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New Vienna Luxury Hotel To Be Ritz-Carlton Instead Of Shangri-La

Ritz-Carlton will  operate a new 202-room luxury hotel situated in two historic palaces on Vienna’s Schubertring that was originally scheduled to open earlier this year as the Shangri-La chain’s first...

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Munich Airport VIP Wing – Review

Air travel – and airports – once were indeed glamorous, but today, long security lines, crowded airline lounges, and indifferent staff make that image seem like another world. It is possible, however,...

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Dinner for One: The Same Procedure As Every Year On New Year’s Eve

Around this time of year, if you are meeting or chatting with colleagues from Central Europe or Scandinavia and the topic of “dinner for one” comes up, they are probably not talking about dining alone....

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9 Countries in Euro Zone Downgraded by S&P

Standard & Poor’s stripped France of its AAA credit rating, also cutting eight others in the process.  Portugal’s credit rating fell to junk status and Italy’s was lowered by two steps, as S&P...

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Using Your Own Mobile Phone in Japan and Europe

4G Data and Wi-Fi Hotspot Keep Costs Minimal While planning my most recent trip to Japan, I stopped to think about the fact that my GSM mobile phone wouldn’t work there.  On past trips, I used an...

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Frequent Business Traveler “My European Vacation” Photo Contest Grand Prize...

From a charming hotel room in Positano, Italy to the stunning peaks of the Hohe Tauern mountain range in Austria, Frequent Business Traveler readers document their travels in photographs. They take...

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What’s Doing in Eisenstadt, Austria

Schloß Esterházy is a main attraction Eisenstadt, the capital of Austria’s newest province, the Burgenland, lies at the country’s southeastern tip. It was created in 1921 from the German-speaking part...

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Ritz-Carlton Opens First Hotel in Austria

Club suite at Ritz-Carlton, Vienna Ritz-Carlton has opened its first hotel in Austria, in the capital city of Vienna. The Ritz-Carlton, Vienna has 202 rooms and is located on the storied Ringstraße, a...

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Austrian Airlines to Begin Service to Chicago

Austrian Airlines will add Chicago to its list of North American cities served on May 17, 2013.  The new service will operate five times a week using a Boeing 767, which will be equipped with lie-flat...

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My Mother, This Magazine, A Trip to Vienna

The author, right, and his mother I’m writing this article while aboard an American Airlines flight from London to New York, continuing a journey that started in Vienna much earlier this morning....

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Restaurant Goldener Hirsch, Salzburg, Austria – Review

One of my earliest memories from childhood is driving to Salzburg for the day with my parents and younger brother and eating at the Restaurant Goldener Hirsch.  My father would promise us our favorite...

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What’s Doing in Salzburg?

Salzburg conjures up many images, including music, mountains, marionettes, and most notably Mozart.  Literally, Salzburg means “salt castle” and it is the capital city of the state of Salzburg.  It is...

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Lobby Bar – May 31: Lost Shoes, Duodecaplets, Friends With Cats, and The Holy...

The Lobby Bar – A Weekly Summary of Frequent Business Traveler News and Views Shhh! It’s two o’clock… in the afternoon.  How do you deal with jet lag?  We usually adjust to the new time zone before a...

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Flooding Causes Travel Chaos in Europe and Billions in Damages

Flooded streets in Ebersberg, Germany MUNICH—Europe’s second “flood of the century” is continuing to wreak havoc throughout the continent.. Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland have been...

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Neue Galerie Exhibits Koloman Moser Works

Koloman Moser The Neue Galerie New York recently opened an exhibit called Designing Modern Vienna, devoted to Austrian artist, designer and co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte arts collective, Koloman...

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What’s Doing in Vienna

Johann Strauß II in the Stadtpark A walk around Vienna’s inner city (Innere Stadt or first district) conjures up numerous ghosts, all of them friendly (and many musical).  One can feel the presence of...

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Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna – Hotel Review

Having grown up partially in Vienna, I immediately knew where the Palais Hansen Kempinski Vienna hotel was situated when I first read about its planned opening.  What I didn’t know was that it had been...

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Great Moments in Travel History – August 2013

On August 2, 1909, the U. S. Army purchased its first airplane, the Wright Flyer, Ritz-Carlton, Vienna Club Lounge from the Wright brothers for $30,000. The price included a $5,000 bonus because the...

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Imperial Riding School Renaissance Vienna Hotel Debuts New Guestrooms

Street scene in Vienna The Imperial Riding School Renaissance Vienna Hotel in Austria unveiled its newly-renovated guestrooms.  The hotel began renovations on all of its 339 rooms in May earlier this...

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2013: The Year in Pictures

From sunsets in remote tropical islands to a mountain lake, Frequent Business Traveler presents some of the best photographs of 2013. The photos cover our editorial staff’s travels from the Pacific...

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