I recently helped my sister book some rooms during one of Hyatt s 48-hour sales. She lives in Berkeley and wanted to visit my brother in San Diego. Although driving all the way down there in one go was okay, she decided to take her time on the way back, stopping in Irvine, Santa Barbara, day tours from paris to champagne region france and Monterey day tours from paris to champagne region france on the way home.
In exchange for my help I asked her to take a few notes on the properties from the perspective of someone day tours from paris to champagne region france who doesn t travel much. Her pictures were lost when she forgot to load a SD card to her camera (really, iPhone photos would have been fine) so you ll have to do without. But she s got a mouth and a flippant attitude that make my bad moods look like all rainbows and butterflies, so hopefully you find her reviews as amusing as I did! Of course, day tours from paris to champagne region france I ve had to clean up the language a bit. I try to keep this blog PG-13. It s a little lengthy, so skip down to Santa Barbara if you get bored.
Scooty! I have hotel information for you from my trip. I have pictures too but I m not sure if I can get them to you I didn t realize I didn t have my sd card in my camera, so all the pics I took are on the camera s internal memory and for some reason day tours from paris to champagne region france I can t access that on my computer when I connect it. But I ll try it on a different computer and see what happens. On to the hotels!
This was a small extended stay hotel about 1 mile off the 805 in north San Diego, among a bunch of other extended stay hotels and office parks. There s not much around there, and it s about 20 minutes from downtown San Diego and the beaches. Four stories, U-shape around a central courtyard with a nice patio with tables and a hot tub (I think there might have been a pool but I can t remember).
We had been pre-booked in a room on the 4th floor, day tours from paris to champagne region france which the front desk clerk said was the only renovated floor, so I m not sure what the other rooms look like. Our room didn t have the full extended-stay stuff like a kitchen, so it was just a regular guest room with one double (not queen, not king, a double) bed.
Who still has double beds anymore? The room was a bit small but otherwise was fine, there was some paint peeling off the windowsill, but everything else looked fairly new. There s only one ice machine in the whole place, on the second day tours from paris to champagne region france floor, which was annoying. All the Hyatt hotels had the same toiletries, and even a little tube of toothpaste (yay!). The Wi-Fi was free. The front desk was very helpful and seemed to have everything generally together (which was not true for all of the hotels), so no problems there.
All rooms include a free buffet breakfast which was the second best breakfast day tours from paris to champagne region france of the trip. It was in their restaurant/bar (not like a real restaurant, more like a smallish room with tables and a small bar in the middle). It opens onto the middle courtyard with tables out there too so it was actually really nice. The food included: giant separate bowls of sectioned grapefruit, watermelon, and grapes/pineapple; a bowl of apples, bananas, oranges; a selection of cereals, granola, bread, plain bagels, mini banana muffins, a selection of jam, peanut butter, honey, and cream cheese all in single-serve containers, and a toaster; a few kinds of regular coffee and decaf, orange juice, nonfat and 2% milk, teas, half-and-half; and a hot-food area with chicken fried steak (not too bad), super delicious biscuits, ham gravy, sausage, bacon, day tours from paris to champagne region france scrambled eggs, pancakes, hot oatmeal with brown sugar and dried fruit for topping, and a bunch of asian breakfast food including a giant thing of white rice, miso soup, hot mustard, pickled plums, nori sheets, and packaged ramen. Super tasty.
[At this point I have to butt in and say I agree, it sounds awesome. I haven't stayed at a Hyatt House or Hyatt PLace yet, but I will be in a few weeks when I head down to southern Oregon. The last two times I've stayed at similar hotels, a Holiday Inn Express in Walla Walla, WA, I almost expected them to pay ME to eat it; it was that awful. Even though the automated day tours from paris to champagne region france pancake maker was pretty cool, it was really just an automated rubber patty maker.
This is a good-sized hotel with a small convention center about two miles from Disneyland off the 5. It was by far the nicest place we stayed and had the best breakfast. They have a seven story (or some number) atrium at the entrance and two separate towers day tours from paris to champagne region france of rooms (it looks like they built the towers first then later decided to cover the front "V" they make with glass for an atrium). The atrium is where the main restaurant and breakfast buffet is, a separate bar, a Starbucks, and a prepackaged food-to-go deli are located.
They have two pools and two spas, one set located at the front of the hotel that we used and a second set on the roof of the third floor I think. Each has towels there for the taking. It was really irritating finding the first pool complex because you have to go outside the hotel in the front, around to the left, and there's kind of a hidden gate.
Parking is at the back of the hotel in a lot and if you don t get a good spot you have to walk pretty far; it s $15/day. We asked about an upgrade and were able to get a king suite which had a huge front room with a sectional sofa, desk, and TV, then the bathroom, then the bedroom (which was kind of small and had another TV) with a set of doors to separate it from the living room. What I didn t like about this one was the bedroom was kind of small and didn t have closets, so they put stand-alone closets on either side of the TV/stand. They weren t big enough day tours from paris to champagne region france to put a suitcase in so we were kind of stepping over stuff all the time. It was also pretty dark there were only two bedside lamps for the whole room and all the furniture and decorations were dark browns and greens (definitely going for masculine modern sleek), day tours from paris to champagne region france so it was hard to see anything unless you opened the drapes.
We got a breakfast down at the restaurant; we opted for the buffet day tours from paris to champagne region france over the regular breakfast items (which looked good though) which at this place ran about $19 each I think. This place had the best breakfast ever, it was awesome. We had a server for juice and coffee, and the orange juice was freshly squeezed and delicious. The food items there included: a selection of sliced fruits, plain yogurt, granola and raisins (I think there was watermelon, honeydew, and pineapple); a selection of fresh pastries (a few different muffins, croissants); cereals and milk (there were three kinds of milk, and they were each in milk bottles in ice); bagels and bread and a toaster; and a hot food area with sausage, bacon, whole-grain day tours from paris to champagne region france pancakes, scrambled eggs, french toast, little monte cristo sandwiches (french toast with swiss cheese and ham, super tasty); and finally an omelette station day tours from paris to champagne region france where a really nice guy would make you any kind of eggs you wanted and/or an omelette, and he had a lot of different fillings. Jam on the table.
[Again, I'll interject to say that this is the kind of service day tours from paris to champagne region france I've been fortunate to have at most Hyatt hotels. Although the AVIA Napa was somewhat lax in terms of quality of service, all the elements she describes, like offering a pot of coffee, fresh juice, and a large breakfast selection, are pretty common at the properties I've been to. Her experience reminds day tours from paris to champagne region france me of the Hyatt Regency Dallas. Although the Hyatt Regency Maui had an exceptional setting, at Dallas the server was practically day tours from paris to champagne region france bending over backward to give us whatever wanted.]
I fully and completely hated this hotel. It s about 2 miles south of the main street/downtown, and it s right across the street from the beach. I have come to believe Hyatt bought whatever used to be there (I m guessing something day tours from paris to champagne region france like a larger day tours from paris to champagne region france Best Western) and badly renovated it, then decided to charge ridiculous prices. Do not, under any circumstance , pay for parking. day tours from paris to champagne region france There is tons of completely legal and free street parking (unless maybe it s a super nice weekend and there are a ton of people?) literally steps from the rooms; we parked closer to our room on the street than we could have in their parking lot, we could see the car from our balcony, and their parking is expensive.
There were almost no people there on Monday night, but when we asked about an upgrade day tours from paris to champagne region france we were only given a king with a balcony that faced the hills (not the beach). I would strongly suggest that if you have a room facing the hills, try to get it on the bottom floor because about two miles away is 101 and it is frickin loud (more on that later). The actual room was fine but the bathroom was pathetic. The door barely cleared the toilet, and you had to maneuver around in there to close and open the door because there wasn t enough space for a human. Also, huge pet peeve, there wasn t anywhere to hang towels there were no towel bars (not enough room), but they had installed two hooks next to the toilet that you were supposed to hang towels day tours from paris to champagne region france on (and they didn t dry overnight, so we had wet towels in the morning). day tours from paris to champagne region france I mean, really ?
The balcony was really tiny and overlooked, wait for it , the half-dozen discount day tours from paris to champagne region france hotels surrounding day tours from paris to champagne region france the Hyatt, some of which had much nicer looking balconies. So basically, the location is not worth the price because you can get it from any of the other hotels. The rooms did not have any kind of central air, so to remedy this they had installed wall air conditioners in each room right next to the head of the bed. This, obviously, is not ideal because 1) ugly, 2) noisy, 3) even if you don t have it on, it has provided a giant gaping hole in the wall through which you can hear the FREEWAY and also all the $ #%ing birds that chirp in the morning.
If this wasn t bad enough, there was some kind of low rumbling/humming noise that would go on for about 2-5 minutes, then turn off for 10 minutes, then turn back on ALL THE TIME ALL NIGHT LONG AND ALL DAY ARRRRRGH. I almost went insane . Needless to say I didn t sleep at all, and ended up getting up at like 7:30 (on frickin vacation!) to go running because I couldn t figure out what else t
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