With 2025 set to be a giant 12 months for nostalgic journey – slower, extra immersive, genuine experiences of yesteryear – the Vienna ball season presents the last word in old-school glamour and attraction.
Almanac Palais Vienna’s A Evening At The Ball is town’s first Ball Season lodge expertise, providing unprecedented entry into one in all Austria’s most conventional pastimes in the course of the months of January and February.
Whether or not you’re impressed by a Fifties Audrey Hepburn or Deborah Kerr in Battle & Peace or the King & I, or if the heady romance of The Princess Diaries or Bridgerton is extra your beat, the Viennese ball season speaks to the romantic in everybody. Yearly town hosts over 400 balls throughout 4 months: a staggering 2,000 hours of dancing, full with all of the elegant trimmings of nineteenth Century positive residing.
This winter, the romance of Vienna Ball Season is dropped at life in good element by the gorgeous grand Almanac Palais Vienna: a formidable property that, fittingly, spans two adjoining Viennese palaces, the previous Palais Henckel von Donnersmarkt and the Palais Leitenberger.
A Evening At The Ball has been curated specifically for this 12 months in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of Strauss – whose ethereal compositions nonetheless play at a lot of right this moment’s balls – and consists of:
- A two-night keep in Almanac Palais Vienna’s Duplex Park Suite providing views of the Stadtpark, with breakfast in mattress and a late check-out
- A non-public classical dance class for 2 within the lodge’s Heritage Rooms: the proper gown rehearsal. These opulent state rooms – as soon as utilized by the noble Leitenberger household – have been meticulously restored to retain their unique options and nonetheless have a real fin de siècle really feel
- A beautiful robe by Viennese designer Juergen Christian Hoerl to put on on the Ball
- A pre-ball dinner at Donnersmarkt restaurant, which presents a contemporary and artistic tackle Austrian Alpine-inspired ‘plant-forward’ delicacies
- After-dinner drinks at Donnersmarkt bar
- A bespoke on-property photoshoot to seize the event
- A conventional horse and carriage journey to the Ball
- Two tickets to one in all Vienna’s most coveted Balls
- Limitless use of Almanac Palais Vienna’s genuine Austrian spa, which comes full with swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room health club and remedy rooms
Almanac Palais Vienna’s Evening At The Ball expertise presents the last word nostalgic wintery getaway to the fairytale metropolis of Vienna.
The Almanac Palais Vienna Evening At The Ball package deal is legitimate all through the Jan / Feb Vienna ball season and prices €3,950 (excluding the gown and/or tailcoat by Juergen Christian Hoerl and tickets to the ball) primarily based on two sharing.
The Almanac Palais Vienna opened on fifteenth March 2023 and has 111 rooms (80 of that are suites). The Almanac Palais Vienna is a part of the European-wide Almanac Lodge portfolio. Different lodge properties embody Almanac Barcelona and Almanac X Alcron Prague, which – for individuals who want flight-free journey – is only a four-hour practice journey from Vienna.
