Highlights: Mayerling hunting lodge, Heiligenkreuz Abbey with cloister, Helenental, Baden bei Wien or Klosterneuburg Abbey. The half day into the green, rain or shine. By minivan with driver.
MEETING POINT | Your hotel in Vienna (or a meeting point by arrangement)
Private tour. You walk with your own people and your guide, never with strangers. More than ten?
Twenty minutes beyond the city limits the Vienna Woods begin, and with them a story Vienna still tells: in 1889 Crown Prince Rudolf died at the Mayerling hunting lodge; from then on his mother Sisi wore only black. We drive by minivan through the Helenental to Mayerling, visit the memorial in the Carmelite convent, then the Cistercian abbey of Heiligenkreuz with its Romanesque-Gothic cloister, where chant has been sung since 1133. On the way back, Baden bei Wien with its spa park, Beethoven house and a coffeehouse, or alternatively Klosterneuburg Abbey with the Verdun Altar. An excursion without long drives that works in the rain as well.
Pick-up in Vienna, drive through the Helenental (40 min.), Mayerling, Heiligenkreuz with guided visit, coffeehouse in Baden or lunch at the abbey inn, return, arrival in Vienna after five hours.
Per group: guide fee € 540 (5 hrs) plus minivan with driver € 410, together € 950. Per person additionally: Heiligenkreuz Abbey and Mayerling (venue admissions, confirmed with your request). For four guests around € 260 per person including admissions.
Included: private Austria Guide, minivan with driver, planning and reservations
Excluded: admissions, food and drinks
Seegrotte Hinterbrühl (Europe’s largest underground lake), Liechtenstein Castle, Heuriger finish in Gumpoldskirchen, extension to eight hours with Klosterneuburg.
All prices net, valid for 2026. Admissions and tastings are set by the respective venues and may change at short notice. You select the add-ons in the booking request; the total is calculated there automatically.
After Rudolf's death the hunting lodge was converted into a Carmelite convent. You see the memorial chapel on the site of the bedroom and an exhibition on the tragedy of 1889.
Yes, abbey, convent and coffeehouse are indoors, and the drive through the Helenental is beautiful in any weather.
Baden for the spa park, Beethoven and a coffeehouse, Klosterneuburg for the Verdun Altar and the wine cellar. Both together make an eight-hour day.
For private tours our cancellation terms apply: up to 14 days before the tour we charge 20% of the price as a flat fee for organisation, from 14 to 7 days before 50%, after that or in case of a no-show the full amount. If your plans change, please let us know as early as possible and we will look for a solution together. You will find all details in our terms and conditions.
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