Vienna Airport Lounge Review: Duty-Free & Vienna Lounge with Emirates
From Incheon to Vienna, Austria, there is a nonstop Korean Air route, but on this Vienna trip, I ended up flying Emirates Business Class round-trip via Dubai for personal reasons.
That meant I also got to use the Vienna Airport lounge before my flight home.
If you’re flying Emirates Business Class out of Vienna, the lounge you can access is the Vienna Lounge.
It looked like there were a few lounges inside the airport, but this one didn’t show up in The Lounge app.
Still, I found out that you can also get in with a Priority Pass.
From what I saw, EVA Air also uses the Vienna Lounge in addition to Emirates, but I couldn’t confirm the other airlines.
Vienna Airport Lounge Access with Emirates Business Class
One of the perks included with Emirates Business Class was the chauffeur service, so we rode from the hotel to the airport in a Mercedes limousine and arrived super comfortably.
After checking in,
I picked up my ticket and got a lounge directions map too.
One unusual thing about the Vienna Lounge is that it’s located before passport control.
So unlike some lounges, you can’t just stay there until the very last minute before boarding. You do need to leave a little earlier and factor in time for passport control.
On the way to the Vienna Airport lounge.
Once you pass through that door,
you’ll see this area, and if you go through the door on the left, you’ll go through the baggage security check first.
Vienna Airport Duty-Free Shopping
Right after security, the duty-free area appears immediately.
I wasn’t really shopping for anything, so I just browsed casually, but it was still pretty big and had a solid selection.
Of course, I made my usual stop at the whisky section.
They had quite a few Japanese whiskies too.
There were also some rare, ultra-expensive bottles on display—easily worth tens of thousands of dollars.
I breezed right past the cosmetics section.
You can also pick up Vienna coffee, Klimt Kiss chocolates, Mozart chocolates, and Manner wafers at the airport duty-free.
And if you like bright, citrusy flavors, the lemon Manner wafers are really good.
Vienna Lounge Price
After passing through duty-free, we headed to the Vienna Lounge.
At the entrance, they check your ticket or Priority Pass before letting you in.
Paid entry is also available. The admission price is 49 euros per adult (about $53), or 79 euros for two people (about $86).
It’s definitely not a cheap lounge, but out of the many airport lounges I’ve visited around the world, this one honestly felt worth the money.
The size, seating, amenities, food, alcohol selection, shower rooms, and even the crowd level were all impressive.
Vienna Airport Vienna Lounge Review
First of all, the space is huge—2,500 square meters, about the size of a soccer field.
There are also plenty of seats where you can sit and look out over the runway.
Honestly, a proper airport lounge just feels better when you can see the runway and parked planes, right?
There were regular dining tables, sofa seats, and solo seats with partitions.
I didn’t photograph every section, but the seating layout was varied and there were lots of tables, which I loved.
You can also check departure and arrival information inside the lounge.
There’s a play area for kids, and there are desks if you need to get some work done on a laptop.
There’s even a meeting room that can accommodate up to 10 people.
There’s also a relaxing zone, and when I peeked inside, there were quite a few daybeds that were almost flat enough to lie down on.
I think there were around seven or eight sections, and interestingly, no one was using them.
It also seemed like food probably wasn’t allowed in that area.
The shower rooms weren’t something I used, so I didn’t take photos, but from other reviews I saw, they looked spacious and clean. Apparently they provide multiple towels, and even the hair dryer is Dyson.
Food at the Vienna Airport Lounge
The food selection was honestly really good and surprisingly varied.
There was plenty of fruit,
and several kinds of bread and jam too.
The drink selection was huge. If you enjoy alcohol, this is absolutely the kind of Vienna Airport lounge where you could get your money’s worth.
Beer, wine, whisky, vodka, and all kinds of liqueurs—there was a lot to choose from.
We’re not really wine people, so we didn’t drink any, but I heard the wines here are quite good too.
There were also plenty of juices and soft drinks.
There were Austrian dishes too.
To be honest, I didn’t know exactly what everything was, but whenever I followed what other people were piling onto their plates, it turned out to be pretty good.
They also had Kaiserschmarrn, a classic Austrian dessert, so if you didn’t get to try it during your trip, this is a great place to do it.
It’s kind of like shredded pancake pieces, and supposedly it was a favorite snack of the Austrian emperor.
You can grab some jam on the side and eat it together.
There was also a cheese and cold cuts section.
And off to one side, there was a separate dessert corner.
As you’d expect from a country famous for desserts, the sweets section was excellent too.
There was apple strudel, cheese strudel cake, chocolate kuchen, lemon cake,
Gugelhupf, chocolate banana desserts, and more.
These weren’t just decorative filler desserts either—they were actually delicious.
Of course, there was coffee and tea too.
This is Vienna—even the machine coffee in the lounge tasted good.
We had plenty of time, so I made the most of it and kept going back for more food.
I heard they sometimes serve schnitzel too, but when we visited, I didn’t see it—maybe it hadn’t come out yet.
So we just tried a bunch of random dishes that looked interesting.
I was curious, so I sampled Egger and Zipfer, both Austrian beers, just to get a taste.
I even went all in on desserts I normally wouldn’t bother eating once I’m back in Korea.
For airport lounge desserts, the quality here was seriously impressive.
After eating way too much, I leaned back on the sofa for a bit and relaxed, then it was time to head to the plane.
After leaving the Vienna Airport lounge, we went through passport control and made our way to the gate.
Our gate was in the G section, and it was a pretty long walk.
Along the way, I spotted cafés and restaurants like these too.
If you’re not planning to use a lounge, this area looked like a perfectly fine place to grab a snack and relax.
And while walking, I realized the Austrian Lounge is actually located after passport control.
Apparently Korean Air and Etihad use that one instead.