Originally Posted by
marcopolo12
Hello everyone, wondering if I could pick your brains. My wife, and 8 month old son will be visiting Tokyo this February. This is our first trip since the pandemic and we're looking for a place in Tokyo to relax and adjust to the time before we depart for Korea. We are staying in Tokyo for 6 nights and have previously done many of the must do tourist things already, meaning that we don't mind just relaxing and going to a park.
We are trying to figure out if the Park Hyatt or Andaz is better for our trip as they seem like the 2 Hyatt hotels with the largest base room? We've read many things about the Park Hyatt and our reservations about it include how "dated" everyone says the rooms are. Also the location of the Park Hyatt, seems far away from some of the things my wife wants to visit (places around Ginza). Positives for the Park Hyatt include the club, where I hear the spa can be quite refreshing after a day of travel. Andaz seems nice, but right now I see very limited availability. We would have to try to reach out to our concierge to see if we could extend the room on points (since we do not want to use cash). The Andaz seems closer to what we may want to do in Tokyo.
Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations? We are Hyatt globalists if that matters (without any upgrades).
I just spent a week at this hotel over New Year's with my family including a 1 & 3 year old. Shinjuku Central Park is right across the street from the hotel with a great new kids area. You can also walk through Yoyogi Park past the Meiji Jinju Shrine to Harajuku which we did a couple of times.
The hotel also a small mall in the basement with restaurants, convenience store, post office, drug store, and some other businesses.
There is a free shuttle that runs to Shinjuku Station and back every 30 minutes from 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM.
Kids must be 3 years old and potty trained to use the pool.
Restaurant staff with extremely friendly and helpful with the kids.
I feel this hotel would be a better choice than the Andaz which I feel is more of an adult hotel.
The Hyatt Centric is one of my favorite Hyatt hotels in Tokyo if you can get a suite but the regular rooms are on the small side.
Hope this helps in your decision making and have a great trip.