read on 8 October 2026, priced 99 of the 115 nights from 9 October 2026 to 31 January 2027.
The 16 nights without a one-night price were the Fridays and Saturdays from 20 November to 19 December, 23 to 26 December and 30 and 31 December. Inside the hotel, the Grüne Bar pauses from 1 to 8 November 2026 and the terraces are for the warmer months.
Google Hotels, read on 8 October 2026, for 2 adults and one night, taxes and fees included: €984 on Friday 9 October 2026, €998 on Saturday 17 October, €600 on Tuesday 10 November, €1,032 on Saturday 14 November, €1,147 on 1 December, €1,903 on 22 December, €2,124 on 1 January 2027, €467 on 13 January and €636 on Saturday 16 January.
Each is the lowest price among the sellers Google lists, with no room named: for 9 October the hotel’s own site asked €1,074. Weekends cost more than weekdays, December more than November, and the second half of January is the cheapest stretch in the reading.
On 8 October 2026 Google showed 4.5/5 from 14,171 ratings, 70% five-star; Tripadvisor 4.7/5 from 2,670, 47th of 394 hotels in Vienna, with 5.0 for location and 4.3 for value; Booking.com 9.5/10 from 1,028, with 9.9 for location and 8.8 for value; Expedia 9.8/10 from 900.
Staying guests praise the doormen, the concierge and the front desk, the location and the sense of occasion. Many reviews come from customers of Café Sacher, which is open to everyone: they describe the queue on the pavement and, repeatedly in 2025 and 2026, brusque manners at the tables. Among the rooms, Deluxe rooms start at 27 m², and the Opera view is a category of its own.
The Google Hotels amounts already contain them. For 9 October 2026 the official site’s link carried a total of €1,073.50, of which €125.22 tax; Booking.com’s carried €1,130.00, of which €147.41.
The extras the hotel publishes are breakfast at €62.50 a person, valet parking at €45 a night and a dog at €55 a day. A deposit is taken only for prepaid rates and for periods with special cancellation terms; cards, cash and debit cards are accepted.
Check-in from 3pm and check-out by noon, on the hotel’s FAQ and on Booking.com. Expedia adds that arrivals are taken at any hour, that early check-in and late check-out carry a fee when available, and that the minimum age to check in is 18.
The front desk and the concierge are staffed 24 hours a day.
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