a Prime Méridien

Thanks to an online booking service, we stayed right in the heart of Vienna. Our hotel, Le Méridien Vienna, presented a mix of old and new. On the outside, Le Méridien fits in with the rest of Vienna's buildings. The inside, however, is sehr modern.

T-shirts for sale in the lobby; Marcy jamming to cicadas

Funky art in the lobby, colored lighting in the elevators with a variety of sounds that changed every hour or so. (We heard cicadas, galloping horses, animals at night, and lots of aquatic sounds from the ocean to the drain). Our room was big and had a lot of lights (check out Marcy's video tour).

(yes, that's a horse behind the bed)

A few things struck us as odd. While exploring the hallways, we followed signs for the Fitness center. The signs pointed to a lone elevator that ferried us to a small vestibule with a window and a door to the gym. Back upstairs, we wandered around until the 5th floor split in two (there was an upper and a lower level on the backside of the hotel; these rooms must not have had the same headroom as ours).

looking down the spiral staircase