Having stayed before when it was the Century Hyatt, I was aware this hotel had about 100 very small sub-standard single rooms which are only suitable for a Japanese-style business hotel. So when it was proposed for a recent business trip, I informed the agent I would only use the newly renamed Hyatt Regency if I was in a normal-sized room. No problem, I was informed; the hotel has been totally refurbished and rebranded and I would have the standard room with a kind-size bed. To double check, I looked at Hyatt's own website. Sure enough, the standard room (i.e. the smallest) in the Hyatt Regency is a normal-sized room. To be 100% sure, I faxed the hotel 24 hours in advance to confirm my room and bed size request.
On arrival, I was first surprised to discover that I was not on a Gold Passport floor (the first time this has happened in 17 years as a GP member), and then shocked to find I was in that same small unfurbished sub-standard room with a small bed. So, disgracefully, Hyatt's website is deliberately misleading. In my attempt to find out why the sub-standard rooms are not listed, I contacted the hotel's PR department. The Director was out but would call me back "in a couple of hours". When I left 72 hours later, I was still waiting for that call!
I checked at reception about the relative cost of these sub-standard rooms and discovered they are only about 10% less than the standard rooms (although the usable space is at least 40% less and a similar room in a business class hotel would cost nearly 50% less). Then, during 150 minutes of conversations with five different staff, more facts and discrepancies began to spill out. First I was told the receptionist had given me inaccurate information. Later this was retracted! Then, that these rooms are sold only to travel agents. Also retracted when I pressed and found they are also sold to walk-in guests. Then, most amazing of all, these rooms are not part of the hotel's deal with Hyatt which is why they are not on the hotel's web-site! Apparently many Japanese like the small rooms but Hyatt head office does not allow the hotel owners to include them as part of the deal with Hyatt because they are not up to Hyatt standards!!
I was staggered. So Hyatt permits a hotel owner to sell rooms under the Hyatt brand at Hyatt prices which it knows are unacceptable for the Hyatt brand! This is an absolute disgrace! By deliberately selling these rooms at Hyatt rooms, in my view both the hotel owner and Hyatt are guilty of deliberate misrepresentation. And my understanding of the law is that this is actionable in the courts. I will now avoid all Hyatt hotels and return my GP card.
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