Originally Posted by
EuropeanPete
I'm not saying the Park Hyatt style is definitely better, but it is more to my tastes. I prefer not to be bowed at (Japan excepting, obviously) or called "Sir", but instead "Mr EuropeanPete", for example. In keeping with the St Regis brand, St Regis service is clearly designed to be more reverential, whereas Park Hyatt's have a more modern luxury style.
Bolding mine. Wow, do I think you are wrong. But we all sometimes see what we want to see rather than what is actually true. Since I have been called Mr. Rubin at the PHs just as often as I am at the St Regis hotels. Or any luxury hotels, for that matter.