Hyatt Regency JFK - This is a relatively new hotel about a 20 minute ride from JFK in normal traffic. It doesn’t have a shuttle service to and from the airport, but it is fairly easy to catch a taxi or Uber/Lyft. I’ve stayed here once before for a morning flight, but had visited many times more for the free parking available in the adjacent casino. It came in handy for those 2 or so week trips that start in JFK.

Picking up from the train ride to Penn Station in NYC, we caught the LIRR to Jamaica (Queens). Once at street level, we found a taxi to the hotel where we were happy to learn we had secured a Globalist upgrade to a suite. This was a handicap accessible suite with a separate living room, two bathrooms, and a view towards NYC (but mostly the parking lot). Plenty spacious and the bed was great.








After dropping our bags, we headed to the club lounge which is on the first floor of the hotel. The buffet options were fairly limited but did the job of fixing a cheap dinner. There were also a few beers as well as canned wines and cocktails. Staff at the hotel were great.

After a morning workout, we caught a Lyft to terminal 8 at JFK. We got there about 2.5 hours prior to our scheduled flight to CLT with an onward connection to MUC. This arrival was intentional so we could check out the Soho lounge at JFK and enjoy a leisurely breakfast. You might ask why are we going to Munich. As mentioned in my last trip report, we had finished our European vacation in Munich in July and to get back to the US from Germany, I had booked a roundtrip on AA in premium economy from Munich to JFK via LHR. Our flight one day after we bid adieu to our house, my job and the car would be the return. The only changes being that I needed to move up the return flight by 5 days and the customer representative suggested flying JFK-CLT-MUC all on AA metal vice the return trip via LHR which of course included BA.