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A couple of months ago my husband, daughter, and I headed to Atlanta as part of a quick getaway to that part of the country. As part of our trip we had a night in Atlanta at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta that is located downtown on Peachtree Street. This is a very large hotel with well over 1,000 rooms and I presume it regularly hosts conferences and events. The weekend we were there it was hosting a very large kid s dance competition, so you can just imagine the semi-chaos that was going on as a result! However, the hotel seemed to manage the influx well and our daughter loved seeing all the girls in their dance costumes.
It is a 22 story atrium style hotel (which was apparently quite impressive when it first opened in the 1960 s), and it has a very large and open lobby.  Our service checking in was fine and we were informed that the Regency Club would be open on Saturday, but would not have any staff or food service.  I asked if that meant I would get the 2,500 for a closed Regency Club since it wasn t really functional and I was told that they would check.  In the end I never did get the points for a closed club from the hotel, but I did when I explained the situation to Hyatt Gold Passport via email.
In the rear of the lobby is a bar and a decently stocked small market. tom cruise pics Both were very busy the weekend we were there.  I loved that there were snacks and drinks so easily accessible a huge plus when traveling with a small kiddo.
While we are on the topic of food options tom cruise pics in the lobby, there is a full service restaurant called Sway that is located tom cruise pics immediately to your left when you enter the building.  Sway is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and supports local supplies whenever possible.
We visited for breakfast to take advantage of my Diamond breakfast benefits (since the Regency Club was not serving breakfast that day).  To save time we opted for the buffet and there were many stations of both hot and cold food, including a made-to-order omelet station.
Others at my table went for the carb-o-licious deluxe sampler platter.    I have no complaints about the food here at all, and I m sure the made to order stuff would have been even better.  However, we were charged for the breakfast as Diamonds and an email to the hotel didn t get the issue resolved.  I still need to pick up the phone and get that cleared up, but I hate having to chase benefits.
My favorite feature of the room was the RoomLinx on the TV.  The night we were there the weather was cold and rainy, so after dinner all we wanted to do was hang out in the room and watch a (kid friendly) movie together.  With this we were able to log into our Netflix account tom cruise pics and watch a show just like we would at home.  It was awesome!
We also ordered room service via the RoomLinx TV, which was pretty fun and really easy.  Doesn t get much better than dessert, a family friendly movie, tom cruise pics and snuggling up in bed after a long day of travel!  I loved that the RoomLinx made it so incredibly easy for all of that to happen.
The room also had a balcony though those always make me nervous when traveling with a three year old.  We didn t really go out there at all due to the cold and not wanting our daughter to know it was an option.
When you first entered the room the bathroom tom cruise pics was immediately to the left.  I like that the bathroom is segregated tom cruise pics a little from the bedroom so you can get up and go to it as needed without the noise/light necessarily waking up a sleeping kiddo.
The bathroom tom cruise pics was simple but modern, tom cruise pics and again totally fine.  The only thing I didn t like was that it was shower-only.  This is such a bummer with a young kid.  If memory serves correctly we let her just skip a full bath that night hoping that our hotel the following night would have a real tub.
The only thing I really didn t like about the room was on the walk to the room how low the wall was separating you from a 22 floor drop to the lobby floor.  Knowing my own three-year-old, kids that age love to climb and explore, and it wouldn t take much more than a blink for that to have a very tragic consequence here.  Of course we had an eye on our kid the whole time, but if you had multiple kids and/or were otherwise distracted this would be an even greater drawback.  Or maybe I am just being overly paranoid .
While we were there the regency was open in that you could walk-in, but as the sign below indicated, food and bar service were closed.  I believe this was the case on weekends for a while, but I see no indication on their website that it is still closed on the weekends, so I m not sure if that is still an issue or not.
We didn t have the time to get in a workout on this trip, but we did stop by the workout facilities in order to snap a few quick pictures.  It seemed to have a good selection of machines and, as you can tell, it was not at all busy while we were there.
The Hyatt Regency Atlanta is in a fantastic location in downtown Atlanta.  If you are riding on the MARTA it is at the Peachtree Center Station stop next to the Peachtree Center Mall.  It is also walking distance to tons of family friendly attractions such as the World of Coca Cola, the Georgia Aquarium, and the Centennial tom cruise pics Olympic Park.  I will post more on our visits to those attractions in the second Atlanta post, but it was a pretty easy walk from the hotel to all of those places.
We paid around $100 or so for our weekend night at this hotel, so for us that was a better deal than spending 12,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points since it is a Category tom cruise pics 3 hotel, but if we were really cash strapped we certainly could have opted for using Hyatt points.  We also could have transferred in Ultimate Reward points to Hyatt or even used UR points (or various other points) as cash to cover the booking.  In fact, at $100ish for the night, we would have been better served using Ultimate Reward points as cash (1.25 cents each) since it would have required just 8,000 UR points at $100 if booked through the UR portal using points, as opposed to 12,000 if you transferred them to Hyatt to redeem as an award stay.  Though I value my points higher than that so we just went with plain old cash.
We had minor hiccups with the stay, but nothing that would stop us from returning again.  I think the location was great, the price was totally fair, and the property is fresh off of a renovation.  I think the Regency Club is especially attractive compared to most, and I highly recommend the cobbler tom cruise pics dessert.
Thanks for the review! Atlanta is one of my all-time favorite cities for nice hotels at great prices. My family and I have stayed there a couple of times and it is really easy to find some great deals (I think I have even seen the St. Regis in the low $200s in the past). Thanks for adding a hotel to our stay list next time we are in town!
Looks like a nice stay in Atlanta. The Grand Hyatt (and surely the new Hyatt in Midtown) has a little better experience overall. The Grand Hyatt in Buckhead will drive you to pretty much anywhere within a 5 mile radius of Buckhead. But my favorite for out of town guests is the St Regis on C P rates.
tom cruise pics Looks like you had a nice stay. Considering the number of convention goers we get last I saw ATL was #2 behind Vegas in annual convention tom cruise pics attendance it s good that there s such a nicely-renovated option, especially in that part of town. Buckhead area hotels are probably a little nicer overall, but aren t as convenient to some of the attractions and convention sites.
Glad you enjoyed it! I agree with everyone else that Buckhead and the Grand Hyatt would be a better location/hotel (I am biased though because we used the Grand Hyatt for our wedding guests), and typically tom cruise pics I wouldn t suggest people stay in downtown tom cruise pics Atlanta because it really shuts down at night/weekends, vs Midtown or Buckhead. Hope you guys enjoyed the rest of Atlanta, it really is a family friendly city!
Thank you for the review. tom cruise pics I ve gotten reservations at this hotel using Hyatt s pricematch guarantee for $88/night, but I ve always had to cancel them for some reason or another. I really like the Grand Hyatt in Atlanta, but have wondered about this property.
I stayed at the hotel between Christmas and New Years, tom cruise pics and experienced the same non-staffed regency club. I didn t see anything on the website either and thought it might be because of the holidays. It s clear I was wrong!
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