radenzo

Thank you too. So the standard suite "Grand Suite King" is what I will get I guess. Can I ask the hotel room to add a bed since I am also bringing my kids (both are under age of 12).

sfflyer415

GHT has blocked availability for New Year’s Eve, is NYE a big holiday in Taiwan?

There’s widespread availability the day before and the day after. Hoping Hyatt will unblock these dates.

VegasGambler

Is there any reason you think anything is blocked?

projectmaximus

haha. NYE is a semi-big holiday in Taiwan, not necessarily the biggest but they do care about it and if you watch the NYE celebrations around the world, often times Taipei is the representative for Asia. Why? Because they have a massive fireworks show ON Taipei 101.

So, the answer to your question is maybe, but to answer your underlying question, the GH is in the epicenter for the celebration and the prices for rooms that literally look out the window to the fireworks are pretty exorbitant. Also interesting to note...this past New Year's was extremely foggy and the fireworks show was pretty disappointing since it was almost entirely shrouded from view. I heard lots of complaints from people who had paid big money and could hardly see anything. No refunds that I'm aware of

incarbon

Is using a suite upgrade certificate worth it here for a stay of 7 days?

jbeckett

Yes.

p0n

Had a recent stay here as a globalist with my last stay being 2017.

Seems like the suites are either booked or given out before check in day. Was following availability and a few days before a lot went away. Was proactively upgraded to city view deluxe at checkin (they printed out a paper with globalist benefits and got to the upgrade part and upgraded me then saying no suites were available which matched availability in the app). The room imo felt like a suite and was a very nice room.

Breakfast is available in the lounge or at the lobby buffet restaurant. highly recommend the lobby buffet, similar to other standard high-end chinese/taiwanese hotel breakfast buffets. lots of dishes and very very busy, amazing food though with multiple stations where you can get food cooked (noodles/brunch/etc).

the restaurants in the hotel get booked extremely quickly so i'd recommend making a reservation in advance. this seems to be the case in all of taipei perhaps due to recent lifting of covid restrictions. i wanted to eat at the chinese restaurant, yun jin, but it was fully booked for the 2 days i asked for a reservation. lunch/dinner. I was able to get a lunch reservation at the cantonese restaurant, pearl liang but dinner was fully booked. pearl liang lunch was fantastic and i highly recommend it.

i agree with the other commentators the quality of the lounge has fallen dramatically. last time i stayed they had a massive dinner buffet whereas now its just snacks/drink and one very meh dish. not worth going.

it seems there is limited standard room award and the hotel is extremely large/busy. i would definitely recommend reserving a standard room early if you're considering it. while they do seem good with upgrades, suite availability upon check-in may be limited.

FlyingDoctorwu

Anyone have any experience wiht connecting rooms here? Ie what room types connect? Traveling with a family of 5....

dsywon

Would you use a lounge access award here? I'm an Explorist and while I don't expect much uses for the award (no other planned trips at the moment) I'm only staying one night. Not expecting some amazing breakfast spread but if there is standard-ish breakfast before we head out for our flight and some snacks in the afternoon/evening in the lounge I think I'll use it.

HIFlya

At this point, I would use the lounge cert wherever a lounge is open, it is so hard to find anything nowadays!

dsywon

You do bring up a good point, ha.
Though if we do travel more it will be to South East Asian countries where I believe there usually is a Grand Hyatt or Regency with a lounge.

HIFlya

That is true, but you are already into July. How many lounge certs do you have that expire in 2024?

dsywon

I have 2 expiring in 2024. But I just realized I'm using a FNA and apparently they don't let you use a lounge cert at the same time. So I guess I have no choice but to skip the lounge. Don't have remaining points nor do I want to pay cash.

HIFlya

Yeah, they are surprisingly strict about it. Not sure why FNAs are treated so badly!

travelbugging

how many nights are you staying and how many FNA? If more than one night, split the stay so that the night using FNA is separate