I purchased an 18k white gold snake chain on a cruise ship this spring. Useful for the pendant I…read morewanted to wear, but nothing elaborate on its own. I was given a "50% discount" off the 4-figure price. The clasp broke away from the chain a few months later after very light wearing. I just received the return label to send it in for repair. The company insured it for 25% of what I paid. I know cruise ship jewelry is overpriced, but "ouch!" Plus, I've never had a chain break so easily and expected more from something in this price category. I'll eventually receive a repaired chain, but will never feel full confidence in the quality.

My wife or the W had heard about Frey Wille Jewelry from an American who had visited Vienna. We…read morefinally found the Frey Wille store and later discovered it was right near the Hotel Sachere. The W was in Frey Wille about an hour and made a number of purchases. In general for Americans traveling in Europe, the prices are only good on certain local goods. The Frey Wille Store is one of them since they are Austria based. For any purchases, you can get the tax or VAT back at the European Union Airport that you leave, so save all your receipts.

Frey-Wille is a very famous classy modern jewelery and accessory store…read more The products show special art decors by world-famous painters like Gustav Klimt and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The flagship store at Stephansplatz was re-opened a few days ago showing a new fresh look in white and blue colours. White and blue have been some of the original colours the Frey-Wille pieces of jewelery became famous for, a little bit of traditional Egyptian style which you unfortunately cannot find anymore nowadays. Hats off! The re-opening was a big success!!!

Such beautiful jewelry. However on the second day of wearing the clasp failed resulting in the loss…read moreof the oh so lovely pendant. I have been reaching out to FreyWille customer service every day and no one will contact me. So surprised a company like this would act this way. Seems both the quality and customer service are not what the profess it to be.

starting at 19:00, cafe votiv has a special for sachertorte and cappucino for 7.50 euros. this was…read moreone of the lower prices that we were able to find in the vienna area. decaf cappucino is available which was really great since we are sensitive to caffeine at night. indoor and outdoor seating. seems to popular among university students. service was a bit slow to get our check but friendly. the sachertorte was the better slice out of the two we tried in vienna. the cake itself was chocolate flavored with the strong flavor of apricot in the middle. it came with whipped cream and the cake itself was also not too sweet. the whipped cream helps with the dryness of the cake, though votiv's cake was not the driest we tried (the other place we tried had a hard chocolate top, was quite dry, and the cake did not taste like chocolate. the cappucino was good, and overall we were satisfied with the combo special deal.

food was good enough but the service or rather the server was horrible. Very cold, impatient and…read moreirritable. I was actually shocked at how disrespectful she was. we went in for breakfast and had a few questions about the menu. Should have taken it as a sign when she seemed to get annoyed that we were asking questions about certain dishes. On person in our party asked for his eggs to be well done (fried hard) rather than sunny side up. She couldnt understand what he meant by that.. so we tried to figure out how to explain it to deal with the loss in translation .. rather than seek to understand the request she started to become irate saying over and over the eggs are cooked. So again we tried to find other ways to say it plainly ... rather than listen she spoke over us saying "I DONT UNDERSTAND YOU!" and walked away. needless to say we never came back and I definitely do not reccommend.

After 3 years living in the area this is still my place to go in the afternoon to have a sprintzer…read moreor a beer. With warm weather the outside sitting is really nice with place for everyone.

Beautiful place to come and have a beer of coffee, either in the afternoon or late evening. We came…read morehere twice in a row, and we would do it more times of we could stay longer in Wien. It was everything I expected from an Austrian bar, I feel I could write a book here.