Dont get me wrong, an excellent hotel, but compared to my stay one year ago, (just after Corona was lifted) I now feel that the lounge is very much overcrowded (with waiting times or very bad seats in the back) and the new red wine is a great disappointment, the new flowerly ‘Cote de Rhone for less than 10 Euro. for a Grand Hyatt lounge? Last year this was better managed with 2 different slots of the evening cocktails, leaving room for everyone. In addition, it seems that some quest have priority with sitting every day on the same best corner seat with views over the whole harbor, every day. The same quest in question was already last year occupying the same seat.
Also whilst the food choice is fine, it is repetitive (same ham, same salami) for breakfast and cocktails hours. So more variety could be provided for one of the so call best hotel club in HKG. Whilst surely not bad (still good Champagne), it did not meet my expectation from last year,
The Manager of the lounge is very friendly and makes impossible possible, in the end we had a very nice table, but overall I think there are just too many quests for the size of the lounge that everybody has an excellent table, without priorities to taken places during the whole stay.
For the room, the new water machine is weird. It makes noise and bright light during night, so I had to cover it with a towel. I think nobody tried so far to make tea with the teapot provided in the room and the water machine. You can not place the teapot under the machine, you really need to hold the teapot in a 90degree position during the whole time you pour the hot water into it. Weird.
Also check out in the lounge was cold, but professional. Just charged the credit card etc, but no questions like...how was your stay, did you like it? etc.
With the opening of so many new hotel in HKG, like nearby Ritz Carlton, The Rosewood, or the great 4 Season there is a lot of choice and competition on this price tag.