One of the best-located hotels on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls was historically the Embassy Suites by Hilton Niagara Falls Fallsview. The problem was that the rooms were old and tired, with the property getting middling reviews from people staying there.
Well, there’s good news on that front. The hotel has undergone a refurbishment and is now the Hyatt Regency Niagara Falls Fallsview. It opened for stays starting today and—best of all—some Fallsview suites are bookable with points.
Fallsview rooms at all hotels in the area tend to be extremely expensive. My wife and I managed to get a decent deal at the Hilton there about a decade ago and having that view really made our stay. We’d paid cash at the time, so it’s awesome that a similar experience can now be gained when redeeming World of Hyatt points.
The Hyatt Regency Niagara Falls Fallsview is a category 5 property which means that it currently costs 17,000, 20,000, or 23,000 points per night for a standard room depending on if it’s at off-peak, standard, or peak pricing respectively. If you’d rather book a standard suite and don’t have a Suite Upgrade Award to redeem, you’re looking at 29,000, 32,000, or 35,000 points per night respectively.
Bear in mind that Hyatt will be updating its award pricing at the end of May (see this post for more details). That means a category 5 standard room will cost anything from 15,000-35,000 points per night, while a standard suite will run from 27,000-47,000 points per night. Given its prime location and likely popularity, I wouldn’t be surprised if this hotel skews towards the upper end of those pricing bands, so it might be best to book a stay there ASAP if you’re interested. If the pricing for your dates happens to reduce under the new pricing, Hyatt will automatically refund the difference, so there’s not really any risk provided the hotel doesn’t have a punitive cancellation policy for awards (which it doesn’t judging by the searches I ran; 72 hours seems to be their policy).
If you’re looking to cram as many people into a room as possible, this hotel has some great options. For example, a 3 queen bed, 2 room suite is bookable as a standard room rather than as a standard suite. This appears under the ‘Suites’ tab when running searches for stays booked with points, but it does have standard room pricing. Being able to accommodate up to six people at standard pricing is awesome.
The slight downside is that, based on my searches, it’s not possible to book standard rooms that have a view of Niagara Falls with points. Instead, it only seems to be possible to book Fallsview rooms with points when booking a standard or premium suite. That makes it more expensive points-wise unless you have a Suite Upgrade Award earned via a World of Hyatt Milestone Reward. The good thing is that standard suites include a two room suite with two king beds, so you can accommodate four people in one of these suites. There’s also a Fallsview premium suite that can accommodate up to six people, but premium suites are more expensive points-wise and they’re not eligible for Suite Upgrade Awards.
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I stay at the nearby Doubletree at times since it triggers the Aspire resort credit so that’d probably be a better use of a stay at Niagara Falls assuming you have that card. This seems like a bad value for cat 5, especially since some good hotels in Toronto are a cat 4, and double especially if none of the fallsviews rooms are bookable with points!
A bit sad — but perhaps not surprising — that this is a Catagory 5 hotel. Canadian Hyatts are usually cheaper than US ones, given that US hotel prices are among the highest in the world. I’ve been to Niagara Falls a few times over the years and it’s a worthwhile sight, but I don’t think I’d pay 20,000 points for the privilege of staying at the Hyatt, especially since I wouldn’t like my odds of getting a view room even as a Globalist.
Weird because I stayed there once and still continuously get emails from the Embassy Suites Fallsview
This is so discouraging. A hotel should not be allowed to convert from Embassy Suites to Hyatt’s flagship brand without undergoing a significant floor-to-ceiling renovation. I could see Hyatt Place but NOT Hyatt Regency.
When I saw the picture I thought it was AI-generated and it was an April Fools joke