The Vienna Prater is a modern world of adventure, with 250 attractions offering action and fun from casino automats to auto-drome rinks, ball toss and shooting booths, exciting roller coasters and ghost trains to flight simulators including the largest chairoplanes in the world. Also, there are cafés, restaurants and snack bars, which offer culinary delights from a small snack to a full-scale dinner.
The most famous attraction of the Vienna Prater is the Wiener Riesenrad, the Giant Ferris Wheel. Somewhat faster "vehicles" than the Giant Ferris Wheel are available nowadays for cheerful aerial rides - with speed to match the times. For example, the Turbo Boost and Bungee Jump, Ejection Seat and Space Shot provide extreme thrills of speed. And the world's largest, 117-meter-high chairoplane, the Prater Tower, spins its visitors through the air at 38 mph and offers a fabulous view over the city. Children especially enjoy merry-go-rounds, Punch and Judy Shows, the old Viennese grotto train and much more. The Vienna Prater is in season from March to October, but the world-famous Giant Ferris Wheel and a few other attractions are open all year round.
Giant Ferris Wheel The most famous attraction of the Vienna Prater is the Wiener Riesenrad, the Giant Ferris Wheel. Since 1897, one is carried upwards at a leisurely pace. The Giant Ferris Wheel is open year round and is one of the most frequented attractions in the Danube metropolis. Ferris Wheel Square was redesigned in 2008 and is now a nostalgic themed entrance to the Prater amusement park.
Madame Tussauds Vienna has a brand new attraction: the world-famous waxworks museum Madame Tussauds is the new highlight in the Vienna Prater. Sixty-five wax figures can be seen, all of such quality that visitors and celebrities alike will undoubtedly often have to do a double take. There are several ‘new’ figures never seen before. A few illustrative examples are Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Sisi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Einstein and contemporary heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Angelina Jolie and Michael Jackson. With no bars, ropes or barriers around the figures visitors have no problem believing that they really are standing beside, or even ‘acting/competing’ with their heroes in some of the exciting interactive parts of the attraction which have become such a popular part of what Madame Tussauds Vienna will offer.
Vienna Airlines “Vienna Airlines” can also be found at Ferris Wheel Square – an exciting flight simulator that “takes off” five times an hour, providing a bird’s eye view of Vienna with all its famous sights. The "Vienna Airlines" takes its passengers to mysterious places in Vienna. The aircraft is based on a newly designed Motion Ride Technology, the Flyboard-5D system that guarantees a firsthand flight experience and a stunningly real flight feeling. A high-end sound system and an image replication called "Moving Projector System" modelled on human perception make this flight a unique experience.
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