I was recently in Seattle for a couple of nights, a trip which I booked pretty last minute. Seattle is a very seasonal hotel market. In winter rates are quite low, while in summer they aren't. Most decent hotels were running $400+ per night, so I decided to book the Hyatt Olive 8, given that…
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Nice touch. Not very familar with Seattle but wonder if someone that has the money to book a presidential suite would chose that hotel or would look for more luxury properties. BTW, what is the best SPG property in Seattle in your opinion?
This is the crux of our hobby. One often gets the nicest rooms when you don't need or want them and you get average rooms when travelling on special occasions. My best hotel rooms have been upgrades when travelling for work. I arrive late at night after working all day, immediately fall asleep and then leave first thing the next morning.
The grand hyatt Seattle is much nicer and a much better value at 12,000 points per night, or free award. Just sayin... that Suite looks like an outdated three star Hilton Suite
I've stayed at Hyatt Olive 8 in a normal suite which was great, I'd say nicer than this behemoth. Location is great and the crab benedict for breakfast
The decor is very circa 2006-ish, in my opinion. Too much earthtone colors and generic patterns as embellishment.
What's the difference between the Hyatt and Grand Hyatt?
it’s sort of depressing to pick up Qdoba, bring it to your room, and then eat alone at the end of a 10 person table.
hilarious!
Interesting. I've only stayed at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle, but appreciate the peek inside the Olive 8.
The nearby Westin Seattle also has the translucent doors in some of its suites. Strange trend.
Nothing 'minimalist' about that hotel! Spare, drab, dull, or sparse maybe, but not 'minimalist'. Also please stop using the word 'gorgeous' to describe things (not used in this post, for obvious reasons).
We got "upgraded" to a higher floor with a better view when we were there last week and the upgraded view . . . yeah.
Do you have one of the Hyatt Olive 8 rubber duckies?
Presidential suite?!?! That? No way, can't be!! Tell them to go back to the drawing board!
Agreed it seems pretty modest. I was interested years ago in the "Onyx Suite" at the GH. When I inquired at the front desk they pretty much scoffed at me and said that the room runs 3K an night. (It was my first stay at a Hyatt).
Fast forward 5 years and the Onyx Suite sells for ~800 a night. Have considered it for 4th of July, but not sure the view would be decent (our Emerald Suite got us only a sliver of a view of the water)
You were in Seattle? My condolences. Why would you come back to this cultural deadzone full of fake, uncaring, unloving, mean people? I want to leave asap.
@Speedbird I think I'm becoming one of those people after 12 years in Seattle. 🙁
"And let me say, it’s sort of depressing to pick up Qdoba, bring it to your room, and then eat alone at the end of a 10 person table."
Too bad the suite didn't have a smaller, more intimate table (say, one that seats 4 people) you could have sat at that would be less depressing 😉
Thats the dullest president suite i have ever seen. The space is ok, but the decor is depressing. The guy responsible for it must be stuck in the 70's.
The odds of being upgraded to the presidential suite are astronomical. When a hotel is oversold and out of rooms they put an elite member staying only 1 night in the presidential suite.
Presidential suites are often used as the cherry on top for a corporate account that books a convention at a hotel.
What President would stay in that ugly suite? Maybe an unknown banana republic strongman? A military dictator's uniform with lots of medals would go well with the suite's decor.