Built in 2005 in the center of the Russian capital, the Red Hills Hotel (Swissotel) is still the subject of a dispute among architects. Some believe that he spoiled the landscape panorama of Red Square, others find it a completely modern structure. Nevertheless, the hotel has many awards. In 2008, 2009 and 2011 it was awarded the title of "Best Russian Business Hotel". Moscow, Swissotel Krasnye Holmy, which is located on the Garden Ring, in the southeast of the Kremlin Island, according to some, has lost the unique look of Red Square, when viewed from the side of the Historical Museum. This thirty-four-story hotel really looks out of the ordinary. Outwardly, it resembles a tower. In 2005, Lodging Hospitality Magazine named Swissotel Krasnye Holmy the best design project that Moscow can rightfully be proud of.
Description
Rooming over the city, this five-star hotel enjoys an excellent location. It is located in close proximity to the very center of Moscow - the Kremlin. There are many business centers nearby. The Red Hills Hotel (Swissotel), whose address is Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, 52/6, belongs to the Swiss group of the same name. The building is owned by a Turkish company. "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 railway station. The hotel is located in the Zamoskvoretsky district, which is full of churches and historical buildings. Guests of the capital who live in it can also stroll along the Moskva River, which flows 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 transfer to the airport or 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 the floors there are high-speed elevators with TVs installed. The infrastructure also includes a wellness Purovel Spa & Sport - a center with a sauna, swimming pool, solarium and gym. The hotel has its own paid parking, places where you need to book in advance.
Room service - 24/7. For the convenience of hotel guestsdry cleaning is provided, there is a laundry and ironing service, shoe shine, limousine ordering and concierge. Registration is always open. Here you can use the express check-in or check-out service, rent a safe box, buy train or plane tickets. A tour office operates on the territory of the Red Hills Hotel (Swissotel), there is also a left-luggage office and a souvenir kiosk. For an additional fee, you can use the V. I. P. service
Housing stock
The Red Hills (Swissotel), which many tourists take with them, offers spacious, fully equipped rooms with panoramic views of the capital. All apartments meet the requirements for a five-star hotel.
In total, there are two hundred and thirty-four rooms in the housing stock of the following categories: regular and executive suites, panoramic apartments, corner andCorner Suite, presidential and superior Swiss Business. The rooms are decorated in pastel warm colors. The best designers worked on the interior. The modern style of the elegant décor, combined with good furniture and quality natural light, creates a feeling of calm and comfort. The rooms have all the conditions for both leisure and work.
Description of rooms
Apartment area starts at thirty-five square meters. In addition to one or two beds, upholstered furniture, depending on the category, the rooms are equipped with a mini-bar, a coffee machine, a flat-screen TV, a large work desk andergonomic chair, dataport telephone, radio and voicemail, electronic safe.
Wi-Fi is included in the price. Some rooms offer direct access to the spa or gym.
Panoramic apartments are very popular among tourists. The windows of this room offer a magnificent panorama of the Moskva River embankment. Guests can admire the Kremlin, Red Square, the Stalinist skyscraper located on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment and the Novospassky Monastery.
Bathrooms combined. In them, depending on the category of the room, there are bathtubs, jacuzzi or shower cabins. Plumbing is modern and expensive. There is also a hair dryer, bathrobes, slippers and, of course, all hygiene products from well-known brands.
Food
Swissotel Krasnye Holmy is a hotel in Moscow that invites you 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 chef, 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, with an emphasis on using only local organic products and very rare and expensive ingredients. "Acapella" is a great place not only for lunch or dinner, but also forbreakfast. 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 hotel square between the hotel building and the Moscow International House of Music.
Located in 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, admiring the endless cityscapes of Moscow, to enjoy one of the unique author's cocktails created by the bar's mixologists.
In Lightbar you can drink a cup of hot coffee or fragrant tea. The bar is located under the glass arches that frame the lobby of this hotel. Its name most accurately conveys the light, air-filled and sun-filled atmosphere that reigns here. Small tables surrounded by armchairs and soft sofas with cushions are convenient for both business meetings and friendly gatherings.
Events
Receptions, conferences, weddings, celebrations and celebrations of any size can be held at this hotel. Eighteen conference rooms, including the unique Davos room located on the twenty-ninth floor, are perfect for organizing events of any kind and scale. The semicircular shape of the latter allows you to look at one hundred and eighty degrees of the entire panorama of the city, from the Kremlin to the Novospassky Monastery.
The ballroom, which can simultaneously accommodate up to five hundred people, is equipped withmodern freight elevators, thanks to which it is possible to lift not only equipment, but also large exhibits and things into the hall. Everyone knows how many various presentations, exhibitions and major conferences take place in a city located in such a city as Moscow. The 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 rapidly growing business districts of the capital. Two metro stations separate it from the main Moscow sights. The nearest station - "Paveletskaya" - is only a ten minute walk. Being an interchange between the ring and the "green" line of the metro, it provides guests with a convenient way to get to anywhere in the city. Sheremetyevo-2 International Airport is only forty kilometers away from the hotel. Traveling from the Red Hills Hotel (Swissotel) by taxi or through pre-booked transfer services takes a maximum of ninety minutes, depending on traffic. Those guests who prefer to get to the hotel by public transport can take a minibus to the Rechnoy Vokzal station, and from there switch 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 he alth club where guests are invited to swim in a heated pool or work out in a superbly equipped gym with exercise equipment. In addition, the hotel hasfour more gyms, solarium, jacuzzi. Specialists will give a pedicure or manicure to those who wish, adding the finishing touches to the guest's perfect look.
Reviews
And although many consider the Swissotel Krasnye Holmy located in the center of Moscow to be expensive, the reviews about it, however, are the best. Excellent work of the staff, excellent service, rich infrastructure and spacious fully furnished comfortable rooms have made this hotel very popular among both tourists and citizens who come here for the weekend to relax and admire the beauty of the capital. Of course, for those visitors who are looking for a real "Russian spirit", this hotel is not suitable, as its management is more European in orientation, but for lovers of first-class luxury, the hotel is indispensable.
As for the restaurants and the spa, the reviews are only positive. The only thing that surprises guests is the very high prices for food.
