State Opera - across the street
Kärtner Strasse shopping - adjacent
Albertina art museum - 4 blocks
Stadtpark - 4 blocks
Haus der Musik music museum - 4 blocks
Hofburg Imperial Palace - 500 meters
St Stephen's Cathedral - 500 meters
Museums Quarter - 500 meters
KunstHausWien art museum - 2 kilometers (1.5 miles)
Prater fairgrounds (as seen in the movie, The Third Man) - 2 kilometers (1.5 miles)
Schönbrunn summer palace 4 kilometers (2.5 miles)

The airport bus connects with the city's underground system at Westbanhof train station. The bus ride is approximately 30 minutes. Taxis run from the airport to the city centre.

The U-Bahn underground system is augmented by buses and trams and connects the hotel with the rest of Vienna within 20 minutes. The U-Bahn station closest to the hotel is Karlsplatz. The hotel can order taxi cabs and limousines on request.

This hotel has 140 guestrooms, all of which are furnished with antiques and hung with period oil paintings. Pale wood furnishings with black geometric inlays provide an Art Nouveau ambience, softened by brocaded bedspreads and romantic throw-cushions. Some rooms have decorative fireplaces, others have a view of the State Opera House. Every guest arrives to a fruit basket and mineral water. All rooms have dial-up Internet access (fee). Bathrooms are lined with marble and each has scales and bathrobes.

Korso bei der Oper - The Michelin-starred Korso serves European and regional Austrian cuisine at lunch and dinner. In the serene, elegant dining room, guests sit in deep, green armchairs at pink-linen-clad tables. Palms and period screens provide privacy.

Restaurant Sirk - Specializing in Austrian cuisine, Sirk's modern dining room has clean lines, angular furnishings and overlooks the State Opera house. The walls are hung with photos of the opera stars who have dined here. Sirk serves lunch and dinner, a breakfast buffet and family buffets on Sundays.

Cafe Sirk - Cafe Sirk caters to hotel guests and passing Viennese residents. This street-level coffee house is furnished with black-and-orange bistro chairs and serves light lunch and dinner as well as traditional Viennese cakes and coffee.

Bristol Bar - The Bristol Bar was the first American-style bar in Vienna. The bar’s deep, green armchairs, snug corners and antique racing prints give it a living-room feel. The green leather barstools which line up by the small bar are as likely to seat Viennese businessmen as hotel guests.

What to expect: Trams and pedestrians bustle past the Bristol's geometric Art Nouveau façade, built in 1892. In the black-and-white marble lobby, leggy starlets spill from the lift while business travelers check in at the dark-wood, recessed reception. Past the lobby, an oval lounge is scattered with plump Biedemeyer armchairs and marble coffee tables. Palms in brass pots provide privacy for guests reading American, German and Japanese newspapers.

Amenity highlights: Floor-to-ceiling gilt-framed mirrors hang at every landing of the Bristol's immense staircases; corridors are studded with Art Nouveau lead-lighting. In the fine-dining Restaurant Korso bei der Oper, lit by chandeliers, the linen-clad tables nestle between turn-of-the-century smoked-glass and wood screens. Less formal, Restaurant Sirk serves Austrian specialties overlooking the lavish State Opera House.

Insider tip: About two blocks from the Hotel Bristol, Vienna's Naschmarkt market is a real insight into the daily life of the Viennese. Food vendors from all over the world set up stalls hawking fish, meat, cheese, baked goods and preserves, as well as meals and snacks; others sell clothes and jewelry.

All of the Bristol's public areas are furnished with antiques and oil paintings. Floor-to-ceiling gilt-framed mirrors hang at every landing of the hotel's immense staircases. Corridors are studded with Art Nouveau leadlighting and the lift is lined with marble and leather. The lobby lounge has marble columns, chandeliers and oil paintings, and is scattered with plump Biedemeyer armchairs and marble coffee tables. Palms in brass pots provide privacy for guests reading American, German and Japanese newspapers.

The Bristol has a small business center and several business salons with up-to-date conference technology and period furnishings. All functions can be catered for by the hotel's restaurants.