I recently stayed at the Hyatt Centric Kanazawa, and Hyatt House Kanazawa for about a month and here are my quick thoughts.
To be honest, they are both excellent properties with world-class hospitality and attention to detail. They really deserve their own articles that I’m sure you can find plenty of those from the professional travel websites.
I’m going to focus more on my own personal experience.
It all started with the decision to go to Kanazawa, Japan, in Ishikawa, Prefecture.
We started off at the Hyatt Centric, which is one of only two currently in Japan. The Hotel concept is to serve as a base point to go explore the surroundings and this location doesn’t disappoint.
The building is brand new and huge. It’s also pretty new, because it still shows an open lot as of now on Google maps.
Both Hyatt Centric and Hyatt House share the same building. Parking is right underneath, and 800 yen on weekdays and 1000 yen on weekends. It’s worth noting that the parking lot fills up quickly especially on weekends, so come back early if you don’t wanna park in the larger parking lot around the corner. Both hotels and the adjoining shopping complex Crossroads have direct access from the parking lot as well so it’s very convenient especially when you’re coming back with lots of bags.
After seeing about properties for about a month, I saw several extended stay customers go back-and-forth between the hotels and the staff are totally used to it. Not all the customers, but I saw some of the staff work both hotels as well.
Here are some pics of our rooms. Note that I included a picture of a king bedroom, as well as the twin room. Being Globalist members, we were given room upgrades to the twin deluxe, but opted for the king room, city view, one time for the awesome fireworks show. I included those images just for comparison.