Had an almost week-long stay here this week.

The hotel is in the heart of the city, but is mostly tranquil. I flew in from Sumatra on Air Asia. The airport is pretty small. Only has one luggage belt, that I could see.

Normal type of taxi mafia here, but not too expensive. Pay 40,000 IDR (about $4.30) for the ride to the hotel.

Bandung is cooler than Jakarta or Bali, which is a nice change. Arrived at the hotel and had my luggage taken immediately. Checked in at the lounge, and had great service. Rince at the club desk was super helpful during our stay.

I had used my last Diamond cert from last year to get a suite at this hotel. No problem finding availability. Used the Costco code to get my room for about 710,000++ IDR. About $90 with tax and service, per night.

The suite was facing the city with a park nearby. Fairly quiet, though you can still hear the nearby mosque a bit at prayer calls. You can also see some planes on approach, but not noisy in the room.

The suite was well appointed, with a dining table, living room, with comfy couch and two chairs. Nice 42" Panasonic flat screen TV. Provided with nice fruit plate with grapes, banana, asian pear and apple. Small box with 9 chocolates handed to us when we checked in. No bathroom in living room.

Nice comfortable bedroom. Same TV as living room. Firm, but nice bed. Nice linens. It was fairly cool here, so you didn't need the AC much, if any. Bathroom had huge shower, but no rainshower head. Big tub, vanity, electronic scale, and closet.

We were able to have breakfast in the lounge or downstairs. I had the lounge breakfast once. It was fine, with a few different egg options, fried rice and such.

Downstairs was quite a bit nicer. With waffle/pancake station, lots of local food, plus some western. 4 or 5 different fresh fruit juices, plus lots of good fruit. Egg menu. Excellent service from Vita, who regularly offered to bring us stuff off the menu for no charge. Came by most mornings and asked if I wanted my favorite carrot juice, even when we were having Sunday Dim Sum breakfast at the Chinese restaurant.

I was here during my birthday, and we were asking about which restaurants were open, so I could have a good choice. They ended up sending a large chocolate cake from the bakery, which was quite good.

I would say my biggest letdown at this location was the nightly happy hour from 5:30-7:30pm. Some items were not replaced when they ran out (lunch meat, smoked salmon), and the two hot items each night were really unremarkable. Horrid spring rolls, other items not even hot when they arrived. Some fresh bread would be nice here. I'm not expecting it to be as good as GH HKG, but let's try a bit harder.

They have a connected smoking room, thankfully they seem to have it vented right, as I never smelled smoke, even though it was only feet away.

Went to the swimming pool, which is off to the side of the hotel. You go up some stairs near a restaurant that is only open on the weekends. Good sized, and empty when we went mid-week. The water was just about perfect.

No wifi in the rooms, and had to call their tech guy to get wired hooked up in my room. No instructions, or desk there. Luckily I had my wireless router that I could hook up. Speed was pretty average for Indonesia about 1-1.5 mbps. Wifi in lounge and restaurant worked okay.

Had 5-6 bottles of water each day. You had to call for ice, or if you needed extra bottles. Had room service once. Pretty standard hotel pricing, about $10 for Indonesia plates, including service and tax.

There is a mall next door which has some decent food. Also a Circle K across the street, and local food stalls that had pretty good food.

Taxis are readily available. For taxis that are already waiting at the hotel they seemed to want whatever the meter read, or 15,000 ($1.60) whichever was higher.

Lots of people from Jakarta come here on the weekends, so traffic can be worse then. Bandung has tons of one way streets, so it can seem like a maze going through them. Pleasant, though.

Bandung is famous for brownies and Sundanese food. I had both, and was pretty happy.

I've now stayed at all 5 Indonesian Hyatt's within the last year. This location has the weakest club of all of them. It has great service though, just a little bit behind the Bali Hyatt, and probably even with the Jakarta GH.

And no DCC nonsense when checking out. And the bill was 100% correct. Had a relative stay for the last night, and they got full Diamond benefits, too.