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Zurich Hotel Reviews

After years of resting on their laurels, Zurich's hotel directors are airing out that musty smell, throwing out the chintz, the velvetine, and the dusty carpet in favor of hardwood floors, sleek 21st-century furnishings, and modern technology, such as wireless LANs and DVD players.

A string of small boutique hotels has popped up since the turn of the 21st century, all with a strong focus on design, sleeping comfort, and generous bathrooms—think large bed covered with a fluffy down comforter and soft pillows, looking onto an outsized flatscreen TV that invariably includes video games and a selection of movies, and a white-tiled bathroom with black slate floors and lots of mirrors. On our list this includes the hotels Greulich, Seefeld, Widder, and Zürichberg. Another passion taking over the city—in fact the country—is the trend toward so-called "wellness" vacations.

Putting a new spin on the 19th- and early-20th-century tradition of the Swiss sanitorium—where convalescent patients from all over the world came to Switzerland to cleanse their lungs with Alpine air—hotels here are, if they have the space, adding pools, saunas, steam rooms, and special areas for such ministrations as hot stone massage, cosmetic treatment, or body wraps.

Smaller venues like the Hotel Seefeld have simply added a cosmetics studio to cover their customers' skin-care needs, while the upmarket houses cover everything from full-body peels, sports massages, and ice wraps (The Park Hyatt Hotel) all the way through to the comprehensive spa services of the Dolder Grand Hotel, which also includes kotastu footbaths, an aroma pool, indoor and outdoor whirlpools, and, if you're still not feeling like a whole new you, there's even a clinic complete with a team of doctors for cosmetic surgery.

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