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The Sisi Pass: What It Covers and Whether It Pays
Updated October 2, 2026
The Sisi Pass costs EUR 60 for an adult and covers three imperial sites: the Hofburg’s palace route, Schönbrunn Palace and the Imperial Furniture Collection. It is the operator’s own combination ticket, sold alongside the single-site tickets, and it is the right buy for a specific kind of visitor and a waste of money for everyone else.
It is also unusually patient: the pass is valid for a year, so the three sites do not have to fit into one day.
What the Sisi Pass includes
Three sites, all run by the same operator, spread across Vienna.
The Hofburg palace route — the Sisi Museum, the Imperial Apartments and the Silver Collection, on one one-way route with a free audio guide in fourteen languages. About two hours.
Schönbrunn Palace — the Habsburgs’ summer residence in Hietzing, a U4 ride from the centre. A 1,441-room baroque palace with a park, a Gloriette on the hill and the world’s oldest zoo in the grounds. Half a day at minimum.
The Imperial Furniture Collection — the Hofmobiliendepot, in the 7th district near Mariahilfer Strasse. The court’s storerooms: thousands of pieces of furniture held in reserve, including items from the rooms in the other two palaces. It is the least famous of the three and the one that most changes how you read the other two, because it shows the machinery behind the staged rooms.
What it costs
Read from the operator’s own ticket page on 18 September 2026.
| Ticket | Price |
|---|---|
| Adult, including audio guide | EUR 60 |
| Child 6 to 18 | EUR 38 |
| Disabled visitor | EUR 51 |
| School group | EUR 27 |
The operator has announced a seasonal price change from 19 November 2026, so check the current figure if you are travelling after that date.
How long the pass is valid
One year from the date of issue, with one visit to each of the three sites. That is the operator’s own wording, on both the Schönbrunn and the Sisi Museum ticket pages, read on 2 October 2026.
That is a different shape from the city passes. The Vienna PASS sells 1, 2, 3 and 6-day versions and the Vienna City Card 24, 48 and 72 hours, so both reward cramming. The Sisi Pass does not run on a clock.
It matters because three sites across Vienna is a comfortable two days and a punishing one day. With a year to use it, you can do the Hofburg and the Furniture Collection on one day and Schönbrunn on another without losing anything. What you cannot do is go back: each site is one visit.
Does the arithmetic work?
Only if you do all three, and here is the sum.
| Bought separately, adult | |
|---|---|
| Hofburg palace route | EUR 20 |
| Schönbrunn | Its own admission, varying by tour |
| Imperial Furniture Collection | Its own admission |
The Hofburg leg is EUR 20 of the EUR 60, which means the pass is asking EUR 40 for Schönbrunn and the Furniture Collection together. Whether that beats two single tickets depends on which Schönbrunn tour you would otherwise buy, since the palace sells several at different prices and lengths.
The honest position: the pass is designed for someone doing the full imperial circuit properly, and for that person it is good value and simpler than three transactions. For someone who will do the Hofburg and “maybe Schönbrunn if there’s time”, it is not — buy the EUR 20 day ticket and decide about Schönbrunn later.
Our single ticket versus the pass page works through the comparison in more detail.
The autumn 2026 exception
A dated warning that changes the maths outright.
From 6 October to 18 November 2026 the museum section of the Sisi Museum is closed for the final phase of its refurbishment. During that window standard tickets are 25 per cent cheaper — an adult day ticket drops to EUR 15 — and hours run 10:00 to 16:30.
The Sisi Pass is excluded from that reduction. So in those six weeks a pass holder pays full price for a partly closed Sisi Museum while a single-ticket buyer pays EUR 15 for the same thing.
If you are travelling in that window, buy separately. It is the clearest case against the pass in the calendar.
Where to buy it
From the operator directly. Its own FAQ states that original tickets are available “exclusively at imperialtickets.com”, and the pass is sold there alongside the single-site tickets.
Booking platforms resell the underlying admissions, and some of them bundle guides or skip-the-line access, but the Sisi Pass as a product is the operator’s own. Our where to buy page covers the channels and the resale traps — this site is not the official seller and does not pretend to be.
What it does not cover
Everything else at the Hofburg, which is most of it.
The Imperial Treasury, the State Hall of the National Library, the Albertina, the Weltmuseum and the Neue Burg collections, and the Spanish Riding School are all separate operators with separate tickets, inside the same complex. The pass gets you nowhere near any of them.
It also does not cover the Imperial Crypt on the Neuer Markt, where Elisabeth is actually buried — which is an odd omission for a pass named after her, and the reason our Sisi sites route treats the pass as covering three stops out of six.
For the full price list of everything at this address, see Hofburg ticket prices, and Hofburg Palace Tickets for how the seven operators divide up. The operator’s own figures are on its tickets and prices page.