Vast living space, big bedrooms and bathrooms, GREAT location in the city!
In a word, Arya’s apartment in Vienna is amazing! We were 3 friends staying 5 nights in Vienna for vacation in early September.
The apartment is substantially large! It had an almost regal feel about it – so spacious and vast, especially for just 3 people. High ceilings and big bathrooms round out the very spacious feel. It would be a fantastic apartment to be fortunate enough to call one’s home in Vienna!
There are 27 steps up from street level, or an elevator ride, then 2 steps up from the hall into the apartment itself. Two of the three bedrooms have a window into an interior light-shaft of the building (ie, no view) and both have dedicated walk-in bathrooms. One features a toilet, bidet, and shower stall; the other features toilet, soaking tub, shower stall. The third bedroom (smallest – although still comfortably large, and with a window onto the street below) does not have a private bath. There is a half-bathroom (no tub/shower) in the main foyer, along with a clothes washer & dryer room. Each bedroom had a dedicated air conditioning unit with a handy remote-control.
An open-plan kitchen/dining/living room creates a massive space, with 2 tall windows that open onto the pedestrian-only street 1 level below us, while French doors can close the large space off from the foyer and bedrooms section. This main living space doesn’t have dedicated air conditioning; we were comfortable with leaving the windows open in this space, and occasionally running a floor fan if it felt a little stuffy – but in a heat wave summer, this space might get rather warm. (The windows are the variety that can either swing all the way open (on side hinges) or, by turning the handle another way, can tilt inward a little bit from the top (ie, hinged at the bottom.)
The kitchen was well stocked; coffee maker, microwave, dishwasher, stovetop, refrigerator/freezer, abundant counter space, dishes, silverware and abundant glassware. A Billa grocery store is just 3 blocks away for stocking up on groceries; we had simple breakfasts this way each day, but didn’t attempt any cooked meals ourselves, where there’s so much Vienna to see, and so many great dining options!
Arya was a helpful and friendly host, available by text, call or email. He responded to our 1 minor issue -- a loose door handle that needed tools to retighten it -- by coming to the apartment the next day to address it. (He doesn’t live in the same area of Vienna as the apartment.)
The apartment is spectacularly well located for tourists! A 2-minute walk puts you directly at St. Stephen’s cathedral. The wide pedestrian-only street shopping, Karntner Strasse is likewise, 2 minutes away. The opera house and Ring Road is probably a 5-8 minute walk; Stadtpark and the Kursalon concert hall, about 10 minutes. We all felt there wouldn’t have been a better location for our trip and the things we wanted to visit. The small street of the apartment is a pedestrian-only street, featuring 2 very good restaurants which we thoroughly enjoyed (one situated directly beneath the apartment, at street level, the other directly across from the apartment building; but noise or food smells were not an issue in the apartment.)
In short, all three of us agreed that we would LOVE to stay at Arya’s again on any future visits to Vienna! A friend living in Prague visited us in Vienna for 1 day (staying at a different AirBnB 2 blocks away) and she was so impressed with Arya’s apartment that she immediately reserved it for herself for 3 nights later in November.