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The Hyatt Regency McCormick Place is a nice convention hotel located on the South Loop that has over 1200 rooms. The thing is massive and primarily serves convention attendees. Not an area I’m really all that familiar with prior to this stay, and personally, if you’re in town for tourism, I’d stay closer to Mag Mile ( we’ve reviewed several hotels in that area ). Personally I’d choose the Thompson Chicago or either of the Hyatt Centric hotels within the Hyatt brand, and the Intercontinental and Ritz are great too. I’d look further north before staying this far south if you’re wanting to see sites. If you’re here for an even at Solider field…ideal.
Solider Field is nearby
Stay Details:
- Category 4 – 12k to 18k points
- Status: Explorist at the time of our stay
- Upgrade: Yes, to a massive Junior Suite or what they called an Executive Suite
Location
You are much further south than I would ever pick I were purely visiting the city for tourism; however, this is a massive convention hotel in the South Loop. We were there to visit family who were attending a convention at the hotel. I’d never really walked around Solider field, or the river walks near it, but took it as an opportunity, and it was so cool!
First Impression
A lot of conference attendees are all milling about from various conferences that are going on at McCormick Place which is across the road from the hotel. It’s a large convention hotel, tho quite new, and I appreciated the Starbucks on the main level lol.
Market on the main level
Room – Executive suite
Monster room with wrap around views. Tons of space and we were traveling with our dog Maggie who loved sniffing every single corner of the room lol.
View from the room
Gym
Large gym, quite nice.
Itty bittie pool for the size of the hotel
Overall
Probably wouldn’t be coming back here unless I was seeing a show or attending a football game at Soldier.
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