Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center

Taylor Smith8 months ago

4/5

Staff were INCREDIBLE! I was having tons of issues with my company credit card, and they helped me sort it out all while being patient and friendly. The rooms are clean, comfortable, and have blackout curtains. BUT! They also come equipped with some of the most hilariously bizarre features I’ve ever seen. The light above the toilet will turn off automatically after about a minute unless you are moving a lot. Like walking around moving. So if you are sitting on the can, be prepared for the lights to just go out on you. The bathroom also has no door. The shower door is opaque to about 5 ft, but above that it is entirely transparent. I was sharing a room with a coworker, and it was weird not having any privacy in the shower. The toilet is walled off with a door, but the wall and door are only mostly opaque. So you can still see outlines and tell whether the person in there is doing #1 or #2. The beds also all have lights at the base that are ridiculously motion sensitive (unlike the toilet light). As soon as you step out of bed. They light up the room supposedly to guide you around. However, humans spent millions of years developing the whole rods and cones setup in our eyes to deal with this exact issue, and nature does it much better than Hyatt. The light I only enough to see around the bed area, and by the time you have made it to the bathroom, it’s dark and you can’t see the light switch because the beds just killed your night vision. It was ridiculous. This was not unique to my room. I brought this up at a banquet in the convention center and everyone else had noticed the exact same thing. We all laughed a ton about how ridiculous the whole setup was. That being said, I still had a good experience. It’s just funny how I’m their efforts to make the hotel modern they made it much less functional.