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Hotel Information: This modern, three-sided Chicago hotel is designed to optimize river, lake, and city views. A staffed business center serves business guests, who mingle with leisure travelers in the light-filled lobby amid elegant leather-and-cloth armchairs and smoky-blue and olive-green velvet couches. The hotel's Lobby Lounge offers a double-sided fireplace, a full menu, and fresh flowers on dark-wood tables.
Amenity highlights: For a fee, guests can use Swissotel's 42nd Floor Penthouse Health Club with dramatic views of the Navy Pier, Grant Park, and Lake Michigan. The health club includes a full array of Life Fitness stair machines, treadmills, stationary bicycles, elliptical machines, and strength-training machines, along with a free-weight room. Locker rooms provide showers, hair dryers, a lounging area, and body products. Complimentary fruit, towels, newspapers, and morning juice are available. The indoor pool, spa tub, and sauna are complimentary to all guests. Massage can be arranged for an additional fee.
Insider tip: The Swissotel is connected to Illinois Center through an underground mall, which continues to Michigan Avenue, providing an easy, weather-free walk to shopping along the Magnificent Mile.
Rooms
This hotel has 632 rooms with city, river, or lake views. Rooms are decorated in clean, modern style with striped drapes, black-leather desk chairs, checkerboard-patterned ottomans, and glass-topped desks. Amenities include CD players, premium bedding with 300-thread count Egyptian-cotton linens, and 24-hour room service. High-speed Internet access is available for a surcharge.
Sand-toned marble bathrooms feature separate tubs and showers, telephones, scales, Bodylogics toiletries, and large, illuminated mirrors. Closets have wood-slat sliding doors and contain umbrellas, satin-covered hangers, and bathrobes.
Room Amenities
- Internet access - high speed
- Internet access - wireless
- Premium TV channel(s)
- Cable/satellite TV
- CD player
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Voice mail
- Multi-line phone
- Internet access - TV
- Internet access - surcharge
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Wake-up calls
- Housekeeping
- Turndown service (on request)
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Bathroom scale
- Extra towels/bedding in room
- Bathroom telephone
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Designer toiletries
- Desk
- Video-game console
- Clock radio
- Rollaway beds
- Cribs (infant beds) available
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Electronic/magnetic keys
Recreation
The hotel has a full-service fitness center (surcharge) with a 45-foot pool, spa tub, and sauna.
A 20-mile path along Lake Michigan's shoreline is just three blocks east of the Swissotel. Guests can bring their own gear for running, walking, bicycling, or inline skating. In addition, guests may rent bicycles, inline skates, or open-air, pedal-powered buggies for groups at several beachfront locations. During summer months, Oak Street Beach, one mile north, is popular for sunbathing and for swimming when lifeguards are on duty. Also in summer, beach volleyball courts are available for rental or pickup games. Public tennis courts and a public golf course are both five miles northeast of the hotel.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Fishing
- Rowing or canoeing
- Volleyball
- Kayaking
- Sailing
- Golf - driving range
- Bicycle rentals
- Golfing
- Boating
- Ice skating
- Windsurfing
- Running track/path
- Hiking/biking trails
Property Amenities
The Swissotel - Chicago is four blocks from the Magnificent Mile. A large health club with an indoor pool, a spa tub, and a sauna is on site. A staffed business center provides complete secretarial, printing, binding, copying, and shipping services. Wireless Internet access is available in the business center and from the 34th to the 42nd floor (surcharge). The hotel also has several meeting rooms and two workstations with computers, printers, fax machines, and phones.
Valet parking is available (daily surcharge).
- Swimming pool - indoor
- Patio
- Spa tub
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Health club
- Room service (24 hours)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Restaurant(s) in hotel
- Bar/lounge
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Parking (surcharge)
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Business center
- Banquet facilities
- Event catering
- Audio-visual equipment
- Cell phone/mobile rental
- Internet access in public areas - surcharge
- Computer rental
- Coffee shop or café
- Tour assistance
- Safe-deposit box - front desk
- Number of rooms: 632
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Security guard
- Number of floors: 43
- Secretarial services
- Translation services
- ATM/banking
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shoe shine
- Multilingual staff
- Dry cleaning service
- Babysitting or child care
- Parking (valet) $52 Per Night, In/Out
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Concierge desk
- Currency exchange
- Elevator/lift
- Fireplace in lobby
- Fitness equipment
- Internet access in public areas - high speed
- Internet access - wireless
- Massage - treatment room(s)
- Meeting rooms (small groups)
- Sauna
Policies
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Pets not allowed
- Check-in time is 3 PM
- Check-out time is Noon
Fees
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at either check-in or check-out.
- Health club fee: $15 per day
- Valet parking: $52 per 24-hour period, with in/out privileges (50% discount for Hybrid vehicles)
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
Dining
The Palm - Open for lunch and dinner daily, the Palm is known for steak, chops, seafood, and three-pound jumbo Nova Scotia lobsters. It also offers a selection of Italian favorites such as veal parmesan and linguini with red clam sauce. Vegetables and potatoes are served family style, encouraging a friendly atmosphere. The warm setting includes dark wood floors, booths, bar, and tables. The walls are lined with whimsical caricatures of celebrities such as Sidney Poitier, Maria Shriver, and Morgan Fairchild. In warm weather, an outdoor patio overlooks the river.
Geneva - This restaurant, with rust-colored ceiling insets, red chairs, and etched glass, serves breakfast daily. Diners can choose from an American and Continental buffet including pastries, fruit, meats, and smoked salmon or order off the menu for omelets, Belgian waffles, or vanilla strawberry French toast. In the afternoon and evening, Geneva transforms into a meeting and event space.
Lobby Lounge/The Verandah - This bar to the right of the hotel's entrance offers cocktails, coffee, and a full menu of sandwiches, appetizers, and desserts.
Address
323 E Wacker Dr
Chicago, IL 60601
USA
Nearest major airport:
Chicago, IL (ORD-O'Hare Intl.)
Area:
The Loop - Downtown, Illinois, United States of America
