Located alongside the Chicago River within the coronary heart of the Magnificent Mile, The Langham Chicago has location in spades; it additionally has a few of the metropolis’s most elegant views. The resort, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this yr, has been a fixture alongside the river since 2013 – occupying 13 flooring of famed architect Mies van der Rohe’s 1972 IBM constructing. Whether or not you’re in Chicago to catch the sights or shut the deal, this luxuriously comfy 5 star resort is the most effective place to remain.

The Scene

A mixture of enterprise and leisure vacationers retains issues in stability, it’s not an enormous get together however it isn’t a sleep both. Employees right here know the best way to get issues completed and make issues occur – in the event that they don’t have the reply, they discover it and convey it to you. After I couldn’t entry the membership lounge as a result of a defective key card, a upkeep engineer noticed my battle and jumped in to assist. Later, I went to the foyer to request a brand new card, however it was prepared and ready for me as a result of somebody made a name and acquired it completed.

The Sleeping

Rooms are smooth, fashionable and stylish with hardwood flooring, marble baths and tasteful furnishings that ooze a contemporary, pure coziness. Comfortable interiors, contemporary tones of cream and pops of gold are heat and welcoming. Many rooms have direct views of the river and the lake with flooring to ceiling home windows with distant managed drapes let the sunshine flood in. A tricked out mini bar with absolutely anything you possibly can think about and divinely aromatic Diptyque facilities (the lotion is divine) spherical out the vibe.

Actions

The health heart is properly sized, so that you aren’t on prime of different friends, and the wall of home windows makes it really feel open and ethereal – not like a exercise dungeon. The indoor pool has a beautiful celestial mild function over the water and the spa is widespread, however it’s additionally big-city costly. The Chuan Spa gives a full menu of providers if a pedicure or therapeutic massage is in your listing. Visitors may request a personal tour of the resort’s spectacular artwork assortment, led by a graduate of the Artwork Institute. If cocktails are your most well-liked inventive outlet, you may also prepare a mixology class within the Langham’s Travelle Lounge earlier than it opens to the general public.

Eating

Visitors of any Membership class room or suite get pleasure from complimentary entry to The Langham Membership, an unique lounge/work/eating area on the resort’s twelfth flooring, or you should buy an improve along with your reserving. You’ll get a full breakfast buffet, all-day snacks and drinks, prime shelf drinks and wine, and sweeping views up and down the Chicago River and out over Lake Superior; it’s top-of-the-line resort membership views I’ve ever seen (and makes for a very cool distant workplace). For those who choose to make it your distant workplace for the day, contemplate ordering from the resort’s Personal Menu they usually’ll convey your lunch to you, then seize one of many outsized chocolate chip cookies for dessert and get comfortable by the fuel hearth within the heart of the room. Blissful hour is likely to be a very good time to strive the lounge’s Janz glowing from Tasmania – scrumptious stuff and obtainable all day lengthy (which generally is a sore temptation if you find yourself working up there).

The Langham’s principal eating room, Travelle, serves a menu of seasonal American dishes and a number of impressed craft cocktails. Open for breakfast (make sure you order the omelet) and lunch however don’t skip dinner and an opportunity to style Chef de Delicacies Justin Gomes’ scrumptious fare. A contemporary salad of summer season beans tastes like a visit to the farmer’s market, and the Faroe Island salmon with merguez spice is ideal with a facet of truffle fries. The Wagyu quick rib with butter beans goes down properly with their signature Black Silk cocktail (Glenlivet 14, Espresso Infused Rum Zacapa 13, Averna, Tabaco Bitters). The monogrammed ice is a pleasant contact. Most notable, the service is impeccable and neatly attentive. All through your complete resort the service is beneficiant of spirit; it’s clear that the workers right here get pleasure from delivering real hospitality – which makes the marvelous views, the luxe ambiance and the eating that a lot better.