Christmas in Germany: Hyatt Regency Mainz

I really look forward to your trip reports! You're a very good writer and I appreciate the time you put into them.

Thank you for Trip Report Index -- I was able to catch up on past reports I had not read.

Happy travels in 2011!

I had to overnight at FRA last June, and instead of the usual shlep to Frankfurt, I decided to make use of my Hyatt status and stayed here. I had similar reaction to the hotel as Lucky (and had the same welcome amenity and the same Asian flight attendant corps in the morning)! It is a short walk from the S-bahn to the hotel, though if one has lots of bags than a taxi is definitely recommended.

While I'm sure the Christkindlmarkt was fine, when I was in Mainz, the printers' festival was going on. (Gutenburg was born in Mainz and spent much of his life there, hence the focus on printing.) This was entirely unplanned, and also amusing when I came across the dunking of a bunch of young kids in a big vat of water on a big stage and didn't know what to make of it. I chalked it up to it being another strange German tradition. I later found out that these were printing apprentices being "baptized" into the printing industry as part of the annual St. John's Night festivities, as shown here:

http://www.mainz.de/WGAPublisher/online/html/default/mkuz-5tveyh.en.html

"A major Asian airline known for their attractive flight attendants puts their crews up here, and it was certainly entertaining to watch the crews there, since it seemed to be just us and them every morning."

This part of the report is useless without photos.

Great report! I tend to visit Mainz once a year and have switched from the Hilton to Hyatt. Both are great, but the Hilton doesn't have a lounge. Liked the pictures from the Weihnachtsmarkt.

nice report!

i've been to the christmas markt in vienna and bratislava, and loved both.

This property is a great use of the Diamond Suite upgrade - since the suite is huge but the paid rate is very reasonable unlike some of the really higher end Hyatts.

Decided to stay in Mainz on an overnight later in the month, figured i'd seen Frankfurt enough times already.
I was wondering if you had bought your train tickets beforehand or purchased right at the airport?

@ Monty -- Tickets can be purchased day of and there are trains every half hour or so. I believe the fare was 3.80 Euro/person.

@Lucky - I was there in april and got a bottle of local wine in addition to the apples as my welcome ammenity. The regency club staffer who escorted me to my room at check-in made sure to point them out to me.

Huh. Either they have exactly the same paintings in all the rooms and bathrooms or I'm currently in the same room that Lucky stayed in. (I looked up the trip report to see if he had anything to say about room service)