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Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides
Top 10 Vienna
DK Eyewitness Top 10: Vienna will lead you straight to the very best Vienna has to offer. Whether you wish to take a walk through the magnificent historic palaces and gardens, explore the captivating galleries and museums, experience the liveliest bars and clubs, or relax in a Viennese café, this guide provides the insider knowledge every visitor needs, whatever your budget.
Don't miss a thing with dozens of Top 10 lists; including the Top 10 best restaurants and wine bars in Vienna, the Top 10 hotels in Vienna for every budget, the Top 10 best venues in Vienna for concerts and opera, and even the Top 10 Viennese cakes!
Each Top 10 guide now contains a pull-out map and guide that includes fold-out maps of city metro systems, useful phone numbers, and 60 great ideas on how to spend your day.
Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in Vienna.
Don't miss a thing with dozens of Top 10 lists; including the Top 10 best restaurants and wine bars in Vienna, the Top 10 hotels in Vienna for every budget, the Top 10 best venues in Vienna for concerts and opera, and even the Top 10 Viennese cakes!
Each Top 10 guide now contains a pull-out map and guide that includes fold-out maps of city metro systems, useful phone numbers, and 60 great ideas on how to spend your day.
Your guide to the Top 10 best of everything in Vienna.
- GenresTravelNonfiction
160 pages, Paperback
First published June 5, 2003
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May 9, 2024
Don't leave home without it!
Do not go to Vienna without this book! I read this book before going and was able to get an idea of what Vienna was about, but when I arrived, this book did not leave my hands! This guide divides Vienna into sections. We set out our agenda according to sections in the book. The street-by-street map was invaluable and we were never lost. I am the worst with directions, but I knew exactly where I was during each day. With the maps, I easily navigated the entire city! The cutaways and guides to the various museums and attractions were also invaluable. We were able to walk into any attraction and know what the star features were and not have to miss a thing. We did not have to buy the extra tour books in each museum because our Eyewitness Guide gave us all the information we need and then some. Not only was I the navigator, but I was our personal tour guide. With the book, I was able to read out loud to my friend and tell him about everything we saw in Vienna. There were many other tourist with the Eyewitnes Guides in their hands and I was pleasantly surprised to see the book in so many different languages. A tourist even came up to me at the Schonbrunn Palace asking me where I got the book because she saw so many people with it, and she was disappointed when I said I got it in Canada because she was ready to pick up a copy immediately.
You can forget the credit cards, but DO NOT LEAVE HOME WITHOUT THIS ONE!
Paul Weiss
Do not go to Vienna without this book! I read this book before going and was able to get an idea of what Vienna was about, but when I arrived, this book did not leave my hands! This guide divides Vienna into sections. We set out our agenda according to sections in the book. The street-by-street map was invaluable and we were never lost. I am the worst with directions, but I knew exactly where I was during each day. With the maps, I easily navigated the entire city! The cutaways and guides to the various museums and attractions were also invaluable. We were able to walk into any attraction and know what the star features were and not have to miss a thing. We did not have to buy the extra tour books in each museum because our Eyewitness Guide gave us all the information we need and then some. Not only was I the navigator, but I was our personal tour guide. With the book, I was able to read out loud to my friend and tell him about everything we saw in Vienna. There were many other tourist with the Eyewitnes Guides in their hands and I was pleasantly surprised to see the book in so many different languages. A tourist even came up to me at the Schonbrunn Palace asking me where I got the book because she saw so many people with it, and she was disappointed when I said I got it in Canada because she was ready to pick up a copy immediately.
You can forget the credit cards, but DO NOT LEAVE HOME WITHOUT THIS ONE!
Paul Weiss
June 22, 2014
I would recommend this as an early-on read for someone who doesn't know much about Vienna or have a strong sense of what sort of things he or she likes to see and do when traveling. Someone going on their first trip abroad, perhaps -- Vienna is a good city for beginning travelers as it is easy to navigate, has a wide array of sights and activities, and many residents speak English. So, if you don't know what you want to do or are the sort of travelers who likes to check tourist attractions off on a list, this may be for you.
I didn't find it useful for planning as it gives little sense of how things relate to one another either spatially or historically. I would much rather know "What's the best cafe near this museum?" than "which are the ten best cafes?" (although as it happens I went to no cafes, so either was irrelevant). This gives no sense of what things might make sense to do on the same day, as a walk, for instance. Perhaps the idea is that one looks things up on one's hypothetical smartphone and then checks to see if they're in the book?
Unfortunately I accidentally packed this instead of the very useful Rough Guide to Vienna which I meant to bring. It does come with a removable pocket-sized map, which was the main use I got from it.
I didn't find it useful for planning as it gives little sense of how things relate to one another either spatially or historically. I would much rather know "What's the best cafe near this museum?" than "which are the ten best cafes?" (although as it happens I went to no cafes, so either was irrelevant). This gives no sense of what things might make sense to do on the same day, as a walk, for instance. Perhaps the idea is that one looks things up on one's hypothetical smartphone and then checks to see if they're in the book?
Unfortunately I accidentally packed this instead of the very useful Rough Guide to Vienna which I meant to bring. It does come with a removable pocket-sized map, which was the main use I got from it.
October 17, 2023
Is it bad that I mainly just took notes on coffee houses and where to eat cake?
February 4, 2026
review for the edition published in 2023
this is a really good guide book. lots of good recommendations of things to see and do. The only comment I'd have for improvement is there isn't much about how to find the main channel on the Danube river (there are several canals in central Vienna which could be mistaken for the actual Danube)
this is a really good guide book. lots of good recommendations of things to see and do. The only comment I'd have for improvement is there isn't much about how to find the main channel on the Danube river (there are several canals in central Vienna which could be mistaken for the actual Danube)
December 20, 2018
As with all the Top 10 guides it proved to be informative and, almost as important, highly portable.
May 3, 2022
DK Travel Guides are always my go-to guides, and the pocket guides (for short City breaks) are ideal.
January 28, 2024
Great support prior to and during a recent trip to Vienna. Thanks for the information and recommendations.
April 27, 2025
I've read the Polish edition. It is alright, definitely useful. The bonus map is a nice touch :). However, overall, it is just too brief for me. I simply prefer travelogues.
March 3, 2017
A handy-sized guidebook to carry around with you. I only wish it had included details of day trips from the city, as other books in this series have done.
April 1, 2015
I've been to Vienna, and also a reader of lots full version and Top 10 Eyewitness traveling guides for various cities. This one is particularly informative and accurate - a bargain for the Kindle book price I paid for it, Definitely will be handy when I visit again this summer. My favorites were the sections on pastries and churches.
June 1, 2016
Decent travel guide. I am not the biggest fan of travel guides as I feel you can get a lot more information and up to date advice online. I only read travel books if I borrow them from the library.
November 30, 2016
Nice try. A top 10 list of many things. What makes the list? What classifies a place as a 5th or a 7th? Magic. At least tripadvisor is free with an adblocker.
October 13, 2014
Seems useful. Haven't been yet, so time will tell.
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