evergrn

Overall enjoyed our stay last week.

We stayed during the week and never had issues getting beach chairs for the family of 4. You show up to the beach where there's "beach concierge", they take you to an available set of chairs, get you towels, get the umbrella set up if you want. The concierge guy said they never ran out of beach chairs that day, although they did run out of towels on occasion. Beach very crowded, though. Chairs are spaced out, but people walk right by you all the time, and vast majority are not masking of course because they're going in/out of water. I liked the beach, but I wish they'd do a better job of cleaning the chairs and leftover trash/food. I showed up the next day at 9.30am when it was nearly empty and found some food in the sand around our seats which must've been left there from the day before. I swam around, felt nice. Water's a bit chilly and I don't like cold, but even in the morning when the temp was ~75F, I still found the lake water to be tolerable to swim in.

Covid: As with presumably all Hyatt properties, there are hand sanitizers everywhere in the common area. Hotel is pretty diligent with the rules, although not necessarily enforced. But as with anywhere, there are people who choose not to care. If you worry too much about this, then it's totally understandable but you're probably better off staying home. At the beach and poolside, everyone takes the masks off. What really got me was the smores thing at night. Huge throng of mostly just adults gathered around the firepit, talking and laughing, zero social distancing, and no one was masked.

Room very nice and clean.

Gym open. Had like 7 Pelaton machines.

Breakfast had BUFFET (as someone mentioned above)! All-you-can-eat, although it's not self-serve. All the spread behind plexiglass, and you tell one of the 2 employees standing back there what you want. Bacon, 2 kinds of sausages, hash brown, eggs, oatmeal, cereal, waffle, pastries, berries, pineapples. High quality stuff.

As mentioned above, you can and should reserve a table for restaurant, but you can't reserve outside table. I booked dinner. Did not want to eat inside, so waited 30min for an outside table... which is fine. The view is great from the patio.

Dinner at Lone Eagle Grille... expensive, but not outrageously priced. Kids' menu is 3 courses: fruit cup, entree, ice cream or create-own-cookie. Entree choices are steak, simple pasta, chicken tender, king salmon. My younger one was on the verge of getting chicken tender and I managed to convince her to try the salmon instead! I don't eat steak, but my older daughter loved the steak. Younger one seemed a bit apprehensive at first of the salmon, but then she devoured it. I had some leftover bits and pieces from her plate... that salmon was one of the best I'd had. So I don't think $23 is a bad deal if you're getting salmon or steak, and I wish I could've gotten the kids' meal myself. They also bring a big thing of different complementary breads, and my $28 fish and chips were not that great but huge portion and I could not finish it all.

Asked about 2pm checkout as a Discoverist. The first guy I asked said they're mostly not granting late checkouts right now due to Covid, but he said I could ask again the morning of checkout. So I did, and this time I was granted a 1pm checkout. First time ever that I was not given the usual 2pm checkout (another Hyatt later in the trip offered it to me without me even asking), but I guess it's a new world we live in and we all have to be understanding.

Due to max 4 people per elevator rule, it pays to stay on a higher floor. If you stay on the 3rd or 4th floor, you could be waiting a long time esp in the morning to find an elevator that can accommodate your family.

View from the room: So in the tower, each room has a large window that does not open and is oriented parallel perpendicular to the lake shore. But then this large window has a little side window portion either to the right or left of it that does open and either faces towards or away from the lake, depending on which room you're in. Every other room will be equipped with the side window that faces the lake, every other room with the side window that faces away from the lake. It might be a matter of luck as to which room you get.

I was charged the resort fee and parking fee. I am just Discoverist, though.

In spite of some issues, I really liked it. Wife couldn't enjoy it as much as she's more sensitive to people's behaviour wrt Covid. But I loved staying in a clean hotel with a private beach.