Vienna Underground Guided Walking Tour
Description
Acquire a new perspective on Vienna with a guided tour of the city's underworld. Travel underneath the city to discover the gloomy world that awaits. Walk around the hidden Vienna and learn about both the beautiful and ugly sides of the Viennese underground world. Beneath the city of Vienna lies a hidden network of corridors, shafts, cellars and subterranean buildings. Go on a journey to a parallel world and discover during the tour some relics from World War II like former air raid cellars and places of refuge for outcasts. Visit 2-3 private and non public accessible historical basements in the heart of Vienna, each of which will provide you a lot of unique insights and interesting stories of their former uses. Experience Vienna off the beaten track! The Viennese underworld is larger and more extensive than in other cities and holds a world of mysteries.
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Itinerary
Our guide is welcoming you and will lead you through the hidden and forgotten part of the city, the Viennese Underground. With him you will visit some private and non public accessible cellars with a lot of history.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Reviews(29)
The vienna you never see. A whole host of underground network tunnels with an array of stories. The guide was very good. We were British on a German speaking tour but used the Internet to follow the guide and the guide did speak English as required. Very friendly and informative.
The tour is held completely in German, but they provide an english audio option that you can hear on your own during the tour. You just open a web site that has different audios that you should play them inside of each room. The audio was monotonic and boring and it seemed like it was generated by AI. Luckily for me I know a little bit of German, so I just ignored the audio and started listening to the tour guide. She was a nice person with a good sense of humor. So the experience between a german audience and an English audience is way way different. As in german it's more interactive and you can discuss stuff with the tour guide and even other people on the tour. Unlike listening to boring english audio and feeling isolated/excluded from the whole group as if you are just watching a boring YouTube video that you don't really interact with the people in it. Content wise, I would say it's a little bit of a niech topic. As it's not so historic/old sites (like roman ruins), rather it's something "recent" in the 20th century. Maybe I'm a little biased about it, as I have been before to an underground tour in italy where they had actual roman ruins that shows you how they lived. So, I kinda had high expectations from the beginning. Also the description of the tour is very vaguely generated with AI as well, that you really can't imagine much, what the tour is about. At the end I was a little bored, maybe because my German skills are not good enough and a lot of words got dropped hence a lot of the context was missing for me. Over all I would prefer to watch it in a 15 minute video than a 2 hour walking tour.
Thank you for taking the time to share your detailed feedback. We are sorry to hear that the experience did not fully meet your expectations. We understand that following a guided tour in a language that is not your native language can significantly influence the overall experience. The English audio guide is an additional service and a considerable investment on our side to make the tour accessible to international visitors. Without this option, non-German speakers would unfortunately not be able to participate in the tour at all. While the tour guide conducts the live tour in German, the audio guide is intended to provide English-speaking guests with the same factual information and historical background throughout the tour. We appreciate your comments regarding the narration style of the audio guide and the feeling of reduced interaction compared to German-speaking participants. The interactive nature of a live guided tour is indeed difficult to replicate through an audio format, and your feedback helps us identify areas where we can further improve the experience for international guests. We are pleased to hear that you found our tour guide friendly and engaging. We will be sure to pass on your kind words. Regarding the content itself, the tour focuses on a specific chapter of 20th-century history rather than ancient archaeological sites. We understand that visitors arrive with different interests and expectations, and we regret that the topic was not as engaging for you as you had hoped. Thank you again for your honest feedback. We continuously work on improving both our tour descriptions and our multilingual offerings, and your comments are valuable in that process.
1. There is no meeting point, not even a painted X on the ground or on one of the graffiti-covered walls. 2. You visit the cellars at five different locations that are connected above ground. 3. In these five cellars, you are told for two hours what people have done there throughout history. You are shown a brick wall that supposedly dates back to the 12th century, along with other empty words. 4. When you read "underground," you expect tunnels that connect the cellars, but the tunnels have collapsed, and the cellars remain. Let's take a look at them ourselves instead. Highly recommended
Vielen Dank für Ihr Feedback. Es tut uns leid zu hören, dass die Führung nicht Ihren Erwartungen entsprochen hat. Gerne möchten wir auf einige Ihrer Anmerkungen eingehen. Der Treffpunkt wird in unseren Buchungsunterlagen sowie in der Bestätigungs-E-Mail beschrieben. Wir nehmen Ihren Hinweis dennoch ernst und prüfen, wie wir die Beschilderung vor Ort noch deutlicher gestalten können. Bei der Führung handelt es sich um eine historische Untergrundtour, die mehrere originale Kelleranlagen umfasst, die sich unter verschiedenen Gebäuden befinden. Besonders hervorzuheben ist, dass es sich dabei um private, normalerweise nicht öffentlich zugängliche Keller handelt, die im Rahmen dieser Führung exklusiv besichtigt werden können. Der Zugang zu diesen Räumen stellt für viele Besucher einen besonderen Mehrwert dar, da sie außerhalb unserer Führungen der Öffentlichkeit nicht offenstehen. Diese Anlagen waren historisch Teil eines größeren unterirdischen Systems. Leider sind die einst vorhandenen Verbindungsgänge heute nicht mehr begehbar oder existieren teilweise nicht mehr, weshalb die einzelnen Stationen oberirdisch miteinander verbunden werden. Gerade die erhaltenen Keller selbst sind jedoch authentische Zeugnisse der Stadtgeschichte und vermitteln einen seltenen Einblick in Bereiche, die den meisten Menschen verborgen bleiben. Der Schwerpunkt der Führung liegt auf der Geschichte und Nutzung dieser unterirdischen Räume über verschiedene Epochen hinweg. Die erhaltenen Baustrukturen, darunter auch historische Mauerwerke, werden anhand historischer und archäologischer Erkenntnisse erläutert. Uns ist bewusst, dass Besucher unterschiedliche Erwartungen an den Begriff „Untergrund“ haben. Daher werden wir prüfen, wie wir die Beschreibung der Tour noch präziser formulieren können, um Missverständnisse zu vermeiden. Wir danken Ihnen für Ihre offenen Worte und nehmen Ihre Anmerkungen als wertvolle Anregung zur weiteren Verbesserung unseres Angebots mit.
Great information about part of the history of the Vienna underworld. The guide Johannes had his first tour and was very sympathetic and motivated - thanks for that:-) Highly recommended!
A totally unique way to experience Vienna- really interesting tour.
Our tour was interesting and also included some laughs. Our guide was very kind and sympathetic. Vienna a different way:)
We (three adults) took part in the “Guided Tour of the Vienna Underworld” today – and it was simply great. A perfect combination of history, atmosphere and exciting insights into hidden places you never get to see otherwise. Our guide – a very personable student – designed the tour with a lot of commitment, knowledge and humor. You could feel that she was really passionate about the subject and conveyed historical facts with passion and sensitivity. The tour leads through old cellars, corridors and vaults where you can literally feel the time of the Second World War. This is exactly what makes it so special: You’re moving over real World War II debris – and this isn’t a party cellar or Instagram location, it’s an authentic story under your feet. The fact that there are still some old wine bottles in a former teaching beer and wine cellar – still part of a hospitality school today – fits perfectly into the picture and gives the place additional charm and historical depth. Anyone here who thinks they are in a trashed party cellar and smells smoke, as other reviews suggest, which is not even there, probably did not pay so much attention on this tour and missed the point of this tour. The route was well chosen, the pace pleasant, and the group manageable – leaving enough room for questions and conversations. Conclusion: An exciting, honest and impressive journey through time under the city. Perfect for anyone who wants to experience Vienna from a completely different angle. Highly recommended!
An exciting insight into an unexpected world in Vienna. Guide was very nice, a little more background information and waiting until the whole group stood together would be better for the future. But definitely highly recommended! Thanks for this opportunity and idea.
The tour was interesting, we got many new impressions how deep the cellars underneath the historic center go and our Tourguide was lovely and competent
The 2-hour guided tour “Vienna Underworld” into some multi-storey basements of the Inner City gave in-depth insights into the historical and social development of Vienna and beyond. Our guide Steffi has imparted her extensive knowledge very entertaining, extremely eloquent and extremely pleasant. She was able to answer questions spontaneously and competently.
