Our last full day in Vienna, we took a tram to Belvedere Place for some quick photos. This palace is a museum, not the royal palaces kind that my daughter loves. Thus, we stayed at the gardens only. It was chilly in the morning!
The other side of the garden with the lower Belvedere on the back.
We didn’t walk all the way down.
Right after 9 AM when the museum officially opens, bus load of tour group arrived.
After some quick photos, we took the tram to the Royal Furniture Museum, this is included in our SiSi Pass so we checked it out. It is located on the side of a busy shopping street inside a building. We were shocked on its collections….all those light fixtures woah!
This lamp’s design and style looked similar to the one we saw in the Royal Palace of Aranjuez near Madrid.
The other one is Asian themed.
My daughter love Sisi from this trip so she was very happy to see many displays of Sisi’ furniture
Lots of coats of arms!
Old fashioned clocks!
The most luxurious wheelchair I have ever seen!
There it is, Sisi’ portrait!
Lovely piano!
More royal furniture:
I am surprised they have crowns on display here.
Magnificent cabinets:
Chinese paintings and sets of chairs:
Unlike other royal beds we have seen in castles and palaces across Europe that are usually very small, Vienna’s are all full sized bed!
As I said Vienna is very kid friendly, they even have a play room for kids here!
I had a hard time to get my kids to leave LOL. I had to convince my daughter that there are more Sisi stuff for her to leave the play room xD She loves those ceramic figurines:
The garden style furniture:
After browsing through floors of furniture, we took the metro back to the center to see St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
Where is my wide angle lens???
We went in for a quick walk around, Jason and I have been in years ago.
After that, we walked to the central post office to check out Vienna’s stamps…on our way, more beautiful buildings we saw:
The stamps we bought, I love the Swarovski crystal one, it has small crystals embedded! I noticed photos of Norway and the Northern Lights and it turned out to be their Scandinavian collection! Of course, we got that booklet! We couldn’t find a Lofoten village stamp when we were in Norway but found it in Austria hahaha!
Mission accomplished again! Next, it was time for lunch so we walked to Mr.Du Ramen&bar. Their ramen was very rich in the broth, it was too heavy that it got salty half way through.
Their gyozas tasted very flavorful and definitely homemade!
After lunch, we walked around the center to admire more of Vienna’s beautiful architecture.
Then, we went to the historic clock – Ankeruhr where I read the figures move around on the hour. We waited to 2 PM and guess what, the figures didn’t move around!!! We were so disappointed…that’s it??? Upon further reading, it only do the full rotation of figures at noon!
We continued with our walk to the luxury shopping center…
The beautiful baroque style – St. Peter’s Church:
The golden statue: Column of Pest:
We even walked by the Ferstel Passage, indoor shopping passage.
This is an interesting way to grow trees:
Lastly, we arrived at the Vienna City Hall. I was planning to take photo of its architecture, but it was blocked by an outdoor food festival!
The Burgtheater on the other side of the street:
It was definitely an international food festival with stands from different countries.
There was a bubble tea stand which my kids love the bobas……they finished them in no time LOL!
It was a long day of walking and sightseeing so we took the tram back to the hotel to rest a bit before heading out for dinner. We had dinner at China Kitchen 川菜香. It is known for its Szechuan spicy dishes but since we have our kids with us, we ordered some that are non-spicy. The tofu “bag” was very interesting, they stuffed the “bag” with grounded meat and fried together.
It was a long day of walking and sightseeing so we took the tram back to the hotel to rest a bit before heading out for dinner. We had dinner at China Kitchen 川菜香. It is known for its Szechuan spicy dishes but since we have our kids with us, we ordered some that are non-spicy. The tofu “bag” dish was interesting, they fried the tofu to create a “bag” and stuffed with grounded meat. My kids liked it!
This was another new dish we tried, beef with shopped pepper sauce on top of steamed tofu!
Stir-fried veggy!
Their sour and spicy fish was excellent! I like this restaurant because of many new and interesting dishes that we never have before. If we didn’t have the kids, we would try more spicy dishes! The dinner was the most expensive, around $121.43, because of no discount but totally worth it for the quality and new dishes.
Our 4 nights in Vienna was great, it was very kid friendly and lots of activities that kids enjoyed like dressing up in the Children’s Museum in the palace. Vienna is also budget friendly for families, kids under 6 is free in public transportation and most museums except for the Children’s Museum. The 72-hour transportation pass was excellent valuable and convenient! There were playgrounds and public restrooms everywhere. Oh I forgot to mention, they didn’t charge me to use the public restrooms near St. Peter’s Church, the attendant said “kids free to use” 🙂 Vienna, surprisingly, has great Chinese restaurants that are very inexpensive especially with additional TheFork discount! I highly recommend Vienna for family trip with young kids!!!
