Hyatt Regency Austin

My boyfriend and I loved this place. We had nothing but friendly employees greet us when we arrived a little later on a Friday night. We dined at the restaurant inside the hotel and had quite a few drinks that same night. Our room was beautiful! The whole hotel was lovely. Since it was Christmastime, they had a beautiful gingerbread cookie land set up around the hotel which made it even more lovely. Only complaint is that it is a far walk from everything we wanted to do but that is our fault for not choosing a closer hotel to 6^th street since we didn’t want to drive anywhere. We will be back!

We came to this hotel for a week long work event. The hotel was very clean and great about making our stay super comfortable. The rooms were nice and spacious and had lots of extras for added comfort. Along with this I am vegan and usually come to expect not many choices for food especially when meals are catered in. The hotel went above and beyond to always have a vegan meal ready for me as well as a dessert and started adding cards next to the food at the buffet designating which food was vegan or dairy free. Above all of the special attention the food was excellent! I wouldn’t hesitate to stay here on my next visit to Austin. Thank you Hyatt and thank you to your wonderful staff!

Stayed here two nights on business last week and one this week. The rooms are very nice, attractive, well appointed and comfortable. Only three complaints on the rooms — the beds aren’t amazingly comfortable (though acceptable, and you get lots of pillows so can soften it up by lying on pillows) and the lighting in the room is poor, and the shower design (!). I turned on every darn light in the room (about 8 – 10 switches) and still only had what could best be described as mood lighting. I’m getting to the age where I need bifocals so the last thing I need is mood lighting when I’m trying to work on something.
So about the shower… it’s a beautiful tile walk-​in shower with glass doors. The glass door closest to the showerhead is fixed, and the showerhead doesn’t turn very well. So in order to turn on the shower, you have to either have arms as long as a basketball player’s legs, or you have to stand in front of the showerhead that laughs at you as it spits freezing cold water on you no matter how fast you shoved that handle up to the «warm» side. This, frankly, downgraded my review from 4 to 3 stars, given the pricepoint of this hotel (I paid $ 234 for last night’s room!).
I do really like that there’s a Starbucks on site, the staff at the bar was friendly and the bar food decent.

I attended a Holiday party at the new or fairly new Zilker Ballroom adjacent to the parking garage. It was pretty cool to park & walk right to this room directly from the garage without a long trek to the main hotel & lobby. The ballroom was nice with typical hotel chandeliers, open space, linen covered tables & stiff chairs — nothing surprising there.
The servers were really on the ball passing out mac n cheese balls and some fancy potato chip appetizer. Both appetizers were quite tasty. The rest of the food was pretty so-​so. There was a Mexican appetizer table with chips, salsa, guacamole, queso, tortillas & some kind of sliced meat. I didn’t try the meat, of course. The guacamole was nothing special, just average. The desserts were a big disappointment — quite average. I would have expected something more stellar from Hyatt Regency.
The bartenders were bland and not very friendly. Again, nothing special. Overall, I expected something more stellar from this brand. While it wasn’t a bad experience, it wasn’t anything to brag about or recommend. Just average.

Hyatt Regency Austin made it great. I arrived after 10PM and the front desk staff was energized and ready to serve. The guys behind the desk were having a great time, and they were very helpful. After a long day of travel (Austin airport had recently been under water) all I needed was a quick meal and bed. The team at the front gave me some coupons for the restaurant, and an amazing room overlooking lady bird lake, and a view of the city.
The hotel has great people and solid amenities. The gym is state of the art, and the equipment was clean. The restaurants had friendly staff, and tasty food. It’s an easy walk across the Congress street bridge to the downtown area. This is the same bridge from which the bats fly out at dusk. Quite a site.
Thanks team Hyatt

Needs updating. Stale and dated. Room we were upgraded to was newly renovated though.

I liked this hotel. My friends are in a band and they hotel hired them to provide live music for their guests. I have never seen a hotel do that. They went above and beyond to give a good space for the band to play. Its right next to the river and there is a place within a very short walk to rent boats and kayaks. Also the bridge were all the bats live is right there as well. The hotel is right in the middle of everything you could need and do. which is mostly tourist stuff, but lets face it, your reading a review about a hotel, its probably because your looking for a place to stay near touristy stuff.

Thanks to the updates– this place is my new favorite. The rooms are incredibly comfortable and inviting– they’ve paid attention to a lot of details.

Very impressed with everyone from front desk to housekeeping.
Super nice property in the perfect area where it’s all happening. Check out the bats by the bridge at dusk.
Right on the river with lots and lots to do.
I’d come back in a heartbeat.

Despite the renovations, we had a fantastic stay. We had a great view of the skyline and river. Lost power in the bathroom and no hot water the first morning but they fixed it quick and were super friendly. Even the maintenance people are happy and friendly. We can hear the construction during the day but can’t see it.
The buffet was a little pricey but a huge variety and very tasty. Love the omelet bar.
The pool was great and they even brought us Popsicles.
We got to see the bats fly both nights we stayed.
They must have lowered the rates because they were about $ 200 a night. We got an old room but it was very nice.

One night stay but boy oh boy I was excited to see some additional stuff they put in the room for free… Starbucks coffee!!! Yes they had Starbucks in the room, small makeup remover and nail polish remover. This is Hyatt that I checked in!!! I loved it. The room was very updated and nice. Will come back again.

The hotel is being updated. I was put in a new room and room was very nice. However very very noisy! Should not be charging people full rates with construction noise going on but they made a reasonable adjustments upon request.
Perfect location if visiting.

I like this hotel. I am in Austin Texas for the #wbencconf, my first time here and I am enjoying the town, the food and the room service #sisterhoodofprosperity. Thank you for a great stay.

Stayed here a few times now and the staff is consistently friendly. Love the available happy hour at 4pm and the best feature of this place is its location! $ 5 über ride to anywhere you want to be. Right on the lake next to river tours, hiking/​biking trail, and personal water craft rentals. If you’re going to stay here splurge and get a room with a patio, huge patios with wonderful views! The balconies on the top floor are nice but room for two or max three, nice view but not inviting for anything more than a glass of champagne. Oh, almost forgot about the pool. If you’ve stayed at other Hyatt regency properties and decried the pathetic pool or lack of a jacuzzi forget about your previous experience. The pool here is a good size (deep enough for a big guy to float); there is a nice jacuzzi too.

Nice joint this Hyatt… I came here for an industry conference and we thoroughly enjoyed our stay.
Rooms, (at least ours), were newly redecorated /​remodeled and most provided near epic views of the surrounding landscape, be it the downtown area, the river or the «hillsides».
The Bistro they have down on the second floor is decent, (that’s gonna be a separate review), employees are helpful as all FUC, and the bar area can get to rockin’ late in the evening. The hotel itself is a bit pricey for my tastes, (~$ 230 /​nite with tax), but I really didn’t mind as the company paid for it.
Close enough to the downtown area that if weather permits, one can walk to the festivities and enjoy all debauchery that can easily be found on Sixth street… But, after indulging in multiple libations, you should probably get a cab back. We saw one car driving the wrong way on a one way street…
Gripes here are both minor and few. First, the hotel bar doesn’t open for business until 2:00pm. WTF??? You’ve got a boatload of Bloody Mary wantin’, conference attendees, and you don’t open until 2:00pm? Something is seriously wrong with that math friends…
Also, taking the elevator early AM can be a real trip, at least for me it was.
Let’s just say one were to happen to partake excessively in aforementioned libations the night (s) before, (no, no, no, no, no… not me), AND takes an early morning ride in one of those damn things all groggy eyed. You WILL experience severe vertigo as it speeds it’s way to the hotel depths below. What a freakin’ trip!!! I felt like I was standing at a 45 degree angle the entire trip down from lucky floor 14. Good thing it had walls… So there, you have been warned!!!
Would definitely stay again… As long as the company pays!!!

I knew this place was under renovations and that was OK, I wanted to be on the river and the other hotels were booked. But for $ 400 a night, it should have more than a view. I think I was in a renovated room, they didn’t touch the bathroom and even the light switch in the bathroom was filthy and old looking. The bed was very uncomfortable and I woke to a very tight back. Room smelled of dirty feet. The breakfast buffet was just OK, I’ve had Holiday Inn Express just as good. Staff was all nice and pleasant, but its Austin, everyone is nice here. Internet that actually worked was $ 15, the free version was super slow.
Can’t beat the view!

I travel tons for work and actually helped setup an event here. The hotel is very loud since they allow bands to play during conferences! The food is very sub par. The sushi bar was alright but the banquet food is absolutely disgusting and very bland. I recommend to my boss we never book here again. The AV for the conference was awesome though. Then again we had a very small budget for av but the food quality was important
UPDATE: pretty sure i had bug bites from there rooms too

We were given a room here as part of a contest I won. This hotel is beautiful. Very new looking/​modern/​clean. The lobby was the 1^st thing we saw as we walked in. Not only was it huge, but it was very open.
Our check in was easy, and quite honestly the only time we dealt w/​any of the hotel staff except for check out.
Our room was on the 9^th floor, so up the elevator we went! Our room was spacious and clean. It felt much more comfortable than some other hotels I’ve been in. Our room faced the river so we had an AMAZING view of Austin & the famed bat bridge. In fact, while most people went down to one of their restaurant patios to watch the bats, we just stayed in our room.
While we did cab a couple places, this location was fairly walkable to downtown.
We did try Marker 10 for a drink, one of the better hotel bars wave been to. We also went to SWB for breakfast before our flight home (your average hotel buffet). We also utilized the business center on our floor, something I’m kind of ashamed to admit I’ve never done before, to print our boarding passes.
If I had the dough to spend, I’d stay here again.

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Overall, nice hotel and love that there’s a Starbucks downstairs. Came here last week for a company event and was pleased with the facilities, décor and food.
Stayed in room 1527 from 11÷10−11÷13, which had some maintenance issues that I reported both via a card to someone at the front desk and their survey:
— Alarm clock did not work (same issue at their San Antonio location). Followed instructions to hold button down and wait for beep to set alarm. There was no beep. I’ve used this model of alarm clock at other hotels in the past with no issues, but they really need to do away with these. They are not user friendly.
— Hyatt wifi was so weak that I had to use the ethernet in my room. However, the conf room wifi (HRA) worked well.
— In room phone did not work. No dial tone, no light, nothing.
Other than that, great stay and in a decent location.

Hotel prices for Austin were outrageous when we visited, so we went on Priceline to try our luck and got the Hyatt Regency for a fair (though still quite pricey). Here’s my take…
Pros:
— location: right in front of the lake and a few steps from Congress Bridge (which works well if you have kids eager to see some bats at night!)
— pool: small pool, but with a great view of the Austin skyline
— service: friendly and attentive. also like that they provided a few extra room amenities like yoga mats and hand weights
Cons:
— building construction: it’s not so much the noise or unsightly cranes, but the confusing lobby entry and parking situation
— location: it’s still a bit of a walk/​drive to the main drag and popular hangouts
— noise: there’s the construction, and there are the conventions, which can get pretty loud especially with the building layout
Overall, pros outweighed the cons and we enjoyed our stay here.