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| - I was here for an event on the conference level - so this is more about the hotel in general and about the actual rooms and typical experience.
Right in the core of downtown the Hyatt has a decent location, especially if you're apt for taking in all the touristy sights. It's walking distance to Queen Street for shopping and lots of good food (if you go past spadina), to clubs and nightlife, and about 5-10 min walk from the subway. As for restaurants, I don't really recommend that strip of restaurants right in front and urge you to go more north west to the Queen street area. Although, Luma and O&B Canteen at the TIFF Building right beside is recommended.
The conference rooms here were of a nice size, good for having various events going on at one time. They also can open up the walls to make it all one big room, or many small ones. Water was always provided in the 3 small rooms we had to present it, but although someone was giving us empty glasses (way more than we needed) no one seemed to clean up the presentation area in the front and always has garbage on there. Maybe that's the organizers responsibility.
Good sound and projector setup. Everything went smoothly, except access to Internet. It was free for guests out side the room, but once inside the room, the connection is gone and you have to login to a new wifi network that requires a password. It was a little shock, as you assume things are working just steps outside. We also didn't have a passcode, so couldn't show out presentation in its entirety because of that.
Parking is available downstairs, and it's not completely unreasonable for downtown. It's $12 for the entire day, and $6 on weekday evenings.
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