As funny as this may sound, there are times that I will choose my destination based on the hotel. As you can see from some of our Saturday Specials, here, here, and here, we try to stay in hotels that we have status at.To that end, I’m planning a trip for later this month, and my wife…
We’ve been to Bali, Indonesia twice, and stayed at this hotel for both of those visits (most recently in May, 2013). Because of those first two experiences, its very likely that our next trip will mean a return to this hotel.Reason for ChoosingThe Grand Hyatt Bali is roughly a half hour from the airport.We decided…
Reason for ChoosingNote:We visited the Park Hyatt Tokyo in February, 2012.We specifically did the Hyatt Diamond Challenge beforehand, with the express intention of staying at the Park Hyatt partially because of the location and the fact that we are big fans of the movie Lost in Translation. It helps that we got a stay credit…
As a continuation of our short set of observations from Seoul, here’s the hotel portion. Since we didn’t see much of the city the last time we thought it would be nice to stay in a different location that was more convenient to the shopping district.Reason for ChoosingWe chose the Seoul Hyatt partially because we needed the stay…
Note: Every so often I’ll try to highlight a hotel experience and share my thought process for choosing the hotel.Last year my wife and I took a trip to Seoul, South Korea and chose to stay at the Renaissance Seoul Hotel. It was an easy, competitively priced, and had a lounge. We have since been back to Seoul…