Hotel Zum Goldenen Anker

A hotel on the Danube bank

The Goldener Anker is a traditional house on the Donaulände, the promenade beside the Danube in Hainburg, at the foot of the old town and the medieval wall. Downstairs is the restaurant, which looks onto the river; in the rest of the house, thirteen rooms, suites and apartments with antique furniture, some with vaulted ceilings. It presents itself as an upper-range three-star boutique hotel. In the back garden, the Romantikgarten, there is a sauna with a relaxation room and a natural bathing pond; bathrobes, towels and slippers are requested at reception.

For Schloss Hof it is a practical base: you cross the Danube by the Hainburg bridge and in about 15 minutes by car you are at the palace. On the other side, a few kilometres upriver, you have the Roman city of Carnuntum, and Bratislava is 15 km away.

The rooms

• Romantikzimmer, 40 m², for 1 or 2 people.
• Junior suites, 35 m², for 1 or 2.
• Superior double, 35 to 40 m², up to 3.
• Grand Lit single, 32 m², and single, 18 m².
• Apartments: the Joseph Haydn, on the first floor, for 2 or 3; the Alt Wien, also on the first, for 2 to 4, and the family Entourage, on the second, up to 5.

All have a flat-screen television, minibar, safe and free Wi-Fi. The website does not publish nightly rates; it does publish extra beds: €24 for ages 6 to 14 and €29 for 15 to 18, with a cot free.

The restaurant

Regional, seasonal Austrian cooking, with a view of the river; in autumn, a menu of pumpkin, game and goose. In winter it is open Friday and Saturday from 11:30 to 20:30, Sundays and public holidays until 18:00 and Monday at midday with a booking; from Tuesday to Thursday it is closed. It is closed for holidays from 10 to 26 November 2026 and from 7 January to 4 February 2027; the hotel stays open all year. It has its own listing in where to eat in Carnuntum.

Getting there

By car from Vienna, the A4 towards the airport, exit Fischamend and the B9 to Hainburg, about 50 km. You park free in the hotel's closed courtyard. Without a car, the line from Vienna to Wolfsthal stops at Hainburg Personenbahnhof, 100 metres away: the hotel gives the S7 from Wien Mitte, but with the central S-Bahn section closed for works until October 2027, take the REX 7 from Wien Hauptbahnhof.