Rosewood Vienna is the best all-round hotel in the city. If you want the newest address, book the Mandarin Oriental, which opened in a former courthouse in November 2025. If you want old Vienna done properly, book Sacher, which has faced the State Opera since 1876.

Vienna sits on the Danube and was the seat of the Habsburgs for six centuries. You see it everywhere inside the Ring: palaces, opera houses and coffee houses where Freud and Trotsky argued over chess. The music runs through it too, from Mozart's old flat to the State Opera's nightly programme.

The city has 25 five-star hotels with 4,558 rooms between them, according to the Vienna Tourist Board's latest survey. This guide covers the ones worth planning a trip around. Most are grand hotels in the 1st district. A few are smaller design hotels in the 6th and 7th, where the rates are kinder and the neighbourhoods feel lived in.

With this backdrop, Vienna’s greatest hotels provide a magnificent getaway, fusing old-world charm with modern comfort to provide guests with an outstanding experience.

Best Hotels In Vienna

Short on time? Rosewood is the all-rounder, and Mandarin Oriental is the newest serious address in town.

Here are our quick picks:

Rosewood Vienna

Rosewood Vienna

Best overall. You can't get a better location. Some rooms look straight onto the green dome of St Peter's, Vienna's oldest church. Others face Graben and Tuchlauben, the shopping lanes where Louis Vuitton and Bottega Veneta have their Vienna stores. St Stephen's Cathedral and the Albertina are a short walk away.

Rosewood Vienna

The hotel opened in August 2022 in the 19th-century former headquarters of Erste Bank, the same building where Mozart lived while writing Il Seraglio. Viennese architects A2K and BEHF stitched it together with four neighbouring buildings, and London studio Alexander Waterworth did the interiors. It is imposing from the street and warm inside. Bowls of Wiener Zuckerl sweets sit around the public spaces, and Backhausen fabrics turn up on the curtains, the slippers and even the inside of the umbrellas.

Rosewood Vienna

There are 71 rooms and 28 suites in burnt orange, oak and soft neutrals. Each has its own bar with a cocktail trolley, plus a freestanding bath, a separate marble shower and a Dyson hairdryer. Ask for a courtyard room if you sleep lightly. The lower Tuchlauben-facing rooms pick up daytime street noise.

Rosewood Vienna

Neue Hoheit, the sixth-floor brasserie, has a show kitchen, a terrace and views over the Old Town roofs. The menu mixes oysters, beef tartare and steak from the Josper grill with Austrian classics, and the Wiener schnitzel is the order. One floor up, the Neue Hoheit Bar is a rooftop speakeasy with a cocktail list built on Austrian spirits. Book a table even if you are staying, because locals fill it. Breakfast is à la carte. Try the local ham with fresh horseradish or the homemade bircher.

Rosewood Vienna

Asaya Spa, the first Asaya outside Asia, runs across the fifth and sixth floors with four treatment rooms, a sauna, a steam room and views of St Peter's. There is no pool. Rosewood holds two Michelin Keys.

Mandarin Oriental, Vienna

Best new opening. Mandarin Oriental's first hotel in Austria opened in November 2025 at Riemergasse 7, a quiet side street about five minutes on foot from Stephansplatz. The Golden Quarter and the State Opera are close by.

The building is an early 20th-century courthouse by Austrian architect Alfred Keller. Goddard Littlefair kept the Jugendstil details, the original grand staircase and the inner courtyard, then layered in soft neutrals and Secessionist-inspired fabrics. The brand's fan emblem was reworked for Vienna by Austrian artist Peter Jellitsch.

Its 86 rooms and 52 suites spread over four floors. With more than a third of the keys as suites, the entry-level rooms sell out first, so book early or expect to step up.

Chef Thomas Seifried runs all four food and drink venues: Le Sept for fine dining, Atelier 7 Brasserie, a café and a bar. The spa has an indoor pool, which is rare inside the Ring, and a treatment menu that runs to waltz-inspired massage and gong baths. In its first season Falstaff named it Austria's best hotel opening.

Park Hyatt Vienna

Park Hyatt Vienna

With a great central location, you are only steps from the Goldenes Quartier’s luxury retailers. Vienna’s Innere Stadt (1st district) is incredibly compact, allowing you to easily reach all of the major attractions on foot. The hotel is a three-minute walk from Café Central, where Freud, Trotsky, and poet Peter Altenberg used to drink coffee, play chess, and discuss the state of the world.

The Hofburg (Imperial Palace), loaded with Hapsburg treasures, and the high and powerful St Stephen’s Cathedral are only a five-minute walk away, as are the big theatres, galleries, and concert halls on Ringstrasse.

Park Hyatt Vienna

It’s impressive from the start, as a liveried doorman welcomes you into a lobby with highly polished Italian marble, a sweeping flight of steps, and a coffered stucco ceiling.

Wood panelling, alabaster, and glittering brass were employed to maintain the regal aura of the century-old architectural monument while bringing it into the twenty-first century. Stunning components include blown-up Wiener Werkstätte brooches and inlaid mother-of-pearl, which capture the beauty of a bygone era.

As one might expect, the welcome is excellent. Staff go out of their way to please, with a comprehensive concierge service that can easily arrange everything from dinner reservations to opera tickets, city excursions, and jogging maps.

At street level, there’s an attractive café with a pavement patio where you can watch the world waltz by over the afternoon ritual of Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee and cake), homemade ice cream or an aperitif.

The beautifully wood-paneled Living Room fumoir offers a good assortment of cigars and whisky. The Bank Bar is a chic venue for a pre-dinner drink.

Park Hyatt Vienna

The former bank vault now houses Arany Spa, which is beautifully furnished with mother-of-pearl, gold mosaic tiles, marble, and onyx. There is a lap pool, a well-equipped gym, an exclusive relaxation space with loungers and refreshments, a sauna, and a steam room. Signature treatments are inspired by the Hungarian term for gold and feature semi-precious stones. These include mineral stone massages utilising rose quartz and essential oils, revitalising ‘blue diamond’ facials, and the therapeutic ‘Golden Body Treatment’.

Park Hyatt Vienna

The Park Hyatt’s 143 sophisticated rooms, 41 of which are suites, include ample space, high ceilings, and opulent materials such as dark wood, marble, and mother-of-pearl.

All have huge windows that open to let the city in. The most desirable accommodations have views of the baroque façades on Am Hof Square. The rooms (all silvers, pearls, and taupes) have been decorated with a keen eye for style, flawlessly blending original charm with modern amenities.

Bronze brooches and flock wall coverings are also reminiscent of the Wiener Werkstätte’s Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs. Illy coffee machines, minibars, and televisions hidden behind mirrors are included as standard.

The marble bathrooms are stunning, with bathtubs, wet-room showers, and toiletries by French perfumer Blaise Mautin. The ultimate indulgence. The massive, chandelier-lit presidential suite, replete with a Bösendorfer piano.

Park Hyatt Vienna

Marble columns support the soaring alabaster ceiling of The Bank restaurant in the ancient cashier hall, a beautiful space embellished with stained glass and tree-like crystal chandeliers. There’s a display kitchen where you can watch cooks prepare delectable delicacies.

Breakfast is pretty special, with everything from specialty breads and pastries to homemade granola, seasonal fruits, antipasti, Austrian cheeses, meats, smoked salmon, and freshly squeezed juices.

You may even request gourmet egg dishes like Eier im Glas, which includes avocado, chilli, and bonito fish flakes. In the evening, the menu offers unique twists on classic brasserie dishes.

You can have a zingy lobster ceviche or beef tartare with truffle, grilled leeks, and caviar to start, for example, and then go on to main courses like oven-roasted cod with sesame chilli sauce.

Hotel Sacher Wien

Hotel Sacher Wien

Inside the historical core, the iconic facade dominates a corner at the end of Kärntner Strasse, one of the city’s principal shopping avenues, and faces the Opera House and Albertina Museum. St. Stephen’s Cathedral is 600 metres distant, and the first district’s general attractions, as well as metro and tram stops, are all within a 10-minute walk.

Sacher opened in 1876 and has maintained its vintage aura despite numerous modifications. In recent years, this has incorporated related interior design features such as new carpeting, upholstery, and fabrics, as well as the construction of two more stories to create more rooms and a spa area.

Hotel Sacher Wien

Restaurants and pubs are themed around the colours red, green, and blue. The deep colours and soft ambient lighting add to the old world vibe, and the walls are lined with artworks from Anna Sacher’s collections (who helped the hotel gain an exceptional reputation).

The motif continues in the common rooms with dark wood panelling, earthy hues, and chandelier lighting, but a French stylist’s inclusion of contemporary furniture pieces and textile interior design is a wonderful touch.

From the entryway to the front desk, personnel is attentive to detail and provides privacy. There is also a professional concierge crew to assist you with your schedule around the city. A 300-square-metre spa, sauna, and workout facility round out the hotel’s offerings, while its structure does not allow for a swimming pool.

Hotel Sacher Wien

Spacious first- to sixth-floor rooms in green, golden, and taupe blend elegance with modern touches, such as minimalist wall panelling and slightly embossed materials matched with high ceilings and electric lights. Suites have balconies overlooking the traditional Opera House or the Albertina Museum.

Rooms on the seventh and eighth levels, painted crimson or light blue, have lower ceilings and no classical ornamentation.

Hotel Sacher Wien

Floor-to-ceiling marble bathrooms have overhead showers and huge bathtubs with Sacher chocolate-scented amenities, as well as robes and slippers. A tablet is given for immediate access to city highlights and hotel information, as well as a portable Wi-Fi device for use while away from the hotel. A Nespresso machine accompanies the little Sacher Torte cubes, reminding you that ‘the cake is always in the house’.

The hotel is best known for its distinctive café, which draws crowds on the street, but it also offers the Blue Bar for pre-dinner cocktails and two restaurants decorated with expressionist paintings and material-paneled walls in their own colours.

The Red Restaurant delivers traditional Austrian food, while the Green Restaurant is the standout, with modern cuisine produced with regional ingredients.

Hotel Sacher Wien

Many dishes are inspired by ‘ancient Viennese recipes, distinctively interpreted’. Consider innovative flavour combinations and artistic presentation, such as a modern take on the Viennese classic boiled beef dish, Tapfelspitz.

There are up to six meal selections with wine matching, as well as a ‘blind date’ menu (where the chef picks what you’ll eat). Staff should pay close attention to detail and be well-versed on the foods served.

An large buffet breakfast in the majestic Marble Hall features a choice of to-order egg dishes and a juice bar, as well as cold sparkling wine and the famed cake.

Palais Hansen Kempinski

Palais Hansen Kempinski

The hotel is situated in the 1st District (Innere Stadt), on a quieter stretch of the Ringstraße, about 10 minutes’ walk from the historic centre. The Freud Museum and the Danube Canal are both within two minutes’ walk from the door.

The area isn’t necessarily lively (a few bars and cafés dotted about) but there’s a tram and bus stop outside the hotel, and a U-bahn station for getting the metro round the corner, so you’re very well connected for getting around the city.

The heritage-listed palais, named after one of its architects, Theophil Edvard Hansen (who designed Parliament and the historic Stock Building, among other things), dates back to the late 1800s. While historical 19th-century characteristics (high ceilings, original columns, and wrought-iron staircase bannisters) evoke the building’s history, interiors have embraced the 21st century with glass atriums and contemporary artworks.

Palais Hansen Kempinski

The lobby-lounge itself is impressive: creamy walls, polished marble flooring, velvet-upholstered furniture, a grand piano in one corner, and a dramatic upside-down glass-and-gold chandelier flanked by fresh flowers in the centre set a refined tone.

The service was slick and pleasant, with perfectly dressed staff who greeted you at every turn yet avoided being intrusive. A 24-hour concierge can provide information on local events and activities, as well as schedule hotel experiences like as apfelstrudel cooking sessions (once per month) and Fiaker excursions.

The Ottoman-influenced Kempinski The Spa has six treatment rooms, a hydropool, steam room, saunas with mixed and ladies-only areas, and a gym with cutting-edge Technogym equipment.

Palais Hansen Kempinski

The rooms (Superior, Deluxe, and Grand Deluxe) and suites (Junior to President) are spacious, airy, and comfortable, with high ceilings, magnificent king-size mattresses, and in-room iPads and Nespresso machines.

The Superior room’s only distinguishing feature is its somewhat smaller size; Ring Suites provide views of Schottenring and some have balconies. Décor varies: some rooms are quiet and masculine, with grey tones and pops of colour in patterned rugs and bed coverings, while others may be rich in wood and reds. Large photos of dancers decorate the walls.

Marble bathrooms have tubs and beautiful monsoon showers. Suites are equipped with enhanced Kempinski-brand toiletries, a welcome pastry, and a bowl of fruit upon arrival. The 400-metre-square Presidential Suite, with its variety of rooms and thermal room, is the showpiece.

While Edvard is a small Michelin-starred restaurant on the side of the building, Die Küche stands out as the younger, more playful sibling, with a glass atrium and an eye-catching vertical garden.

The menu features a gourmet twist on Austrian cuisine with Mediterranean influences, such as delectable fillets of skrei (fish) in a puddle of buttery potato purée that melts in your mouth, adorned with salad leaves and a sprinkle of caviar, or traditional Wiener schnitzel.

Palais Hansen Kempinski

Where to stay in Vienna

First-timers should stay in the 1st district, the Innere Stadt. It is compact enough to walk end to end, and most of the city's five-star hotels are there.

FAQs

What is the best hotel in Vienna?

Rosewood Vienna is the best all-rounder for location, rooms and food. Hotel Sacher Wien is the most decorated, and the only hotel in Vienna with three Michelin Keys.

What is the newest luxury hotel in Vienna?

Mandarin Oriental, Vienna, which opened in November 2025 in a former courthouse on Riemergasse in the 1st district. It has 138 rooms and suites, four restaurants and bars, and a spa with an indoor pool.

Is Hotel Bristol Vienna open?

No. The Bristol closed in March 2025 for a full restoration and is due to reopen in 2027.

Is the Palais Hansen Kempinski still open?

Yes, under a new name. It is now Anantara Palais Hansen Vienna, in the same building on Schottenring, and the Michelin-starred Edvard restaurant is still there.

Which Vienna hotels have a swimming pool?

Sans Souci Wien has the longest, at 20 metres. Park Hyatt Vienna has a 15-metre pool in its old bank vault and Almanac Palais has a 14-metre pool. Mandarin Oriental, Anantara Palais Hansen and the Ritz-Carlton also have indoor pools. Rosewood and Sacher do not.

Where should I stay in Vienna for the first time?

The 1st district. You can walk to St Stephen's Cathedral, the Hofburg, the State Opera and the main shopping streets. For lower rates and a more local feel, look at the 6th and 7th districts, a short U-Bahn ride away.

How many five-star hotels does Vienna have?

25, with 4,558 rooms between them, according to the Vienna Tourist Board's most recent annual survey.