EST Hotel Palais Chotek NEW OPENING

An 18th-century palais on Währinger Straße, EST Hotel Palais Chotek occupies one of the Ninth District's few remaining aristocratic townhouses, its stucco facade set between university faculty buildings and the Votivkirche spire two blocks south.

Rooms lean into the original proportions — high ceilings, deep window embrasures — updated with clean-lined Austrian joinery and wool textiles. The hotel opened recently and its 28 verified stays already average a near-perfect 9.8 score, an unusual early signal for a new-opening property.

Währinger Straße links the University of Vienna ring road to the quieter Cottage Quarter; tram lines D and 40 stop at the door, putting the Kunsthistorisches Museum around twelve minutes away.