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A boutique gem where 1920s Parisian glam meets Viennese cool—rooftop cocktails, vintage-chic design, and the scent of fresh artisanal bread fill the air
Need To Know
- 91 rooms and suites across categories, including eight Art Deluxe rooms with Sasha Knezevic graffiti murals on mirrored walls
- Children welcomed: complimentary baby cot or sofa bed for under-6s in Deluxe Rooms and Junior Suites; connecting Deluxe Rooms available for families of up to four
- Breakfast at Chez Bernard not included in the room rate (book by reservation; café options on Mariahilfer Straße if not)
- Our favourite rooms: the eight Art Deluxe rooms with Sasha Knezevic's mirror graffiti, and the street-facing junior suites with Mariahilfer Straße balconies. Rooms are compact across most categories; book by view rather than by category size, particularly if you want a balcony
- Fitness centre, sauna, hammam and in-room wellness touches; no full spa
- Neubaugasse U3 metro stop directly outside; 24-hour front desk
Check in - Check out
- Check in from 14:00
- Check out before 12:00
We Love
- Chez Bernard on the seventh floor: a French-Austrian destination restaurant under Arkan Zeytinoglu's new glass dome, packed nightly with Viennese locals as much as hotel guests, with one Michelin Key
- The eight Art Deluxe rooms by Sasha Knezevic feature exclusive graffiti art on mirrored walls — witty rather than decorative; the rooms are why the design press wrote about Motto
- Andrea Ferolla's hand-painted murals run through the lobby and Chez Bernard; the elongated Italian-fashion-illustrator figures move across the public spaces as a cast of characters
- The crystal chandeliers above the lobby are original Vienna Ritz fixtures bought at auction when that hotel closed, hung against Schlacher's plush pink sofas
- MOTTO Brot, the on-site organic bakery: the smell starts in the lobby in the morning, and pastry runs to the guestrooms are routine
- The Mariahilfer Straße balconies on the street-facing junior suites — wake up over Vienna's main pedestrian shopping street
Key Features
Book Your Stay at Hotel Motto
€191.20 for 1 Night
Location
Address
Mariahilfer Straße 71A, 1060 Vienna, Austria
Travel Info
30 min by car from Vienna Airport (VIE); 16 min by City Airport Train and short transfer. U3 metro at the door. Public garage nearby for guests; the property sits in the Mariahilfer Straße pedestrian zone.
Last Updated: 2026-05-16
Expert Review
Origins
A hotel has stood on this Mariahilfer Straße corner since 1665, when the original property opened as Zum goldenen Kreuz. The current building dates to the early 1900s, constructed by artisans of the Vienna Artisan Craft movement — a façade-rich assembly mixing Renaissance, Baroque, Gothic and Byzantine elements. The Strauss family lived in the building; Josef Strauss, son of composer Johann, was born here in 1827. The most recent incarnation, Hotel Kummer, closed in the 2010s. Michael Tojner's WertInvest bought the property, Arkan Zeytinoglu Architects led a five-year restoration, and restaurateur Bernd Schlacher took on the operator role. The new Hotel Motto opened in autumn 2021.
Top Secret
The original crystal chandeliers above the Motto lobby were bought at auction from the former Vienna Ritz — when the Ritz closed, Schlacher acquired some of its physical character along with a few of the bespoke furnishings now upstairs in the rooms. A small inheritance of one Vienna hotel's craft into the next.
The Review
Hotel Motto is the design-led Viennese boutique that the city's restaurant scene built rather than the hospitality industry. Bernd Schlacher, the most respected restaurateur in Vienna and the operator behind Motto Group, took on a long-vacant Mariahilfer Straße building with a 360-year hotel history; Arkan Zeytinoglu Architects spent five years on the restoration. The result is 91 rooms and a destination restaurant under a new glass dome on the seventh floor. It is not the Vienna of imperial palaces but the Vienna of the 6th district, with the property in the middle of it
The 91 rooms occupy several layers of the historical building. Eight Art Deluxe rooms carry exclusive graffiti murals on mirrored walls by Sasha Knezevic. The murals are witty rather than decorative, and the property's strongest design statement. Standard rooms are compact in central-Vienna fashion; the street-facing categories have balconies opening onto Mariahilfer Straße. Junior Suites add a separate sitting room. Across categories: blush-pink walls, herringbone parquet, fabric-draped feature walls with botanical motifs, hand-crafted tiles, and bespoke furnishings, including several originals from the former Vienna Ritz. The aged-mirror TV cover is the kind of detail that reveals single-architect design
Chez Bernard on the seventh floor is the property's draw beyond design. The 91-room scale of the hotel suggests a competent restaurant; Chez Bernard is a destination booking among Viennese locals. The kitchen runs Schlacher's signature French-Austrian register across his Motto Group, with Zeytinoglu's new glass dome framing the city skyline. One Michelin Key. The on-site organic bakery, MOTTO Brot, supplies the breakfast pastries, and the smell catches you in the lobby in the morning. Breakfast is not included in the room rate; book through reception or use the cafés on Mariahilfer Straße
The address matters. Mariahilfer Straße is Vienna's main pedestrian shopping street, with the U3 Neubaugasse metro stop at the door. The 6th district is the trendy outer-central neighbourhood rather than the Imperial Innere Stadt — bookshops and independent cafés sit between the chain shops, with the occasional yoga studio in the mix. The Innere Stadt with St Stephen's Cathedral is one stop on the U3, seven minutes away; the MuseumsQuartier and Naschmarkt are within a short walk
Worth the journey for: design travellers who want a coherent single-architect property, and food-led travellers who want the dining room and the bedroom in the same building. Less so for: anyone wanting a full-spa Imperial-Vienna proposition (this is not that hotel), or anyone whose Vienna agenda is all Innere Stadt and Schönbrunn rather than the 6th district's contemporary pulse. Schlacher operates 91 rooms above one of the more interesting restaurants in central Europe, in a building that has housed hotels since 1665. The continuity is the editorial draw.
