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The Swissôtel Zurich is the highest 4-star hotel in Zurich. It is located opposite the Zurich-Oerlikon train station. Zurich airport and the city center are only five kilometers away. The 347 rooms and suites offer a panoramic view of Zurich and the Swiss Alps.
Due to the Corona crisis, they are mostly empty. The Zurich fair venue is clinically dead, and almost nothing happens at the nearby airport either. So owner Accor is now pulling the cord and laying off 270 employees. As BLICK knows from three independent bodies. Apparently, the commercial apartments in the higher price segment will be built in the 85-meter-high house.
No one at the Swissôtel wanted to answer VIEW’s questions.
Acquired by Accor in 2017
The hotel has had an eventful past. It wasn’t until 2017 that Credit Suisse sold the prestigious hotel to the Accor hotel group. On February 14, 1988, the Panorama Grill restaurant on the top floor of the hotel burned down completely.
An apprentice waiter had caused hell. He had refilled a fuel burner to keep the food warm. The overflowing fuel ignited, “it grabbed the table, the plastic curtain and the plastic container with the fuel that had fallen to the floor,” as later stated in the report.
