Destinations

VIENNA

Vienna, also described as Europe's cultural capital, is a metropolis with unique charm, vibrancy and flair. It boasts outstanding infrastructure, is clean and safe, and has all the inspiration that you could wish for in order to discover this wonderful part of Europe. Vienna, the capital of Austria, 2 million inhabitants, is situated on the banks of the Danube. The influx of visitors from all over the world has made Vienna the most popular urban tourist destination in Austria.

Austria's climate is generally moderate and mild and reliably follows the four distinct seasons. Average winter temperatures are around 0°.

Vienna - a romantically imperial city: Vienna is a dream city for anyone with a romantic streak or an interest in history. Sightseeing opportunities are to be found in abundance. Wander along narrow, medieval alleyways or across imperial squares, view Schönbrunn Palace or the Imperial Palace (Hofburg) in the footsteps of Sissi and Emperor Franz Josef, and marvel at the majestic architecture along the Ring boulevard. Be inspired by an atmosphere steeped in history - which also boasts the comforts and infrastructure of a modern city! Vienna possesses a lively and vast array of cultural attractions. Whether classical or experimental theatre, film or dance festivals, opera or operetta, or exhibitions and concerts.

Vienna - city of music: Vienna has been synonymous with music for centuries, and was home to Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Johann Strauss. This outstanding musical heritage has been preserved right to the present day. The Wiener Philharmoniker is one of the world's top orchestras and the Vienna Conservatorium has produced innumerable international award-winners in all musical disciplines. Yet Vienna also boasts a lively scene for young people - if you love music, you are sure to profit from Vienna.

Vienna - City of art: Down the centuries, Vienna has always produced and nurtured world-famous artists. The collecting passion of art-loving rulers and monarchs has made Vienna a treasure house par excellence. The Museum of Fine Arts, is one of the world's largest and most distinguished museums, housing priceless works of art.

KITZBUEHL- TIROL

Kitzbühel is a winter sports resort synonymous with charming hospitality, first-class sports facilities, and a sparkling atmosphere. The town's unique location, its delightful flair, the many international top events combine to make Kitzbühel a Holiday Mecca. A town full of legends who still live their history. Surrounded by picture-book mountains, you feel the spirit of sports and victory. A truly outstanding passion, a way of life.

Kitzbühel's historic lanes and narrow cobble stone streets are lined with colorful houses, exclusive boutiques and cozy cafés. The spectacular mountain scenery forms the perfect backdrop for the beautiful old town.

Together with the pistes and ski lifts in neighbouring Kirchberg in Tirol, Jochberg and by the Thurn Pass Kitzbühel is one of the largest ski regions in Austria.

Kitzbühel offers 56 cableway and lift facilities and 168 kilometers of slopes available to them, as well as 40 kilometers of groomed cross-country skiing tracks. Of note is the relatively new 3S Cable Car, the cable car with the highest above-ground span in the world.

Kitzbühel also caters for the high end of the tourist market, as many celebrities and the jet set come here for the international races on the Hahnenkamm.

Culinary delights know no limit in Kitzbühel. Nor does shopping. Top designers, labels and brands from all over the world have stores in Kitzbühel to cater to the city's international guests.

Transportation

Accommodation

Hotel Sacher Vienna

Hotel Sacher Vienna is one of the world’s great luxury hotels in one of Europe’s most culturally significant cities: the birthplace of psychoanalysis and a city of musicians, artists, philosophers and architects. Their famous guests have included John F. Kennedy, Indira Gandhi and Queen Elizabeth. Proud of their history and location, and true to Viennese traditions. Providing the highest standard of comfort, superb service and every modern technology and amenity that guests from all around the world need. The Hotel Sacher Wien, which opened in 1876, occupies an enviable spot on Philharmonikerstrasse directly across from Vienna's State Opera. Famous are its classic, jewel-toned interiors. Guest rooms are decorated with antiques, silk curtains and select works from the museum-worthy collection of paintings.

Junior Suite, 530sqft Junior Suite - located on all floors, combined living and bedroom. Refurbished elegant style. Individually equipped with choice furniture and antiques. Fine fabrics create a warm, luxurious atmosphere. Stylish materials lend each room its unique charm. Maximum comfort including AC, marble bathroom, bath robe, free WLAN, cable flat TV, DVD/CD Player in Dolby Surround, IPhone/IPod docking station, safe, mini bar, work desk, seating arrangement, 1 king or 2 twins, and Sacher time to chocolate amenities. Can connect to another Junior Suite or to a Top Deluxe room. Watch a video

Hotel Stanglwirt

Hotel Stanglwirt, Going at Wilden Kaiser, Tirol Against the striking backdrop of the Wilder Kaiser mountain, at the five-star Bio Hotel Stanglwirt you’ll not only experience a delightful hub of the Tyrolean way of life, but also a well-earned escape from the daily grind. The luxury resort boasts a broad spectrum of all manner of different rooms and suites, all with that exclusive feel-good factor and furnished with arolla pinewood to promote excellent health.


All guests of the Bio & Well-being Hotel Stanglwirt in Tyrol shall be pampered with a comprehensive range of top-class spa treatments (including medical beauty) as well as countless well-being and sports offers. Alongside the ample Stanglwirt fitness grounds (with 500m2 indoors – kitted out with state-of-the-art Technogy equipment and attended by professional medical fitness trainers), you’ll find a riding arena to include a private Lipizzan stud, a driving range to include the private Golf Sport Academy, as well as multiple tennis courts (indoor and outdoor). In winter the Stanglwirt has a private ski school to offer its guests.

Kaiser Junior Suite, 650sqft Large living, walk-in closets and bedroom, bathroom with bathtub, shower and double sink, separate WC, direct dial phone, mini bar, flatscreen TV, balcony or terrace with views of the Wilder Kaiser mountains. Free Wifi throughout the hotel.

Spa and Wellness

The Spa at Hotel Sacher, Vienna

The exclusive Sacher Spa sits on the 5th floor of the Hotel Sacher and offers a world of luxury, wellbeing and relaxation. There is an extensive thermal suite and a range of treatments, including our popular chocolate experiences, that provide a fantastic experience for both body and soul. Take a look at our treatments menu and indulge yourself.

Beauty Spa

Our qualified and experienced beauticians use the very best products including La Prairie, Ligne St. Barth and Helena Rubinstein to refresh, nourish and pamper your skin. A range of treatments is available, including manicures, pedicures, waxing and make-up, all done to an impeccable standard to leave you feeling sparkling and radiant.

Day Spa & Fitness

Pamper yourself with a bit of Sacher luxury by using the thermal spa and taking one of our beauty and massage treatments. You can also use the fitness center. The thermal area features a beautiful sauna, aroma salt steam room, herbal bath, sensory showers, ice fountain and meditation room as well as a break out area with a refreshing bar.

Hotel Stangwirt, Going am Wilden Kaiser, Tirol

The unique Stanglwirt Well-being Adventure World is a relaxing treat of the sophisticated kind. The newly designed Spa is a source of energy for the body, mind and soul. A special place at the heart of the Stanglwirt world where we apply a natural understanding to combine trend with tradition. Across an expanse of over 6000m2, you can unwind and just relax. The water here is like an elixir of life and plays a very special part – all the vast expanses of water (covering an area of over 1500m2) are fed by the establishment’s very own Kaiser spring and heated by the energy derived therefrom. In the commodious relaxation zones you can sit back and relax beside a crackling open fire, as your gaze wanders out across the majestic Alpine world and the rambling Lipizzan paddocks of the stud belonging to the hotel. A host of all sorts of lovingly fashioned sauna attractions are just waiting for you to discover them and luxuriate in them. Stanglwirt guests are in the best of hands with our highly qualified and experienced Spa team who are constantly developing their training even further.
We recommend that you make spa appointments in advance and gladly provide you with atreatment menu.

Events

Spanish Riding School - Morning Exercise- Hofburg Vienna

Almost every day, the white Lipizzan stallions are put through their paces by their riders. The primary objective is to maintain the horses' athleticism and health, as well as to build up various muscle groups that are necessary for performing the exercises of the haute école.

Experience our Morning Exercises performed to music!

The Spanish Riding School of Vienna is the oldest and last Riding School in the world where classic dressage is still practiced in its purest form. This Institute was founded in 1572 and its very name gives away the fact that the horses were of Spanish origin. The Imperial Court Stud was situated near the village of Lipizza and it was this village which gave the race its name.
After the collapse of the Danube Monarchy in 1920 the Austrian Republic became the legal successor and from this time the Lipizzaners have been bred at the federal Stud at Piber in Styria.
The Lipizzaner is regarded as the oldest classic horse race in Europe. The superb arena - the Winter Riding School in the Vienna Hofburg (Imperial Palace) in which the Riders of the Spanish Riding School train the horses and where they perform was commissioned by Emperor Karl VI. His portrait decorates the white baroque hall built by Josef Emanuel Fischer von Erlach from 1729 to 1735. Since 1920 the presentations of classical dressage have been open to the public.

VIENNA STATE OPERA -Simon Boccanegra

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
PROLOGUE. Genoa, 1300s. In a public square, Paolo and Pietro conspire to gain power over the aristocracy by electing a popular corsair, Simon Boccanegra, as doge. Boccanegra accepts, hoping it will make possible his marriage to Maria, who has been imprisoned by her father, Jacopo Fiesco, because she bore Boccanegra a daughter out of wedlock.

ACT I. Twenty-five years later, in a seaside garden, Amelia Grimaldi awaits her lover, Gabriele Adorno. He arrives, and she expresses fear for their safety in strife between the patricians and plebeians. Gabriele, learning the doge wishes her to marry Paolo, obtains for himself the blessing of Amelia's guardian, "Andrea" (the fugitive Fiesco). Determined to overthrow the doge, the men depart...

ACT II. In the doge's quarters at night, Paolo sends Pietro to free Gabriele and "Andrea" from detention, then pours poison into Boccanegra's goblet. When Gabriele and "Andrea" enter, Paolo tries to persuade the old man to assassinate the doge, then incites Gabriele with insinuations about the doge's relationship with Amelia. The youth raves with jealousy until Amelia enters, but before she can explain, Boccanegra approaches. Gabriele hides while Amelia asks the doge to pardon her lover, for she would rather die than live without him; Boccanegra agrees, on the condition that Gabriele desert the conspirators...

ACT III. Genoa is celebrating Boccanegra's victory over the rebels. "Andrea," set free, encounters the traitorous Paolo, who has been condemned to death, and who tells him he has poisoned the doge. A herald announces the revelry must end in memory of the fallen heroes; then Boccanegra comes in, mortally ill. "Andrea" reveals he is Fiesco only to learn from the doge the actual identity of Amelia....

Philippe Auguin | Dirigent Peter Stein | Regie
Stefan Mayer | Bühne Moidele Bickel | Kostüme
Leo Nucci | Simon Boccanegra Ferruccio Furlanetto | Fiesco
Ramón Vargas | Gabriele Adorno Barbara Frittoli | Amelia

Vienna Volksoper - The Wizard of Oz

“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Lyman Frank Baum is America’s most famous fairy tale which attained worldwide cult status through the screen adaptation starring Judy Garland (1939). Its best-known song “Over the Rainbow” by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg was awarded an Oscar in 1940. The stage version of this masterpiece, as originally developed in 1987 for the Royal Shakespeare Company, will be making its first appearance at the Volksoper.

In German language
Regie - Henry Mason
Ausstattung - Jan Meier
Licht - Mario Ilsanker
Choreographie - Francesc Abos

“Weisswurstparty” at Stanglwirt, Kitzbuehl most traditional “Hut Party”

Zünftig and omitted: Traditional Friday night of the Hahnenkamm race a big celebration takes place at “Stanglwirt”. The legendary “Weißwurstparty” attracts around 2,000 friends of the house, regular guests, ski legends and numerous celebrities that guarantees great Austrian charm and ambience.
With the exclamation "Weißwurscht is!" and the ringing of the 400 year old Stanglwirts bell, Stangl host Balthasar Hauser will open the 24 Weißwurstparty. The official ceremony - the "Anzuzeln" will be exectuted by Stanglwirts hosts Balthasar and Magdalena Hauser along with celebrities. There is no stopping the 2,000 guests and Stanglwirt fans from dancing and singing together in the Lipizzaner riding hall, which will be converted into a traditional ski hut, complete with panoramic views of the Kitzbühel mountains. The music entertainment for this event is “top secret” but never fails to please year after year.

Back to the source
Landlord Balthasar Hauser and Toni Holnburger, responsible for sampling more than 5,000 white sausages, set off on a voyage of the history of the Hahnenkamm race and legendary white sausage party under the motto of ‘Back to the source’. Hahnenkamm winners and many other sporting legends were honored in the past as a tribute to the good old days. Karl Schranz, Franz Klammer and Hannes and Edith Trinkl as well as skiing legends Hias
Leitner, Fritz Huber and Annemarie Moser-Pröll to name a few.
Celebrity voices
“I’m here because of the best white sausage in Kitzbühel,” says Niki Lauda, a fan of the Bavarian speciality. “A good white sausage remains a good white sausage,” says Alfons Schuhbeck, playing his cards close to his chest. Butcher Toni Holnburger adds: “A bit of champagne in one, a bit of white beer in the other – it tastes great”. Matthias Sammer: “I like to holiday with my family at the Stanglwirt and have close ties with the Hauser family – so of course I have to attend the white sausage party!” And Gerry Friedle: “The Stanglwirt is a traditional hotel 364 days a year. And on one day, it’s packed with action. I like the Stanglwirt; I enjoy coming here on any day!”

Please watch the following link from a previous Weisswurstparty, unfortunately only in german.
We have an exclusive area reserved for our group during that event.
Weisswurstparty

Downhill Alpine Ski Race and Slalom Race in Kitzbuhel

75th Hahnenkamm- Race
The entire ski world gets Hahnenkamm fever!
The best international ski athletes will gather in Kitzbuhel to celebrate the highlight of the World Cup calendar. The Streif is considered the most spectacular ski run in the world and will require the participants to tackle almost everything.

Jumps up to 80m, steep slopes up to 85% gradient, speeds up to 140 km/hr, 860 meters height difference from the starting gate (1665m) to the finish (805m). A total length of 3312 meters at more than average speed of 103 km/h.

Course record 1:51:58 min (1997, Fritz Strobl, Austria). These are some basic data on the "Streif" downhill of the most spectacular in the world. "I congratulate all who are here who made it down with me. I think we are all crazy! "said the 4 times-winner Didier Cuche (SUI) after skiing down the Streif .

Since 1931, the Hahnenkamm races has taken place from Kitzbuehel Hausberg mountain. The fixed points since the early years are the run down the Streif and the Slalom on Ganslernhang. The historic-slalom slope will be in use again after short break in the last years. For Kitzbuehel, the Hahnenkamm event the sporting and social highlight of the year and sees the ‘Gamsstadt’ bursting at the seams with reporters and celebrities from around the world flocking to the streets. Television pictures of the wintry Kitzbuehel go around the globe and reach 500 million people. You too can also enjoy the unique Hahnenkamm flair in Kitzbuehel and cheer on, with tens of thousands of fans, the best skiers in the world!

Saturday, January 24, 2015
11:45am! ! Hahnenkamm Downhill Race - Sreif
02:00pm! ! Kitz Charity Trophy - Streif Finish Area

Sunday, January 25, 2015
10:15am! ! Hahnenkamm Slalom, 1st run - Ganslern
01:30pm! ! Hahnenkamm Slalom, 2nd run - Ganslern
03:00pm! ! prize giving - Ganslern, Finish Area Watch a video

Kitzbuehl Kitz Race Party

Kitzbühel – the the Superbowl of skiing.
WWP has been marketing this premier event since 1997
WWP sets the social highlight of the winter with the Kitz Race Party on the Saturday evening of the race weekend.
A concentration of society, sponsors’ guests and the winter sport elite, all come together at this exclusive gala dinner to be spoiled by gastronomic perfection.
An unforgettable entertainment program awaits the guests, with international celebrities and stars performing throughout the evening.
This event offers an exclusive sit-down dinner with drinks and midnight snacks.
Transfer back to the hotel for our group will be available throughout the event
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Vienna & Kitzbuehl Package January 2015
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