Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa and Marina

but what really makes this venue shine is their incredible team — they are the dream team of the wedding industry! Laine Thomas is outstanding. She doesn’t just handle site tours — she stays involved and supports her couples all the way through the planning and wedding day. Her professionalism, care, and genuine love for what she does are unmatched. Bruna and Tamara are also wonderful to work with, and the banquet staff — Joey, Brad, and Jose — consistently go above and beyond to make sure every detail is perfect. Every time I plan a wedding at Hyatt Mission Bay, I know it’s going to be a smooth, joyful, and beautiful experience thanks to this hardworking and gracious team. For couples looking for a venue with both stunning views and exceptional service, I can’t recommend the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay enough!

ience with Laine was nothing short of extraordinary—she and the Hyatt team were accommodating, professional, and a true joy to work with from start to finish. Their service and attention to detail exceeded our expectations, making our day truly unforgettable. Choosing Hyatt was one of the easiest and best decisions we made in planning our wedding.

nce. The price was amazing and the staff was so so generous. I’d definitely recommend choosing this venue!!

te with, and made us feel extremely welcomed and appreciated both prior to, and upon our arrival, welcoming us with wine and a cheese plate in our room, and giving us a personal tour of the hotel grounds. The hotel itself was beautiful and perfect for out of town guests, and we were given great rates for the block. All the staff we met was also extremely helpful, from the front desk staff, to the hospitality and housekeeping staff, and my one year old niece loves the stuffed pelican she was given! We will definitely stay at the Hyatt in the future, and would highly recommend it to anyone needing a place to stay in San Diego!

un days. The ceremony and reception were beautiful. Jammie was very helpful and professional. I would recommend the hotel and the staff to any bride planning a wedding in San Diego. Thank you Jammie.

choices. In the end we just wanted a place that was safe, not pushy, and fun for our family and friends. We moved our event from indoors to outdoors in the course of the 2020-2021 year and could not have been happier with the Hyatt staff. Thank you to a Jammie who was so flexible and inviting! (as well as Jordan, Stephani, Jenny). Highly recommend the beautiful Banyan Court and Lawn - it's amazing with the tree lights, ocean breeze, and market lights. The hotel was perfect for out-of-town guests and is very family friendly. Check out the waterslides and complimentary kayaking/paddle boarding.

be at ease. This is a beautiful hotel for a wedding and will recommend to anyone. May 26 2018 will forever live with us. Thank you

use it’s true! The Hyatt staff went above and beyond to ensure every detail of our wedding day was flawless and just as requested! Trust me, I had plenty of insane requests! Let’s talk about Jay Shapiro the coordinator through the Hyatt. She is one of the most AMAZING humans out there! Her passion to help her brides and grooms that are getting married at the Hyatt is unreal! She is dedicated, timely, efficient, knowledgeable at her job, patient, and accommodating. I could go on about her all day. She responded to 100s e-mails from me daily and she was always very prompt and never missed a detail! She was able to accommodate my every need which changed daily, or more like hourly as it got closer to the wedding day! She was so helpful to ensure our wedding vision came to life and she did everything in her power to provide only the best equipment, staff, and timelines for our event! She went above and beyond to watch our dog during the rehearsal lunch as we didn’t have anywhere to leave him. She checked in with us throughout every step and ensures all of our needs were met. If they weren’t she went above and beyond to meet them. She is easy to reach and her personality is absolutely charming! Such a pleasure to work with her during this process, she made it easy and as stress free as possible as she always responded to me in a timely manner. She even checked the weather for me just as frantically as I did as she knew how important it was to us to have the ceremony outside! She was always ready with a back up plan. She accommodated us and our families with earful check ins and late check outs for our convince! She did everything she could to make this an unforgettable wedding! The food at our wedding was delicious! Our guests can’t stop talking about it! Every course was a 5 star meal. The drinks at our open bar were also wonderful! Thank you hyatt staff and Jay for making our dream wedding a dream come true!

e better than we ever imagined. We are truly over the moon on how our wedding day turned out! Now we have a new reason to visit every year!

with us on timing issues and made sure we had everything and anything we needed. She was able to get us access to the marina for pictures. She went above and beyond to make sure we had a beautiful wedding. Their staff -servers and baquet captains for our cocktail hour and dinner were extremely nice and professional. I would definitely recommend the Hyatt Regency for a wedding venue

ext to it. During planning, when we could get a hold of Hillary, she was great. She was at times almost entirely unreachable and hard to get information out of though. I'd highly recommend when you meet with her, record your conversations so you can remember what was discussed. When meeting with a planner at the hotel, if you will be getting ready there, ask to see the room types you will be renting. Our ended up being really gross, so all of our fun bride getting ready photos have the gross hotel room in them! As far as what went wrong. The food! The food tasted fine, but was really cold. On top of being cold, the children didn't get fed until over an hour after the rest of the guests. Some guests got entirely skipped when it came to getting food and had to remind the staff constantly that they hadn't been served. Other comments, if you stay in the hotel before your wedding, make sure to pack some ear plugs. The seals are loud!

g about our ceremony site that had changed from the time of booking to the actual wedding day, and Hillary worked directly with my coordinator and I to ensure that we were happy with the changes. The only negative I have is the other staff that I worked with while Hillary was out on maternity leave was not as helpful. I think mainly they were not as experienced. Fortunately, Hillary was back in time for the wedding and everything went perfectly!! She even greeted us with champagne after our ceremony. Thank you Hyatt and Hillary for helping us put on the most perfect wedding!

at photo opportunities and ambience this is the place for you. The food was even better than at the tasting. So happy...thank you!

review the catering department first, then our experience at the resort. Catering: Hillary and Lauren were our catering contacts (mostly Hillary until more toward the end). They were wonderful people to work with, very accommodating, and promptly responded to emails and phone calls. Jennica was our contact for group reservations and she was also very easy to work with. I think everyone in that department deserves a raise, I don't know how they deal with neurotic brides-to-be and demanding wedding coordinators ;) The food at the wedding was amazing (particularly the crab cake appetizer and the blackened sea bass). Actually, the whole wedding was amazing. There were a lot of other key players and I did not see a whole lot behind the scenes (we also had a fantastic wedding coordinator, Geneene Thornton of Celebrations Event Planning), but the whole day was basically perfect. They all did a wonderful job, top notch! Resort: The front desk has issues. I will give them a break because it was the busy season (August), but still. We had favors that we wanted handed out to the guests upon check in, most of which didn't get handed out- even after we has our guests ASK for them. Hillary warned us that they might not be able to hand them out; however, I just don't understand why it was such a difficult task. They were all wrapped up, each with the guests name whose room it was booked under and a date of arrival. Most of the rooms weren't ready until 4pm ("check in time", still seems pretty late to me). A few guests complained of mold in their bathrooms. DESPITE ALL THIS, I enjoyed my VIP suite - it was gorgeous. Most of the rooms our guests had had a beautiful view. The pool area is nice & the pool bar has great food and drinks. The location is wonderful also, just a quick stroll and you can rent jet skis, paddle boards, and kayaks. Another nice little touch was when the staff at the Red Marlin (the house restaurant- amazing breakfast buffet, by the way!) recognized my husband and I the morning after our wedding and offered us complimentary mimosas. I will definitely stay at the Hyatt again (as long as it's in another VIP suite) :)

away during this whole process she was there for all of it! I was so thankful to have her in my corner! I told her the feel of what I wanted and she gave me the different options available at the hotel and we went from there! From the set up of tables and chairs to the place settings, her and the fantastic staff took care of all the details the day of my wedding!! I just brought a box of favors, toasting glasses, all the little details to the front desk a couple days before and they took care of it! They took such great care of not only my fiancé and I but our family's and all of our guests! The fantastic hotel staff, and Rocio really made my wedding exactly what I wanted. Beautiful and stress free!!

an excellent job. The cocktail hour was in the Cabana area, which was perfect to get a chance to see all our guests. We also had our rehersal dinner at the Red Marlin, food was excellent and the servers were professional and patient. So now for the misses. I understand for every event there are things that don't go quite right but some of these seemed like beginners mistakes, which for an establishment that has a reputation for doing many weddings was a little weird. First itemized cost sheets were very difficult to get and consistency with our contract. Every time we met with our Catering Manager it seemed like she forgot what we discussed the pervious time, even though she took notes. Also we were double charged for the rehersal dinner because the staff rang us up for 60 guests verses 45. Odd since we had an email confirming the number of heads and the area only physically sat 50 guests. We were reimbursed but it was a bit shocking to see an additional $1300 charge on your credit card 2 days after your wedding. Communication was a bit lacking. We thought we were being thorough but a few things didn't come across correctly. For example we asked to retain any extra wedding cake. We ended up with our entire 3 tier cake and only the sheet cake was served. Granted we had a cake eating party the next day but that was a bit of a bummer. Second we told the catering manager we have our own cake cutting kit and toasting glasses. Some reason she thought we bought toasting glasses for all the guests. Therefore our first speech had zero champange and for the second speech my two wedding coordinators were helping pour champange with the wait staff. There were times when the venue recovered some of their mishaps. We asked to have our dance floor on the grass. The dance floor that is provided by the hotel. We were told it shouldn't be a problem A couple months before the wedding our catering manager informed us they did a trial run of setting up the dance floor on the grass and it was not successful and that we had to find another vendor to supply the dance floor. I was livid, dance floors ranged from $700 up to $1100. Eventually the catering manager contacted our decorator to use their dance floor pad support for the hotels dance floor. We still had to pay $90 to rent the pad. Disaster averted. All in all we were both extremely happy with our wedding. We were just thrilled to say I Do to our best friend under a great baynon tree and dance the night away under the stars and market lights. We attribute this to having great friends be our wedding coordinators that were on top of each situation. This was one of the more pricy venues but they executed in ambience, food quality and staff service.

the day of, the Hyatt made sure all of our family was well taken care of - one of our nieces was sick the night before the wedding and they brought her crackers and ginger ale to help her tummy settle. It was very sweet. The space itself is very beautiful, the food was great - we received compliments re our appetizers and meals. The only reason I gave it four stars instead of 5 is because the night of the event I thought they were going to have their bar open until 1 and instead it was closed so our after party wasn't what I expected. But that was probably due to a miscommunication. All in all, I 100% recommend this location.

to work with from the beginning and her and Barb and the rest of the catering staff made it an easy and enjoyable planning process. Their packages are reasonable, and they accommodated to all of our requests! The food at our reception was INCREDIBLE! Not to mention the tasting beforehand was so much fun- we were treated like royalty. We stayed four nights, as well as our bridal party, and friends and family from out of town, and everyone felt it was a true luxury resort experience all four days. When we checked in, Hillary had sent a special card with cheese, fruits, and nuts to our rooms.We wish we could do it all over again! We'll definitely be visiting the Hyatt when we come to San Diego so we can relive the weekend.

ding was also very good. My one issue was that the catering manager seemed to lose interest in us after we paid. We had to tell her the same information over and over again, and it was difficult getting in touch with her after we signed our contract. With that being said we feel that we got what we wanted out of the venue and there were no major disasters the day of =)

moothly. I'm not too sure who to blame for some things. However, our violinists were supposed to be hooked up to the hotel sound system so that our guests could hear but they were not. Our food was so awesome at the tasting but at the wedding it was good but it didn't at all knock anyones socks off like the tasting did. No one made sure that our vows could be heard so guests were very disappointed. Our honeymoon suite was not ready until after the wedding around 10pm. With that being said, it turned out nice but could have been better if these things were fixed

s Brigid. Not only did I get along with her, she made me feel like they wanted and valued my business. After my initial walk through, she prepared countless cost estimates to help me fit in the ballroom I wanted at a price I could afford. When I was taking some time to decide between venues, she treated me to lunch, since she knew food was a priority to me. The food was great! I received many compliments from my guests on that. Beyond that the service I received was above and beyond. Any issues I had, which were few and far between, were resolved quickly. I also appreciated how flexible up to the final guarantee they were. I changed my mind several times and each time received a "no problem, we can do that." I love a place that works hard to make sure everything was right. I really feel that going with the Hyatt helped make my wedding extra special!

the food, the setting, and the hotel ammenities. Only complaints were from the guest rooms, check in was not prompt and some of the rooms were not properly maintained.

I loved working with her. She was always trying her hardest to give us exactly what we wanted and helping us with everything. It was the best experience a bride could have the whole time all the way to her wedding day!

th a cool cocktail hour in the outdoor Cabanas area space and then proceeded to the Banyan Court and Lawn for the actual reception and dinner. It's a perfect outdoor space, yet is still in a private area of the hotel lined with beautiful trees and greenery to give the outdoor, garden feel without feeling like you are on display for all the other hotel guests to see you and your wedding taking place. We worked with Hillary Ginsberg and she was great - very sweet and super helpful throughout the whole process. We received a ton of compliments from our guests on how tasty the food was, how beautiful the reception/decor was, and how nice the hotel and rooms were. It was the perfect setting for our outdoor fall wedding reception - with the sun setting over the bay in the background, then with the cool lighting effects from the market stringer lights, hanging lanterns and crystal chaneliers - definitely added a fun/dreamy effect. We also hosted a morning after brunch at the Red Marlin restaurant, which was a perfect end to an amazing weekend! The prices are a little high (definitely hotel prices), but we knew we really wanted this space and were able to make it work within our budget and I am so happy with how everything turned out. Overall, we were very happy hosting our event at the Hyatt and would definitely recommend the Hyatt and working with Hillary to anyone!

ary was a pleasure to work with and made planning very easy. I couldn't have been more pleased!

friendly and worked hard to make sure every detail was covered. They also worked with our budget, short time frame, and unique needs. Their starting price is high, but they are willing to make cuts here and there to work within your budget, especially when you have a smaller guest list like we did. I definitely recommend trying to work with them.

and not a lot of money to work with. We were married in the center garden which was stunning! It looks small but they were able to seat 180 people in there and it looked fantastic. One really cool part about getting married in that spot was that I could see the set up and people arriving from my Bridal Suite in the tower above. We had a cocktail hour outside with heaters then the party began!! We had our Reception in the huge white tent which was awesome!! We did not want a sit down dinner or very many tables with chairs as we really wanted it to have a dance party feel and Hillary pulled this all of top notch. The buffet was excellent the set up was fantastic and everyone had a fabulous time. It was truly the wedding of my dreams!!! Such a beautiful property and the rooms were great. I had looked at MANY other venues in the San Diego area and by far this was the best in all areas.

beautiful window overlooking the bay.;They are expensive and not willing to work with you with the cost of the rooms. I would not recommend having a large number of room rates at the hotel. Have your guests find deals on their own.