Hotel Bristol, A Luxury Collection Hotel

Hotel Bristol, Vienna Photo #1 of 12 Longing for Vienna? You are definitely at the right place staying with us at the luxury Hotel Bristol. Our guests enjoy spectacular vistas in the city center and get inspired by look through the window seeing the Vienna State Opera. Photo copyright Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc..

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Longing for Vienna? You are definitely at the right place staying with us at the luxury Hotel Bristol. Our guests enjoy spectacular vistas in the city center and get inspired by look through the window seeing the Vienna State Opera. Reside á la Gustav Mahler or Herbert von Karajan, who once also directed the fate of the great house of music. Savour inspiring moments. Savour the hotel in Vienna – The Luxury Collection Hotel Bristol.

Throughout the 5-star Hotel Bristol Vienna find antiques of the fin de siècle harmoniously combined with the latest technology providing an authentic stay. With 140 exclusive rooms and suites, including the legendary Prince of Wales Suite, the 5 star hotel in Vienna is the place for unforgettable moments.

Of opulence and ease - the Restaurant Bristol at the Vienna State Opera offers a finest range of breakfast, light cuisine, authentic Viennese coffee & cakes as well as refined dinners - the culinary meeting rendezvous of the Viennese and international society. The wood-paneled Bristol Bar is the heart of the 5 star hotel in Vienna, and invites guests to get indulged in Grandeur.

Hotel Bristol's metropolis is in the center of Europe. Founded 2000 years ago, Vienna was the center of the Habsburg Empire for six hundred years. And the city on the blue Danube is green, as half of Vienna is parks, meadows, and vineyards. Amidst the idyllic Baroque and Biedermeier atmosphere you will find a spoiling hotel in Vienna.

The Hotel Bristol opened in 1892 - at a building on the other side of the block. But the hotel soon extended "to grow into" today's corner. Between 1916 and 1945, the Hotel Bristol was so large that it stretched the entire front of Kärntner Ring 1-7. During that time the hotel still boasted the Grill Room, a Titanic-style dining room. Neither the room nor the ship exists any longer. With its prominent address Kärntner Ring 1 today, the Hotel Bristol is the hotel next to the Vienna State Opera, with 140 rooms and suites.

From a socio-demographic point of view, the Bristol's guest list includes a highly interesting mix of famous figures only to be found at a hotel of world class. In 1894, Russian composer and pianist Anton Rubinstein opened the guest book. But among the some 500 entries in the first guest book you also find illustrious names such as US President Theodore Roosevelt, crowned heads like the Spanish and English King, opera stars like Nellie Melba or Enrico Caruso, composers like Mascagni or George Gershwin, the major representatives of the European higher nobility and well-known personalities from the worlds of industry, art and politics. At the Bristol, the writer Felix Salten negotiated the contract that made his novel Bambi a world bestseller - and finally a Walt Disney movie. The list is endless and right now, while we talk about this, some new celebrities make their entries in the book.

The hotel was named after the British town Bristol. In Vienna it was disproved for the first time that the Bristol had been named after the fourth Earl of Bristol. The Earl lived some 100 years before the opening of Europe's Bristol Hotels (Rome 1870, Warsaw 1901, Oslo 1920, Paris 1925 and some 50 more), his emblem was totally different from that of the town in Suffolk which has nothing to do with the Earl.
Bristol's emblem depicts a castle and a ship. Bristol, after all, was the town from where many expeditions put out to sea. The original unicorns were displaced by lions in 1923. Later, in 1932 and 1975, the unicorns appeared again. Today, the emblem bears the lions once again. The motto Virtute et Industria, virtue and industriousness, can be read above our hotel's entrance door; it is, in fact, the same motto that decorates the emblem of the town Bristol in England.