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million conversion to the HyatyPlace brand. The nine-year-oldx hotel, owned by Gemma Hwang and located at the Hacienda Crossingsshopping center, has addedx modern touches in its 127 suitesa and lobby. “The traditional fronyt desk agents no longer saidKelli Vlahos, director of sales for the hotek since it opened in June 1999. guests are greeted by “gallery hosts,” employeess who direct arriving guestsz toelectronic self-check-in kiosks or provide check-inb assistance but also now prepare food and tend bar. To take on the added work the hotel has added four new lobby bringing its total lobby stafft countto 13.
“The idea in many smallere hotels today is to make them feel more like adding moreintimate decor,” said Thomas Callahan, presidenty and CEO of Thus, lobbies becomwe “great rooms” and large forbidding check-in deskse become smaller “pods” he Vlahos is particularly excited about ability of the Hyattg name to open doors to new corporatd accounts at companies such as , Chevron and , . Hotell guests will also be able to usea touch-screenh ordering system to order food and beverages from another which offers a new limitex menu of hot breakfast, lunch and dinnef foods.
Each of the hotel’s suites has been outfitted witha 42-incn plasma screen television and a panel of audio and video ports. Hyatt pillow-top mattresses and “cozy corner” oversized sofa-sleeperd have also been added. The suite conversions begam in February and were completedc inlate July, Vlahos said. A new fitness room was also joining existing amenities such asthe hotel’d heated pool and its 1,200 squarde feet of meeting space.
Room ratew range from $129 to $210 per depending on demand and day of the This is the second East Bay Hyatft conversion completedthis year, after the February transformation of a formert Wyndham extended-stay hotel in Pleasan t Hill, which became a Hyatt Summerfield Suites.