Be a Royal For a Night! Tourists Can Now Stay in a Viennese Palace

Annie Daly
·Contributing Editor
Updated

You can wake up to this. Seriously. (Photo: Austria Trend Hotels)

If you’ve ever wanted to live like royalty, now’s your chance.

The Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria—a former imperial residence that’s been operating as a museum since the 1950s—is now allowing tourists to spend the night there, starting at $550 per night. Listed on GoUnusual.com, the actual room, one of the palace’s 1,441 rooms, is the former suite of Emperor Franz Joseph.

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The top-floor rental sleeps up to four people. It has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a salon, and a kitchen, which are all decked out in Baroque décor. But that’s just the suite itself: Guests also get a private chef, limousine service, and a butler, all provided by Austria Trend Parkhotel Schonbrunn. Because royalty.

One of the two amazingly beautiful bedrooms. (Photo: Jürg Christandl/Austria Trend Hotels)

Could that bed be any more glamorous?(Photo: Jürg Christandl/Austria Trend Hotels)

Just your ordinary living room. NBD. (Photo:Sebastian Reich/Austria Trend Hotels)

The lovely bathroom. (Photo: Jürg Christandl/Austria Trend Hotels)

Guests are also paying for the view itself. From the suite, visitors can see the Gloriette, Neptune Fountain, the palace park, and more, all of which are popular landmarks in Vienna.

The view from the suite. (Photo: Austria Trend Hotels)

Currently, the museum itself is one of Austria’s most popular tourist attractions. And for good reason: It’s steeped in history. The property was first purchased by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II in 1569, and the palace itself was built between 1740 and 1750.

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Since then, the palace has continued to shine. After World War II, for example, British military officers used the palace as offices. In 1996, UNESCO inducted the palace onto the World Heritage List. And it’s also a top destination for important political meetings: United States President John F. Kennedy, for instance, met with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev there in 1961.

“The magnificent architecture and the exquisite décor of its state rooms marks Schonbrunn as a cultural treasure and tourist attraction of the highest order,” said a spokesperson for the palace.

Any takers?

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