Zurich, Switzerland

The Home Hotel Zürich

Price per night from$244.48

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (CHF196.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Dadaesque des res

Setting

Banks of the Sihl

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The Home Hotel Zürich is where the art is. This Dadaesque daydream — all bright, blocky collage carpets, textured geometric wallpaper and zebra-print sofas — is a Sihlcity slicker, drawing local gourmands and creatives to its buzzy French bistro and dance-yourself-dizzy DJ nights. Rooms in this former industrial paper mill are also the stuff of reams, measuring larger than the Zurich average and bolstered by an entire floor dedicated to wellbeing that features saunas, hot tubs, and a gym with river views.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

132, of which 15 are suites.

Check–Out

Noon. Check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible when availability permits.

More details

There’s a generous breakfast buffet, served daily in the LouLou restaurant, included in the rate.

Also

Five spacious accessible rooms come with widened doorways and bathrooms with roll-in showers, lowered sinks and grab bars. And there’s elevator access to all floors of the hotel.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: HD TV, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, minibar with free soft drinks, beer and bottled water, and organic Soeder bath products.

Our favourite rooms

All rooms at The Home Hotel Zürich feature maximalist Dada-inspired décor, but only Signature rooms come with kitchenettes, bringing culinary flexibility for longer stays. Upgrade to the sprawling 55-square-metre Signature Suite and you can even devour your late-night grilled Gruyère sandwich in the tub.

Spa

The Home Hotel Zürich’s fifth-floor wellness zone wows with 2,000 square metres of space that includes saunas, steam rooms, hot tubs, relaxation areas, and a state-of-the-art gym overlooking the river.

Packing tips

The Home Hotel Zürich’s bookshelves are practically groaning with them, so what you won’t need to bring with you are primers on Dadaism. What might be handy though is a spare suitcase in which to cram treasures foraged from the adjacent Sihlcity mall.

Also

Sightseeing Zurich’s hilly old town can play havoc with your hamstrings. Good news: lightweight Desiknio electric bikes are yours to borrow at reception, subject to availability.

Pet‐friendly

Your dog can stay for a nightly fee of CHF35. See more pet-friendly hotels in Zurich.

Children

There are no specific facilities to entertain little Smiths, but suites can fit an extra bed or two as required.

Sustainability efforts

Renewable solar energy and water-saving technology mean this former paper mill’s eco credentials are anything but lightweight. Additionally, motion sensors ensure that LED lighting is only activated when required and organic Soeder bath products come in refillable glass bottles. The restaurant’s supply of fresh seasonal produce comes from local farms, and green spaces in and around the hotel feature native plants and support the local wildlife. There are even free electric bikes for carbon footprint-conscious guests and staff to borrow.

Food and Drink

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Dress Code

Lean into LouLou’s Dada aesthetic with bold, blocky prints and zig-zags.

Hotel restaurant

LouLou’s French-inspired bistro is a sensory fiesta of Dadaist eye candy — jade-coloured rugs, leopard-print chairs, heavy lilac drapes, and foliage both real (potted palms) and surreal (sculpted golden leaves). The menu’s collage of flavours is no less bold: there are oysters, sashimi and beef tartare from the raw bar; cooked highlights include jugged venison, homemade ravioli, and sourdough pizza with black pudding and crème fraîche.

Hotel bar

The combination of monochrome zig-zags, brightly patterned rugs, gossamer-thread fairy lights and the bar’s signature Sihlcity Spritz — a refreshing mix of elderflower, prosecco, lime and soda — may result in particularly Dadaesque visions at the lobby bar. It’s open 11am until midnight, with occasional live DJs on weekends.

Last orders

Breakfast is served 6.30am–10am (Monday to Friday); 7am–10.30am on Saturdays; 7am–1pm on Sundays. Dinner runs from 6pm–9.30pm. The buzzy lobby bar continues serving its signature Sihlcity Spritz cocktails until midnight.

Room service

None, but there are plenty of takeaway options in the neighbouring Sihlcity mall, with some open as late as 10pm.

Location

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Address
The Home Hotel Zürich
Kalandergasse 1
Sihlcity
CH-8045
Switzerland

The Home Hotel Zürich is a Dadaesque daydream set on the banks of the Sihl river, right next to the Sihlcity mall and a 15-minute tram ride from Zurich’s old town.

Planes

Zurich Airport is a 30-minute cab ride from the hotel. Transfers can be arrange, with one-way trips for up to four passengers costing 60–80 Swiss francs ($70–90), including luggage.

Trains

The Home Hotel Zürich is right next to Sihlcity Nord, from where trams and trains run direct to central Zurich in 10–15 minutes. It’s 30 minutes to the airport.

Automobiles

Zurich’s public transport system is one of the best in the world, with a network that includes buses, trams, trains, taxis, an S-bahn and a funicular railway. All of which means you’ll have little need for your own set of wheels here. There is, however, secure parking at the hotel, with rates from 35 Swiss francs ($40) a day.

Worth getting out of bed for

If the Home Hotel Zürich’s arresting décor has whet your appetite for all things Dada, you’re in luck: Cabaret Voltaire — the short-lived performance-art nightclub that birthed the anarchic ‘anti-art’ movement — has been resurrected for the 21st century. You can pop by for a drink in the very spot where artists Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings masterminded the Dada movement in 1916, browse Dadaist tracts in the library, and catch rotating exhibitions in the vaulted cellar. The nearby Kunsthaus Zurich contains one of the largest collections of Dada art on the planet, including pieces by Duchamp, Hausmann and Hans Richter, as well as works by European masters including Monet, Picasso and Munch.

Eye candy of a different stripe can be found inside the Sihlcity shopping and entertainment complex right next to the hotel. A cornucopia of consumerism awaits, with around 80 stores, plus several restaurants and a multiplex cinema. When it all gets too much, seek shelter by the mall’s living green wall, or retreat to the tree-lined Sihl riverbank with a coffee.

It’s just 15 minutes by tram to Zurich’s mediaeval old town, with its charming gardens and cobbled squares. Take it all in from the lofty heights of leafy Lindenhof. Or get even more of a natural high atop the Uetliberg Aussichtsturm observation tower, for awe-inspiring views across Lake Zurich to — on clear days — the Alps beyond.

Local restaurants

Haus Hiltl has been specialising in vegetarian cuisine since long before it was fashionable to do so. Its flagship restaurant has been a Sihlstrasse stalwart since 1898, but today’s repertoire trots the globe via Indian thali, Japanese okonomiyaki and American-style burgers.

The clue’s in the name at Clouds, a sky-high fine-dining restaurant and bistro that hovers 35 floors over the city at the top of the Prime Tower, its urban vistas accompanied by seasonal Alpine favourites such as veal ravioli and pan-seared venison fillet with red cabbage and juniper jus.

Local cafés

Zurich has a rich vein of quirky coffee spots. Paint It Easy, a cool, convivial concept café that combines coffee, cocktails and crafts, is a case in point. Likewise, Coffee and Plants at Sihlcity delivers precisely what the name foretells: fine espressos and flat whites amid a garden centre’s worth of green foliage. Buns, banana bread and brownies are also available.

Local bars

The Widder Bar’s wonderful wall of whisky is a sight to behold and goes some way towards explaining the 25-page menu, a Magna Carta for malt-lovers that’s thirsty reading. Soak up the live jazz and old-school interiors, dressed with exposed beams and red leather, and choose your tipple the easy way: by asking bar staff for their expert recommendations. A two-minute stumble around the corner, Old Crow’s drinks selection is no less impressive, with a choice of cocktails that would take weeks to work through. Try a classic French 75 or absinthe-laced Green Beast for the win.

Reviews

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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 Dada-inspired hotel in Zurich and unpacked their stash of Swiss chocolate and Duchamp prints a full account of their city sojourn will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside the Home Hotel Zürich…

Home Hotel Zürich may be something of a misnomer for this artsy urban outpost, set on the site of a former paper mill out by the city’s Sihlcity shopping complex. After all, not many of us have floor-to-ceiling bookshelves stuffed with Dadaist sculptures, busts and coffee-table tomes. A multi-million-dollar 21st-century glow-up by renowned design visionaries Stylt Trampoli marries the building’s industrial past (eyes peeled for the towering brick chimney) with a playfully anarchic neo-Dada aesthetic. So that behind the hotel’s disarmingly utilitarian facade lies the promise of wild, kitschy interiors, replete with walnut veneers, plush velvets, textured wallpapers, and — because why not — the occasional chiminea. There’s even a wine shop, crammed to the rafters with sustainable biodynamic bottles from independent local producers. The resulting composition is both convivial and colourful, with public spaces that buzz with ad-hoc events and lively chatter. Much like an evening at home with good friends, in fact.

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