On a recent visit to Auckland I had the pleasure of spending a night at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in one of their King view rooms. This is a room in the original Hyatt building not the newly built 'residence' wing.
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| Hyatt - King bed |
The room was a comfortable size with all the basic amenities you would expect from a hotel of this calibre, flat screen TV, luggage rack, iron/ironing board, small desk and one comfortable chair. Bathroom was shower over bath which is common in most New Zealand hotels, even 4 and 5 star unfortunately. Bathrobes were provided.
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| Hyatt Bathroom |
Like all New Zealand hotels you pay a fortune for Internet access. This is something that will not change in a hurry even though many motels are now offering free Internet. Our short stints to check mail and bank balances etc, so no extensive surfing, still set us back NZ$28.00.
The views from the room were nice. They were book ended by two apartment complexes to each side but still enabled us to see a reasonable amount of the harbour and we spend time watching the ferry's and other vessels come and go.
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City and Harbour views
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| Hyatt Residence wing to left, city and harbour views |
Other hotel amenities include indoor heated pool, health club, day spa and business centre.
They Hyatt has a Qualmark 5 star hotel rating. I personally would go for 4 star as I felt that hotel was lacking in some areas that you would expect from a 5 star hotel (e.g. only one informal restaurant, busy and open lobby bar - so no formal restaurant, no private lounge or small residents bar).
We had a pleasant stay and could find no real fault, the prices are competitive for this level and the location makes the hotel close to some of Auckland's boutique shopping streets such as Vulcan lane or High Street. I would have no problem staying here again.
