Vienna Stadtfest

The city festival Vienna will take place for the 28^th time this weekend. From May 27^th to May 29^th there will be all sorts of events, programmes and shows all over town. “Experience the city” is this year’s theme.

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Open air locations in Vienna

The sun is out, the temperature is rising and all we want is: coffee in the sun, a cool afternoon beer in a beautiful garden or an exotic cocktail at the beach…

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The Vienna Life Ball

This Saturday, May 21^st, the Life Ball 2011 will take place in Vienna. “Spread the Wings of Tolerance” is this year’s theme, trying to illustrate the invisibility of the HI Virus, as well as of air. Air is one of the 4 elements that have been part of each year’s theme at the life ball.

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e-scooters trend

Sales numbers have risen dramatically in the past couple of months and are prone to increase even more in the future: E-bikes and e-scooters are the current trend in city life mobility.

It is incredible how eco-friendly one can actually move around if one only wants to. E-bikes have become more and more popular. Austrias society for transport systems (VCÖ) stated that the number of e-bicycles sold last year was 20,000 and the number is expected to double to 40,000 sold e-bicycles this year, due to the high gas prices.

E-scooters also become more and more interesting to Austrians. An increase of 57% was recorded last year and hopes are high that these numbers will keep on improving.

But what exactly are the advantages of an e-scooter and what is it that you need to keep in mind when thinking of buying one?

We did a little bit of research for you to help you buy the most suitable e-scooter tailored to your needs.

-        Keep in mind that e-scooters are much cheaper than real scooters in terms of “gasoline”. While an e-scooter needs roughly 4 kwh on 100km, calculated with an electricity price of 21cents per hour, 100km roughly cost 84 cents ordinary scooters normally need around 3 liters on 100km which means roughly around 3.60€.

-        You can invest from 800 to 4,000€ into buying an e-scooter therefore always make sure you compare prices, because there are often great differences. The price will mostly depend on: the battery and the operating distance.

The better the battery, the higher the price, but also the higher the number of charging cycles; The battery but also the motor of the e-scooter influence the operating distance. If you buy a bike with an energy-saving motor and a good battery you will have a great operating distance. For occasional usage a scooter with an operating distance of 50-70km will probably suffice, but if you plan to use the scooter as your main means of transportation you will probably need to think of buying one with a larger operating distance.

All in all you will probably need to think of investing around 1,000€ if you only plan to use the e-scooter in the city from time to time. If you wish to go further and plan on roughly 150km of operating distance, you will be wise to invest 2,500€ and more.

Vienna has already got around 40 e-charging stations spreading throughout the city. You can find out online where you can charge your scooter: e-charging stations

If you want to give it a first try: come by and  rent our e-scooters and velos at Boutiquehotel Stadthalle for a day or a half day.

sources: http://www.elektroroller-aktuell.de/electric-scooter-en.html and http://www.vcoe.at/

“Genuss” food festival in Stadtpark

 This weekend the yearly „genuss festival“ will take place. From Friday May 6th to
Sunday May 8^th Stadtpark will be all about food. A large selection
of regional specialities, starting with Viennese ham, home-made jam and cheese
specialities from Vorarlberg (west Austria) up to smoked fish specialities from
Burgenland will be offered to all visitors.

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Pop-festival Vienna

From the 5^th of May to the 8^th of May 2011 the Pop-festival Vienna will take place in front of the Church of St. Charles (Karlskirche). 41 young and individual musicians will show their music projects. For this year’s opening they have invited a special guest: Skero. He is famous in Austria for his song “Kabinenparty”. This year he will perform with a big band of 15 people and he’ll present a new musician from the Austrian pop-scene, Lylit. 

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Lucky winners

On April 27th 2011 we picked the winners who had participated in our drawing for a free weekend at our Boutiquehotel Stadthalle. We had collected around 300 guest feedback questionnaires over the past months and the lucky hand of our colleague picked a winning questionnaire. Our guests: E+M. Flößer from Germany are the happy couple that won a free weekend: 2 overnights for 2 people in a double room with garden view; including breakfast!

Congratulations!!!!

So, you see, not only do we appreciate our guests’ valued responses, it can also be worth the while to take 5 minutes of your time and let us know what you think.

ÖGZ Sterne award

Last week the fair “Hotel &Gast” took place in Vienna. It is a large fair that becomes a meeting point for hotel and restaurant owners, chefs and catering businesses. The ÖGZ Sterne Award (engl: Austrian newspaper for Gastronomy stars award) was presented on Sunday the 10th of April 2011 at Courtyard by Marriott Vienna.

There were around 80 applicants and only 17 were awarded a prize in one of the various categories referring to “the hotel of the future”.

We won the ÖGZ Sterne Award for sustainability because of we are the first city hotel worldwide with a zero-energy balance. We are very happy and proud of this wonderful award!

Congratulations to Michaela Reitterer, from the all the team

Vienna City Marathon

This weekend is the weekend of the 28^th Vienna City Marathon. 30,000 participants, 100 nations, UN to Heldenplatz. These are the hard facts. This year’s Vienna City Marathon’s theme is:“MaraDonne”, focusing on women and running.

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Nouvelle Vague @ Boutiquehotel Stadthalle

Nouvelle Vague, the well-known French band, stayed at Boutiquehotel Stadthalle last week. The band is currently touring through Europe and stayed with us during their 2-day-break. Their next stops include: France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Germany.

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