HotelChatter - Tag: Zurich Hotels

Zurich: Five New Hotels for Zurich Airport, if You Can Wait Til 2017

JetSetCD — 2011-09-19T16:00:02-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/1NovoZRH_1.jpg" class="top"> The Novotel near-ish Zurich Airport "Airport Hotel" may be dirty words, but thankfully many European cities have understood the need for affordably priced, safe and comfy hotels alongside their international airports. One of the cities lagging behind, however, is Zurich; despite its huge air traveler numbers and popularity with flight crew, its airport-area hotels are loosely located and a surprising few offer free airport shuttles. There's just the <a href="http://www.radissonblu.com/hotel-zurichairport">Radisson Blu SAS</a> adjacent, with rooms that begin at $255 per night. For an airport hotel. That's Switzerland for you. Or not. The latest news from <a href="http://www.businesstraveller.com/news/zurich-airport-set-for-new-hotel-projects">Business Traveller</a> gives us major hope for a ZRH future: "Billed as 'the first global location with the ambience of a small

German Hyatt Hotels Start Offering In-Room Beauty Services for the Ladies

Jennifer Kester — 2011-06-14T09:17:12-05:00

For beauty-products-loving ladies, the FAA's 3-1-1 rule puts a serious crimp in their style. Not to mention that gadgets like hair dryers and straighteners take up a lot of precious luggage real estate. To help these style-seeking women out, German Hyatt hotels and the Park Hyatt Zurich are offering Hyatt for Her, a new in-room beauty service.

As part of Hyatt for Her, hotels offer a hair menu as well as a manicure-pedicure and blow-dry room service so you don't have to lug products and equipment with you when you travel but still get smashing results.

Zurich: A Different Sort of Savoy, in Switzerland

JetSetCD — 2011-04-01T16:23:10-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/SavoyZurich.jpg" class="top"> To quote Shakespeare, "What's in a name?" Well, a whole lot apparently, if you take the word "Savoy" as a study. What adjectives do you associate with "Savoy?" Something like luxurious, expensive, opulent, exclusive or classic should come to mind, and most of the blame for that goes to London's <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotelchatter.com%2Fhotel-reviews%2FThe%2BSavoy%2BLondon%2Flocal%2F1782&ei=2jKWTdifJ8S10QH74fDuCw&usg=AFQjCNEuLbv9UK6hFu45YddYmp3A-mUWmg">Savoy Hotel</a>, a grand dame that's reigned over the city and been known throughout the world since it opened in 1889. Alas, there are other Savoy Hotels, and we happened across another five-star last month in Zurich, Switzerland. The <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Savoy+Baur+En+Ville/ian/215739">Savoy Baur en Ville</a> is a good option for the city, with free WiFi and an awesome location right off the main Bahnhofstrasse. It's not affiliated

How a Smiling Chipmunk Encouraged Us to Book a Hotel

JetSetCD — 2011-03-29T16:29:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/hipmunkotel.jpg" class="top"> Do you use <a href="http://www.hipmunk.com">Hipmunk.com</a>? All the cool people do. And by "cool people," we mean us, because we just had a resounding success with our first hotel booking on the travel search website. Hipmunk recently began as another way to search for affordable airfare, but their <a href="http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/1/20/13550/3312/travel/Hipmunk.com+Displays+Flight+Options+Not+by+Price+or+Time%2C+but+by+%27Agony%27">creative methods</a> of doing so caught our attention quickly. Even more recently, they've added a hotel search option to the site, where their smiling chipmunk mascot is all about finding you a hotel stay by "ecstasy," or price combined with location and ranking. Ours was not an easy challenge. Find us a cheap hotel nearby the airport in Zurich, Switzerland. Zurichnay, all of Switzerlandis one of the notoriously highest

Zurich: Enjoying The Views In The Baur Au Lac Hotel's Magazine

MsRebecca — 2010-08-18T11:21:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/views.JPG" class="top">iPads, be damned, we're loving our stroll through print land and our ongoing look at a dying hotel amenity--The Hotel Magazine. Sure, most hotels stock their guestrooms with the trendy magazines of the day or at least place some localized publication on the desks but there are actually a few hotels out there that still publish their own magazine. We've got our hands on a few copies of these rare breeds and we'll be documenting our finds for you here. Know of a hotel magazine we should see before it goes out of print? <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">Send it to us!</a> Most of the <a href=http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Magazines>Hotel Magazines</a> weve reviewed recently have been brand-wide publications but not the hefty, glossy Baur