Alma HotelvsBoutique Hotel Helvetia
LADYs FIRST Hotel and Boutique Hotel Helvetia are both praised by expert reviewers. Overall, LADYs FIRST Hotel scores marginally higher than Boutique Hotel Helvetia. LADYs FIRST Hotel has a TripExpert Score of 76 with praise from 6 sources including Michelin Guide, Lonely Planet and Frommer's.
Alma Hotel
Mainaustrasse 24, Zurich 8008, Switzerland
From $203/night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Free Breakfast
- Shuttle Bus
Michelin Guide
"Old building charm meets modern design."
Concierge
"A 19th-century town house near the opera was renovated by architect Pia Schmid in a minimal, if colorful, style."
DK Eyewitness
"Owned and operated by a team of five women, this unusual fashion hotel is aimed towards women."
Frommer's
"The first hotel of its type in Switzerland, this is a boutique hotel with its top floor, rooftop terrace, and its spa facilities available only to women." Full review
Fodor's
"Once a rooming house for country girls attending school in the big city, this boutique hotel has two floors that cater exclusively to women—a first in Switzerland." Full review
The Telegraph
8.0
"A bijou hotel in an art nouveau townhouse, just paces from Zurich’s lakefront promenade." Full review
Lonely Planet
"Immaculate and generally spacious rooms provide a pleasant mixture of traditional parquet flooring and designer furnishings." Full review
Michelin Guide
"The Alma Hotel is a contemporary-styled boutique, a stone’s throw from Lake Zurich, with views of the water from the top floor rooms...all of the 18 rooms, though, are stylish, with parquet floors" Full review
The Telegraph
8.0
"This tranquil and light-filled hotel near Zurich old town features a spectacularly scenic rooftop terrace but it's the Alma's social ethos that really sets it apart" Full review
Boutique Hotel Helvetia
Stauffacherquai 1, Zurich 8004, Switzerland
From $144/night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
Michelin Guide
"Your host at the Helvetia is relaxed and friendly, just like his hotel where you will quickly feel at home."
Concierge
"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."
Afar Magazine
"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
The Telegraph
8.0
"This boutique hotel on the River Sihl in central Zurich combines Art Nouveau good looks with design-led charisma." Full review
Time Out
"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
Condé Nast Traveler
"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