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The extensive renovation of this 1876 local landmark began in 2004 with an updating of its infrastructure and a new 3,200-square-foot spa. But the refreshing of the guest rooms, under the direction of French designer Pierre Yves Rochon, was a more involved project that went through several iterations based partly on feedback from loyal customers. The result, finally completed in 2011, is a smartly edited compromise that wisely kept the best of classical Viennese baroque grandeur, so that the 148 rooms and suites still offer gilt-framed oil paintings, neoclassical nightstands, and glass chandeliers. But the guest rooms also feature a full tech toy box, a softened pallet of pink, yellow, and light green, enlarged marble bathrooms with double sinks and flat-screens TVs built into the mirrors, as well as some cleaner neo-baroque accents, such as high mirrors behind the beds. The smart blend, balancing the best of fin-de-siècle Vienna and the new siècle, carries over into the rest of the hotel. Service is still impeccably old-school, and the formal Anna Sacher restaurant and Café Sacher still do justice to traditional cuisine, but now there is a trendy Sacher Eck wine bar and, of course, that spa, which includes saunas, steam baths, and a Klimt treatment (think La Prairie facial treatment with 24-karat gold).—Raphael Kadushin
From the readers of Condé Nast Traveler:
—2011 Gold List
Overall Score: 88.0
- Design: 83.7
- Food: 86.0
- Location: 95.4
- Rooms: 84.9
- Service: 89.7
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Also appeared in the Gold List in 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005
Amenities: Spa
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