Choice Privileges - Comfort Inn Royal Zurich, Switzerland

Considering staying at this property later this month.

Anyone stayed at this property?

I'd appreciate hearing of any of your experiences.

I've never been there, but made a reward night booking there (but later had to cancel). It's a decent points value and seems to be a decent property with a convenient location. It's not luxurious, rooms are on the small side, and some guests complained of poor air conditioning performance; however, it looks to be comfortable and a decent choice.

We had a reward night there May of 2008. Hotel gave us the best room of the property - the one with the pictures on the website and at the hotel front door. Though we found the electrical blind a bit annoying and the room was too warm for our liking (hotel was on heating, A/C was not on in May).

The breakfast included at that time was very decent, even with Champaign offered. Lots of business types stayed there as well.

There are 2 lines of tram car run in front of the hotel front door - that would go all the way down to the Main Rail Station - you can take the tram instead of walking uphill if you arrive Zurich town center by train. Wish we have known about that.

Thanks for the info - good tips folks. I think we'll go with it and let you know how it turns out.

This hotel has no air conditioning! I'm not sure what the technology of the "pretend" air conditioning is, but there was a sign in my room that the "air conditiong" will lower the room temperature at most by a certain (fairly small) number of degrees relative to outside temeprature.

In my small single-bed room, this so-called "air conditioning" had only one vent behind the desk, and maybe it cooled my laptop a tiny bit, I dunno, but whatever the temeprature was or wasn't of the air that it vented, it did not seem to go beyond the back half of the desk!

So basically I was dependent on opening the window to keep the room at least no warmer than outside air...

In my case, at home I live in an apartment with no air condition (a few miles from the ocean in SoCal), and so I'm used to sometimes it being warm at night. This was no worse than my apartment, but not necessarily much better either.

Still, I found it reasonable on points (whereas little else in the city was, and the city was somewhat expensive in real money). I was there 5 nights, and although I might have wished it was a bit cooler, I wouldn't have paid oodles more just for that. If I had to do it again, and had to be in Zurich, I'd still probably choose it again. (The one alternative I'd consider would be staying in another town within an hour's train trip of Zurich, instead of in Zurich itself, if the point of my trip was to make lots of day trips anyway.)

This hotel has no air conditioning! I'm not sure what the technology of the "pretend" air conditioning is, but there was a sign in my room that the "air conditiong" will lower the room temperature at most by a certain (fairly small) number of degrees relative to outside temeprature
That does seem to be the principal complaint about this property.

The superior rooms, panorama rooms, and junior suites have full a/c according to their website (unfortunately, they are not bookable on points).