Rooms are spacious, clean and Spartan. They are either on the noisy street side or on the train track side. Not a good sleep on either side. Thinner towels do not exist, and there are no nice little toiletries in the bathroom. Wifi was said to exist, but would not work in my room and worked only in a spotty way in the lobby. It cost 10 Euros an hour, but I did not end up having to pay this, because of poor quality of connection. Hair dryer broken. Temperature does not go below the building limit of 23 degrees, but within this limit, air conditioning exists. The television had BBC as its only non-German language channel, although the info in the room listed several others. The restaurant provided an adequate Czech style pub meal (Schnitzel, potatoes, peppers and tomato salad, doughy dessert with jam). In Czech Republic in a small town, this meal might cost about 3 dollars American. Here it cost 15 Euros or closer to 20 dollars. Breakfast was standard Euro-breakfast, with nothing fresh the first day, but a bowl of oranges and apples was added on the second. Based on the breakfast alone, one would have no idea what country one is in. Adequate coffee IMO.
There were busloads of Japanese tourists both nights I was here.
I booked the hotel at a travel agency which used bedsonline. I asked for a clean, quiet, inexpensive room in the center of the city. I got the "clean" part of my request. This hotel is kind of near the Palace Schoenbrunn, but nothing else. It's a long ride to the center and the neighborhood where the hotel is located is somewhere north of dodgy, but not far north. I'd call it unpleasant, but probably safe. My taxi driver charged 60 Euros to go to the center, but this was likely a dishonest price. Tram fare was only 2.20 each way.
- Kavalier Hotel Vienna
