Built in 2005 in the center of the Russian capital, the Hotel Red Hills (Swissotel) is still the subject of controversy among architects. Some believe that he ruined the landscape panorama of Red Square, while others find it a completely modern structure. Nevertheless, the hotel has many rewards. In 2008, 2009 and 2011, she was awarded the title of “Best Russian Business Hotel”. Moscow, Swissotel "Red Hills" which is located on the Garden Ring, in the southeast of the Kremlin Island, according to some, has lost a unique view of Red Square when viewed from the side of the Historical Museum. This thirty-four-story hotel really does not look quite ordinary. Outwardly, it resembles a tower. In 2005, Lodging Hospitality Magazine named the best design project that Moscow, the Red Hills Swissotel, can rightfully be proud of.
Description
The five-star hotel towering above the city has an excellent location. It is located in close proximity to the very center of Moscow - the Kremlin. Nearby are many business centers. Hotel "Red Hills" (Swissotel), whose address is Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, 52/6, belongs to the Swiss group of the same name. The building is owned by a company from Turkey. The Red Hills (Swissotel) is part of a business complex called Riverside, which is a large architectural ensemble. It includes the International House of Music, business and conference centers. In just eight minutes you can walk to the Paveletsky station. The hotel is located in the Zamoskvoretsky district, which has many churches and historical buildings. Guests of the capital living in it can stroll along the Moskva River, which runs just a hundred meters away.
Infrastructure
Being equated to a five-star level, the hotel "Red Hills" (Swissotel) offers a very wide range of services. For an additional fee, guests can get a shuttle both to the airport and to any desired location. In the lobby of the hotel there is an opportunity to exchange currency, ATMs are also installed here. Businessmen often stop here, for whom there is a modern business center, where there are eighteen conference rooms. Between floors, high-speed elevators with TVs are installed. The infrastructure also includes the Purovel Spa & Sport, a wellness center with a sauna, swimming pool, solarium and gym. The hotel has its own paid parking, which must be reserved in advance.
Room service is available around the clock. For the convenience of guests, the hotel provides dry cleaning, there is a laundry and ironing service, shoe shine, limousine and concierge services. The registry is always open. Here you can take advantage of the express check-in or check-out service, rent a safe-deposit box, buy train or plane tickets. Swissotel has a tour office on site and there is also a left-luggage office and a souvenir shop. For an additional fee, you can use the VIP service
Housing stock
The “Red Hills” (Swissotel), a photo of which many tourists take with them, offers spacious, fully equipped rooms with panoramic views of the capital. All apartments meet the requirements of a five-star hotel.
In total, the housing stock has two hundred and thirty-four rooms of the following categories: ordinary and executive suites, panoramic apartments, corner and
Corner Suite, Presidential and Superior Swiss Business. The rooms are decorated in warm pastel colors. The best designers worked on the interior. The contemporary style of the elegant decor, combined with good furniture and high-quality natural lighting create a sense of tranquility and comfort. The rooms have all the conditions for both leisure and work.
Description of rooms
The area of the apartment begins with thirty-five square meters. In addition to one or two beds, upholstered furniture, depending on the category, rooms are equipped with a minibar, coffee machine, flat-screen TV, large work desk and ergonomic chair, telephone with dataport, radio and voicemail, electronic safe.
Wi-Fi is included. Some rooms have direct access to the spa or gym.
Panoramic apartments are very popular among tourists. This room offers a magnificent view of the Moskva River embankment. Guests can enjoy the Kremlin, Red Square, the Stalinist skyscraper, located on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment and Novospassky Monastery.
Bathrooms combined. Depending on the category of rooms, they have bathtubs, a jacuzzi or a shower cabin. Plumbing is modern and expensive. There is also a hair dryer, bathrobes, slippers and, of course, all hygiene items from famous brands.
Nutrition
Swissotel Red Hills is a hotel in Moscow, which offers to visit one of the restaurants or bars located on its territory to get acquainted with European and, of course, Russian cuisine. Exquisite interiors, combined with the highest quality ingredients of dishes and the unsurpassed skill of the chefs, have turned all these establishments into one of the most popular in the capital.
The main one is the Acapella restaurant located on the second floor. It offers visitors modern Russian or international cuisine, focusing on the use of only local organic products and very rare and expensive ingredients. Acapella is a great place not only for lunch or dinner, but also for breakfast. Here you can schedule business and personal meetings. On warm days, restaurant guests can book tables on the outdoor terrace, which is located on the Priotelnaya Square between the hotel building and the Moscow International House of Music.
Located on the territory of the Red Hills (Swissotel) City Space Bar is one of the highest panoramic objects in the capital. From a height of one hundred and forty meters, guests have the opportunity, while admiring the boundless city landscapes of Moscow, to enjoy one of the unique cocktail created by the mixologists of the bar.
At Lightbar you can enjoy a cup of hot coffee or aromatic tea. The bar is located under the glass arches that frame the lobby of this hotel. Its name most accurately conveys the light atmosphere filled with air and the sun that reigns here. Small tables surrounded by armchairs and soft sofas with pillows are convenient for holding both business meetings and friendly gatherings.
Hosting an event
Receptions, conferences, weddings, celebrations and holidays of any scale can be held at this hotel. Eighteen conference halls, including the unique Davos premises located on the twenty-ninth floor, are excellent for organizing events of any kind and scale. The semicircular shape of the latter allows you to cover one hundred eighty degrees of the entire panorama of the city, from the Kremlin to the Novospassky Monastery.
The ballroom, which can accommodate up to five hundred people at a time, is equipped with modern freight elevators, thanks to which it is possible to lift not only equipment, but also large exhibits and things. Everyone knows how many kinds of presentations, exhibitions and major conferences are taking place in a city like Moscow. Swissotel Red Hills, which we will explain below, is a very suitable place for this.
How to get there
The hotel is located in one of the fastest growing metropolitan business districts. Two metro stations separate it from the main Moscow attractions. The nearest station, Paveletskaya, is just a ten-minute walk away. Being the interchange between the ring and the green line of the metro, it provides an opportunity for guests to conveniently get to anywhere in the city. Sheremetyevo-2 International Airport is only forty kilometers away from the hotel. A trip to it from the hotel "Red Hills" (Swissotel) by taxi or thanks to well-ordered transfer services takes a maximum of ninety minutes, depending on traffic intensity. Those guests who prefer to get to the hotel by public transport can take a minibus to the Rechnoy Vokzal station, and from there go to another line and get off at the Paveletskaya metro station, from which it is only five hundred meters to the Red Hills.
Additional Information
On the third floor there is the Armita Spa and Purovel Spa & Sport - a health club where guests are invited to swim in the heated pool or work out in the beautifully equipped gym with exercise machines. In addition, the hotel has four more gyms, a solarium, a jacuzzi. Specialists will do the pedicure or manicure, adding the finishing touches to the ideal image of the guest.
Reviews
And although many consider Swissotel Red Hills, located in the city center of Moscow, expensive, reviews about it are nonetheless the best. The excellent work of the staff, excellent service, rich infrastructure and spacious fully furnished comfortable rooms made this hotel very popular among tourists and among the townspeople who come here for the weekend to relax and enjoy the beauty of the capital. Of course, for those visitors who are looking for a real "Russian spirit", this hotel is not suitable, since its management is more than European, but for lovers of first-class luxury the hotel is indispensable.
As for the restaurants and spa, the reviews are only positive. The only thing that guests remain surprised is the very high prices for food.