Wakeboardlift Wien: the Cable Park With a Metro Stop at the Gate

The prices, in full

The operator publishes a complete price list and, unusually, stamps it: Stand 02/2026, meaning these were the rates as of February 2026. Everything below is as they give it. Two columns, because under-16s pay less.

The buoyancy vest is compulsory and free. Everything else is rented, and the rental sheet is where an hour on the water stops being 28 €:

So a first hour with a board is 38 €, not 28, and 42 if you want a helmet after your first visit. That is worth doing before you turn up, because the headline hourly rate is the one every listing quotes and it is not what you pay. Two discounts exist: a season ticket takes 10 % off hourly tickets in the shoulder months, and members of the Austrian Wakeboard Club Vienna get 5 % off the season ticket, with membership at 40 € a year.

For a month, the arithmetic is blunt. The 355 € pass pays for itself against day tickets in eight days, and against hourly tickets in thirteen hours on the water. If you are in Vienna for a summer month and intend to ride more than twice a week, it is the obvious ticket.

Getting there is the point

The park is at Am Wehr 1 on the Neue Donau in the 22nd district, and the reason it earns a page rather than a line in a list is the journey. Take the U2 to Donaustadtbrücke, leave by the rear exit towards the Danube, turn right at the exit, and the operator puts the walk at about two minutes.

Every other cable park we cover assumes a car or a taxi. Cable Park Split sits by the airport, Cachin is half an hour out of Annecy in the Bauges, and the Asian parks are all a drive from the city they are named after. A cable you can reach on a metro line changes what the sport is: it becomes something you do after work, not a day out you plan around.

By car, the operator routes you off the A23 Südost-Tangente at the Ölhafen Lobau exit, left at the first set of lights by the Shell station, left again at the next, and either find a space or use the multi-storey at the U2 station. Their tip is to drive to the top floor, where a walkway crosses to the station, which puts you about three minutes away.

How fast the cable runs, and when it does not

The park runs a slow hour, an hour in which the cable is dropped a few km/h so that starts and corners come easier for beginners. It is a genuinely useful thing to publish, and it is also where the operator stops agreeing with itself.

We are not going to pick one. The first hour of the day is the part both versions agree on, so if you have never been on a board that is when to turn up, and it needs no booking either way. If you were counting on the late-afternoon slow hour, ask first, because only one of the two pages mentions it.

The speeds themselves are worth reading against the other parks we cover. Singapore Wake Park runs its full-size cable at 30 km/h, which puts Vienna in the ordinary range for the sport rather than fast or slow.

The season, and what it opens at

Austria is not the tropics and the park closes for winter. The operator publishes the 2026 season month by month, all of it ending at sunset, and all of it subject to the weather:

No reservation is needed for a normal session, which is not true of every park on this site. The dates in the operator's calendar are the times the lift is blocked, because it has been hired out, rather than times you need to book — worth knowing before you read the calendar backwards.

Hiring the whole cable

The lift can be taken privately in the morning or in the last operating hour of the evening, and the operator prices it by who you are:

• Private groups, from 290 € — one hour for up to 15 people, or two morning hours for up to 20.
• Company events, from 380 € — the same shape.
• Schools, 410 € for two morning hours, up to 20 people, minimum age eight and good swimming ability required.
• Children's birthdays, 275 € — one morning hour, up to 12 children, again from age eight.

All of them include the vest, helmet and a basic wakeboard, water ski or kneeboard; pro boards and wetsuits cost extra. The cable speed can be reduced for the whole booking, which for a group of first-timers matters more than the price does. Booking is by enquiry form.

Vienna’s only cable park? Nearly

The site calls itself Vienna’s one & only cable park, est. 2008. That is the kind of line a business writes about itself, so we checked it the same way we checked Cable Park Split’s claim on Dalmatia.

OpenStreetMap carries a second lift about twelve kilometres south, at Vösendorf: the Pyramide Wakepark, which lists 14 features by difficulty and opens Monday to Friday from 13:00. Vösendorf is in Lower Austria, outside the Vienna city boundary, so the claim holds as written. If you are staying in the city it is still close enough to be worth a trip — though its own Preise menu item answered 404 when we looked, so you will have to ask.

Learning here

Guided courses run all season. The beginner and Just4Kids courses, the latter for 8- to 16-year-olds, need no experience — swimwear, a towel and nothing else, in the operator's words. The Aufbau advanced courses are for riders who can already get round the cable confidently. Bookings are online only.

One caveat: the site’s own Kurse menu item answered 404 on the day we looked, so the course descriptions above come from its FAQ rather than a course page. If you want a course specifically, write to the operator rather than trusting a link. Our beginner’s guide to wakeboarding covers what actually happens in a first session.