TerryK

IIRC, rollaway is allowed in King bedded rooms but not two doubles.

JayBird0711

Trying to book three nights in March over Spring Break. It looks like they are blocking all requests for less than 5 nights. I am a globalist but guess i will get a condo instead.

I was going to use points.. It looks like the rooms are going for $1800 a night. Who in their right mind would pay that price?

parrotheadmjb

Book 5 nights have the call center modify to 3

drnilescrane

I'd love to know. A lot of high end hotels have doubled or tripled their prices recently... and I just want to know who these people are who are booking at that rate. My hunch is properties were gambling on the return of foreign tourists and are hoping they can cash in on pent up demand.

For this place specifically - I stayed there again this September with a friend who was desperate to return and it's groups. Lots and lots of groups. Weddings, corporate retreats, everything delayed from 2020. It's causing problems since the place is dead mid week, then grossly understaffed on the weekends.

I know it's popular to dump on this place - and I got really sick while there which ruined my trip - but I do wish they'd rebrand this hotel back to a Hyatt Regency (as designed and built) since it's a really, really terrible Park Hyatt. The rooms are small and awful, the bathrooms are smaller, service is ...., amenities are substandard, and whatever decent parts of the hotel - like the restaurant - are struggling at the moment from the swings in occupancy. If they are just going to chase the group money and act like a group focused Hyatt Regency I wish they'd set expectations appropriately.

Matt4200

Hyatt Regency as a Brand just doesn’t have the same air or notoriety of luxury. Hyatt Regency as a brand was and is designed for business travelers.

Park Hyatt Beaver Creek is very isolated and horrible for business travel. Their busiest season of the year is strictly for leisure (December to March for ski season).

While I do agree it’s not living up to the luxury of Park Hyatt as a brand, I wouldn’t rebrand as a Regency, Centric or Unbound would be much better.

With that being said I don’t see it shaking the Park Hyatt name anytime soon.

drnilescrane

It's a group travel and conventions focused brand. There is a difference.

Same thing with Grand Hyatt Vail - it got that brand because it has a giant convention center attached to it. In an ideal world I'd make the Vail property an Unbound and the Beaver Creek property a Grand.

That would probably set expectations more appropriately at both properties. But they wanted to sell Park Hyatt Branded fractional ownerships, so that's why it went from Hyatt Regency to Park Hyatt and they have no incentive to be better.

Charlie9

Hello! New globalist, got to 50 nights over last 6 months of 2021, and received 2 TSU. Attempted to use it for a points stay next mid-December at Beaver Creek and there is no availability. Just wondering...Was this availability snatched up quickly? Never made available? Just trying to learn for future endeavors.

cubs87

If there is availability it will show up, and if there's not, there's not. While some hotels might not make suites available these days due to covid under-staffing and extra cleaning required, I can't imagine this particular property doing that. Just search around various dates for their standard suite, and if it's available have your concierge apply the cert.

Charlie9

Thanks for the reply. I made the points reservation last month out of fear of availability, but just received the TSU a few days ago. Looks like my mistake was not scoping out dates that not only had reward availability but also suite upgrade availability as well.

Matt4200

The only Standard Suite is the Park Fireside Suite.



Ramdomly searched mid-December and it’s available…

Charlie9

A quick look around seems their is no fireside suite availability during the 2 week school Christmas break (12/17 - 01/01), which I can understand. Bummer, but lesson learned.

SkyTeam777

Has anyone stayed here during Omicron? Curious if they are super strict on mask wearing indoors and outside around the firepits, pool, etc. In 2021, they had staff roving around enforcing mask policies, but not sure if that is the case now.

dr58

The hotel is not being strict. The ski operations team is being stricter - requiring face coverings for gondola rides, for example. Guests for the most part are following the policy, but during apres ski times in particular, there are a lot of maskless folks indoors hanging around the bar, lobby, and restaurant.

SkyTeam777

Some observations from a recent visit:

-Staff is woefully undertrained and too few. Restaurant service takes forever, and the front desk is not well-trained on room categories (one person told me that they never sell/assign rooms based on views, but just bed type). Ha! Your website sells mountain, highland and village views.
-Le Labo is out of stock due to Covid shortages, and they are using some awful, off-brand product.
-Prive rates get a bottle of wine as usual, but the gift is just a bag of s'mores (the same free kits from reception that are included in the mandatory resort fee).
-Daily housekeeping is now a perk for elite members.

We've been going there for 20+ years, back when it first opened. Call it Covid or call it just product decline, but it's not the same as before, and certainly not a Park Hyatt standard. With that said, we'll keep going back for the unbeatable location and the memories created there. Probably lots of people like that meaning there is little reason to change.

Side note: Does this hotel give World of Hyatt points for food and beverage? or just food? In the past, I believe they didn't provide points on bar drinks or spa, but not sure if that is still the case. Does anyone know?

speedbird001

I stayed there for years and switched to the RC Bachelor Gulch. They both suffer sometimes from service as the employees are largely seasonal and not well trained. RC has a much better hard product and better food. Park Hyatt opened as a Hyatt. They put in new carpeting and called it a Park Hyatt. It is inferior in many ways.