Review of Hyatt Regency, Houston, Texas

The Hyatt Regency Houston is in the middle of downtown Houston, near the convention center and the Theater District. The hotel is also connected to a wide variety of shops, restaurants, and other buildings via the city's underground tunnel system. Overall, the hotel was what you'd expect: a solid, large business hotel. Good service, decent (but not overwhelming) rooms, and a good lobby bar.

The Hyatt Regency in Houston Texas a prototypical business hotel (in a good way). It's a large property with close to 1,000 rooms, all situated around a the central lobby and lobby bar. In addition to the lobby bar (which was hopping when I was there) there’s a full service restaurant and a snack/coffee shop. The hotel was renovated relatively recently and was in good shape.

The hotel is convenient to the convention center, as well as other downtown areas. There's also a METRO Light Rail stop close by.

The upper floor room I stayed in was nice—upscale furnishings, decent view out of the window, great curtains, in-room safe, clean and modern bathroom, and nice bed. Overall, the room wasn’t huge, but it was certainly a reasonable size and very comfortable. The desk area was okay, but the chair was a bit low for comfortable work. The room lighting was also a bit dimmer than I prefer. Air conditioning seemed to work fine.

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