This is totally unattended hotel - there are no staff of any kind (other than housekeepers) and no restaurant. Everything from making your reservation to paying to checking in and getting your ”key” (there's actually no key, just a code for a pin-pad) is done online via your web browser or smartphone. So, if you are 100% comfortable with doing everything in your life via your smartphone, great. If you are the kind of person who forgets passwords or does not read instructions carefully, this is not the place for you, it will only end in heartache. That probably explains the negative reviews posted - those people didn't read and follow the instructions provided. The hotel has a ”no refund” policy, so be darn sure you are going to use the reservation once you make it and pay for it. But having said this, the price is half what you would pay elsewhere in the village for the same quality of accommodation. There are plenty of places to eat and shop within a 5 minute walk. No parking is provided, and it is very difficult to find a parking space in this village. This is not a good place to stay if you arrive by car! The site is a former apartment building that has been converted to single rooms. The rooms are large, modern, Swiss-clean, and comfortable. Internet is fast and free. There are no amenities such as coffee-makers, fridges, or laundry facilities. Like most Swiss hotels, there is no air conditioning. It's in a residential area of a small, quiet village. To sum up: If you are prepared to read AND FOLLOW the instructions on the website and in the email you will receive after making your reservation VERY CAREFULLY, and if you are comfortable with a completely unattended hotel (no services or guidance available), this is a great place to stay and I highly recommend it. Otherwise, best to book into a more conventional hotel, such as the Welcome Inn which is 200 meters up the street and is a very fine hotel. PS: No check-in is possible prior to 2:00 PM in the afternoon.
Convenient for the airport with direct city buses every 30 minutes. Comfortable bed, hot water for a shower and working wifi. The staff were very helpful and spoke good English. However, this is a ”high tech” hotel with machines to check you in (rather than a conventional front desk) and the machines didn't accept my passport number nor did they accept the American guest behind me in the line. One can check in at the bar but there isn't always someone there. The air conditioning shuts off automatically if you open a window or open the binds but even with both closed it doesn't cool the room at all even if left on all night. The breakfast (which cost me $18) has no hot food besides toast, boiled eggs and tiny pieces of falafel.
Το ξενοδοχείο βρίσκεται στα 5' με το λεωφορείο από το αεροδρόμιο. Ο σταθμός του τρένου είναι επίσης πολύ κοντά και βρίσκεσαι στο κέντρο της πόλης σε 15΄. Το δωμάτιο είναι αρκετά μεγάλο και καθαρό. Η υποδοχή λειτουργεί μέχρι τις 8 το βράδυ οπότε προσοχή να έχετε φροντίσει να ρυθμίσετε το ηλεκτρονικό check-in εγκαίρως. Οι εργαζόμενοι ήταν εξυπηρετικοί και πρόθυμοι. Το πρωινό εξαιρετικά βασικό, δεν αξίζουν τα 10chf για αυτό που παίρνεις.
I had to be at Zurich airport by about 8:30 am after visiting family in Lucerne so decided to stay at this hotel in the circle which was quite close - walking distance - into the airport. Great arrangement. The hotel is tucked back at one side of “The Circle” and signage not very clear how to find Hyatt Place (vs Hyatt hotel which I think is also there on the other side). Signage should be improved but Hyatt Place is in a quiet location and the rooms, though not large were very clean and well equipped. I did not care about a view since I went to Zurich for the evening. The “view” from my room was just of other buildings, so not really a view but I got a good rate for a last minute (day before) reservation. I did not pay for the breakfast so cannot comment on the food. The lounge area and restaurant were very nice & staff was very helpful. They should have told me at check-in though how to use the elevators which required my room card be used in a specific way to get up to upper levels. The hotel lobby is accessed on the second level, also a little different than the usual.
I stayed in a pod after arriving back on a late flight, instead of driving home at midnight. The pod was nice, very comfortable. The temperature was marginally too warm for me however, and you can't change the settings. That's where the positive experience ended. My phone charging port didn't work - that's fine - I can overlook that, but it's not ideal I was woken at 4.30am by people getting up and ready for the early morning flights. They were crashing and banging around with the doors and fiddling around with their luggage. Ultimately I couldn't get back to sleep because of the continued crashing and banging and ultimately only got 3.45 hrs sleep (I know this because my fitness tracker tells me so). So it was completely pointless staying - I would have got a better night's sleep at home with my 3 year old and 10 month old in the room next door. I believe the hotel's model doesn't work for the following reasons: 1) Each pod has a door with a very noisy latch. The latch doesn't have to be noisy if people are considerate, but a lot of people aren't considerate at the best of times, let alone at 4am in the morning when getting up for an early flight. It's all well and good to have lots of signs saying ”shh!” On the walls, but most people don't see it, or at least it doesn't sink in. I stayed in a capsule hotel on Japan that has roller blinds instead of doors, which are much quieter 2) people are allowed to bring their luggage into the sleeping space. This invites people to fiddle around with their luggage, which disturbs others from their sleep. Again, in the pod hotel in Japan, people must lock their luggage in lockers in the changing rooms, and are not allowed to take anything into the sleeping space - it works much better 3) the hotel has plenty of separate rooms, with a number of pods in each. Why not allocate guests to rooms by their time of arrival and departure, so that late arrivers don't disturb early departures, and vice versa? Overall, if the above 3 things are fixed, I'd probably stay again, but otherwise, definitely not