Vienna Tours Private Sightseeing

I think of all Vienna tours private sightseeing trips best capture the charms of the city. Vienna can turn into a history supermarket if you don't get the right access. Access my tips of the best small group and private tours through the old town, the best Vienna museums, baroque gardens, the Wachau Valley and more. The tours include classic Vienna walking tours, trips by car, bike and segway, and day excursions by car to the surroundings, Salzburg, Prague, and Budapest.

Vienna Tours: Private Walking Tours

Vienna's city centre is compact, largely a pedestrian area, and full of must-sees.

Evening Walking Tour

You arrive late in the afternoon in Vienna and can't wait to get out. This private evening walking tour takes you on an extended orientation trip through the city centre. Vienna's landmarks are magic when illuminated. The small local tour operator is also highly popular for his personal advice on what to see and do in Vienna. A great and unusual tour to start your city break. Learn more about the Evening Walking Tour.

Private City Highlights Tour

What I like about this tour is that it comes in neat digestible packages. During the three-hour core tour, the local tour guide will show you the essentials, from Ringstrasse boulevard and Schonbrunn Palace to artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser's iconic blobby building in the district of Landstrasse. This is the easy-peasy mini-van tour. If you can spare two more hours and like to walk, he will take you into the city centre, including the Imperial Palace, the Jewish quarter and St. Stephen's Cathedral. The full-day tour (seven hours) builds upon the five hour tour, and includes more hidden places in the city centre, and then to the wineries of Grinzing and the Vienna Woods.
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Vienna For First Timers

Tour Vienna with Barbara, a qualified Austrian actress, graphic designer, journalist, book author and licensed tour guide who loves to share her passion for Vienna's culture and history. Barbara not only weaves authentic local stories into her tours, but collects them herself (she has publicised a book about true stories as told by Viennese taxi drivers).

Baroque Splendours - Belvedere And Schönbrunn

Schönbrunn Palace and the Belvedere Vienna are the figureheads of baroque Vienna. This tour will bring them and their baroque gardens into perspective. You will start at the gardens of the Belvedere, which connect both the Upper and Lower Belvedere palaces. On the way to Schonbrunn Palace you will see and learn more about the sumptuous baroque Church St. Charles Borromeo. The tour guide has rightly decided to include two Art Nouveau pavilions by Otto Wagner into his baroque tour. They are on the way and too good to be missed. Learn more about the Baroque Splendours Tour.

My tip: Visit the interior of the Upper Belvedere before your tour starts, and leave some time to visit the interior of Schonbrunn Palace after the tour ends.

City Walks and Escorted Museum Tours

Private tour guide Yvonne focuses on bringing Vienna to life by adding contemporary information and knowledge about the Viennese way of life to her art and history tours. She specialises in city and courtyards walks and in escorted Vienna tours of museums and palaces.)

Sigmund Freud And The World Of Yesterday

Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, is more popular than ever since David Cronenberg's recent blockbuster A Dangerous Method. This tour does not refer to the film but follows Freud's footsteps when he lived and worked in Vienna for almost half a century. You will visit many places with a reference to Freud, the highlight being his former consulting room turned museum. The tour also makes reference to Stefan Zweig's novel The World Of Yesterday which describes Vienna at the turn of the 19th century until World War II.

My tips: Available tour guides usually speak German and English. If you require a different language, ask the respective tour operator.
Private tours can become an affordable alternative to guided tours if you travel in groups as small as three to four people.
Find out with the tour operator whether they are prepared to adjust your customised tour right during the journey if need be.

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Vienna Tours: Private Chauffeur And Tour Guide

You can tour Vienna in a rented vehicle with either your own chauffeur and a separate qualified tour guide, or with a knowledgeable driver.

Most private tour operators suggest various programmes, from the classic essentials of Vienna sightseeing to themed trips, along with the option to customise your own sightseeing programme.

Vienna City Tour With Chauffeur And Licensed Tour Guide

This private tour is great for families and small groups who want to get their very own Vienna experience in the most comfortable way. You will have your own private driver and licensed tour guide for four hours. They will show you the city's highlights and go the extra mile if you wish to see additional sights, visit a museum or palace, or have a break at a café or restaurant. The tour takes place in a private sedan or mini-van, depending on the number of customers.
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Private History and Art City Tour of Vienna

You will have your own chauffeur and licensed tour guide throughout this three hour sightseeing tour. The trip focuses on Vienna's classical heritage and the main landmarks. A good choice for sophisticated travellers who want high quality tours.
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Private Cabriolet City Tour

A great summer option for a private chauffeured tour. You will be driven in a 1970ies Volkswagen Beetle cabriolet past Vienna's most spectacular sites, including Schonbrunn Palace, which you will visit. The tour is available between 1st April and 31st October.
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Vienna Tours: Private Biking, Jogging, Skating And Segway Trips

Do slow strolls wear you out more than mid-powered work outs? There are Vienna tours (private or small groups), that combine sight seeing with moderate biking, jogging or using a Segway. (The latter is more fun than sweaty.) The following sporty trips are available in Vienna:

City Tour By Bike Or Inline Skates

Private tour guide Verena takes experienced cyclists on tours through the city centre and Ringstrasse state boulevard, as well as to other nearby attractions such as the Prater amusement and natural park. There are also bike tours to recreational areas available.

Sightjogging through Vienna

This jogging tour allows you to cover five to ten kilometres of sightseeing in one hour while keeping fit. Your private running guide will pick the route, sites and speed of jogging according to your preferences and fitness levels. You can start or end your day with this trip as the guide is available between 6am and 10pm.
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Private Vienna Segway Tour

This local tour operator specailises in segway tours. During the private tour you can take as long as you want to get used to your segway, pick your own special route, and include other things such as lunches or stops to visit indoor attractions.

Private Segway City Tour

The three hour segway tour with your private guide captures all of Vienna's major sites in town. Your guide will train you on the segway and will stop frequently for photo opportunities. He will also use a wireless tour guide system (also used for Vienna tours by bike) which allows you to absorb information while on the segway.
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