Ritz-Carlton Toronto

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Lobby at the ritz-carlton toronto

The Ritz-Carlton Toronto offers top service

It doesn't get much better than this! The Ritz-Carlton Toronto near Roy Thompson Hall in downtown Toronto is undeniably one of the best hotels in the city. The reasons for this are diverse. Its location opposite one of the city's most important event venues plays just as important a role as the view from the rooms on the south side of the hotel of the CN Tower and Lake Ontario directly behind it. This is a view that takes everyone's breath away when they enter their south-facing room. The view through the window front, which extends across the entire width of the room, is automatically drawn to what was once the tallest building in the world, which rises to its still impressive 553 meters height directly in front of the hotel. Next to it we look at the Rogers Center, one of the largest sports centers in Canada.

 

Rooms at The Ritz Carlton Toronto
Rooms at The Ritz Carlton Toronto

Perfectly equipped rooms at the Ritz-Carlton Toronto

If it were just those points alone, there would be other hotels in Toronto that offered similar, if perhaps a little less spectacular, qualities. But the Ritz-Carlton Hotel convinces us in other categories. The room furnishings are optimally thought out - so well that we as guests don't really need anything else than our clothes. Everything else is available in this room: in addition to the usual furnishings of a hotel room, many small details have been thought of that make the special difference. A clothes brush, a shoehorn and an umbrella hang in the closet next to the iron and ironing board. In addition to the well-stocked minibar, there is a well-assorted selection of bottled spirits on the board above, which far exceeds the usual minibar sizes. Here we can make our own Cocktails mix. There is also an espresso machine and an extensive collection of different types of coffee.

 

 

A bathroom in a class of its own

The best thing about our room is the bathroom. It is as large as some other hotel rooms and actually consists of three parts: a walk-in shower with a large shower head and a mirror, a separate toilet that ensures privacy, and a bathtub and two sinks that leave nothing to be desired. While brushing our teeth, we can find out about the weather for the following days via a television in the mirror. The most pleasant detail in our bathroom, however, is the underfloor heating, which we can switch on as needed to save energy. It switches off automatically after an hour. Energy efficiency is a big issue in this room. All lights and switches are equipped with motion detectors and switch off automatically as soon as the guest leaves the room.

 

Part of the breakfast buffet in the Club Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton Toronto
Part of the breakfast buffet in the Club Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton Toronto

Exquisite breakfast at the Ritz-Carlton Toronto

Exquisite is the breakfast we take as guests of the Club Lounge on the top floor of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel the next morning. We are almost the only guests in this elegant lounge and choose a two-table by the window overlooking the tower and lake. Shawn Chisholm, the helpful concierge of the lounge, who helped us so well the day before, to find out the best route for our sightseeing tour, greets us like two old friends. He pours us a cup of coffee without asking, even though that isn't one of his duties.

As we walk in amazement around the table on which the breakfast buffet is set up, he comes to me again and holds out his business card. “Next time you come to Toronto, get in touch. I would be happy to help you plan your stay, even if you don't stay in our hotel. Just call me,” with these words he says goodbye to us and leaves me behind, completely perplexed by so much willingness to help.

 

Breakfast at The Ritz Carlton Toronto
My breakfast at The Ritz-Carlton Toronto's Club Lounge

A continental breakfast that exceeds all expectations

The breakfast buffet matches the impressions we have gathered so far at the Ritz-Carlton: the "Continental Breakfast", the part without hot dishes, is so rich that we cannot try everything: croissants, bagels, toast, raisin rolls and cakes are available in addition to a selection of fresh berries, pineapples, apples or bananas. There are various types of spreads and plates with sausage, cheese or smoked salmon. There is also a table with hot dishes: eggs of all kinds - we can even find boiled eggs that are not common in Canada - and sausages or bacon, oatmeal or porridge and much, much more.

The Wine Storage at the Ritz-Carlton Toronto

In the afternoon we return from our sightseeing tour of Toronto to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel to collect our bags and to have a look at the “Cheese Cave”, the cheese cave. The Maître d'Hotel first leads us to the wine store, which restaurant guests can see through glass doors, and shows us its wine treasures from all over the world. These include wines that cost several hundred dollars a bottle. On the other side of the restaurant is the mysterious "Cheese-Cave", a storage room, also encased in glass and at a perfect temperature, in which excellent cheeses from Ontario, Quebec or Europe ripen on decorative wooden shelves until they can be consumed. Among them is a loaf of Parmesan cheese from Italy, which alone is worth $ 1.200. We can only estimate the value of the other cheeses: in any case it is worth closing the cheese cave again after our visit.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel proves itself during our stay as a modern, extremely hospitable hotel, in which each guest must feel comfortable. Service of this quality has its price, but this is worth every penny.

 

The Ritz-Carlton Toronto *****
181 Wellington St. West
Toronto, ON, M5V 3G7
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Source Ritz-Carlton Toronto: on-site research. The trip took place at the invitation of Ontario Tourism. However, the opinions in this article remain our own.

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Monika Fuchs

Monika Fuchs and Petar Fuchs are the authors and publishers of the Food and Slow Travel blog  TravelWorldOnline. They have been publishing this blog since 2005. TravelWorldOnline has been online since 2001. Their topics are trips to Savor, wine tourism worldwide and slow travel. During her studies Monika Fuchs spent some time in North America, where she - partly together with Petar Fuchs - traveled to the USA and Canada and spent a research year in British Columbia. This intensified her thirst for knowledge, which she satisfied for 6 years as an adventure guide for Rotel Tours and then for 11 years as a tour guide for Studiosus Reisen around the world. She was constantly expanding her travel regions, but curiosity still gnawed at her: "What's beyond the horizon? What else is there to discover in this city? Which people are interesting here? What do they eat in this region?" As a freelance travel journalist (her articles have appeared in DIE ZEIT, 360° Canada, 360° USA, etc.), she is now looking for answers to these questions as a travel writer and travel blogger in many countries around the world. Petar Fuchs produces the videos on this blog as well as on YouTube. Monika Fuchs from TravelWorldOnline is among Germany's top 50 bloggers in 2021. Find more Information about Monika and Petar Fuchs here.