I had the chance to stay here again and this time I had a chance to eat breakfast.
It was convenient for my wife and I to book the night before at the Grand Hyatt because it was close to the airport.
Grand Hyatt SFO Bottom Line Review
The hotel is very convenient and luxurious. The room is not as fancy as a Park Hyatt, but it is nice.
After checking in and leaving our bags in the room, I dropped off our rental car at the airport's rental car center and took the Sky Train back to the hotel.
Points Price: Category 5, 17K, 20K, or 23K points per night.
Cash Price: Rooms seem to usually start at over $300 per night.
Points Value: Good to Very Good. When cash rates are particularly high (sometimes around $500), then the point value is excellent.
Resort/Destination Fee: None
Parking:
Hotel Valet Parking: $40 overnight
Self-parking available at Hotel : $40 overnight
Self-parking available at International Terminal Garage A: $36 overnight
Turndown service: Probably not (I’m not sure because we checked in late for our one-night stay)
Internet: I didn’t test the quality
Dining:
Quail + Crane: Primary hotel restaurant open daily for breakfast and dinner. We had dinner here and it was very good. UPDATE: On a second visit, I tried breakfast and it was very good as well.
Twin Crafts Market: Open 24 hours with a large menu of “on the go” options.
Spa: None.
Fitness Room: Looks great. I didn’t try it.
Hyatt Globalist Elite Benefits:
Welcome Gift: None
Upgrade: We were “upgraded” to a high floor tarmac view room, but not to a suite.
Club Lounge: The hotel does have a Grand Club and it was open, but with only very limited services at the time of our stay. When I visited the club, it was completely empty of people, but there were packaged snacks and bottled drinks available.
Free Breakfast: Due to the fact that the club lounge had limited service, they offered us free breakfast at either the hotel restaurant or via the market where we could have grabbed a to-go breakfast before our flight. In our case, though, we had been upgraded to Delta first class and knew we would get breakfast on the flight and so we skipped hotel breakfast altogether in order to make it easier to catch our 5:40am flight. I was sorry to miss the free breakfast at the hotel restaurant. Based on our dinner experience, I expect that breakfast is excellent. UPDATE: On my second visit to the Grand Hyatt, the lounge was still limited service and so I had a chance to enjoy a free breakfast at the hotel restaurant (Qual + Crane). It was very good.
4PM Late Checkout: Granted upon request. We didn’t need it.
Free Parking: I didn’t test it, but on an award stay Globalists should get free self or valet parking. The valet let us leave the car with him for free while we checked in. I then returned the car to the rental car center.
Would I stay again? Absolutely. Anytime I have an early morning flight out of SFO or arrive at SFO late at night, I’ll look to book a night here.
The AirTrain is a quick, convenient, and free way to move between terminals, parking, the rental car center, and the Grand Hyatt at SFOView of the Grand Hyatt from the SkyTrainAirTrain MapAfter exiting the SkyTrain at the Grand Hyatt stop, descend the escalator to get to the hotel lobby.LobbyTwin Crafts MarketFitness CenterBreakfast menuEggs Benedict w/ side of fresh fruit. The Eggs Benedict was very good. I also appreciated the French Press Carafe (not shown) that they brought when I said yes to coffee.
During our stay, the Grand Club only had limited services. The club was completely empty and so I was able to take a lot of photos.
View of the Grand Club from just inside the entranceThe Grand Club had very limited snacks and drinks at the time of our stay.Another view of the Grand ClubAnd another view of the Grand Club
Room
I liked the glowing room numbers.This photo makes the room look deceptively ordinary. It was actually very nice.A great touch for those interested in plane-spotting: in-room binoculars and a plane spotting guide.
