Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa

of two of my friend's weddings that I was involved with, so I was very familiar with the venue. They had recently renovated their ballroom at the end of last year, so it has been nicely updated from the last time I was there years ago but they kept their wonderful chandeliers. Vy was the event manager we worked with from the hotel and she was very helpful, answering all of our questions and worked with us when we accidentally missed a payment. Besides the rennovations, the other thing that most my vendors brought up when I mentioned the venue was how good the food was. In fact, that was one of the main things told to me as I talked to guests, and my parents said that was also mentioned in their own conversations with people. (And they box up some meals for the couple so you don't get to miss out on the food yourself!) The staff was friendly and professional, not just the team at the reception, but from the valet, to the front desk, and bellhop, they did what they could to make us feel welcomed. However, for full disclosure, I do have to mention that the their parking lot has some tight turns and some of the spaces are hard to get in and out of, and I did recommend to my guests that they valet park rather than trying to park their cars themselves (I was covering parking.)

able. Our initial coordination with Michele was great, clear details and helped us decide on the correct packages. Our primary coordinator, Vy, everything went amazingly smoothly from beginning to end. Vy was with us the whole way through, from helping us organize our tables, to helping us decide the catering menu, to checking in and ensuring that every single possible detail was accounted for, our wedding was a great success thanks in very large part to the effort that Vy put into the event and we are forever grateful. Outside of that, we stayed in one of the high floor suites and the views were just stunning, definitely one of the nicest hotels we've ever stayed in. We hosted our ceremony on the Na Lea Terrace and it was so beautiful! Great views of the beach without having a ton of sand everywhere, and not overly loud from the street and folks across the street. We hosted our reception in the Makai Ballroom and it was really great! The staff was perfect, super kind and checked in with all our guests constantly, and they definitely went the extra mile to ensure that my wife and I were comfortable, going so far as to ensure we had meals ready at our table so we could quickly eat before checking in with our guests. They even boxed extra meals for us so that we could ensure we got to try all the food! The food and drinks were super good! All our guests were very happy with the meals and still talk about it today. Overall such a wonderful experience having our wedding at the Hyatt Regency and I would absolutely recommend them any time, for all events or just for a vacation stay.

but I decided to check out Hyatt anyways. The Na Lea Terrace has a beautiful view of the ocean and the ballroom is huge (accommodates up to ~300 people)! Not only were we able to do a tour of the venue but we happened to go during the same day they had a buffet tasting. The food was absolutely delicious and the service was spot on (this was true for the day of the event as well!) Long story short, the Hyatt Regency Waikiki shot to the top of my list! After locking down the venue, Michele and Vy was always quick to respond to any questions regarding what kinds of items I can bring in and suggestions on how to make set-up as easy as possible. The hotel staff in general were also amazing. Our entire stay was relaxing and stress free! My wedding day was truly magical and I am so happy that I chose to get married at Hyatt Regency!

ng changing they were able to help us have such an amazing time. The wedding was even better than I envisioned it. They even provided a list of vendors for music, flowers, cakes etc. Can't thank them enough for this!

She is so incredibly organized and made the entire experience so amazing. I sent her a million emails and she always promptly responded and was very accomodating for all my requests. The food was delicious and I couldnt believe how many compliments I got on the reception. The only thing I wasnt crazy about was the price of their guest rooms. They are pretty expensive for not being very upgraded. I did have an amazing ocean view though from the 29th floor. Overall, I wouldnt change a thing and would work with the Hyatt anytime!

my wedding. The banquet staff is wonderful! I would highly recommend the Hyatt as a wedding venue.

zy requests. The hotel has a location for outdoor marriages on a terrace overlooking the ocean which is just gorgeous and a ballroom big enough to fit our huge wedding with over 300 guests. We were originally looking at having over 400 guests and it was one of few locations in Hawaii that could accomodate this. The staff is super friendly and helfpul as well. The food is amazing and they give you so much food for what you pay. Defintiely no one left hungy from our wedding. The hotel also provides comps to the bride and groom based on how much money you spend on the wedding. This was a great way to save money along the way. We love the Hyatt so much that we are already planning to use them for another function. If you want to make sure your wedding goes exactly as you planned I highly recommend using the Hyatt as your venue. The attention to detail they take is amazing and the staff on the day off even helped give us instructions on what to do for the cake cutting because we didn't know exactly how it should be performed. I honestly can't say enough good things about our experience at the Hyatt.

above and beyond to help us. She made sure our every need was met and was very quick to respond to all correspondence. She truly was an absolute joy to work with!! The following is in no way a reflection of Michele, but rather the craziness at the hotel during our wedding weekend... We did experience some problems prior to the wedding. Long story short, the hotel was 100% capacity and we were supposed to have 2 rooms - 1 suite & 1 standard (Groom's) room. The hotel did something funny with our reservations and ended up not booking the groom's room separately. The explanation given still doesn't make sense. Fortunately they found a room for us but advised that we could not go on the patio as repairs were being done. We thought no big deal, we can work with that. Only when we went to the room we saw black tape unevenly lining the middle of the patio door, scaffolding outside of the window & a little wooden stick keeping you from being able to open the door. Naturally we brought this to Michele's attention as video & pictures would be taken in the room. She did everything in her power to assist us, but it was out of her control. Fortunately my sister had booked a room so the guys used her room for the pre-wedding video & pictures. Now a few hours before the groom's room incident my sister checked into her room (after the check-in time), it wasn't ready so they said they were going to find her a better room. Well, the room they gave her had not been cleaned. There were beer bottles around the room and in the fridge and chips on the bed/table. It was an unpleasant surprise. She cleaned up most of it and called housekeeping to let them know her had not been cleaned. She had them clean what she could not. Needless to say she did not leave them a tip. Despite these unfortunate events, our wedding was perfect. The food was fabulous, the venue was beautiful and the banquet staff were great! I would still recommend anyone getting married to consider the Hyatt.

n the white aisle runner. The reception was across the street in one of the ballrooms, and that too was amazing. Great space, great food, great service. Our only problem was in some of the details in the bill, but we're currently working those out. But our wedding was perfect there, and I recommend this venue!

bright. Our guest were using our fans to block the sun. :/ They block off the ceremony site from the pool but you will have a lot of on-lookers. The cocktail hour is usual held across the street. It is basically in a hallway. That is not what we had in mind for a Hawaiian wedding. We chose to move it next to the ceremony site. They did allow that but told us that we had to spend $3,000 in the 50 minutes for cocktail hour because we were renting out part of the restaurant. Each item of food was $5.50. I thought that was ridiculous!! I mean one piece of shrimp was $5.50! We ordered the sliders and asked them to cut them in half so that we could allow more guest to try them, unfortunately they forgot on the day of the wedding. The ballroom looks like every other ballroom. Nothing special. We had cupcakes instead of a cake and they still charged us a $1.00 per guest. They didn't even have to deliever the cupcakes to the guest. We allowed them to choose because of all the flavors. The Hyatt is very strict with having all of your vendors out of the room by 11:30pm (that is in the contract), your wedding has to end at 11:00pm. We went a few minutes over (3 or 4) and they were threatening to charge us $500 for every half hour. We spent over $30,000 at the Hyatt, not including all the rooms we booked for the out of state guest and buying drinks at their swim bar, and they could'nt even cut us some slack. The represenative who was telling us he was going to charge us was very rude. If I had to do it all over again, I would have chose a different venue.

ittle to narrow to navigate. But the hotel does offer discounted rates for valet parking!

view was amazing. The food great and the staff was friendly and helpful. It wasn't as expensive as we thought it was going to be which was a plus. We're thinking about going again in the future.

eautiful. The staff for the reception was great and on top of everything. The night was perfect and thanks to the Hyatt Waikiki team for making our day so special.

was VERY disappointed since I had really wanted to have an outdoor reception. However, the catering manager went out of her way to help us 1. find an alternative venue 2. make up for the issue at hand. The day of, we didn't have to worry about anything and were treated like royalty. All of our guests LOVED the service and food and wouldn't stop raving about it.

ved responses saying that she was out of the office returning later that week. We're really glad we had our wedding there as the hotel had many great spots for picture taking and they provided top notch service from the valet/bell services to the banquet staff. They definitely catered to all of our needs and we totally enjoyed our comp PH suite! There's nothing they can't do. We saw a 360 ceremony set up from an expo they did in the past and they recreated it for us as well as the wedding cake they made us was one of my fave things that night. LOVED IT!! Not to mention it was very moist and tasted great!!

some! The Hyatt made us feel so special and made our wedding day the best ever!

lobster, our guests seemed really happy and full! the staff was great to work with, especially michele. She never got irritated with my many many questions; rather, she was super helpful and offered lots of advice. I didn't have my ceremony at the Hyatt, but I did get ready in their suite. i thought it was beautiful, but when we left, the bellhop said that the other suites were renovated and looked even better! weddings are ridiculously expensive, but i do think that it was a decent deal for what we got. the food was great quality and the ballroom was really pretty.

e lucky if we were to have our wedding at their hotel. The food was to-die-for! The Garlic Chicken was grinds and the executive chef was really helpful with our menu! The Red Velvet wedding Cake was the best I've had (it was a special request that they gladly accomodated), and the chocolate lovin' spoon cake was talked about for weeks after the wedding! Our only problem was that the parking was kind of hard for the guests. The valet line was backed up as well as the line to get into the parking structure.