Last month, in conjunction with Hyatt Resorts’ Best of All Worlds Challenge on Facebook, I told you about my personal favorite Hyatt Resort, the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek. I admire this property so much, I actually spent my 40th birthday there last year. My good friend Kristina also spent her 40th birthday last year at a Hyatt Resort that is slightly further afield from our Colorado homes: the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa. In fact, she and her husband Jim are no strangers to this fabulous property in Poipu: they spent Jim’s 40th birthday there, as well, three years ago.
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa
I asked Kristina why she’d return twice to the same expensive resort in Hawaii within just a few years, and she said, “So many reasons!” So I asked her for a few highlights of the Grand Hyatt Kauai. In her words:
- I loved, loved, loved, just walking around the property outside at night. They do a little ceremony to light all of the torches-it is gorgeous. There are lots of places to sit near the ocean and just listen and watch. There is also a lot of entertainment… we were very content just to hang around the hotel on our last trip.
Kristina & Jim amid the pretty, lush gardens at Poipu's Grand Hyatt Kauai
- Loved the pool. It has waterslides-and lazy river, there is a lagoon, and adult pool. We rented the same two cabanas all week (highly recommend), so it was fun to just hang in the cabana on the ocean, than run over to the pool, or the lagoon-the food and cocktails were great, and the servers were very quick (we never felt like we were looking for a server to get us a drink-they were always just there).
- The lobby is gorgeous.
- Loved the sushi served at the Library on certain nights. It has a great outside intimate patio with an incredible view.
- The staff is very friendly.
- The spa is very mellow and calm. Loved that it’s all outdoors. We, believe it or not, went to the fitness center every a.m. They had great equipment, and it never seemed too crowded. I took a couple aerobic classes too, that kicked my butt!
Well, with that hearty endorsement, I’m ready to stay at the Grand Hyatt Kauai! I’ve been to Kauai twice, and would absolutely love to spend more time in the sunny, southern area of Poipu, particularly at the Grand Hyatt Kauai.
Where would you go if you could visit any Hyatt Resort in the world? Just tell me in the comments below and you can win 66,000 Gold Passport points: enough to stay at any worldwide Hyatt Resort for three nights! Pretty, cool, huh?
Check out the Hyatt Resorts website, where you can browse by style of vacation (mountain, beach, spa, etc.) or geographic location. You can enter daily through August 31 at 6 p.m. PDT; I don’t mind if you tell me the same resort over and over again! Or you can select different ones for each entry (again, no more than one entry a day). I’ll announce the winner — selected via comment number generated by Random.org — on Winning Wednesday, September 1. No immediate family members of The Vacation Gals are eligible.
And if you’d like to increase your chances to win free nights at Hyatt Resorts, hop on over to the Hyatt Resorts Facebook page and enter the current Best of All Worlds Challenge. With that promotion, you upload your celebratory vacation photos by August 23 to win 44,000 Gold Passport points. Then tag your photos once they’re on the Hyatt Resorts Fan Page, for a chance to win even more points that can be used toward free hotel stays.
Thanks to Hyatt Resorts for providing me with one night’s complimentary stay at any property worldwide. I look forward to redeeming my night!
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort =)
Hyatt Regency Aruba looks fab!
I agree – Park Hyatt Beaver Creek
Hyatt in Orlando for a weekend for the wife and I
I’d love to have a few nights at the Hyatt in Crystal City, VA.
I would love to stay at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa.
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I like the Hyatt Hill country resort in San Antonio
I would visit the Hyatt Regency Cancun. Now that I’ve seen the photos, I will have to go there someday. It’s so beautiful!
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort
The Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort would be a total blast!
I would love to go to the Key West Hyatt, thanks!
Still would love some nights at the Hyatt in Cancun!
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Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa.
I’d like to check out the Maui Resort and Spa.
Hyatt Regency Aruba
I would love to stay at the Hyatt Regency Kathmandu – what an adventure!
I wouldn’t mind going to the Hyatt Resort in San Diego
8/30
We might use it at The Hyatt Lodge at McDonald’s Campus, the Park Hyatt Chicago, the Hyatt Lisle or the Hyatt Regency Chicago
The Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort and Spa looks wonderful!
I need to go to Hyatt Place Orlando/Universal .
If I visit NYC, I might use it at the Andaz Wall Street since Andaz is a part of the Hyatt family of hotels
Last day to enter! Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort please!
Hyatt Regency Aruba
Coconut point please!
Me too Coconut point =)
Pary Hyatt Beaver Creek
We’d be going to Philadelaphia in november
A staycation here in Orlando for the kids and my wife <3
We love Hyatt hotels. We travel a lot with my kids sports so this would be great! We have been to Florida, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Missouri and this year if they make the finals we will be headed to Vegas!
Would love the Hyatt Regency in Cancun
I’d love to stay in the Hyatt Regency in Kiev!
oh, love to stay at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa
I would love to get some services at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa.
Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa
My kids say the Hyatt Place Orlando/Universal .
I like the looks of the Hyatt Key West Resort and Spas. I’ve always wanted to go to Key West! Thanks so much!
The Hyatt Regency Thessaloniki, Greece, would be a marvelous place for a vacation.
Probably the San Antonio Hyatt near Sea World!
I’d take my sweetie on a super secret get-a-way to Grand Hyatt Kauai. Only because you said it rocks.
I love to win this for my newly retired husbband
I would love to visit the Curacao resort!
8/31 entry- I’d love to go to the Hyatt Clearwater in Clearwater, FL.
I would go to Mrtyle beach for the weekend
I would love to visit the Hyatt Regency Cancun
I’d escape to the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa!
The Hyatt Regency Scottsdale looks like a great resort. What an amazing golf course!
I think I’d go to New York City!
I guess it’s my last chance to try to go to the Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort & Casino
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort seems great!
I would love to go to the Hyatt Regency Kyoto in Japan. Never been to Japan and would love to check it off the list!
I’d love to go to the Grand Hyatt Bali!
I would love to go to the Hyatt Regency Kyoto in Japan. I have a friend who went and had a blast… Would love and appreciate the opportunity.
The Hyatt Regency in Orlando would be very nice for a stay.
I’ve been planning a surf trip to Bali.. and looking at that Bali Hyatt over there.. yes please! Like heaven!
Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress is cool too. Would love to visit Orlando and Disneyland
Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort is the best!
Hyatt Regency Scottsdale in Scottsdale, AZ would be great
Maui Resort and Spa.
I would absolutely LOVE to stay at the Park Hyatt Dubai in the United Arab Emirates! Thank you for the opportunity to win this great prize!
The Hyatt Regency, Katmandu, Nepal =)
Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa
Oh defiinitley Hawaii. Have wanted to go there my whole life. Thank you. Have a nice day!
After just seeing “Eat, Pray, Love” I would love to go to the Grand Hyatt Bali. But we would more realistically go to, Park Hyatt Aviara in Carslbad.
I need a weekend at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort
Hyatt Regency Hua Hin sounds good to me! Thanks!
Hyatt Regency in Cancun…always have to visit Cancun to see my husband’s family, and it’d be great to spend a couple of nights in a nice hotel!
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I’d like to visit the Hyatt in Sydney