Any advice on charming hotels in Vienna and Prague.We will be spending 4 days in each of these places in October.

A budget would help - charming comes in a number of different price ranges.

Vienna--my favorite is the Hotel König von Ungarn, very close to the cathedral:

www.kvu.at/en/home

Moderate to expensive, more on the moderate side.

We stayed at the Hotel Esplanade across the street from the Opera House.

You can walk over to St. Stanislaus Square to get the Metro.

If I had to do it all over again, I would stay in Mala Strana or near the Jewish Ghetto/Pariska Street/Vltava River.

St. Vitus Cathedral is really something to see. Outstanding!

And we LOVED the Sternberg Collection and the Loreto Convent.


Our favourite restaurant in Prague was Joseph near the US Embassy. Simply smashing food.


Have fun!

Thin

For Prague www.hotel-pariz.cz

For Vienna, already suggested and just behind the Cathedral. www.kvu.at/en

<<Moderate to expensive, more on the moderate side.>>

A price range, which NYT asked for above, is a range of actual prices quoted in numerical figures, it is not a request for a set of descriptions.

Most of these hotels in Prague have their own fair bit of charm: http://www.avehotels.cz/ They are not part of a chain. We stayed at The Bishop's House, which was all of 60m from the Charles Bridge on a quiet side street.

Prague the Hotel Josef.

Vienna the Kaiserin Elizabeth.