The Hotel Kummer is a grand corner hotel built in 1872 and situated in the centre of Vienna, 50 meters from one of Europe's biggest shopping malls and 500 from the Opera. The 100 guestrooms have traditional style décor and furnishings in warm colours with carpeted floors and patterned bedspreads and curtains. All guestrooms have minibars, safes, trouser presses, direct-dial phones and satellite television with premier channels free of charge.

In the restaurant guests can enjoy local and international cuisine in a dining room with traditional Viennese style décor in soft pastel colours with striped chairs and crystal chandeliers. The Lobby Bar is a traditional style bar with a history; once a meeting point for writers, artists, sculptors and booksellers. Guests can also relax in the elegant club room with its traditional style Viennese décor and cherry wood chairs. Alternatively, guests can take advantage of room service. For those interested in exploring the area, Internet access is available for checking local information or planning an itinerary and multilingual staff are on hand to offer tour assistance. The hotel also has its own souvenir shop and offers currency exchange, dry cleaning and safe deposit box services. The Spanish Riding School, Flea Market, Haydn Museum, Tobacco Museum, Technical Museum and Museum of Art History can all be found within one kilometre. Vienna International Airport is approximately 21 kilometres and a 30 minutes drive from the hotel. S-Bahn overground trains runs at least every 30 minutes connecting the airport to the city centre and U-Bahn. The nearest metro station to the hotel is Neubaugasse. Buses depart from the airport to the City Air Terminal every 20 minutes.