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Mandarin Oriental Vienna: Step inside Vienna’s most opulent new hotel
All that stomping around made a trip to the hotel’s luxurious spa, with its 13-metre swimming pool, steam room and sauna (and a well-equipped gym saved for another time), all the more rewarding. Designed to offer opulence, it has a gold ceiling, beautiful lighting and an hour down there made me feel refreshed and ready to socialise. After drinks at the hotel’s incredibly chic bar – which locals evidently come to, dressed up to the nines, dinner was served beneath a striking glass ceiling in the hotel’s all day dining Atelier 7 Brasserie. The menu focuses on seafood, but weaves in Asian and Austrian influences — I had oysters, followed by steak and chips – before a waiter wheels over a dessert trolley with the most incredible-looking (and tasting) delicately handmade puddings. Afterwards, I fell into a crisply made king-size bed and, for the first time in weeks, slept nine silent hours.