With 2025 set to be a giant yr for nostalgic journey – slower, extra immersive, genuine experiences of yesteryear – the Vienna ball season affords the last word in old-school glamour and attraction.
Almanac Palais Vienna’s A Evening At The Ball is town’s first Ball Season resort expertise, providing unprecedented entry into considered one of Austria’s most conventional pastimes through the months of January and February.
Whether or not you’re impressed by a Fifties Audrey Hepburn or Deborah Kerr in Conflict & Peace or the King & I, or if the heady romance of The Princess Diaries or Bridgerton is extra your beat, the Viennese ball season speaks to the romantic in everybody. Yearly town hosts over 400 balls throughout 4 months: a staggering 2,000 hours of dancing, full with all of the elegant trimmings of nineteenth Century superb residing.
This winter, the romance of Vienna Ball Season is delivered to life in good element by the attractive grand Almanac Palais Vienna: a formidable property that, fittingly, spans two adjoining Viennese palaces, the previous Palais Henckel von Donnersmarkt and the Palais Leitenberger.
A Evening At The Ball has been curated specifically for this yr in celebration of the 2 hundredth anniversary of Strauss – whose ethereal compositions nonetheless play at a lot of at the moment’s balls – and consists of:
- A two-night keep in Almanac Palais Vienna’s Duplex Park Suite providing views of the Stadtpark, with breakfast in mattress and a late check-out
- A non-public classical dance class for 2 within the resort’s Heritage Rooms: the proper costume rehearsal. These opulent state rooms – as soon as utilized by the noble Leitenberger household – have been meticulously restored to retain their unique options and nonetheless have a real fin de siècle really feel
- A beautiful robe by Viennese designer Juergen Christian Hoerl to put on on the Ball
- A pre-ball dinner at Donnersmarkt restaurant, which affords a contemporary and artistic tackle Austrian Alpine-inspired ‘plant-forward’ delicacies
- After-dinner drinks at Donnersmarkt bar
- A bespoke on-property photoshoot to seize the event
- A standard horse and carriage experience to the Ball
- Two tickets to considered one of Vienna’s most coveted Balls
- Limitless use of Almanac Palais Vienna’s genuine Austrian spa, which comes full with swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room gymnasium and remedy rooms
Almanac Palais Vienna’s Evening At The Ball expertise affords the last word nostalgic wintery getaway to the fairytale metropolis of Vienna.
The Almanac Palais Vienna Evening At The Ball bundle is legitimate all through the Jan / Feb Vienna ball season and prices €3,950 (excluding the costume and/or tailcoat by Juergen Christian Hoerl and tickets to the ball) based mostly on two sharing.
The Almanac Palais Vienna opened on fifteenth March 2023 and has 111 rooms (80 of that are suites). The Almanac Palais Vienna is a part of the European-wide Almanac Resort portfolio. Different resort properties embody Almanac Barcelona and Almanac X Alcron Prague, which – for individuals who want flight-free journey – is only a four-hour prepare experience from Vienna.