Mauthausen Concentration Camp Day Trip from Vienna
- 8–9 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 11 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Follow a path of remembrance to Mauthausen Memorial, once one of the largest Nazi camp complexes. This guided visit from Vienna invites attentive engagement with the site and its layered histories. The tour considers the experiences of all prisoner groups—political detainees, Jews, Roma and Sinti, Spanish resistance fighters, Soviet prisoners-of-war, and others—tracing their lives through the remains of the camp. On site, a specially trained English-speaking guide leads an interactive visit, encouraging questions, dialogue, and personal reflection. Audio guides are available for those who prefer another language. Walking the grounds, you encounter places shaped by forced labor, violence, and survival, with time to pause and remember. Round-trip transport from Vienna is included.
Inclusions
What's included
- Friendly English-speaking tour escort
- Roundtrip transportation from Vienna
- Audio-Guide for a self-guided tour in 12 languages (optional)
- Guide at Mauthausen Memorial for a visit in English language
- Admission to Mauthausen Memorial and Museum
What's not
- Food and drinks
- Hotel pickup and drop off
Itinerary
Meet your friendly tour escort outside the Tourist Info, then hop aboard your tour bus for the two-hour journey to Mauthausen Memorial.
Upon arrival meet your guide for a carefully-led, reflective tour of the preserved grounds. Visit the prisoner’s barracks, roll call area, SS-quarters, camp prison, gas chamber, and the highly rated Mauthausen Museum with the "Room of Names". The bistro at Mauthausen Memorial serves snacks and drinks if you get hungry.
We'll take you to the Wiener-Graben quarry which is located outside of the Memorial. You'll see where the prisoners produced granite for Hitler's monumental construction projects. In the quarry you can also see the infamous "Stairs of Death".
Your tour concludes at Tourist-Info Wien.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 294 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
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4Sobering, enlightening experience
An indepth overview of life in this concentration camp. The horrific conditions and excruciating circumstances were revealed through excellent educational exhibits and walking through the barracks where the prisoners lived. We will never forget!
4More of a memorial than a testament to what happened here
Visiting the Mauthausen Memorial was a sobering and worthwhile experience. Our guided tour took us through the former camp grounds, the quarry area, the prisoners’ barracks, the crematorium, and the gas chamber. The physical setting, especially the steep quarry and the infamous “Stairs of Death,” helped convey something of the cruelty, exhaustion, and deliberate brutality inflicted upon those imprisoned here. I could not help comparing the experience with my visit to Auschwitz in 1976. Auschwitz presented the evidence of what happened there in an immediate and deeply personal way: enormous displays of victims’ shoes, human hair, prosthetic limbs, and other possessions made it impossible to remain emotionally detached. Mauthausen felt more restrained and, to me, considerably more sanitized. Much of what we saw consisted of empty buildings, restored spaces, and crematory equipment that had long since fallen silent. The historical importance of the site is unquestionable, but I came away feeling that it did not transport visitors into the reality of the victims’ experience as powerfully or as unambiguously as Auschwitz had done for me.
5Deeply moving. A must see!
It was a deeply moving experience. Our guides were excellent. We had a good balance of time with the guides and to see the museums and memorials. I highly recommend this tour
5Well managed tour
The tour van was comfortable and informative. The tour itself was respectful and educational of the time period. If you have time on your Aistrian vacation, I recommend you visit this historic piece of history.
5Excellent Tour! Sad, But A Necessary Place To See !
This tour of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp was excellent. The guide was prepared and provided a great deal of historical information that was relevant to every part of the camp that we toured. I never felt rushed through it at all. We were given time to learn about each portion and given time to take in the information. Additionally, our driver that picked us up in Vienna and drove us to Mauthausen was EXCELLENT! He could be a tour guide himself-he may be I don't know, but I felt safe with him as a driver and he was very knowledgeable about so much all along the way to the camp.
5We felt it was important...
We felt it was important to visit Mauthausen while we were in Austria. It was a comfortable bus ride to the site and our guide on the bus did a good job of sharing information about Vienna and Mauthausen. Once we arrived, Adam was our tour guide. He did a wonderful job of providing information about the concentration camp, as well as the surrounding villages at the time. We felt fortunate to have had Adam as our guide.
Know before you go
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 40 travellers
- Operated by
- Vienna a la carte Reisebuero GmbH
- Wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Not recommended for child aged 13 and under.
- Audio-guides at the Memorial are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Russian, Hungarian.
How it compares in Vienna
- Its from-price is 66% below the median of the 213 day trips we list in Vienna.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 12 of 213.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Vienna
Vienna is Austria's elegant capital on the Danube, a city of imperial palaces, grand coffeehouses and a musical heritage known the world over.
The Ringstrasse circles the old centre with monumental buildings: the State Opera, the Parliament, the City Hall and the Burgtheater. Inside the ring, St Stephen's Cathedral, with its patterned tile roof, rises above lanes of shops and cafés, and the Hofburg palace complex holds the imperial apartments, the Spanish Riding School and a museum devoted to Empress Elisabeth.
Top-ranked sights in Vienna: Hofburg Imperial Palace (Hofburg Wien) , Schönbrunn Palace (Schloss Schönbrunn), Rathaus.
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