"Smart, bright and minimalist, the rooms (which include some junior suites) are accessible from the interior courtyard with its birch trees, sound sculpture and herb garden."

"This is half-Zen, half-Brothers Grimm, with its fairy groves of slim-trunked silver birches and its reflecting pools with floating flower heads."

"The curving blue-grey walls lend this designer digs in a quieter part of Kreis 4 a retro art-deco touch." Full review

"This sleek boutique hotel is a hidden gem in a quiet but trendy part of town, and it's just five minutes by tram from the city center." Full review

"Greulich is Zurich’s original design hotel. It has a crisp, arty aesthetic, daily yoga classes overlooking a grove of silver birches and a cosy ‘living room’." Full review

"The curving navy-blue Greulich packs a dollop of high intensity design on an otherwise quiet, residential stretch of trendy Kreis 4." Full review

"The rooms are contemporary, spacious and bright, and the restaurant and bar are popular with locals." Full review

"Your host at the Helvetia is relaxed and friendly, just like his hotel where you will quickly feel at home."

"Perched on the banks of the Sihl River in the hip Kreis 4 neighborhood, the 16-room Hotel Helvetia has become a hub for the city's edgy art community."

"Occupying a stately green building on the banks of the Sihl River, this intimate 16-room hotel straddles the border between the moneyed Altstadt (Old Town) and hipper Kreis 4." Full review

"This boutique hotel on the River Sihl in central Zurich combines Art Nouveau good looks with design-led charisma." Full review

"Rooms are compact but it's a small price to pay when it comes to accessing affordable luxury in an ideal city centre location. " Full review

"Built on the banks of the Sihl River in the hip Creis 4 neighborhood, the 16-room Hotel Helvetia has become a hub for the city’s edgy art community, many of whose members have made the cozy street-level café-bar cum lobby their preferred hangout and also pack the hotel’s candlelit restaurant, reached via a sturdy oak staircase, for the comfort food of Zurich native chef Françoise Wicki, a rising culinary star" Full review