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The Hazelton Hotel
- Style
- Glossy grey, fully glam
- Setting
- Well-to-do Yorkville
The Hazelton Hotel is a sybarite’s paradise – there’s Mark McEwan’s restaurant, One, an upscale spa with pool, spacious rooms with pillow-top mattresses clad in 300 thread-count linen and huge green-granite Bvlgari-stocked bathrooms.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 62 rooms, 15 suites.
- Rates
- CA$450–CA$3,500, room only.
- Check-out
- Noon; earliest check-in, 2pm.
- Facilities
- Pool, spa, state-of-the-art gym, designer boutique, screening room, free high-speed internet. In rooms: minibar, 42” plasma TVs, Tivoli clock radio, electric curtains, French door windows.
- Poolside
- There’s a private lift to a stunning lap pool set in pretty marble and mosaic tiling. There’s no lounging poolside though, it’s all about the aqua waters.
- Children
- Somewhere so chichi isn’t ideally suited to terrorising tots, but so determined is the Hazelton to please its guests, if you do take a little one they even have child-size bathrobes; there is no extra charge for cribs.
- Eco-friendly
- As well as using organic, seasonal, free-range and locally sourced ingredients where possible and having super-efficient recycling, the hotel features Lutron low-voltage lighting.
- Also
- Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the hotel.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- With huge private zebrawood dressing rooms and dining areas, the Hazelton and Avenue Suites are fit for a rock star. Although if you're a real entourage-brandishing superstar, the Bellaire Suite has additional lounge areas and is kitted out with glassware, cutlery and dishes for guests who have a longer stay in mind.
- Packing tips
- Your designer-label swimwear. If you forget your Celine handbag or designer cocktail dress you can always pick them up in the boutique, Hazel.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Mark McEwan is Toronto’s answer to Ramsay and you can sample the work of this superchef at breakfast through to supper in One. Smoked glass, striking cowhide and tiger's eye onyx create a setting ideal to enjoy elegant modern classics.
- Dress code
- Designer, designer, designer – and any outfits or accessories you’ve missed you can pick up from Hazel.
- Top table
- Definitely on the terrace if weather permits. Indoors, perhaps by the window.
- Last orders
- For lunch, 4.30pm; for dinner, midnight. At the bar, 2am.
- Room service
- The minibar comes equipped with complimentary water, soft drinks and coffee and tea. There is a Cravings menu for snacks.
- Hotel bar
- For a cocktail befitting of such a stylish scenario, order a Chilled Navan Vanilla Cognac (Stolichnaya vanilla vodka with a splash of Frangelico) or The One (apple and pear vodka with fresh pineapple and lime juice, a touch of cinnamon and clove).
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Smith concierge
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Worth getting out of bed for
Right here you're in one of the best shopping areas, only a stroll from Hazelton Lanes shopping centre and Holt Renfrew department store. This is also a cultural hub as most of the major museums are within walking distance of the Hazelton Hotel; the Gehry-enhanced Art Gallery of Ontario is at 317 Dundas Street West (+1 416 979 6648; www.ago.net); and Daniel Libeskind's crystal-augmented Royal Ontario Museum is at 100 Queen's Park (+1 416 586 8000; www.rom.on.ca). The world-class ceramics collection at Gardiner Museum is at 111 Queen's Park (+1 416 586 8080; www. gardinermuseum.on.ca). Footwear fetishists should hotfoot it to the Bata Shoe Museum at 327 Bloor St West (+1 416 979 7799; www.batashoemuseum.ca).
Diary
September This month sees the Toronto International Film Festival jamboree roll into town, and many of its movers and shakers make the Hazelton their home for the duration (www.tiff08.ca and www.tiff09.ca).
