Vienna: Schönbrunn Palace Gardens Private Guided Tour
Description
Time to get to know the fabulous Schönbrunn Gardens! Stroll through Schlosspark, admire the Angel Fountain and Gloriette. Optional: Skip the lines to explore the opulent Schönbrunn Palace and dive into Austria’s imperial history and stunning architecture. Choose one of our excellent tour options tailored to your needs and interests: 1-hour: Schönbrunn Garden & Gloriette Hill Tour In the 1-hour tour, you will discover amazing history and fascinating facts about Schönbrunn Gardens, Gloriette Hill, and Schönbrunn Palace (viewed from the outside) and surrounding area. 2-hour: Schönbrunn Palace & Gardens with Gloriette Hill Tour In the 2-hour highlights tour you will explore 22 amazing rooms inside Schönbrunn Palace. Also tour the Schönbrunn Gardens, Gloriette Hill, and surrounding area. Experience the grandeur of Schönbrunn Palace Gardens with Rosotravel on a private tour led by a 5-Star Licensed Guide. Avoid large crowds and uncover the beauty of imperial Vienna at your own pace.
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Itinerary
Meet your guide in front of Museum Shop, Schönbrunner Schloßstraße 47, 1130 Wien, Austria
You will explore the magnificent Schlosspark (Schönbrunn Palace Gardens), the expansive grounds surrounding the palace. Led by a licensed guide, you will visit notable outdoor attractions, including the Angel Fountain, a beautiful Baroque masterpiece, and the Gloriette, a hilltop pavilion offering sweeping views of the palace and gardens. Your guide will share the fascinating history of the gardens, revealing how they evolved over the centuries as part of the Habsburg dynasty’s legacy. This is a perfect option for those who wish to immerse themselves in the tranquil beauty of the gardens without entering the palace itself.
For a more in-depth experience, the 2-hour tour offers the perfect combination of outdoor exploration and regal interior visits. Begin with a walk through the Schönbrunn Palace Gardens, where you will see the Gloriette and Angel Fountain, learning about the Habsburgs' imperial history. Then, enjoy exclusive access to Schönbrunn Palace, skipping the long lines with your Skip-the-Line tickets. Inside, you will tour the opulent Imperial Rooms, including the private apartments of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, and admire the intricate Rococo design and stunning chandeliers. This tour provides an unforgettable opportunity to explore both the outdoor beauty and the royal grandeur of Schönbrunn, all with an expert guide by your side. This private tour ensures a personal and immersive experience, tailored to your interests. Avoid the hassle of large groups and enjoy direct insights from an expert. Schönbrunn is more than just a palace
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Check your email the day before the tour for important details from Rosotravel, your tour operator.
- The number of attractions you visit depends on the option you choose.
- Free access to Schonbrunn Gardens may be restricted in winter, when the gardens are not green or lit up. We recommend booking a morning tour for the best experience.
- Please note: Skip-the-line tickets to Schönbrunn Palace are only included in the 2-hour option. Tickets are timed and grant access to 22 rooms. You will skip the line at the ticket office.
- If you have special requests or need accessibility support, just let us know—we're happy to help!
Reviews(15)
Our tour of Schönbrunn Palace was excellent. Our guide, Mario, was very knowledgeable and friendly. Also, the service was able to find a guide for us on very short notice.
Dear Carlos, Thank you very much for your wonderful feedback! We’re delighted to hear that Mario made your Schönbrunn Palace Gardens tour both enjoyable and informative. We’re also glad that we could accommodate your request on short notice, and that the experience met your expectations. Your kind words mean a lot, and we hope to welcome you again on another Rosotravel tour in the future! Warm regards, The Rosotravel Team
This tour was misrepresented in its explanation. It states skip the line tour of palace and gardens. This did not include a paid gardens tour at all so there was no line to skip!!!! It also did not include the palace at all. Which is how it reads in the description. As far as the palace part it was in the fine print so my error. But still total rip off!! As there was no cost of any ticket involved. That said our tour guide Aida was Lovely and gave us a wonderful tour and was very knowledgeable of the history. She was also nice enough to give us a little more time and information as she was aware of the confusion with the purchase through the app. So NO TICKETS INVOLVED!! For the one hour tour buyer beware. I did request the company upgrade us to the two hour tour which includes the palace and we would pay the difference which was not much. And they would not accommodate that request. Based on that I think they should have refunded us.
Thank you for your feedback. We're truly sorry to hear the experience did not meet your expectations. The tour description specifies that this is a guided walking tour of the palace gardens and exterior grounds, without interior palace admission. While this is outlined in the tour details, we understand how this may have caused confusion, and we appreciate your kind words about Aida’s guiding. We will take your comments into account to help improve the clarity of our listing.
We had a great guide - Ute. She was professional, knowledgeable and fun! We enjoyed the tour of the palace and learned about both the royalty that lived there and the artwork throughout the palace. Highly recommend Ute.
Yesterday we visited Schonbrunn Palace with Rosotravel. After the visit we had flight back home we followed the warnings that were in the reservation and left the backpacks at the hotel as the information you provided warned of the impossibility of leaving any objects, I know not even an umbrella! At the end of the visit we took a taxi to return to the hotel to pick up the backpacks to go to the airport. The surprise was when the guide, before the visit began, offered the possibilitat to those who carried backpacks to leave them in consignment. How was it possible? If it was noticed that we could not leave anything! All the time and money that was spent on us would have been unnecessary if we had been provided with correct information instead of the one we received.
Estimados clientes, gracias por sus comentarios. Nos gustaría confirmarles que ya nos hemos puesto en contacto con nuestro guía para obtener más aclaraciones. Actualmente estamos investigando todos los detalles para asegurarnos de que este tipo de situaciones no se repitan en el futuro si no cumplen con las normas del palacio. Gracias por informarnos. ¡Esperamos darles la bienvenida en otro tour en el futuro! Atentamente, el equipo de Rosotravel.
Beware of booking anything via Rosotravel and Get Your Guide. We booked tours on booking.com and were better off or booked directly with the venue. We had a terrible experience having booked a tour to the Schonbrunn Palace and Gardens via Get Your Guide and Rosotravel. We were there early and couldn't find our tour guide even using our navigator. Its a huge space and for 45 we tried to contact someone from Get Your Guide and Rosotravel to help us find our tour guide. They don't provde the tour guides phone number. After messaging for over 45 minutes, Get your Guide finally tried to reach our tour guide and admitted he wasn't answer the phone. Had they called him earlier maybe we would have found them? They never refunded our money and we were also available to rebook but they denied the request. Kept telling us we cancelled even though we were there on the property and even sent pictures of where we were. They didn't care and just took our money! Do yourself a favor and book yourself and get an audio guide in your language. If you want more history, and use a guide I recommend booking.com or another vendor. By the Way, Get Your Guide also charged us the first day of booking in September even through the tour wasn't planned until mid October. They aren't supposed to do that. We are fighting this with our credit card since they are inflexible helping us.
Dear Client, Thank you for your feedback. We are very sorry to hear about all the inconveniences you have experienced. At the same time, however, we must emphasize that this review concerns the GetYourGuide platform, not Viator. We would like to confirm that about an hour before the tour, we send a general message to all participants with all the directions, address, link to Google Maps. The reserved spots are exclusively for you, preventing other potential customers from booking the same tour. Our guide was awaiting your arrival at the meeting point, but you did not show up. It is worth mentioning that our guides are responsible for the entire group and we have a strict entry time with tickets. Considering the above, our guides are asked to wait an additional 10 minutes as a gesture of goodwill, and then the tour must start. We have to take into account the other participants in the group and the quality of the services provided, so our guides turn off their phones to be able to fully focus on the group. This is the reason why contact with our guides after the start of the tour is challenging. Best regards. Rosotravel Team
Ramona provided an excellent tour of the palace. Far superior than just using an audio guide. She was very knowledgeable about the palace, the royal family history, and the significance of each room.
Our tour guide, Oksana, was excellent! She was very knowledgeable about the history of the palace grounds and its use through time. The 2 hour tour was a perfect amount of time to spend there.
Maria is a great guide. Very knowledgeable and helpful. We received no skip the line passes, not Maria’s fault I guess. The gardens are free so you don’t need a guide at all. Ever! Didn’t get to see the inside of the palace because we didn’t have skip the lines tickets. Not well explained nor realistic.
Initially we were disappointed because we brought a very small puppy in our pocket and with it we could not get in. On the website where we had booked through TripAdvisor, it was not clearly mentioned that dogs were prohibited. But the leader Gertrude was great. She has responded to us and found a solution to the problem. We were allowed to do the tour 2 hours later and were thus able to put our bitch in the hotel room for this time. Also the tour itself was fantastic. Gertrude has an enormous knowledge with which she made the tour interesting with great pleasure. That's great.
Fantastic guide, took his time with us and had insights into the palace and family which made the tour very interesting.
