The iconic Park Hyatt Tokyo is set to reopen on December 9 after over a year of closure for renovations. Reservations can now be made on the Hyatt website.
These renovations coincide with the hotel’s 30th anniversary. Although popular, the hotel was beginning to show its age and needed a refresh.
Let’s take a look at booking and the details of the new rooms.
Booking
This Park Hyatt went up from a category 7 to an 8 earlier this year. This means that points bookings will cost 35,000 during off-peak, 40,000 during standard, and 45,000 points during peak periods.
January and February are the only months with off-peak bookings among the months that can be reserved at this time.
There were plenty more January points availability when I checked last night, immediately after the hotel opened up reservations. But as you can see in the image above, they got taken pretty quickly. December is now full as well.
At this time, there is still a good amount of availability for March and after. However, they’re all designated as standard and peak periods, requiring 40,000 or 45,000 points a night for a standard-level room.
Cash rates are on the high end. The lowest I could find was in January and February in the high $700s:
However, many other times of the year will have rates well over $1,000 a night. I know the category 8 designation might feel steep, but you will still get incredible value for booking points here.
For example, redeeming 40,000 points on a night where the cash rate is $1,000 is a value of 2.5 cents per point. That’s one of the more solid deals in the World of Hyatt program, considering they’re generally valued at around 1.8 cents per point on average.
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A Look Inside
After these renovations, the Park Hyatt Tokyo includes 171 guestrooms with 29 suites.
Standard-level rooms measure about 484 square feet, or 45 square meters. Deluxe and corner rooms are fairly larger, at about 600 to 700 square feet, or 55 to 65 square meters. As you can see, the rooms have a lighter, fairly generic theme.
Most suites measure about 915 to 1,500 square feet, or 85 to 140 square meters, with the most premium of suites measuring over 2,000 and 3,000 square feet, or 220 to 290 square feet.
My understanding is that this Park Hyatt mostly tried to maintain the look and vibe of the property, particularly with the New York Bar, as the hotel was a popular destination thanks to scenes from the movie Lost in Translation.
Bottom Line
The Park Hyatt Tokyo will reopen on Tuesday, Dec. 9, and reservations are now available. Cash rates are quite steep as expected, but this is a good opportunity to get incredible value out of your World of Hyatt points. I’ll also be interested to hear the feedback on the rooms once the hotel reopens, which appear to have a lighter theme and vibe based on the initial photos.
All photos by Hyatt.
