With 2025 set to be a big year for nostalgic travel – slower, more immersive, authentic experiences of yesteryear – the Vienna ball season offers the ultimate in old-school glamour and charm.
Almanac Palais Vienna’s A Night At The Ball is the city’s first Ball Season hotel experience, offering unprecedented access into one of Austria’s most traditional pastimes during the months of January and February.
Whether you’re inspired by a 1950s Audrey Hepburn or Deborah Kerr in War & Peace or the King & I, or if the heady romance of The Princess Diaries or Bridgerton is more your beat, the Viennese ball season speaks to the romantic in everyone. Every year the city hosts over 400 balls across four months: a staggering 2,000 hours of dancing, complete with all the elegant trimmings of 19th Century fine living.
This winter, the romance of the Vienna Ball Season is brought to life in perfect detail by the beautiful grand Almanac Palais Vienna: an impressive property that, fittingly, spans two adjacent Viennese palaces, the former Palais Henckel von Donnersmarkt and the Palais Leitenberger.
A Night At The Ball has been curated specially for this year in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Strauss – whose ethereal compositions still play at many of today’s balls – and includes:
- A two-night stay in Almanac Palais Vienna’s Duplex Park Suite offering views of the Stadtpark, with breakfast in bed and a late check-out
- A private classical dance class for two in the hotel’s Heritage Rooms: the perfect dress rehearsal. These opulent state rooms – once used by the noble Leitenberger family – have been meticulously restored to retain their original features and still have a genuine fin de siècle feel
- A stunning gown by Viennese designer Juergen Christian Hoerl to wear at the Ball
- A pre-ball dinner at Donnersmarkt restaurant, which offers a modern and creative take on Austrian Alpine-inspired ‘plant-forward’ cuisine
- After-dinner drinks at Donnersmarkt bar
- Full hair and make up from the city’s best authorities on old-school Ball glamour
- A bespoke on-property photoshoot to capture the occasion
- A traditional horse and carriage ride to the Ball
- Two tickets to one of Vienna’s top city Balls
- Unlimited use of Almanac Palais Vienna’s authentic Austrian spa, which comes complete with swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steam room gym and treatment rooms
Almanac Palais Vienna’s Night At The Ball experience offers the ultimate nostalgic wintery getaway to the fairytale city of Vienna.
