Stayed here and spent over $700 per night for one of the suite rooms the hotel pictures in its website. Zurich is very expensive compared to other cities and it was less than getting two rooms at a traditional hotel. Well, you get what you pay for. We arrived very jet lagged and found the taxi had no access to the hotel and no one was available to help with bags so we had to drag our bags (skis etc) up a cobblestone hill to the hotel. We left the luggage and stumbled off to get a meal. When the room became ready we were given a key to another building and told still no one could help us with the bags. We pulled them across the street and then had to take them down a stair to an elevator which could hold one person and a suitcase. After managing that we found the elevator only brought the bags to the floor below so up further we went.
The room was very strange. The bed downstairs was a single. The second bed was a cot set up by a metal airplane style staircase in the living area. It was beside the television - not alot of privacy. There were no closets for four except the closet in the hall and hangars for a few coats - no place to put luggage except on the floor.
Upstairs was a double in a room shaped like a triangle. No one tall could get into half the room but the lights (balls)were on the floor so we had to crawl in to turn them on. Again, no place for luggage, no closet, no drawers. The bed was fine but one person had to be careful sitting up. To bring a medium sized suitcase up the staircase was a dangerous idea so we just all dressed in the bath downstairs.
Breakfast was okay - typical European fare but nothing extraordinary. The staff were pleasant though not a baggage help to be found. We had to ask for pillows, towels, coffee etc.
I cannot speak for the whole place, but the top floor annex building room is really for one or two people or maybe college kids, but not a good choice for a family.
- Roessli Hotel zürich
