Vienna Woods and Mayerling Half Day Trip

Vienna, Austria

Explore beautiful sites surrounding the southern part of the Vienna Woods on a half day guided coach tour. Highlights of the tour include a visit to the Mayerling hunting lodge and a boat ride on the largest subterranean lake in Europe, the Seegrotte.

You'll pass the Roman City of Baden, famous for its thermal springs as you travel through the romantic valley Helenental to the former Mayerling hunting lodge. Today it is a a commemorative chapel however it was also the very place the Crown Prince Rudolph, only son of Emperor Franz Joseph, committed suicide with Baronesse Vetsera in 1889.

In the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz (1133) you will visit the medieval cloister which houses the remains of the last Babenberger. Keep an eye out as you drive by the Holdrichsmuhle where Franz Schubert composed his song 'The Linden Tree' before arriving at the Seegrotte.

Your tour concludes continues with a leisurely boat ride on the largest subterranean lake in Europe. You'll you leave the Vienna Woods and return back to Vienna, passing the Liechtenstein Castle on the way.

USD $56.18

Traveler Reviews

Review by: filip h	January 2012
Excellent half-day trip. A 'half-hour "coffee pause' would be appreciated. We liked much also your efficiency and efforts to make clients comfortable. Good hotel pick-up. Best wishes for 2012!

Review by: Heriberto A	January 2012
The trip itself was amazing, but we requested an English guidance, but unfortunately the group guide spent significantly more than half of the time talking in German with a very little group of people, and specially with one couple. Definitely, we lost a lot of interesting information. I think is important to clarify that the guide for the part of the excursion at the underground lake was very descriptive and interesting. There were no problems with the explanations at all.

Review by: Brittany K	December 2011
The tour guide was very knowledgeable and I highly recommend this trip. Absolutely nothing went wrong. We were actually picked up on time and my family really enjoyed this trip.

Review by: Diana M	November 2011
Very good, the guide was excellent.

Review by: Eduard K	October 2011
Great tour, I like it.

Review by: hing6612	October 2011
It's a nice tour. Good to see something different apart from the city. Just that have to bare with the guide speaking 4 different languages with is very confusing sometimes

Review by: OLGA A	October 2011
HAPPY WITH THIS TRIP

Review by: Reetmohinder singh A	October 2011
Raing. Could not see much.

Review by: THEODOSIA T	October 2011
We booked this trip , as we wanted to visit the woods and we didn't have the time to plan it thoroughly._br/_ It was very good value for money._br/_ The hotel pick up was very convenient. _br/_ I would definitely recommend this trip.

Review by: Seamus M	August 2011
An interesting tour through the monastery with an informative tour guide. The underground lakes were interesting but as we had visited a natural cave with boat trip in Co Fermanagh N Ireland, it was not a novelty to us.

Review by: PUSHPA Y	July 2011
I were very disappointing because you conduct this tour in four languages at a time, we waste our so much time. For one information we have to wait at least 15 minutes. At the time of booking you not mention that you conduct this tour in four languages at a time, we take simply English option but one guide translate each line in four different languages.

Review by: Beth W	July 2011
Vienna, Austria has always been one of our most favorite European cities and this tour proved that there are so many interesting and beautiful sights outside of the city as well.

Review by: RB	June 2011
Good but boat ride was less than 5 minutes.

Review by: Gwendolyn K	May 2011
fun trip here!! did not expect it to be this fun!! good tour guide, very knowlegable. the monastery visited was very interesting! and the subterranean river ride was a surprise!

Review by: Elizabeth T E	May 2011
You've got to see it for yourself.......

Review by: Brian R	March 2011
Not enough look at the Vienna Woods. Felt we spent too long at the monastery. It was always a problem getting everyone back to the coach. The See Grotto was excellent. However, our guide was very good and full of information.

Review by: Claire C	February 2011
Great tour, really enjoyed it especially Mayerling and the monastery. Would have liked to have seen cemetry where Mary Vetsera buried, and have had a little time in the village of Mayerling itself. But was a good half day trip, and our guide Hans was very informative and good fun.

Review by: Maria S M P	December 2010
Excellent half day trip to the Vienna woods and Mayerling, great tour guide. The boat trip was just perfect!

Review by: Kathleen M	December 2010
A wonderful experience - we were collected from our hotel punctually and driven the short distance to the coach terminus for the start of the tour. Vienna Woods was just beautiful in the snow. Mayerling was interesting, as was the monastery. We had a brief glimpse of Liechtenstein castle before proceeding to the underground caves and boat journey on the lake. A really enjoyable half day excursion.

Review by: David B	November 2010
This was a worthwhile and informational trip. The guide was very knowledgeable and informed about the history of this area. We enjoyed the ininerary very much. The underground lake was great.

Review by: sharnee c	November 2010
The underground lake was the highlight, that guide was amazing. The rest of the trip was boring and we sdtayed on the bus nearly the whole time. The guide had no personality. Better for over 50's.

Review by: Alice C	October 2010
We loved this tour! They picked us up at the hotel and we were off. It was a beautiful day too! Beautiful scenery, gothic church and a suprise I didn't expect. We went into an old mine with canals. Hitler took it over to build planes. chilling and creepy. Some unexpected history There were even bits and pieces of the planes left.

Review by: Anne K	October 2010
This is a great use of a half day in Vienna. In a fairly short time, you get a feeling for the local landscape and towns. It's true that there's not enough time to really see the two monasteries, but there's plenty of time for the really unusual part of the trip -- the underground lake. In addition to the lake itself, there is an extensive tour of the mine, which was used by the Germans during World War II to construct aircraft, a bit of important history you don't normally see. I must also compliment the guide, who skillfully juggled 4 languages during the tour.

Review by: Ms JC Y	October 2010
Would prefer the tour to be in English only.

Review by: Robert L	September 2010
Outstanding guide. Easy drive to sites.

Review by: Rosa O	September 2010
This is a very nice trip. If you do not like closed places, do not take. The ride on the lake is fantastic. Nothing to be scared of. Thanks Viator for this opportunity.

Review by: DORIS D	September 2010
Only somewhat interesting. The guide was very good but after the trip was completed, we all determined that our time could have been better spent.

Review by: Melinawati S	September 2010
The guide is very nice to explain everything of this half day trip. Especially the underground lake, so wonderful!

Review by: Alan B	August 2010
This trip was very well planned, well guided and simply couldn't have been done on our own. There were many aspects to it and all were interesting and unique. This Vienna Woods and Mayerling trip was excellent.

Review by: John L	August 2010
An excellent trip. All three stops were fascinating. Super scenery. Thanks to a wonderful guide.

Review by: VILMA V	August 2010
Wow again very beautiful. I think if you have extra time definitely take this tour. You will learn a lot.

Review by: Jayanta M	August 2010
It was an ok trip. The visit to the underground lake was quite refreshing.

Review by: Theresa P, United States of America	June 2010
This was truly outstanding. We will remember it all our lives. It would have been nice to have a coffee and bathroom break after the first hour by the time we got to the monastery, we were in great need of these services! Still, this is an experience not to be missed.

Review by: Warwick M, Australia	June 2010
A wonderful trip and excellant value for money.

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	June 2010
abbey was the best part.

Review by: Rocky N, Australia	May 2010
excellent trip.

Review by: Anonymous, Australia	May 2010
Great, interesting half day trip, especially the underground lake.Beautiful Countryside as well

Review by: John G, United States of America	May 2010
We had a wonderful trip. It was really quite nice to get out and see the countryside. FYI - we had an included dinner in Grinzing, supposedly in the Vienna Woods too - while at one time this was the woods today it is in the middle of the city. So don't count on this for your opportunity to see the woods.

Review by: Sally C, United Kingdom	February 2010
An interesting trip with a very knowledgeable guide.

Review by: richard f, Australia	January 2010
Beautiful scenery, extremely professinal tour guide, everything well organized.

Review by: Hilary M, Ireland	January 2010
A very nice short trip, though mind you I was beginning to get tired of even more monasteries & churches since I had already done the Danube Valley Day Trip. For me the best part was the trip into the mine, which felt like a bit of an adventure. It has quite a history, having been taken over by the Nazis in 1944 to develop a fuselage for a jet aircraft. The unsuccessful project was abandoned at the end of the war. The trip through the lake was amazing too. I was, however, disappointed that there wasn't a more wildlife element to the tour, but the very nature of fauna in the wild is that they're unpredictable, so maybe it wasn't possible. Still I would have liked to learn more about the flora & fauna of the region. The hills of the Vienna woods are considered to be the foothills of the Alps & the countryside we drove through when we eventually got off the motorway was indeed very pretty.

Review by: Louis V, United States of America	December 2009
Great.

Review by: Maryann D, United Kingdom	October 2009
This is a very good and interesting itinerary I had taken the excursion before with a different guide unfortunately the guide could hardly be bothered with any explanations - beware of that!

Review by: Arie A, Israel	October 2009
It was nice but far from "wow"

Review by: keith t, United Kingdom	September 2009
Excellent!

Review by: Isobel D, Australia	September 2009
Excellent tour with knowledgeable and friendly guide.

Review by: Paul G, United States of America	August 2009
The opportunity to view this bit of important Austrian history made this tour worthwhile. The underground grotto is definitely a unique experience and the Vienna Woods are beautiful. A nice trip that is not too long.

Review by: Anonymous, United Kingdom	January 2009
Informative and interesting. Very well organised.

Review by: Mihail T, Romania	September 2008
Very well organized and informative. Punctual hotel pick-up. Excellent multilingual skills of our guide. It was a pity he did not come with the group to the underground lake because the boatman spoke only German.

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	April 2007
Very informative, an excellent trip that gets you out of Vienna.