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Vienna Imperial New Year Ball
HIGHLIGHTS: Attend the most famous Vienna Ball and combine it with a ballroom dance lesson and some great a la carte options for a fabulous New Year Break.
Vienna is a wonderful place for a New Years Eve celebration. Recreating the splendour of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the Imperial Ball Vienna combined with a private Waltz lesson to brush up your skills, and a concert at either the Kursalon or the Hofburg and you have a lovely end to 2012 and a special weekend break.
Have a Ball in Vienna
DAY 1 - 30 Dec 2012
Fly Vienna to start your weekend luxury break. Private Transfer. 2 hour private Waltz dance lesson
Your private driver will meet you in arrivals and transfer you to your chosen hotel to start your Vienna New Year Break.
After check in you will enjoy a private 2 hour dance lesson at the world famous Elmayer school of dance. This will help you master the Waltz for the Vienna Imperial Ball.
After check in you will enjoy a private 2 hour dance lesson at the world famous Elmayer school of dance. This will help you master the Waltz for the Vienna Imperial Ball.
DAY 2 - 31 Dec 2012
Attend the Imperial Ball Vienna at the Hofburg Imperial Palace
Day at leisure or include one of our optional extras prior to attending the Imperial Vienna Ball, Vienna for your New Year celebrations at the Hofburg Imperial Palace.
This evening don your Ball gowns and Tuxedos prior to a private transfer to attend one of the most famous balls in the world.
7.30 p.m. Cocktails will be served in the Hofburg Foyer and roaming acts will get everyone in the mood for a party to remember! Extras in fancy dress will open the grand staircase and accompany the visitors into the staterooms beyond.
8.30 p.m. A sumptuous four-course Gala banquet is served by waiters in livery including welcoming cocktail, wine and champagne
10.30 p.m. Parade and waltz performance by the debutantes and members of the ballet ensemble of the Imperial Ball accompanied by the Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra.
11.45 p.m. New Year’s Gala - Members of the Imperial Court enter the hall to salvos and the ringing of the largest bell of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and guests can dance their way into 2013 to the strains of the “Blue Danube Waltz”. A number of leading soloists from the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper will sing various love, joy and happiness themed arias as part of the nights on going "The night of love" programme.
00.30 a.m. Quadrille under professional guidance to the strains of the "Fledermaus-Quadrille" by Johann Strauss
The evening will continue in the same vein with music courtesy of the Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra and the Gerhard Aflenzer Big Band in the Fesitival Hall. A packed line up of other bands and orchestras will be performing in the other halls.
Meanwhile at the Hofburg Forum a hip chillout lounge and disco will have people dancing till the early hours
04.00 a.m. Ends
This evening don your Ball gowns and Tuxedos prior to a private transfer to attend one of the most famous balls in the world.
7.30 p.m. Cocktails will be served in the Hofburg Foyer and roaming acts will get everyone in the mood for a party to remember! Extras in fancy dress will open the grand staircase and accompany the visitors into the staterooms beyond.
8.30 p.m. A sumptuous four-course Gala banquet is served by waiters in livery including welcoming cocktail, wine and champagne
10.30 p.m. Parade and waltz performance by the debutantes and members of the ballet ensemble of the Imperial Ball accompanied by the Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra.
11.45 p.m. New Year’s Gala - Members of the Imperial Court enter the hall to salvos and the ringing of the largest bell of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and guests can dance their way into 2013 to the strains of the “Blue Danube Waltz”. A number of leading soloists from the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper will sing various love, joy and happiness themed arias as part of the nights on going "The night of love" programme.
00.30 a.m. Quadrille under professional guidance to the strains of the "Fledermaus-Quadrille" by Johann Strauss
The evening will continue in the same vein with music courtesy of the Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra and the Gerhard Aflenzer Big Band in the Fesitival Hall. A packed line up of other bands and orchestras will be performing in the other halls.
Meanwhile at the Hofburg Forum a hip chillout lounge and disco will have people dancing till the early hours
04.00 a.m. Ends
DAY 3 - 01 Jan 2012
Day at leisure to recover from the Vienna Ball!
Breakfast and day at leisure or include some optional extras.
DAY 4 - 02 Jan 2012
Day at leisure and transfer to airport after your New Year Break in Vienna
Breakfast and day at leisure prior to transfer to the airport after your luxury weekend short break.
Make an enquiry
Call 01722 744695
Price per person: From £1,280
Includes Flights, 3 nights Accommodation with breakfast (Hotel de France), Activities, Private Transfers & Guides, Imperial Ball Ticket Category 2
A La Carte Optional Extras
Vienna Hofburg Orchestra Performance on 1st Jan
Half Day City Tour including Schönbrunn Palace on 2nd Jan
Special Performance of Spanish Riding School on 30th Dec
Strauss and Mozart Concert at Kursalon on 30th Dec
Romantic Visit to the Viennese Woods on 2nd Jan
Fiaker Horse and Carriage Tour
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Vienna Hofburg Orchestra Performance on 1st Jan
Every Year the Vienna Hofburg Orchestra celebrates the New Year in the Hofburg flower-decorated Festival Hall. Concerts showcase the most popular waltz and operetta pieces by Johann Strauss, Emmerich Kalman, and Franz Lehar, as well as Mozart's opera arias and duets.
Price Per Person: From £150 Top Category 1
Price Per Person: From £150 Top Category 1
Half Day City Tour including Schönbrunn Palace on 2nd Jan
Your private driver guide will take you see the most important historical sites along the Ringstrasse; the State Opera House, National Musems, Imperial Palace, Parliament, City Hall and University before taking you to the highlight of the tour; the UNESCO cultural heritage site of Schönbrunn. Schönbrunn, the former summer residence of the imperial family is considered one of the most beautiful of the baroque palaces in Europe. Here you will take a guided tour of the majestic stately rooms.
Price Per Person: From £120
Price Per Person: From £120
Special Performance of Spanish Riding School on 30th Dec
See the incomparable Lipizza horses display their unique mastery of the haute Zcole exactly as they did three centuries ago. Performances are located in the Hofburg Palace Winter Riding School.
Price Per Person: From £217 Top Category 1
Price Per Person: From £217 Top Category 1
Strauss and Mozart Concert at Kursalon on 30th Dec
In the building where Johann Strauss conducted his orchestra the essence of Vienna's classical music can once again be heard. The Salon Orchestra Alt Wien presents an evening full of Viennese charm with the lilting sound of waltzes, polkas, arias and duets, as well as operetta and piano concerto melodies.
Price Per Person: From £85 Top Category VIP
Price Per Person: From £85 Top Category VIP
Romantic Visit to the Viennese Woods on 2nd Jan
After breakfast your private driver guide will collect you from your hotel for a morning in the wonderfully romantic southern Viennese woods.
Pass the Roman city of Baden as you drive through the romantic Helenental valley to the former Mayerling hunting lodge. You will visit the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz and its medieval cloister prior to the highlight, a boat ride on the largest subterranean lake in Europe. A spectacular way to end a magical 3 days!
Price Per Person: From £102
Pass the Roman city of Baden as you drive through the romantic Helenental valley to the former Mayerling hunting lodge. You will visit the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz and its medieval cloister prior to the highlight, a boat ride on the largest subterranean lake in Europe. A spectacular way to end a magical 3 days!
Price Per Person: From £102
Fiaker Horse and Carriage Tour
Take a Fiaker carriage ride through Vienna's old town streets and discover the city's most important sights. Pass by Saint Stephens cathedral, the Hofburg Imperial Palace and the attractions of the Ring boulevard.
Price Per Person: From £39
Price Per Person: From £39
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