Swissotel - Chicago

Dinining

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  The Palm Open for lunch and dinner daily, the Palm is known for steak, seafood, and threepound 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 cartoonstrip images, and drawings of local sports, radio, and TV personalities, as well as regular customers. In warm weather, an outdoor patio overlooks the river.
• Currents American cuisine with Mediterranean influences is served in an elegant setting with low ceilings, glittering mosaic walls, and subdued hues. Lunch includes panini sandwiches and burgers. Diners can also choose from the allyoucaneat appetizer buffet, or the express lunch with soup, entrée, and dessert for a fixed price. For dinner, menu items include tuna tartare, sea scallops, and roast duck breast. The signature dessert is the Swiss chocolate fondue. Drink specialties include the Swiss chocolate martini and an extensive grappa bar, featuring more than 30 items. Dining at the bar is perfect for single travelers. Open for lunch and dinner daily.
• Geneva This restaurant, with rustcolored ceiling insets, red chairs, and etched glass, serves breakfast daily. Diners can choose from a buffet including pastries, fruit, meats, smoked fish, and French toast, or order off the menu for omelets, cinnamon orange French toast, and Swiss baked goods. In the afternoon and evening, Geneva transforms into a meeting or event space.
• Expressions Open every morning until midday, this quickbreakfast lounge adjacent to Geneva features taupe velvet chairs in an open space, where a newspaper rack provides a variety of morning reads. Along with freshbrewed coffee, Expressions offers flavored coffee and a selection of European pastries.
  

Property amenities

This 43-story hotel has a large health club with indoor pool, spa tub, and sauna. A staffed business center provides complete secretarial, printing, binding, copying, and shipping services. The hotel also has several small meeting rooms and two workstations with computers, printers, fax machines, and phones. Travelers with children can register at check-in for the Sugar Palm Club, which offers complimentary goodies for kids, including cookies and milk, board games, books, coloring books and crayons, and children’s menus to be used at the Geneva and Currents restaurants.
Valet parking:
$41 per 24-hour period. In/out privileges. Underground/covered/secured lot. Fee may not include tax and is subject to change without prior notification.

• Swimming pool - indoor
• Patio
• Spa tub
• Complimentary newspapers in lobby
• Health club
• Room service (24 hours)
• Breakfast available (surcharge)
• Bar/lounge
• Restaurant(s) in hotel
• Parking (valet)
• Parking (surcharge)
• Limo or Town Car service available
• Banquet facilities
• Business center

• Event catering
• Concierge services
• Audio-visual equipment
• Cell phone/mobile rental
• Photocopy machines
• Fax machine
• Internet access in public areas - surcharge
• Business services
• Computer rental
• Coffee shop or café
• Safe-deposit box - front desk
• Tour assistance
• Number of rooms: 632
• Porter/bellhop

• Express check-out
• Doorman/doorwoman
• Security guard
• 24-hour front desk
• Dry cleaning service
• Gift shops or newsstand
• Secretarial services
• Translation services
• Shoe shine
• Multilingual staff
• Suitable for children
• Air-conditioned public areas
• Supervised child care/activities
• Wheelchair accessible

Recreation

A 20-mile path along Lake Michigan's shoreline is just 3 blocks east of the hotel. 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, 1 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 5 miles northeast of the hotel.

The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.

• Volleyball
• Kayaking
• Sailing
• Rowing or canoeing

• Fishing
• Bicycle rentals
• Golfing
• Boating

• Golf - driving range
• Ice skating
• Windsurfing
• Running track/path

• Hiking/biking trails

Room amenities

• Internet access - high speed
• Cable/satellite TV
• Pay movies
• Premium bedding
• Hypo-allergenic bedding available
• Air conditioning
• Climate control
• Soundproofed rooms
• Voice mail
• Multi-line phone

• Internet access - dial-up
• Minibar
• Coffee/tea maker
• Wake-up calls
• Housekeeping
• Private bathroom
• Bathrobes
• Hair dryer
• Extra towels, linens, bedding
• Designer toiletries

• Bathroom TV
• Desk
• Video-game console
• Clock radio
• Rollaway beds
• Cribs (infant beds) available
• Iron/ironing board
• Non-smoking rooms
• Smoking rooms
• Wheelchair accessible

Rooms

This 43-story hotel has 632 rooms with city, park, or lake views. Rooms are decorated with striped drapes, black-leather armchairs and ottomans, and glass-topped desks. Sand-toned marble bathrooms feature separate tubs and showers and large, illuminated mirrors. Closets have wood-slat sliding doors and contain umbrellas, satin-covered hangers, and terrycloth robes. High-speed Internet access is available for a fee.

Renovation Notice

This hotel is currently renovating its pool. The hotel will make every effort to minimize construction noise and related disturbance. Please click below for details (completion dates subject to change).

Policies

Extra person charges may apply depending on hotel policy.
There are no room charges for children 16 and younger occupying the same room as their parents.
Rollaway beds and cribs are available for a nightly fee. Both are subject to availability and should be requested at the time of booking.
Upon check-in, photo identification and credit card or cash deposit are required for incidental charges.
All special requests are subject to availability upon check-in.

• Pets not allowed
• Check-in time is 3 PM
• Check-out time is Noon