Meininger Hotel Zürich Greencity

Small but functional room. Everything is reduced to the essentials, but nothing important is missing. There is no coffee maker or kettle in the room. Breakfast was good but not exceptional. Many guests preferred to buy food at the supermarket (5 minutes walk from the hotel) and eat it in the dining area. It's worth noting that you can cook your own meals in the guest kitchen (fully equipped). The staff is very friendly and helpful and is always ready to answer your questions. An underground car park is available for a fee (CHF 25 per night, until 2 pm the next day) just below the hotel (ask at the reception for the access card). A lift will take you directly to the floors. However, parking outside the hotel is cheaper if you arrive in the evening and leave early in the morning (CHF 2 per hour from 6am to 10pm - coins or app only). Convenient for visiting the Lindt Home of Chocolate, which can be reached in 20 minutes by car. Note that this is a cashless hotel.

The website for this hotel says that the rooms have a "fan coil unit" for cooling. When we arrived we were extremely disappointed that the lobby and our room were both humid and blisteringly hot. There is a sign in the room that says that if you would like the temperature adjusted in your room you can request that at the front desk. We spoke with someone at the front desk on three separate occasions and got three different stories as to why our room was not cooled. The bottom line is that our room was never cooled. It was so hot we had to (at one employee's recommendation) open our window and prop a fan there. We slept terribly due to the heat, humidity, and noise from the open window. This is not the experience that was advertised, and not what we paid for. Also, the kitchen is perpetually filthy. I understand that, really, the guests who use the kitchen should be cleaning up after themselves, but no one at the hotel enforces that, and no one at the hotel cleaned it up while we were there. When we went down in the evening, and then back down the next morning, the exact same dirty dishes and food splashes were still there, untouched. If you want to use the kitchen you will have to wash someone else's dishes first. The hallway of the floor we stayed on smelled awful, like some kind of deeply artificial, chemical cleanser smell. I can't even imagine what that smell must be covering. Really, it was just overall a hot, sweaty, dirty, smelly experience, and the employees were not particularly interested in correcting that.

Poor facilities, very dirty room, away from the city not providing travel card. The toilet was dirty and stayed dirty even after the cleaning of the room. The breakfast was just ok in comparison with the price or the room. The furniture on the is very cheap.