Time Out Vienna

I was very happy with this book - I was interested mostly in shopping and restaurants, since I had already done all the touristy type stuff in a previous visit to Vienna. It lists things by district, the maps are easy to follow, it has both an alphabetical and street index, and it is small enough to carry around. The restaurant reviews were right on - I went by this guide for about 10 meals/drinks/desserts (all of which were great), and helped me discover places I would have overlooked. It includes restaurants for ALL budgets. The shopping guide helped me find niche shops and boutiques, not just chains, and also a lot of the stuff that I discovered on my own and LOVED was already in the book once I looked back to check on it. Even though I didn't use the sightseeing section as extensively as the restaurant and shopping guide, it is superpacked with background info and pictures. I picked this book over lonely planet and let's go since it was the most recently published of the 3, and also because I regularly purchased the TimeOut magazines when I lived in London, and I feel like I really got my money's worth.

The Time Out Vienna guide made my trip much more enjoyable with it's insider tips and witty humor, even through it was published over 2 years ago. The information in the guide was even informative to my travel partner who has been to Vienna hundred's of times over 50 years.I will ALWAYS travel with a Time Out guide in the future.

If you only purchase on guide book to Vienna get this one.It's very detailed and very honest. It's fun to read even if you're not going to ViennaHighly recommended!!

Being Viennese and a lonely planet fan, I must clearly say, that this is "the best" travel guide for Vienna, I've ever browsed through.Granted, information about the rich Viennese history could fill bookshelves, but this guide does not only provide a brief, but sound historical information, but also a bunch of contemporary hints. Moreover, it tries to go a little off the beaten path, by not only focussing on the "hardcore must visit" spots. I could not have described some places/cafes/clubs better to my foreign friends than this book.

i've travelled a great deal all over the world, and i always have a tough time finding good guides. knowing the wealth of information that "time out" magazines offer, i thought i'd try the vienna guide - and i surely made the right choice! the information was incredibly useful, from getting around to what to do. plus, the cultural information and inside details about the sights were really interesting. i was visiting a friend who is from vienna, and he was really impressed to see things in the guide that he thought were known only to natives. most of the insider's spots he had planned to take me were listed in the guide.everything in the book was right on, with the exception of one restaurant that had moved (always a problem with guides, but this one wasn't as bad as some of the experiences i've had with lonely planet).and yes, the old woman at cafe hawelka does indeed try to set up singles - and their pastries are out of this world!if you are going to vienna, you can't do better than time out's guide.