Dallas, United States

Hotel Swexan

Price per night from$440.27

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Style

Oui-haw

Setting

Modern, mirrored uptown

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Though it cuts a futuristic figure high above walkable, uptown Dallas, Hotel Swexan’s true colors are timelessly Continental, with Swiss-inspired service, interiors à la historic Parisian residences and art collected on the owners’ European travels. The clutch of restaurants continues the cosmopolitan theme, with sunny Italian lunches stretching into nights at the jazz bar-come-library. But an elevated steakhouse honors Texan tradition; and if you head to the rooftop pool, those skyline views will soon help you get your bearings.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

134, including eight suites.

Check–Out

Noon; check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Hotel Swexan are room only, but breakfast is available at Léonie for $30 a person.

Also

Some rooms at Hotel Swexan have been adapted for guests who are hearing-impaired or have limited mobility, and all communal areas are accessible.

At the hotel

Rooftop terrace, GEM low-speed electric cars to hire and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV with Chromecast, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and Le Labo bath products.

Our favourite rooms

The Swexan Suite’s private sauna is a seductive prospect, but the Panoramic Corner King can’t be beaten for sunset-gazing city views. Opt for a room on a higher floor for the most hushed atmosphere.

Poolside

The heated, rooftop infinity pool is a head-in-the-clouds hangout with sweeping skyline views. Pick your sunlounger or cabana on the surrounding terrace, have cocktails ferried over from the nearby bar, and settle in for some 20-storeys-up unwinding. The pool is for adults only, and opens daily from 6am to 10pm.

Spa

There's no spa, but staff can arrange in-room massages on request. Plus, the hotel partners with luxury skincare studio Joanna Czech, which is around the corner, so you’ll be front of the line for facial and beauty treatments and have free transport to and from your appointment, too. Stay on the wellness wavelength back at the hotel by rotating around the sauna, steam room and cold plunge pool, joining a yoga, Pilates or fitness class, or going it alone at the gym.

Packing tips

A versatile wardrobe will serve you well here — have looks on hand for afternoon tea, poolside lolling and louche nights at the jazz lounge, and you’re set.

Also

The hotel has partnered with homegrown Texan designers to up your cowboy cred. Pick up a bespoke Swexan Stetson, courtesy of McKinney Hat Company, or order six weeks ahead for a personalized pair of Miron Crosby cowboy boots.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs weighing up to 35 kilogrammes are welcome in all room types, for a fee of $150 a room. Pampered pooches will be pleased to note that dog walking services and puppy playlists are available for an extra cost. See more pet-friendly hotels in Dallas.

Children

All ages are welcome. The Double Queen rooms sleep four; every room type can take a crib, and rollaway beds can be added to suites.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Tuck yourself away in a booth at Stillwell’s, where the forest-green curtains add a pleasing theatricality. At Léonie, aim for the sweet-spot corner table with both floor-to-ceiling city views and an eye on the chefs at work.

Dress Code

Beachwear will fly at Pomelo, but get spruced up for Stillwell’s and Babou’s — suits, smart polos and no worn or torn denim (sorry, cowboys).

Hotel restaurant

Polished steakhouse Stillwell’s celebrates classic Texan cuisine in a clubby, country-western setting. Chef James Ash keeps one eye on the future, though, working exclusively with beef reared on a local ranch that operates an innovative zero-waste program. Voluminous greenery, sunlight and skyline views set the garden-like scene at Léonie, a laidback Italian restaurant open to hotel guests only. Breakfast and afternoon tea (which is a ticketed event) are served here, too.

Hotel bar

Cocktail lounge Babou’s is sufficiently offbeat for a spot that takes its name from Salvador Dalí’s pet ocelot. Moving through the moodily lit space, you’ll find a split-level library, secret bookshelf door and dancefloor presided over, from Thursdays to Saturdays, by local DJs and jazz or blues artists. Pomelo, the hotel’s rooftop pool bar, takes its cue from Mediterranean beach clubs. Pair the sunny cocktails and small bites with views of the Dallas skyline, or squirrel them away to your private cabana. An intimate café by day, Isabelle’s moonlights as an old-school martini bar. Find a spot by the antique fireplace, and when the tableside tipple cart rolls around, customize your drink in detail that puts ‘shaken or stirred’ to shame.

Last orders

Breakfast at Léonie is 7am–11am, lunch 11am–4pm, dinner 4pm–10pm. Stillwell’s is open 5pm–10pm, till 11pm Friday and Saturday. Babou’s is open 5pm–2am, Wednesday to Saturday. Pomelo is open noon–8pm Monday to Friday, 8am–10pm Saturday, 9am–8pm Sunday.

Room service

You can order up to your room round the clock.

Location

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Address
Hotel Swexan
2575 McKinnon Street
Dallas
75201
United States

Hotel Swexan soars high above the Harwood District, a walkable, modern neighborhood in uptown Dallas.

Planes

The hotel is around a 40-minute drive from Dallas Fort Worth Airport. Alternatively, Love Field Airport is a 10-minute drive away. Staff can arrange transfers from either, and prices vary depending on the time of day and number of passengers.

Trains

If you’re using the Dart light rail system to zip about the city, St Paul at Woodall Rodgers is your nearest stop (a 10-minute walk away or few minutes’ drive). Staff can organize transfers from the station on request.

Automobiles

Valet parking is available in the hotel’s private carpark for $65 a night, plus tax.

Worth getting out of bed for

The hotel is within walking distance of the city's Arts District, where the Dallas Museum of Art and Crow Museum of Asian Art are the headliners. If the latter captures your imagination, explore the epoch-spanning display of Japanese armour at the Samurai Collection, a passion project of Hôtel Swexan’s owners. Delve into the Design District’s galleries and boutiques to find local talent working across all sorts of aesthetic niches. And if all that beauty inspires a wardrobe overhaul, staff can arrange a free personal shopping service at Highland Park Village’s luxury boutiques.

Downtown, Klyde Warren Park is a handy spot to take a tree-shaded time out, but it’s also worth checking out the calendar of open-air cultural events. Or wind your way through Uptown to the well-heeled Oak Lawn area on the Katy Trail, a wholesome walking and cycling route that follows the route of a historic railroad — from the hotel, pick up the route at Victory Park and head north.

Local restaurants

Flirtatiously named Te Deseo seduces with a bold Latin American menu, copious mezcal and a lively rooftop terrace. Come for the bang bang shrimp, then stay way past your bedtime for the ginger-laced margaritas at contemporary, pan-Asian Elephant East. For Tex-Mex done properly, branch further out into Uptown at Las Palmas.

Local cafés

Magnolias Sous le Pont ditches the ultra-minimalist urban café trend in favor of cozy, mid-century sofas, playful specialty drinks and local art, which brightens the walls.

Local bars

The Tipsy Alchemist brings mad-scientist spectacle to its creative, and often kitschy, craft cocktail menu. Katy Trail Ice House takes things back to the feelgood basics: frosty pilsners and slow-smoked Texan barbecue in a beer garden strung with festoon lights.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this cosmopolitan hotel in Texas and unpacked their handmade Stetsons and monogrammed cowboy boots, a full account of their Southwestern city break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Hotel Swexan in Dallas… 

At first glance, it seems a straightforward equation behind Hotel Swexan. The uptown Dallas stay, so the name suggests, marries the owners’ Swiss and Texan heritage. Take the type of service at home on the shores of Lake Lucerne, add a barnstorming steakhouse and a little Lone Star twang — it does what it says on the tin, and it does it with élan.  

Look behind the soaring mirrored façade, though, and the high-rise has hidden depths top to toe, from the underground speakeasy’s secret library to the beach club-esque rooftop pool and terrace. In between, opulent suites chart the owners’ globe-spanning interests, pulling art and antiques from Paris and Morocco, Japan and the tropics. If the best portmanteaus add up to more than the sum of their parts, then brunch can budge up — Hotel Swexan has earned its spot on the podium.

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