Here’s 25 weird and wonderful things to do this Valentine’s Day in Vienna that will all end in this.
How to… spend Valentine’s day in Vienna with your lover
1. Go for a drink in one of the city’s most romantic bars
It may be cliché, but there’s a reason for this – nothing can beat candles, conversation and a laugh with the person you’re sleeping with over some good drinks. Check out our guide to the best bars for drinks, dates and cuddling.
2. Check out one of these events dedicated to Valentines Day
Of course, plenty of places around the city are putting on special dinners and other romantic events dedicated to Valentines Day. Here’s a few of them you can check out:
Valentine’s Day Special
Where: 1o1
When: FRI, 6pm–2am
The charismatic character of a restaurant 1o1, or One of One, is putting on a fancy dinner for those couples who like to express their love through food. Check out the details.
Candle Light Dinner Valentinstag Oktogon
Where: Oktogon
When: FRI, 5pm–11pm
If you haven’t been to the Oktogon restaurant, well, it’s biggest drawcard is the magnificent view it has. On Valentine’s Day, they’re throwing a candle light dinner for those willing to venture up the hill. Check out the details here.
Let Love Rule – Valentinstagabend 2020 im phil
Where: phil
When: FRI, 7:30pm–11:55pm
A cosy evening is being planned in the cosy cafe phil for Valentine’s Day. Expect live music, and readings to go with your drinks.
3. Surprise your partner with a trip to a sex shop
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A new vibrator that looks like it could be used as a weapon in star wars, fluffy handcuffs? There’s no better way to inspire crazy monkey sex than a surprise visit to a sex shop with your partner. The giggly, intimate experience of choosing a new toy for the bedroom will be the only thing needed for the rest of the day’s program when which you lock the door of the bedroom and only open it for the pizza man when you’re in need of sustenance.
Tip: there’s a sex shop specifically made for women – minus all the creepy vibes that some can give – in Vienna’s 6th district. Check out Liebenswert if that sounds like something for you.
4. A looooove tour through the Albertina
Valentine’s Day at the Albertina
Where: Albertina
Entry: 4€ (+ entry) guided tour / 36€ for tour + snack
This Friday, the Albertina will be offering a special tour in the spirit of Valentine’s day: love (couples). Selected pieces of the current exhibitions will be focused on that depict love has always been, and will always be, a very interesting topic for artists to inspire their work. Join the guided tour – it will cost you 4 bucks (plus the museum entrance), or 35 bucks if you’re up for some snacks and champagne. Get cultured and all romantic through art (if that is possible). Be sure to reserve your spot.
5. Go ice skating in a winter wonderland
We’re not sure if you’ve noticed, but there’s one hell of a romantic atmosphere set up in front of Vienna’s Rathaus (city hall) with an ice skating rink, and fairy lights strung between trees. All you have to do is put on the skates and play the part of the clumsy, awkward ‘can you catch me’ ice skater with your date. Works like a charm every time.
6. Valentine’s Day in a Winter Chalet
7. Dump work and go for breakfast (after your morning quickie, of course)
After some naked fumbling around in the bedroom while trying to avoid each other’s morning breath, head out for a long breakfast. Each take a book, or the newspaper and spend hours chatting, nibbling on a breakfast, sipping at your coffee and throwing loving glances over the top of your book/newspaper to each other.
Würstelstand wisdom: the best time you’ll spend together, is when it feels like time doesn’t exist at all. That’s what our watch guy tells us anyway. Yes, we have a watch guy.
For more ideas on where to have your love boat breakfast, check out our list of our favourite breakfast spots in Vienna, and our list of super indulgent breakfasts you’ve got to try before you die.
8. Valentine’s Day Mission: code name – sex in public
Venture out into the city together wearing sexy underwear you’ve bought for each other (or even better, with the knowledge that neither of you is wearing any) in search of a spot to bare your asses and bounce your beautiful bits in public. We’re talking public toilets, or empty swimming pools, not in front of BILLA, people!
Where not to have sex in public: (not that we condone having sex in public in the first place … ahem)
+ High traffic areas like Karlsplatz
+ In a church (especially on the altar)
+ On a park bench in winter
+ In a cinema (especially if it’s a good movie. And come on people, be a bit more creative!)
Check out our article, Vienna’s 10 cheekiest and best spots for a quickie in public – the indoor edition, for more kinky ideas.
9. Have an affair… together in an hour hotel
Dress up as if you’re heading to a ball (or in sweatpants if that does it for you) and meet at one of Vienna’s infamous charge-by-the-hour hotels. The libido is somehow tickled by the illusion that you’re doing something naughty and forbidden as if you’re having an affair. The most well-known hour hotel in Vienna is the Hotel Orient.
Plus: most rooms contain a nice big spa bath!
10. Get naked with a bunch of strangers
Get naked, hot and steamy with a bunch of strangers in one of Vienna’s saunas. It won’t only turn those tense muscles into jelly, but you can also compare your private parts to a 60-year-old and feel good about yourself and gain some perspective – have as much sex as possible before it’s too late!
Saunas in and around Vienna
Linsberg Asia
St Martins Therme
Sargfabrik
Therme Wien
11. Cover yourselves in chocolate
Nibbling it from each other’s backs, dripping it over your naughty parts, feeding each other seductively – chocolate is probably the most erotic food there is. Here are four high-class places in Vienna you can get your chocolate groove on:
Schokov: Siebensterngasse 20, 1070
Xocolat: Freyung 2, 1010
Fruth: Kettenbrückengasse 20, 1040
Vanini Swiss chocolate: Herrengasse 6-8, 1010
12. Get a hotel room
Just because you’re not traveling doesn’t mean you shouldn’t indulge in messing up somebody else’s sheets. Vienna has a raft of funky and unique hotels that are more of an experience, than a stay. We made a list of them for you. Check out 9 of Vienna’s most unique hotels. The change of setting will have you both ripping your clothes off before you can say, ‘I wonder what they’ve got in the buffet breakfast?’
13. Catch a flick in the cinema with style
There’s nothing like fondling each other’s fingers and resting your hand on your lover’s leg while watching a story up on the big screen unfold.
14. Replay your first date
What better way to bring back that euphoric feeling of the beginning by returning to where it all began. Whether you met at a club, in an elevator, or on Tinder, set the stage and replay how you first met, and fell in love.
15. Enjoy the view (and each other’s tongues) on the Riesenrad
Being on top of the world is one of the most common expressions used when describing how our magnetic opposites make us feel, and so why not take a lift on Vienna’s mighty old ferris wheel, the Riesenrad, above the rooftops of Vienna. From there, the view is spectacular, and making out is so much better (especially in amongst a cabin of strangers who are feeling slightly awkward as you grab each other’s ass).
16. Catch up over a cocktail or beer
Catching up as a couple can sometimes be the simplest, yet hardest thing. Press pause on life for a while, forget everything and go for a cocktail or beer, depending on your choice of poison. Then you and your partner can get slightly tipsy and head home for some of that sweeeeet rooty tooty. To help you in choosing your place of inspiration and alcohol, check out our list of Vienna’s best cocktail bars, or our list of the best craft beer places in the city.
How to… spend Valentine’s day as a single in Vienna
17. It’s Valentine’s day. You’re alone. Big fucking deal… Go out and get drunk… or throw a party
@ Margot Gabel/Flickr
Being single is no reason to get drunk on copious amounts of alcohol, however, it is something to celebrate. Just think of all the promiscuous sex ahead of you, or the anticipation of meeting that one person that gives you grasshoppers in your stomachs (it is grasshoppers, no?). Whatever your goal may be on the night, be sure to forget all that crap about Valentine’s day being the day for lovers – it’s more like the day for suckers who buy roses for the price of a night out of heavy drinking. To find the best parties happening this weekend, check out our WEEK or WEEKEND what to do article.
18. Pull funny faces at all the happy couples with babies on the U-Bahn
© James Savoie/Flickr© James Savoie/Flickr
Jump on the U-Bahn with a friend and practice pulling your funny faces at cuddling couples or happy young families with a baby in a pram. Then look away as if it never happened. It will really freak them out!
19. Pamper day
Practice a day of self-love and spend some time on that body of yours. You deserve it. Go get yourself a facial, get a Thai massage or spend some time at a thermal bath. Check out our list of spas in Vienna where to pamper yourself.
20. Watch a horror film
Watch a horror film in which the love of the main character is killed to remind yourself that love and life is temporary and what does it all really matter anyway… ahhm. That’s depressing, but can be satisfying.
21. Seduce yourself
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After a long shower, light some incense, watch some good porn (if needed) and get to work on seducing yourself. At least you know what you’re doing.
22. A day off of Social Media
Studies show that rage levels and gun sales skyrocket on Valentine’s Day due to the copious amounts of soppy declarations of love status updates flooding Facebook and Instagram*. Even if you’re not single, stay away from Social Media on Valentine’s Day.
*It may be that we completely made this study up. Totally.
23. Spend a moment giggling on these…
Check out our series of Valen-mine’s day cards – Valentine’s day cards written by you, for you.
24. Cinema lover’s psyche out
Go to the cinemas and psyche out kissing couples. The following methods can be applied to achieve this:
+ Snort or cough in their direction.
+ Throw M&M’s at them.
+ Make exaggerated slurping sounds with your cola.
+ While they’re making out, lean in and put your face really close to theirs.
+ Ask them while they’re kissing, ‘can I have a go?’
25. If all else fails, swipe right on everybody on a dating app, and see what happens
Here’s our very wise and medically sound advice – if you’re feeling lonely on Valentine’s Day, swipe right on Tinder until one of the following scenarios plays out: 1. Your phone freezes, 2. Your Tinder message inbox explodes with a splattering of bodily juices coming out of your phone, 3. You fit the most Tinder dates into one night that anybody ever has – challenge accepted!
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