The Imperial restaurant serves traditional Austrian fare the more informal Café Imperial is famous for afternoon teas. Its 139 rooms are on six floors, many decorated in opulent Viennese style. ££££ HOTEL IMPERIAL Käerntner Ring 16, Vienna (00 43 1 501 100 Built in 1863 for the Prince of Württemberg, this former palace is possibly Vienna's grandest hotel. It is colourful (mostly red, yellow and royal blue), comfortable (Frette bedlinen, Molton Brown toiletries) and central. Famous guests include David Bowie and Robbie Williams, but don't let that deter you: with its laid-back élan, it's the last place you'd associate with rock 'n' roll excess. Vienna's first boutique hotel was sensitively redesigned in 1996 by Sir Terence Conran. ££ HOTEL DAS TRIEST Wiedner Hauptstrasse 12, Vienna (00 43 1 589180 This is the most stylish modern hotel in the city. ![]() ![]() £££ HOTEL BRISTOL Kaerntner Ring 1, Vienna (00 43 1 515 160, A feast of marble inside, with barley-sugar columns in the Korso restaurant and opulent retro decor in all the rooms. DO & CO Hotel was featured in The Hot List 2007. As Do & Co is an upmarket catering company, the eclectic menu makes for a sublime dinner. Turkish owner Attila Dogudan has introduced a few Byzantine touches: soft kilim bedspreads, hand-worked, silver-effect Turkish coffee trays for bedside tables and coasters made from leather-bound kilim off-cuts. Indulgent interiors include deep sofas, Etro toiletries in glass-box bathrooms (with teak louvres for discretion) and padded walls of yellow suede. The 43-bedroom hotel occupies the upper floors of Haas House, a modern intrusion in the heart of historic Vienna. Where to stay in ViennaĭO & CO HOTEL Stephansplatz 12, Vienna (00 43 1 24 188 With its mirrored façade reflecting the Gothic grandeur and coloured roof tiles of St Stephan's Cathedral, Do & Co has a spectacular sense of place. With a host of new bars and restaurants to compliment its haughty monuments, Vienna has rediscovered its joie de vivre. Today, the city is as handsome and elegant as ever, but it feels fresh and sprightly. Its broad, sweeping boulevards are as grandiose as anything in Paris, but the atmosphere in its corner cafés was generally pretty sleepy.
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