• Introduction
• The Concerts
• Practicalities
• More details
• Booking

Days 1 and 6
Travelling to Vienna

Flights from London to Vienna are included in the price of the festival. (Alternatively, you can choose to make your own flight arrangements – see Option 6). We are also offering a flight the day before the festival starts for those who would like to spend more time in Vienna.

From London Heathrow with Austrian Airlines and British Airways (all flight times subject to change).

Option 1. Flying out one day early. 28th August: depart Heathrow 09.25, arrive Vienna Schwechat
12.45 (Austrian Airlines OS 452). 3rd September: depart Vienna Schwechat 13.25, arrive London Heathrow 14.50 (OS 461). This option includes an extra night at the hotel. For prices see Practicalities.

Option 2 (Austrian Airlines). 29th August: depart Heathrow 09.25, arrive Vienna Schwechat 12.45 (OS 452). 3rd September: depart Vienna Schwechat 17.15, arrive London Heathrow 18.40 (OS 455).

Option 3 (British Airways). 29th August: depart Heathrow 09.55 (BA 700), arrive Vienna Schwechat 13.15. 3rd September: depart Vienna Schwechat 11.45, arrive Heathrow 13.15 (BA 697).

Option 4 (Austrian Airlines). 29th August: depart Heathrow 12.55 (OS 454), arrive Vienna Schwechat 16.20. 3rd September: depart Vienna Schwechat at 19.45, arrive Heathrow 21.20 (OS 457).

Option 5 (British Airways). 29th August: depart Heathrow 15.05 (BA 704), arrive Vienna Schwechat 18.30. 3rd September: depart Vienna Schwechat 14.10, arrive Heathrow at 15.35 (BA 701).

Option 6: no flights. If you wish to make your own flight arrangements, there is a reduction of £150. You are welcome to join the airport transfers of any of the above options.

Days 2–5
Participants will be given a timetable of the events with details of times and locations of concerts, lectures, dinners, coach transport and all other arrangements.

Getting around Vienna
All the hotels selected for the festival are between 3 and 25 minutes from the four concerts in the inner city. (Coaches are provided to get to the Piaristenkirche, the Liechtenstein Palais and to Eisenstadt.)

Participants are issued with a travel pass which will allow unrestricted use of the excellent tram and metro system. Taxis are plentiful.

Walking is unavoidable to get around Vienna and Eisenstadt, and few of the venues have a lift. Participants need to be averagely fit, sure-footed and able to manage everyday walking and stairclimbing without difficulty. The festival is not really suitable for wheelchair users but please speak to us if you would like to discuss this.      

What is included?

• Access to all seven concerts.
• Accommodation in a four- or five-star hotel.
• Flights between the UK and Vienna (there is a price reduction if you opt out of these).
• All five dinners (with wine and coffee), breakfasts and interval drinks.
• Coach travel to and from Vienna Airport and to the three concert venues outside the city centre.
• Free travel on Vienna’s trams and metro.
• Lectures by a musicologist.
• All tips and taxes.
• The assistance of a team of festival staff in Vienna.
• Detailed programme booklet and miscellaneous practical and academic information. 

Extra items on offer:

• Pre-festival tours: In Haydn’s Footsteps
• Arriving a day early. This option includes the amended flight and the extra night at the hotel of your choice for the festival; it does not include the airport transfer or a dinner. Taxis are easily obtainable at the airport. Please ask us for prices for extra nights in suites.