Highlights: Sisi Museum, Imperial Apartments of Franz Joseph and Elisabeth, Silver Collection, Michaelerplatz, Sisi monument in the Volksgarten, detour to Demel.
MEETING POINT | Michaelerplatz, in front of the Michaelertor gate of the Hofburg
Private tour. You walk with your own people and your guide, never with strangers. More than ten?
The Habsburgs ruled from here for six hundred years, and the Hofburg is still no ruin but the seat of the Federal President, home of the Lipizzaners and the largest residence a family ever built for itself. We walk through the Silver Collection with tableware for 140 guests, through the Sisi Museum with her dresses, poems and gymnastics equipment, and through the Imperial Apartments where Franz Joseph slept on a camp bed. It is about ceremony and escape, about an empress who did not want to be one, and an emperor whose coffee went cold because the protocol was so long. Afterwards a walk across Heldenplatz and the Volksgarten to the Sisi monument and, if you like, a detour to the imperial confectioner Demel.
Variant Hofburg in depth (3 to 4 hours): adds the Treasury with the imperial crown and the State Hall of the National Library.
Guide fee € 270 per tour (2 hrs), € 350 (3 hrs) or € 445 (4 hrs) plus admission Sisi Museum and Imperial Apartments € 20 per person. For two guests € 310, for four € 350, all inclusive.
Included: private Austria Guide, admission Sisi Museum, Imperial Apartments and Silver Collection
Excluded: Treasury and State Hall (option), coffeehouse
A full Sisi day with Schönbrunn and the Imperial Crypt, coffee break at Demel, Spanish Riding School (morning exercise, we arrange tickets).
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.
Yes. Your guide tells the stories that never made it into the films: the poems, the travels, the gymnastics equipment in the bedroom and the feud with her mother-in-law.
The morning exercise of the Spanish Riding School can be added before the tour. We reserve the tickets.
Sisi Museum, Imperial Apartments and Silver Collection take about 75 minutes. The rest is walking and stories outside.
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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