Vienna Travel Forum

I'm visiting Vienna next weekend and have booked tickets for a 12 p.m. performance at the Spanish Riding School. I have two questions:.

1. The Imperial Palace seems to be an elegand place, is there a dresscode one should follow?
2. Are you allowed to take pictures during the performances?

/Caroline

There is no dress code for the Spanish Riding School. No flash pictures are allowed,but you can take pictures without flash,although is is fairly dark. I took some and enhanced them and they were passable.
Enjoy the show. It was great.
Tony

You can take pictures before the show begins but they won't allow flash photos once the horses enter the arena as the flashes upset the horses. You can buy plenty of photo items in the gift shop at the SRS which is one of the loveliest souvenir shops I have ever seen. You will love the show, just keep your focus on the horses hooves, their precision is amazing!

Depending where you are seated, you may be asked not to take photos in the performance, even if you don't use a flash. In the front row of the parterre, someone suddenly raising their arms to take a picture may startle one of the younger horses! The photos you get won't be great anyway (especially my favourite big brown stallion comes out terrible in pictures - you can't see his face at all) so better to get some postcards and things from the shop and in the show just concentrate on seeing the lovely horses ...

Do check the performance time on your tickets because usually the performance begin at 11am in the morning rather than 12 noon (except for occasional Friday evening shows at 7pm). Training sessions start at 10am.

There's no dresscode for the School, but no matter how hot a day it is, it can be quite cool in the riding hall so it's worth taking a jacket or similar in case you feel cold. It's not been too hot in Vienna of late, though perhaps by the time you go it will be warm again.

Hope you have a great time!