Palais Auersperg

Highly recommended to listen a concert at least once in life in this place. I wanted to share a picture however they do not allow to take photos even without using flash. Ticket prices for tickets are high but it is possible to find cheap tickets as well.

I had a chance to visit the Palais Auersperg to check out the Vienna Residence Orchestra perform an evening concert.
The venue itself was pleasant and modest in terms of size. As with most old European venues there are a set of grand staircases that you walk up to the actual concert hall. The room was large enough to seat several hundred people though the chairs weren’t particularly comfortable to sit in for several hours. The acoustics were decent though the stage was definitely only fit for a small group like the Residence Orchestra.
The performance was clearly geared towards a touristy audience, with obvious standards by Mozart, Strauss etc. being played throughout the night. Typically you don’t usually expect to watch a serious concert and hear things like the overture to The Marriage of Figaro or The Blue Danube being played in one show but at least they did a nice job of catering to the audience that seemed to be made up of many tour groups. The orchestra itself was competent though not particularly memorable — thought it was cool to listen to the lead violinist play an actual Stradivarius during the concert.
Either way my experience here was good for the most part, even if the bathrooms here are small. Expect longer than usual lines for the ladies room.

If you come to Vienna, seriously do not waste your time with this place, especially if you’re mobility impaired at all. I went with a tour group for our final dinner and right away ran into problems. The extremely rude man in charge of «letting» our group in kept pushing me to go up the 42 steps (which was a miscount to begin with) even though I asked for the lift. His answer was the lift was «a really long walk» and that there were «only 42 steps» again at which point I insisted on the lift because when you have a disability, 42 steps is 42 too many. So one of the other gentleman there took us on this supposed «long» walk that was actually around the corner on the side of the building. The other man clearly just didn’t either believe I needed the lift or didn’t want to have to deal with it and therefore lied and tried to get me to take the steps. Either way, completely unacceptable treatment for somewhere you are a patron at.
As if that weren’t bad enough, the kitchen was having issues so the dinner was served late and when it was, the food was terrible. Cold and inedible. My vegetarian dish consisted of cold peppers and hash brown like potatoes that probably would have been better down the road at McDonalds. My mom was the only one to not get her dessert and half of us didn’t get coffee when someone else came in to announce us that the opera/​orchestra performance was starting. Our Tour Director had to tell them they had to hold the performance for us. Which they did but we walked into a room full of scowling musicians and the other bus loads of tourists that were brought in who were mad we held up the performance. The musicians had on cheesy costumes, reminiscent of 1980s David’s Bridal bridesmaids gowns for the women and the majority of them looked extremely bored.
The host we had raved about being treated like kings and queens which meant being crammed into a room to sit in chairs that looked like they had been sat in since 1850 and were extremely uncomfortable. They had a smattering of more cheesy ballet and opera mixed in with the orchestra. By the free champagne at intermission (where everyone crams into another small space and the only available restrooms are once again down the «42» steps) we had no interest in the second half. While we waited for the second half to finish, the performers proceeded to walk by us scowling every time they were done to make sure we knew they were appalled we didn’t want to watch them anymore.
Please don’t waste your money on this and if you’re with a tour group, don’t expect much or skip it if you can’t.

Yes, true on Halloween there is always much to see and lots to laugh about.
When my children were still small and went from house to house, we passed by a house that topped everything seen before.
Honestly spoken, there was a 1.80m witch, I went closer and wanted to look at it a bit more closely. All of a sudden the eyes started glowing red and the witch moved and grabbed my arm. I screemed …
All children around laughed their heads off, but not about the the witch, but me — the mommy…
Maybe tonight there is another funny story…
A Halloween party at one of the best traditional locations of Vienna, the castle of Auersperg, at two floors, stunning Halloween decorations, lots of sweets, House and R&B, tickets for 10 €…
This place always guarantees great events!
Happy Halloween!

Die Bewertung bezieht sich auf die Sylvesterparty im Palais:
Es ist einfach einzigartig. Man tritt wirklich in einen Palast ein und glaubt nicht, dass hier eine Diskothek sein soll. Trotzdem, die Musik ist schon von weitem zu hören und nachdem man ein entsprechendes Bändchen erhalten hat, kann man auch schon rein. Man geht die mit rotem Teppich bedeckte Treppe hoch und befindet sich vor einer Auswahl an Räumlichkeiten, wo sehr viele Menschen sich zu Musik und Lichtspektakeln bewegen.
Ein perfekte Verbindung der altertümlichen Räumlichkeiten und dem modernen Stil zu feiern.
Wir hatten das Glück an dem abend einen Tisch zu bekommen an den dann auch Vodka auf Eis mit Drinks zum Mixen gebracht wurde. Der Sylvesterabend war somit perfekt und wir tanzten bis 4 oder 5 (ich weiss es nicht mehr so genau).
Ansonsten gibt es im Palais Auersperg eine Fülle an weiteren Events, wie klassische Musik, Festbälle oder Kongresse zu denen ich leider nichts sagen kann ;)