Spanish Riding School tickets: a performance from €26, the Morning Exercise from €17 or a €24 tour, and no cameras in any of them

💡 The Short Version: The school sells three things. A performance has seats from €29 and standing places from €26; the usual 70-minute show is seats at €50 to €188 and standing at €33 or €36, on selected Saturdays and Sundays at 11:00. The Morning Exercise is the public part of the daily training, from €17 to €29, Tuesday to Friday at 10:00, and it rarely shows the jumps. The guided tour is €24. Booking opens 12 months ahead, and weekend performances can sell out. Cameras and recording equipment are forbidden, there is no luggage storage and no lift. The Vienna Pass cannot reserve. Or book a tour: the English guided tourad is on GetYourGuide at the operator’s €24.

The tickets, compared

Prices are the adult rate from the school’s 2026 price list and its booking pages. Tickets bought at srs.at are e-tickets that need no exchange.

• Reductions: students and seniors pay €21, €15 and €13 for the Morning Exercise, and €19 for the tour. Children aged 6 and over pay €13 for the tour.
• Performance dates are on selected Saturdays and Sundays, listed on the booking page.
• July: the price list’s calendar shows no performance or Morning Exercise.

How to buy

• Book at srs.at. The booking pages sell each product by date, and booking opens 12 months ahead. The entrance for your ticket is printed on it.
• Vouchers need exchanging. Tickets from GetYourGuide, Musement or Tiqets are vouchers, exchanged at the visitor centre. Tickets from srs.at are e-tickets.
• Vienna Pass holders cannot reserve a place. They can collect Morning Exercise tickets by 9:15 on the day.
• Admission opens 15 minutes before the Morning Exercise starts. The tour meets at the visitor centre five minutes before it starts.
• Wheelchair users have limited spaces and must ask in advance at office@srs.at.

Tours worth paying for

The school sells its own tickets, and the GetYourGuide products below are the same product at the same price, with the voucher exchanged at the visitor centre. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

The guided tour in English

From €24 · 7,873 reviews · 55 minutes

Vienna Spanish Riding School Guided Tourad is the school’s own tour at the school’s own price. It goes through the Winter Riding School, the Summer Riding School and the stables.

The 45-minute performance

From €32.50 · 813 reviews · 45 minutes

Vienna: Spanish Riding School 45-Minute Performance Showad is the short evening performance. The school sells the same show with seats from €29 and standing places at €26, and the voucher is exchanged at the visitor centre.

What to see

The Spanish Riding School keeps Lipizzaner stallions at the Hofburg. Its performances are in the baroque Winter Riding School, a hall the school calls the most beautiful riding hall in the world.

Josefsplatz, one of the Spanish Riding School’s three entrances. Photo: Gugerell, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

1. The performance (about 70 minutes). The young stallions and the fully trained school stallions work in the School Quadrille, the schools on and above the ground and on the long rein, to classical Viennese music. This is the show that has the schools above the ground.
2. The Morning Exercise (about 60 minutes). The daily training, in the same hall with music: loosening and muscle-strengthening work for horses at every stage, from the young dark stallions to the fully trained “white stars”. The school jumps are rarely shown, and it is “not a fixed programme”.
3. The guided tour (about 60 minutes). It takes in the Winter Riding School, the Summer Riding School with one of the world’s largest oval horse walkers, and the stables in the Stallburg, where the stallions have been kept for more than 450 years.

Which one: the performance for the show, the Morning Exercise for the cheapest way into the hall, and the tour if the first two are sold out, since it is the only one that includes the stables.

The Winter Riding School, where the performances are held. Photo: Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

What to skip: the standing places if you cannot stand for 70 minutes. The Winter Riding School has no lift, and the royal box and both galleries are reached by stairs only.

The Stallburg courtyard, beside the stables. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rules, hours and getting there

• Cameras and recording equipment are strictly forbidden at the performances. There is no luggage storage, no dogs and no strollers in the hall.
• Children: from 3 to 6 sit free on an adult’s lap at a performance, and from 6 to 12 pay a reduced rate. Under 3 are not admitted to a performance or the tour.
• Entrances: there are three, at the Michaelerkuppel, Reitschulgasse and Josefsplatz. The one for your ticket is printed on it.
• The visitor centre at Michaelerplatz 1 is open daily 9:00 to 16:00, and the shop until 16:30.
• The Hofburg has no single ticket. The school’s tickets do not cover the Sisi Museum or the Treasury.

The school is in the Hofburg, a few steps from the Sisi Museum and Imperial Apartments, and the Hofburgkapelle is in the same complex. What to book before you go to Vienna puts the school beside the Opera and the museum slots, and Vienna Pass or Vienna City Card covers the pass rules. 3 days in Vienna builds a morning round the Morning Exercise. For another evening, Vienna classical concerts sorts the halls from the tourist concerts, and the Vienna State Opera sells standing places on the day. Schönbrunn Palace and the Kunsthistorisches Museum are the other Habsburg bookings. Hotels near St Stephen’s Cathedral and where to stay in Vienna cover the area.