drnilescrane

"Escala Lodges at Canyons Resort" was developed as a condo-hotel project. Hyatt were brought in to manage in 2010 after the recession, and it got pushed into Hyatt Centric to help launch that brand in 2016. It's a barely 100 room property, focused exclusively on leisure travel, and has the whole condo aspect - it doesn't really reflect the modern Hyatt Centric brand compared to a new build hotel.

"Hyatt Regency Beaver Creek" was built as a Hyatt Regency in 1992, and very much reflects the Hyatt Regency brand standards of the time - ~300+ rooms, standard Hyatt Regency room size and layout, standard number of food and beverage outlets, standard amount of meeting space (this is the big one), Hirsch Bedner interiors, etc. Compare it to something like Tamaya where you start noticing that the pieces are all the same even if the packaging is different. It became a Park in 2001 when they and tore out a whole lot of rooms to develop the timeshare and spa components (and thus needed a reason to increase the room rates).

Ultimately it's about which demographic the ownership wants to market the property to - it's why the new Vail property is a Grand Hyatt (place has a *lot* of meeting space) even though it really doesn't "feel" like a Grand Hyatt. Aviara is a Park Hyatt even though it's "too big" and "not modern enough" because it's was meant to be a Four Seasons and they want that customer.