On Your Marks, Set – Vienna! Vienna Tips for All the Family
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On your marks, set – Vienna! Vienna tips for all the family English Vienna Prater, view of the Giant Ferris Wheel Visit our website for even more tips for your trip: • Visit us online at www.vienna.info (click More Vienna and then select For Families in the drop-down menu), or on www.facebook.com/WienTourismus and www.youtube.com/Vienna. • Wien Hotels & Info is standing by, ready to help you plan your trip to Vienna. Contact a member of the team for bookings and details of family-friendly accommodations (09:00–19:00 daily, tel. 24555, [email protected], www.vienna.info). • Upon arrival in Vienna you can pick up a free info pack and city map, containing opening hours for all the main sights, at the Tourist Info © WTV/Christian Stemper center (1, corner of Albertinaplatz and Maysedergasse, 09:00–19:00, Tel. 24 555). Additional details (such as prices and tour schedules) can be obtained from the various places of interest directly. Welcome to Vienna • You can purchase a Vienna Card from the Tourist Info center or at your hotel and start claiming some of the 210 discounts on offer all We’re delighted that you have decided to visit our capital city with your little over the city (see: ) that come with this travel pass. heads of the family! Children aged 14 or younger (ID required) are entitled to free travel This handy publication will show you where you children can encounter on the tram, subway and bus network when accompanied by a gigantic dinosaurs, conduct the Vienna Philharmonic and come face to face Vienna Card holder. with a school of hungry piranhas. Or maybe Empress Sisi’s beauty tips are • To find out more about what is going on in Vienna for children to more your kind of thing? Or a trip to Europe’s biggest water playground? enjoy, contact the free wienXtra-kinderinfo service Leaf through this brochure and you will see that an exciting stay in the (7, Museumsplatz 1, MuseumsQuartier/Hof 2, tel. 4000-84 400, www.kinderinfowien.at). Vienna tips for teenagers are available from Austrian capital awaits for you and your children. wienXtra-jugendinfo (1, corner of Babenbergerstrasse 1/ In the middle of the brochure there is a special map including a quiz about Burgring, tel. 4000-84 100, www.jugendinfowien.at). some of Vienna’s best loved sights and museums. Join your children on a • Preschoolers travel free on the Vienna public transportation treasure hunt through the city, discover Vienna’s secrets and with any network (subway, tram, bus). During the Viennese school holidays luck you could be the winner of a trip to Vienna. and on Sundays and public holidays all schoolchildren (18 or younger) at Austrian schools (private and public) travel free. The same applies On your marks, set – Vienna! for visiting children of all nationalities aged 14 or younger. The Vienna Tourist Board team Tip: The extensive online database at vienna.info contains listings of all the events in the city. Simply enter your dates and select Family Tip or For Children in the mask. events.wien.info 19 “Gratis bis 19” indicates that admission is free of charge for all visitors aged 18 or younger (please remember to bring ID). When dialing from outside the country simply add the inter- Credits national dial out code from your country (e.g. + from the USA Published by: Vienna Tourist Board, 1030 Vienna Graphic design: kreativ · Mag. Evelyne Sacher-Toporek and 00 from the UK) followed by 43 for Austria and 1 for Copy deadline: April 7, 2015 Vienna in front of the telephone numbers listed in this No liability accepted for errors or omissions. brochure. The different districts are simple to decipher: Content subject to change without notice. Printed in Austria by: Gutenberg-Werbering Gesellschaft m.b.H. 2825/15/25 1 stands for the first district, 2 for the second and so on. Citymap: Freytag&Berndt 2 3 4 Schönbrunn Zoo Enjoy an eventful day out with your loved ones at Schönbrunn Zoo, home to 600 different species – some of which are endangered. Visit the orang-utans, giraffes and rhinoceroses, experi- ence a tropical thunderstorm in the rainforest house and watch the pandas which have already pro- duced offspring several times. A sensation! Hungry? Café-Atelier Nonja, the Imperial Pavilion and the Tirolergarten are just some of the options. And if you’ve had enough of running around, there’s always a trip through the zoo’s grounds aboard the © WTV/MAXUM Panoramabahn. A large circuit of the Schlosspark Schönbrunn/Norbert© Tiergarten Potensky includes the Gloriette where fantastic views of the A day at Schönbrunn city await. 13, Schönbrunner Schlosspark, Tips: the Nature Experience Trail (incl. fire salamander Hietzing entrance climbing wall and spider’s web climber for the young- 1 tel. 877 92 94-0 Schönbrunn Palace er children) and the treetop trail (a dizzying 160- The Schloss Schönbrunn Experience meter long rope bridge 10 meters above ground) children’s museum in the west wing of the palace www.zoovienna.at gives visitors a fascinating insight into everyday life at court for the imperial children. What is the correct way to address the imperial couple? How do you communicate in fan language? And finally the young Voyage of discovery through the old town visitors are given the chance to don regal garb and ges.m.b.H., Foto: Bildagentur Zolles ges.m.b.H., Foto: dress up as young princes and princesses. 5 © Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Schönbrunn © Schloß Betriebs www.schoenbrunn.at and St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Steffl) www.kaiserkinder.at Treat yourself to a tour of the cathedral, Austria’s most 13, Schönbrunner celebrated Gothic building. An elevator in the North Schlossstrasse tel. 811 13-239 Tower will take you and your children to see Austria’s largest bell, known as the “Pummerin” or boomer. And if you have the energy, you can climb the 343 steps to the Türmerstube (tower room) to enjoy 2 Schönbrunn Maze, unique views of Vienna and take a closer look at Labyrinth and Labyrinthikon some of the cathedral’s 230,000 roof tiles. If you are Once the exclusive preserve of the imperial family, the feeling particularly brave you can also take a tour of maze is now open to everyone. After navigating the the catacombs – a spooky underground burial vault. warren of hedges you can watch other people tying Tip: go for a spin aboard a horse-drawn themselves in knots from the observation deck. The var- carriage (to the left of the main entrance © WTV/Heinz Angermayr ious attractions dotted about the labyrinth give children of the Cathedral) 1., Stephansplatz the chance to experiment and have fun, while the over- www.stephanskirche.at sized bird climbing frame and Archimedes screw at the tel. 515 52-3054 © Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Schönbrunn © Schloß Betriebsges.m.b.H., Julius Silver Foto: Labyrinthikon make this play area a popular destination. www.kaiserkinder.at 6 Hofburg 3 Marionette Theater At the Imperial Apartments and Sisi Museum Schönbrunn Palace visitors of all ages can find out all about Empress Elisabeth: her beautiful dresses, her fearlessness as Artistic performances, an imperial setting and state- a horsewoman, her beauty secrets and the way that of-the-art stagecraft add up to an unforgettable she liked to have her shining long hair styled. theatrical experience for all the family. Program highlights include Mozart’s Magic Flute, Hansel and Children’s guided tours (in German) finish up with a Gretel, a kids’ version of die Fledermaus and chance to dress up in truly ‘Imperial’ clothes. Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. www.hofburg-wien.at and www.marionettentheater.at www.kaiserkinder.at Kultur- und Betriebs Schönbrunn © Schloß ges.m.b.H., Illustration: Hannes Eder © Roman Gerhardt / www.kulturkommunikator.com 1, entrance beneath the 13, Schönbrunn Michaelerkuppel dome Palace, Hofratstrakt tel. 533 75 70 tel. 817 32 47 4 5 1, Josefsplatz 1 7 Austrian National Library 11 DSCHUNGEL WIEN tel. 534 10 museum areas: Tours and workshops are offered at the National This young persons’ theater covers an ambitious Library, Papyrus, Globe and Esperanto Museums. artistic range: highlights include theater pieces for 19 www.onb.at very young visitors (aged two and older), vocal, pup- pet, music and dance performances for children and families, as well as a range of youth performances. 8 Butterfly House Tip: The Dschungel Wien café bar is a real hit with Wander past waterfalls and giant trees surrounded both families and a younger clientèle. by hundreds of free-flying butterflies – and with any www.dschungelwien.at luck your children might even get to witness a but- Antonova Wien / Ani © Dschungel terfly emerging fresh from its pupa. 7, MuseumsQuartier/Hof 2 Tip: pack a snack and enjoy a picnic in the neigh- tel. 522 07 20-20 boring Burggarten. www.schmetterlinghaus.at 12 mumok – museum of modern art © Stephen Fried GmbH © Stephen Fried ludwig foundation vienna 1, Burggarten Sundays at the mumok are dedicated to finding tel. 533 85 70 what children aged four to 12 have to say about modern and contemporary art. Budding young crea- tive geniuses can visit the exhibitions with the artists themselves or brush up their techniques in the open 9 House of Music studio. But if you would prefer to go it alone, simply Conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, have grab a kids’ art transporter which contains a go at banging the timpani or discover what a everything a child needs for a museum trip to mumok © Foto: baby can hear from the safety of its mother’s remember.