austin_modern

The main difference is that no one wants to visit Bellevue.

heakja

I edited my post because there suddenly was availability on those dates. But 219 $+tax for a low floor room at Hyatt place downtown, yikes.

spgplat21

Hyatt at the Bellevue in Philadelphia not the Hyatt Bellevue in Washington.

austin_modern

Corrected: The main difference is that no one wants to visit Philly. [joke]

spgplat21

Haha, that may be true as well.

djibouti

I'm checking this out on Friday for a 1-night stay on business since the price dropped significantly as the date came closer (I'm doing a tour of the Hyatts in Austin--will only not have checked out the HP downtown because it was too pricey).

I called about using my suite upgrade (since I'm unlikely to use all 4 anyway) and was told they only do it into a junior suite and they are sold out. A bit disappointing. I see they have regular suites available and may check in early to try to talk a front desk agent into letting me experience one of those for the night (and they can even pull a DSU if they want but I doubt the FD is able to do that).

djibouti

Junior suite conclusion: small, loud, view of a parking garage from the patio and Crown Royal is the nicest whiskey in the mini bar for $10. I was quoted $300 to move to a nicer suite which is fine as it's not an entitlement. My conclusion: terrible DSU value at this hotel.

I think my Hyatt Place basic room was bigger.

ETA: the small sitting room has a sofa and a small table with a high backed chair and a TV... So is that a work desk or a TV stand? Because it sure as hell ain't big enough for both... Speaking of which the business center closes at 9 PM... Because it somehow disturbs the other guests when you use a computer quietly?

austin_modern

why on earth do you care about the business center in Austin at 9pm on a Friday night. #YoureDoingItWrong

travelexpert

Some great posts here.

I was seriously considering the Driskill for a Diamond Suite ugrade long weekend.

Now I realize it is NOT a great option for us.

gooseman13

Heading to town this weekend for a football game. Thoughts I whether I should spring for the extra points and stay here, or just stay at the HR or HP Dowtown?

spgplat21

I've booked this hotel with points several times in the past, and just noticed they've re-categorized their rooms and created a new standard room type (220 sq.ft. petite queen). It says the room used to be staff quarters, and I remember they used to sell a curio room with only a single bed that had the same description so maybe they crammed a queen bed in these rooms or this might be a subset of the old Vintage King/Queen category.

Either way, you can no longer redeem points for a room with two beds, and availability, which was previously amazing, is now much worse. Plus you are stuck booking a 220 square foot room in Texas.

I noticed they do have the old standard room types available for cash and points on select dates for a $25/night premium, but of course, those appear to be only during periods of low demand.

GreekDeno

Anybody stayed here recently and have thoughts? Wife and I are going for 4 nights in Mar and looking at this hotel for $313/night or 20k/night. No points plus cash option as of now, but will call back to Hyatt. HP is $237 and HR is $252. Reviews seem to be great location, historic (all the good and bad that come with that). Rooms seem decent, but not great and not a good use of dsu's.

austin_modern

sounds like sxsw pricing. Will be a zoo if it's in that ten day period.

skj

All 3 of these properties are within 6-7 blocks of each other so the location shouldn't matter too much. The rooms at the Driskill are tiny, particularly the ones available for Points or P+C, and there can be a substantial upcharge to book a larger room.

That's actually typical pricing when there isn't a big event in town. The Driskill is sold out for many of the nights of SXSW and it's about $500/night when it does have availability.

austin_modern

Im used to seeing corporate rates at which all of them are well less than 250 for the three central city hyatts. Even on random weekends in march I see <240 prices for the Drisk.

Just chexked sxsw sxsw and most are elevated. Agreed.