The Hyatt Centric Las Olas in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, isn’t inside strolling distance of the seaside (until you’re actually decided). However don’t let that maintain you from staying right here. For those who’re planning on spending time exploring town, it’s exhausting to beat the lodge’s location and facilities, and the service is nice.
Situated within the coronary heart of town’s fashionable Las Olas neighborhood, the lodge is about three miles from the seaside — but it surely’s near a number of bars, eating places and museums. You even have quick access to the Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale, a paved walkway alongside town’s New River that takes you previous a number of parks, eating places and retailers. Whereas rooms can run north of $500 per evening in peak season, you’ll find them beginning at about $150 in off-peak months.
I used to be hosted by the Hyatt Centric Las Olas, which coated my meals and room. However this overview is my very own opinion and has not been influenced by the lodge.
Bookable with Hyatt factors
Hyatt Centric Las Olas is a Class 5 Hyatt lodge, so a keep in a regular room will price you 15,000 to 35,000 Hyatt factors per evening.
There are conditions the place paying with factors would make extra sense, although. The very best fee I noticed was $558 per evening. For those who paid 35,000 factors, you’d get roughly 1.6 cents per level, a good worth. Nonetheless, different Hyatt properties supply a lot greater redemption values.
One other perk of paying with factors: Resort charges are waived on Hyatt properties when reserving with factors. Meaning you’ll be able to skip the $30-per-night each day vacation spot payment and nonetheless get the perks it is speculated to cowl, equivalent to limitless bicycle leases.
Each single interplay I had with the workers was optimistic. The bartenders and restaurant servers had been prepared to go above and past to assist visitors (shoutout to the bartender who provided to froth oat milk for my morning espresso). And the entrance desk was extraordinarily useful. I unintentionally left my bank card on the pool snack bar and obtained a name from the entrance desk earlier than I even had time to search for it.
I usually don’t touch upon a lodge’s service if my keep was coated, as a result of it may be exhausting to inform whether or not I am getting the identical remedy as each different visitor. However right here, the workers was attentive once I wanted assist, however not overbearing — and I noticed different visitors getting equally good remedy. A number of evaluations on Tripadvisor additionally touch upon the superb service, so I really feel assured visitors could have the identical expertise I did.
The room design isn’t notably distinctive, however it’s spacious and fashionable with a masculine grey, navy and darkish wooden shade scheme. I stayed in a king room and actually preferred the format.
All the facilities are saved within the hallway, together with cups, a espresso station and a few storage in case you wish to unpack on trip. I hate taking video calls with a lodge mattress within the background, so I particularly appreciated that the desk was within the hallway, separate from the mattress.
The fashionable design theme continues within the toilet, which has a walk-in bathe and loads of counter area. I additionally cherished the light-up mirror. It supplied fairly good lighting for doing make-up.
The lavatory door is a barn door, which isn’t all the time my favourite. However it was truly a heavy door that stayed in place once you closed it.
Hyatt Centric Las Olas has three meals choices on property: a full sit-down restaurant, a speakeasy bar and a snack bar on the pool.
Harborwood is the lodge’s principal restaurant and is open every single day for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It additionally has a completely stocked bar and occasional store serving Starbucks espresso. I visited Harborwood a number of instances all through my keep for drinks, dinner, and breakfast, plus the all-important afternoon espresso pick-me-up. I had an incredible expertise each time I visited. The dinner menu is somewhat costly, however nothing felt overpriced contemplating the standard of the meal and general environment. Most sandwiches on the menu price at the least $15, whereas entrees will set you again between $22 and $41.
At dinner, I attempted a smattering of dishes and desserts, together with lamb shanks, pan-roasted branzino, hen empanadas, churros, and pineapple upside-down cake. All the things I attempted tasted nice, however I saved coming again to the hen empanadas, which had sofrito and mozzarella cheese inside and had been served with a chipotle sauce. They felt like the proper consolation meals.
Earlier than heading to the airport on my final day, I went again to Harborwood for breakfast and ordered the Las Olas Huevos, a tackle huevos rancheros with refried black beans and salsa verde, as an alternative of ranchero sauce. I’m considerably of a huevos rancheros aficionado and cherished Harborwood’s tackle it. I may have used extra sauce, however the egg was cooked completely and the refried black beans added a very nice texture to the dish.
I’ve visited my justifiable share of lodge eating places, and Harborwood is definitely the most effective I’ve been to. Plenty of lodge eating places appear to be an afterthought, with overpriced meals, subpar service and vibes to match. However Harborwood is run effectively (my breakfast was served notably rapidly) and has a welcoming environment that makes you wish to keep and hang around lengthy after your meal is over.
In distinction with Harborwood’s approachable and pleasant environment, Room 901 is a tiny Twenties-themed speakeasy that provides restricted two-hour reserved seats every Tuesday by Sunday. It began through the pandemic as a solution to give visitors a safer eating expertise round a smaller group of individuals. However it may simply as simply have been the 2015 brainchild of a hipster mixologist. As a 30-something millennial, I felt proper at residence.
Room 901 serves distinctive cocktails and sharable appetizers which can be positively filling sufficient to make an entire meal. We ordered the “lamb lollipops” (particular person rib chops served with tahini sauce), black truffle mac and cheese, and shrimp skewers served with two several types of plantains and a passionfruit glaze. I loved every little thing, however the shrimp was my favourite. It was completely cooked and the flavors had been very properly balanced.
You do have a $60-per-person minimal, however that gained’t be exhausting to succeed in, particularly when you’re getting dinner right here.
The lodge has a rooftop pool that’s such a pleasant escape in the course of town.
For the reason that rooftop area is somewhat small, I think about that it may very well be tough to discover a seat if the pool is busy. However there are a number of kinds of pool lounge chairs and outside couches which can be fairly snug.
There’s additionally a snack bar on the pool that serves drinks and fundamental lunch objects. Don’t anticipate the identical fancy meals you’ll get at Harborwood or Room 901 (although you’ll be able to order the hen empanadas). However the high quality remains to be extraordinarily excessive for one thing you’d order at a pool. I attempted a turkey sandwich with bacon and an herb unfold that was surprisingly scrumptious. I additionally ordered a margarita. It was somewhat too candy for me, however positively not an excessive amount of when you favor your drinks on the candy facet.
One factor to know: The constructing subsequent door gave the impression to be doing an enormous renovation once I stayed there within the spring of 2026, so that you would possibly hear building noises on the pool. However this solely appears to be a difficulty on the pool. I by no means observed the noise in my room, and my window neglected the development.
The Hyatt Centric Las Olas is a good possibility if you’d like a beach-optional metropolis trip or if individuals in your group wish to do various things through the day. It can also’t be overstated how a lot workers could make or break a lodge keep. And through off-peak dates, the low money charges is usually a nice deal, particularly if you wish to keep at a spot with top-notch eating choices.
Skip this property when you completely have to be close to the seaside. However when you’re searching for a handy lodge that offers you some flexibility on what you do throughout your trip, it delivers.
