Old world classic hotel full of memorabilia and steeped with history. Once you get beyond the commercial hyperbole of the Sacher Torte you discover a very well located but old fashioned personal hotel. Suites were comfortably appointed and very warm and cost on a wet and windy day. Staff were eager to please wherever standards and expectations were not met. In room technology and engineering were not really contemporary but they still do try to get things done the old fashioned way. I brought my parents here to experience olde world and so they did with a very warm and personable Hotel Managing Director who made the time to walk them through the culture and history of Vienna. Food better had at the restaurants than in room service was limited in choice but reasonably good.
At the end of the day it’s the property, its legacy, it’s location and it’s staff that make this hotel a fine and venerable institution.