Travel Tips

Walking in Vienna: Spring Is Waiting for You!

A few weeks ago, we introduced WildUrb, a Vienna based online community that encourages urban people to discover urban space by walking. As spring is pampering us with sun and warmth these days, it’s time to head outside and discover Vienna’s outdoor secrets! So we asked Doris from Wildurb to give us her personal recommendations read more …

Vienna in One Day: a Sightseeing Quickie

Vienna is full of great sights and things to see. BUT: if you are on a short trip, time might be scarce… SOLUTION: just take this list of our personal recommendations to explore the Austrian capital in just one day. However, you will either have to get up early or be really quick. If you read more …

A 6 steps guide for moving to Austria

You need information about moving to and living in Vienna? Here is the right stuff for you: the online community “feelslikehome” helps foreigners with their first steps in the Austrian capital – free of charge. Moreover, feelslikehome is aiming at teaming up people to receive group discounts to save money in the first weeks after read more …

Walking in Vienna: Sightseeing off the Beaten Track

Vienna now has it’s first urban walking community: WildUrb encourages urban people to walk and to discover urban space by foot, to create sustainable, funny and interesting perspectives of enjoying urban space. When I first saw WildUrb I thought “wow, that exactly the spirit we stand for, that’s perfect for travellers to get into a read more …

Winter in Vienna – sightseeing tips from our expert (pt.2)

Our wombats Vienna guide and expert Charles gives you his personal recommendations for your stay in the Austrian capital. This is part two of the “things to do in Vienna in winter” series – the first part can be found here. Culture & Arts – Gustav Klimt Vienna is celebrating the 150th birthday of Gustav read more …

The Trail to the Perfect Wiener Schnitzel!

Our guests are famous for cooking the most delicious meals in our hostels’ kitchens. We have seen so much different feasts from different countries, prepared with basic ingredients on a small budget – thanks for all the inspiration, folks! But the key insight from the food thing was: the best way to understand a country read more …

How to Spend New Year’s Eve in Vienna

New Year’s Eve is coming our way. If you are in Vienna and still searching for the right place to celebrate the turn of the year, here are some recommendations for you: Eating out, yummie! A good diner might be the best thing to start the New Year’s Eve. Unfortunately, most of the restaurants in read more …

Get Your Free Tripwolf Mobile Travel Guide for Vienna!

Listen, dear wombats guests: Now it’s getting easy for you to carry the Austrian capital in your pocket… Due to cooperation with tripwolf – the best mobile travel guide – we can provide you a Vienna guide for your iPhone or Android mobile. And the best of all: it’s free if you stay in our read more …

Discover Vienna with our free wom-walk!

You want to get some spectacular views of the Austrian capital Vienna, see heaps of great historical sights and meet nice people for good drinks and food? No problem, our brand new wom-walk has it all for you – for free! The walk starts every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11am at our wombats CITY read more …