Originally Posted by
Concerto
I agree, it's quite a nice hotel and surprisingly pleasant, not as faceless as many HIX properties are. I find the mill of people at breakfast a bit irritating though. If you happen to have a rental car, as I did, parking can be quite expensive and there's no on street parking (I found it easier to keep the rental and just drive it to the airport before my flight the following morning, rather than turning it in the night before and taking the shuttle out to the hotel). In this case I parked in the empty lot of a nearby shopping center and left sufficiently early in the morning before the parking became payable and I might have got a fine. It was by the Migros and Aldi Zurich just south of the HIX.
Good point about the parking, I wasn't aware how it worked as I didn't have a car, I'm glad you added that. Also, that's annoying about breakfast. Thankfully, I was there at about 4:30 so it was myself and three other people