Name: Aparthotel Splendid in Zürich
Address: Rosengasse 5, Zurich, Zurich, Zurich, 8001, Switzerland
Rating: 5

Elevator/lift

Smoke-free property

Heating

General

Fridge

Family room

Cable TV

Rooms

Coffee/tea for guests

Kitchen

Meals

Free Wi-Fi

Internet access

Internet

Spanish

English

Languages Spoken

Parking

Location

At the apartament hotel

Room amenities

Zurich Town Hall

Lindenhof

St. Peter Church

Grossmuenster

Fraumuenster

Zurich Zoological Museum

Kunsthaus Zurich

Paradeplatz

Zürich Hauptbahnhof

Swiss National Museum

Bellevue Square

Opernhaus

SIX Swiss Exchange

Helvetia Square

Lake Zurich

Zurich Zoological Garden

Zurich Airport

Swiss Transportation Museum

Lion Monument

Glacier Garden

Bourbaki Panorama

Loewenplatz

Saint Peters Church

Lucerne Arts Museum

Lucerne Congress and Events Centre

Rosengart Collection

Lucerne Town Hall

Chapel Bridge

Mill Bridge

Jesuit Church

Aparthotel Splendid in Zürich

Zurich

child-bed

child-bed-fee

external-private-bathroom

private-bathroom

shared-bathroom

10-beds

11-beds

12-beds

13-beds

14-beds

15-beds

16-beds

17-beds

18-beds

19-beds

2-beds

20-beds

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22-beds

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24-beds

25-beds

26-beds

27-beds

28-beds

29-beds

3-beds

30-beds

31-beds

32-beds

33-beds

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36-beds

37-beds

38-beds

39-beds

4-beds

40-beds

5-beds

6-beds

7-beds

8-beds

9-beds

king-bed

queen-bed

limited-time

lounge

treatment

no-window

bay-view

bosphorus-view

canal-view

city-view

courtyard-view

garden-view

golf-view

harbour-view

inland-view

lake-view

land-view

mountain-view

ocean-front

ocean-view

oceanside

panoramic-view

park-view

partial-ocean-view

partial-sea-view

partial-view

pool-view

river-view

sea-front

sea-view

street-view

sunrise-view

sunset-view

water-view

with-view

annex

basement

main-building

1-bedroom

2-bedrooms

3-bedrooms

4-bedrooms

5-bedrooms

6-bedrooms

not-guaranteed

wired-internet-access

smoking

sauna

duplex

safe

mini-bar

breakfast-for-1

breakfast-for-2

pets-allowed

wi-fi

kitchen

My girlfriends and I stayed at the Splendid on our recent trip to Zurich.  We had spent an hour walking from door to door to find a hotel and there was either no openings, only slept 2, or were $300 a night.  After 24 hours of traveling I was ready to pay the $300 just to have somewhere to take a nap.  So glad we kept looking!  The gal who checked us in was friendly and honest.  She told us it was a 1-star room but that it was clean.  And it was.  The bedding had been freshly laundered when we checked in.  No fancy frills but it was everything we needed and we couldn't beat the location and the price.  And considering how expensive Zurich is you will want to save your pennies and get a cheap room so you can afford to eat!  There is a piano bar on the 1st floor and yes they play music till 3 AM....but we found it charming and actually enjoyed it.  Yes it is an old hotel, you have to share a bathroom, the lobby smells like smoke, the rooms are small, the music is loud, and there is no AC - but we loved it!  It you're looking for a romantic getaway with a fancy room and all the luxuries of home....this ain't it!  But we were looking for an experience.....and we got it!

It's not the Hilton...but clean, comfortable, and close!

I am going into this lady owned hotel for 25 sears and can confirm it is a good dropping point. Particularly for the piano bar which os probably the most charing 'play it again Sam' night club in ... Switzerland. Enjoy the VERY central location, watch the old phone booth at ground floor, get lost and set with your suitcases in the numerous floors. Be quiet and comfortable in your room with or without shower... just enjoy, cheap hospitality downtown in Zurich.

Old flair low cost hotel in 'Züriniederdorf' (the 'village' in Zurich)

Reaching Zurich main railway station, we reserved a triple room with shared bathroom from the tourist information center 
The hotel is in the heart of the old town, with the so many surrounding shops, cafes and restaurants. 
Our room was in the 3rd floor, the rooms were basic but clean the shared bathroom was near the room and ok 

On the downside 
There was no:
Safe box
Mini bar 
Elevators 
NO ONE HELPS IN CARRYING THE LUGGAGE 
No Ac or Fan 
The reception wasn’t that helpful 
The noisy from the piano bar down stairs makes it hard to sleep early

A cheap hotel in the heart of old town Zurich

This was a last minute booking and we were out of options,

Booking:
The booking process was quite slow and it was very difficult to get any reply to our questions. We had to ask several times. Once we agreed on the date, we were asked to complete a form and to add our credit card details. On the document it was mentioning the renting period and the price. Instead they were a mention about a deposit to be paid and a minimum of 1 month rental. We completed the form and add comments and asked confirmation. We never got a direct answer to our question and instead we were asked in how we wanted to pay (cash or by wire transfer). As we did not trust them we told them we were going to pay by cash.

Check-in:
We communicated most of the time by email and we were asked to send international text to confirm our arrival time. This was quite annoying. There is no reception or nobody there all the time if you have any questions. We had an agreed appointment time to meet with the husband to get the keys. The husband was on time but barely spoke english. We were taken to the room and asked to pay the rental (and given a receipt). We then received a piece of paper only written in German. This was quite pointless as we do not speak German. 

The room:
It looks brand new and it was clean when we arrived. The kitchen is very small and there are very limited cooking items. This make the cooking and washing very difficult.
The internet connexion is very good and we had to re-logon a few times.
The TV is good quality but most of the channels were German only. The remote control was not working very well and despite changing the battery the remote stopped been recognised by the TV. 
During our stay, it was very hot and we had to open the windows. We had the following issues:
- At first we could not open at the fullest the window and only limited fresh air was getting inside,
- they are a few bars downstairs and they were very noisy until very late at night,
- in the morning we could hear from 5am trucks coming to collect the rubbish,
- We could smell the smoke of the cigarets,
This make our stay quite unbearable. We requested a fan and it helps a bit.
Later we were shown how to open at the fullest the windows.

Laundry:
The machine are free to use and you need to buy your on product and write your room number on their schedule in order to use it. There is only 1 machine for several flats and most days they are only 2 slots available for only 2 flats. The cleaning lady is using it all morning and she is supposed to be done by 2pm. Once I had to wait as she was running a machine. I complaint by email and never got a reply.

They do not reply to email on Sunday.

Check-out:
The day before I told them when I was going to vacate and only the next morning I was told to leave the key inside and to go.

The room only had 2 roll of toilet paper and we had to buy additional ones. As for the kitchen we had to buy our sponges and product in order to do the washing. Nothing provided.

The "hotel" is well located as you are very closed to various shops and restaurants. However having a few bars downstairs it makes our stay quite bad. The owner only seem to be here to collect the money. Interaction with them was mainly by email and difficult.

Terrible stay

Knowing this is a cheap hotel, we were prepared for average accommodations- which we got. The room was like any other 1-2 star European hotel, smelled like smoke and unwashed sheets. We sucked it up, knowing we were gonna be staying there for less than 12 hours. What we weren't prepared for was the night time. We got back to our hotel wanting a good nights rest for our flight early in the morning- at about 12:30 at night we wake up to a woman hysterically yelling for her life, tugging and pounding at our door trying to come inside. My three sisters and I immediately popped up out of deep sleep in a worrisome state. My sister immediately got up, holding the door and yelling at the woman to go away- there was no way that we were opening the door for fear of our lives. Immediately we went to the window, which looked down to the bar across the street, and yelled for someone to come help us. Meanwhile this lady was still wailing outside of our door- begging for help and screaming that her son is dying. A man came up about 5 minutes later yelling at her to leave and the crying stopped. We hear her same voice downstairs and she is on her phone acting as if everything is fine. At that point we were freaked- they could have been ploying to rob us, or things even worse. We tried to not let it freak us out, hoping it was just a freak accident and she was just drunk or on drugs. We fell back asleep, thankfully, expecting to get rest for the entirety of the night- but we were wrong. At about 2:30 AM the same frantic, pulling and tugging at our door promptly woke us up- this time a voice of two men. Yelling into the door "I'm the man..I'm the man...I'm the man...". My sister held the door once more yelling for them to leave or she will call the police. They then started to ask for lewd acts through the door. We picked up the phone to dial the police but there was no landline... we couldn't call out of the room. We yelled once more that we were going to call the police and the talking stopped. Dead silence after that incident and once morning broke we were out of Hotel Splendid in a hurry to leave Zurich for good. We went to the hotel reception and the lady did not speak any English as we tried to tell her the events that occurred overnight. There was nothing we could do and we angrily walked out of the hotel- ruining our visit to Zurich. Do not stay at this hotel! Steer clear!

Aparthotel Splendid in Zürich

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