Late last week I spent a couple of nights in Toronto, which was planned fairly last minute. Hotels were outrageously priced, most going for $500+ per night. During my previous trip to Toronto I stayed at the Park Hyatt, where I got the hotel's one renovated room. Otherwise I've heard the rooms are past their…
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So you would pick the Park Hyatt's non-renovated rooms over the Hyatt Regency?
Ben you should try the Westin Harbourfront next time you come to Toronto. I always get a nice Lakeview corner king or better room as SPG platinum.
I'm completely confused here. In your story last week talking about taking pictures at breakfast, your first line in that story is:
'I’m staying at the Hyatt Regency Toronto at the moment, which is a bit of a dump.'
I get no indication from this review of the hotel that it is a 'dump'.
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I stayed first time in this hotel back in 2009. The rooms were already like this. It looks like they are aging just fine. 🙂
And it's funny because everytime I went to Toronto the Hyatt had the cheapest prices in the area.
I called Hyatt and was told the Points+Cash redemption do not count towards elite stays/nights. Have I been misinformed?
@ enwiaof -- You have been misinformed, Points + Cash stays absolutely do count as elite qualifying nights & stays.
"The shower was extremely poorly designed. For one, the only way to turn on the water was using a handle at the far end of the shower, and you had to be in the shower in order to turn it on. So you’d get drenched with cold water immediately."
There's a spout near floor level. Turn on the water, wait until it heats up, and then redirect the flow from the spout to the showerhead. It's quite simple.
@lucky, this hotel is cat 3, not 4 hence the 12.000 pts or 6.000 pts + 75 USD redemption rate
cat 4 is 15.000 pts / 7.500 + 100 USD
Agreed with the other reviewer. You called this place a dump in your other post and then didn't provide any evidence of such a strong judgment in this post. Strong contradiction. It seems your words were biased in your first post just because they didn't let you take pictures of the buffet.
Contrary to some complaints here, I am glad there was no further snarky "dump" comments and this wasn't the HND Japanese hotel saga all over again. Perceived slights shouldn't cause poison pen reviews, and thankfully this time the review kept things in perspective and didn't let one thing taint everything else.
A positive step.
I would stay here over the Park Hyatt.
The Park Hyatt is located in the middle of town and can be a nightmare to get to in rush hour traffic.
Plus, the rooms, the pool, and the gym are much nicer, and as nice as Yorkville is, King West has more restaurants and evening attractions.
This place is definitely not a dump.