Hyatt - Notable Properties

Notable Properties

• Atlanta: The Hyatt Regency Atlanta was built in 1967 and was the first contemporary atrium hotel in the world. The hotel is also notable for being the first Regency hotel in the Hyatt brand. To this day it remains the only major downtown Atlanta hotel with a front drive on the famed Peachtree Street. Architect John Portman designed the building.
• Bangkok: Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok was built in 1991 near Chidlom skytrain station.
• Buenos Aires: Hyatt Hotels acquired the Duhau Palace, a Neoclassical former residence inspired in the Château du Marais, in 2002, and following the addition of a 13-story annex at the other end of the property, opened the Park Hyatt Buenos Aires in 2006.
• Chennai : Hyatt Regency was inaugurated in August 2011. A Park Hyatt was inaugurated in October 2012. Both hotels are situated in the metro's main thoroughfare, Anna Salai, also called Mount Road.
• Chicago: At 2019 rooms, The Hyatt Regency Chicago is the 7th largest non-gaming hotel in the world. Big Bar (located on the green level of the east tower) holds the record for the largest freestanding bar in the world and is in possession of the two largest suspended plasma TV screens in North America.
• Cleveland: The Hyatt Regency Cleveland, is located in the 1890s-built Cleveland Arcade. The Cleveland Arcade was a shopping center, but between 1998–2002 was renovated as the Hyatt Regency Hotel. There is some retail on the first two stories, with the hotel rooms occupying the floors above. In addition there is a five-star restaurant named 1890, a reference to the year the Cleveland Arcade opened.
• Connecticut: The Hyatt Regency Greenwich, located in Old Greenwich, CT is on the site of the former world headquarters of Conde Nast Publishing and retains the original building's corner tower.
• Dallas: HYATT house Dallas Lincoln Park is the closest hotel to NorthPark Center and only minutes from Southern Methodist University (SMU).
• Dallas: The Hyatt Regency Dallas, along with the fifty-story Reunion Tower, were featured prominently at the beginning of the opening credits of the television series Dallas.
• Hollywood: The Continental Hyatt Hotel (now Andaz West Hollywood) was in the movie Almost Famous starring Kate Hudson (2000), and its pool has featured in several films including This is Spinal Tap (1984), and the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City (now rebranded as InterContinental Hotel) was the scene of the "6th floor into swimming pool" scene in the 1989 movie Lethal Weapon 2 starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.
• Kansas City, Missouri: Initially named the Hyatt Regency Kansas City, the atrium walkways collapsed in 1981 killing 114. The hotel was since renamed Sheraton Kansas City at Crown Center and remains in operation.
• Kathmandu: Hyatt Regency in Kathmandu is located in the prime location of Boudha. The Hotel offers a splendid view of the Boudhanath Stupa, which is a historic landmark of Kathmandu. The Hotel is one of the latest 5 Star hotels to be built in the culturally rich city.
• Kuala Lumpur: The Grand Hyatt opened in late August 2012 as the first Hyatt hotel in Kuala Lumpur, since its former Saujana property changed management in 2005, and offers superb views of the city from its 40th floor lobby (the highest one in town).
• Los Angeles: Century Plaza Hotel, one of the 11 endangered historic sites
• Melbourne: Park Hyatt Melbourne, noted for the most efficient loading dock operation in the Hyatt Group.
• San Francisco: The Hyatt Regency San Francisco formerly provided a rooftop revolving restaurant called Equinox, offering 360-degree views of the city and the bay – the restaurant is now an elite club for certain hotel guests only and it no longer rotates. This hotel was sold for close to $200 million to Dune Capital Management and DiNapoli Capital Partners in January 2007 – roughly $250,000 for each of the hotel's 802 rooms. The property has been used several times as a filming location, featured most prominently in producer Irwin Allen's 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno, the 1977 Mel Brooks comedy High Anxiety, Don Siegel's spy thriller Telefon of the same year, and the 1979 sci-fi thriller Time After Time.
• Dubai : The Hyatt regency is one of the prominent hotels of Dubai. Consisting of 414 luxury rooms & suites, it is located in the corniche giving a spectacular view.
• Shanghai: The Grand Hyatt Shanghai is located in the Jin Mao Tower (floors 53 to 87). It has a ballroom for 1200 people, and meeting rooms which seat 400 comfortably. The Park Hyatt occupying the 79th to 93rd floors of the Shanghai World Financial Center, is considered one of the highest hotels in the world.
• Tokyo: The Park Hyatt Tokyo was featured prominently in the movie Lost in Translation, and also in an episode of I Survived a Japanese Game Show where that episode's winning team stayed in the suite featured in that movie worth $12,000/night, plus a personal chef.
• Trinidad & Tobago: The Hyatt Regency Trinidad was used for the 2009 5th Summit of the Americas from April 17 to 19, 2009.
• Hyderabad : Located at Banjara Hills, The Park Hyatt is the first hotel in the city to offer 42 fully serviced luxury apartments for long-staying guests who are looking for a home away from home. The 185-room Park Hyatt Hyderabad opened as the first city Park Hyatt hotel in India on March 30, 2012.