Originally Posted by
michael35432
Is the $25 credit in addition to the breakfast buffet, or do you choose between free breakfast and the $25?
Both, but there is an interesting quirk in the credit math. I'm not sure when those photos were taken of the breakfast buffet, but I didn't see any of that.
We were just there for a St Pattys Day stay, and the breakfast was one of the worst I have ever encountered at a Hyatt, definitely below an average Hyatt Place. Not only was the place crowded with almost no food remaining, the "servers" were non-existent. I ended up pouring our own coffee, juice and water from the server station because in our 20 minute stay, not a single employee approached us (you pay a cashier before entering the restaurant). We just grabbed some remaining fruit and left, so 2 bananas, a coffee and juice for $57.
There was no way we were going back to that disaster again, but we had some great meals/drinks at Vitascope Hall (Wyatt is an amazing bartender) throughout the stay and was expecting to have a balance on our final tab. But when they calculated it, there was a $57 breakfast credit every day on the folio,
whether we used it or not. So our daily $50 credit (2 guests x $25 each) was actually $107/day, and my balance at checkout was $0. A very pleasant surprise.
As for the room, I used several Cat 1-4 certs (so no suite award applicable) and we were still upgraded to a corner deluxe suite, with almost 270 degree views of the stadiums and the garden district in the distance. A very, very nice room. We are planning a future stay already (but skipping the breakfast).
I walked through the Hyatt House next door to check it out for a future stay, and no thank you. The check-in area looks like the registration at an emergency room or visiting someone in prison. The front desk employees are actually behind a plexiglass (bulletproof?) partition, and the hallways/common areas are extremely sterile and institutional-like. Bad mojo in that place.