OneWorld Welcome: Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur

Very helpful review -- you didn't notice if there was a pool suitable for lap swimming, did you? My wife is an avid swimmer. Thx! 🙂

You should have a top ten list that u update with these possible categories.
- best hotel lounge
- best first class air
-best business class air
- best overall air

I still refer to your posts back at travel sort for reference and what to aim for

@ Bruce -- There was no lap pool, unfortunately.

My wife and I stayed there about 2 weeks. We had a similar suite on the 33rd floor. I used the suite upgrade from my new Chase Hyatt card. I wonder if suite upgrades get the non-patronas views. I would like to mention that as a platinum member, we also received the French wine. Hyatt Kuala Lampur is easily the nicest hotel we have ever stayed in. Yet, we have had bigger breakfast spreads at run down guest houses.

Sounds like we pretty much agree on this property, Lucky. FANTASTIC entry-level suites [I was fortunate to have a Petronas Towers view, but the hotel was just about empty when I was there]... gorgeous physical property... but weak in the lounge provisioning.

I definitely enjoyed this more than my Ambassador Suite at the Intercontinental a few months back, though the Intercontinental's club is also much better.

Nice review Lucky. Have been to the Hyatt for lunch and dinner a few times and it is very nice particularly the view of KL city. You can almost see my office at the Petronas towers too 😉

Love the bathtub!

I also think their lounge offerings are weak for Asian standards. Quite surprising also given this hotel has the same owner as the GH SIN, which has some of the most generous spreads at any Hyatt I've been to. Some of the managers also actually came from GH SIN.

Judging from your photos though, looks like they have improved somewhat by placing the evening spread's hot items on the buffet table. The last time I was here, they brought the hot items to you straight from the kitchen in extremely generous portion (i.e: exactly one stick of satay and one piece of meatball for each person). The wait staff also seemed to have a pathological aversion to unprompted drinks top-ups?

Maybe it's a good thing the spreads were rather weak, it could encourage people to go get local food off property 😉

@lucky

Who get's the bed when travelling with a friend? Do you rochambeau for it? Or do they provide roll aways at no charge?

I get that you are reviewing everything about the hotel as it is part of your job, but I sure hope you did not eat at the hotel when KL has some of the best and most diverse food out there....on the streets

not enough potatoes with the omlette - really?

@ wwk5d @ Michael -- And aside from breakfast all my meals were off property.

@ EthanSF -- I'll share a king bed with just about anyone. Maybe it's the European in me.

Was that bath tub big enough for two people?

Got upgraded also to a suite, with a view of the Petronas tower.
The suite is huge!