The Hyatt Regency Sacramento – CIM 2012 Hotel

Double Room

As I mentioned in my CIM 2012 race report, I chose the Hyatt Regency Sacramento for a number of reasons as our hotel for the night before the race.

The Pros: Convenience

  • 3 blocks from the finish line
  • No 2-night requirement
  • Late checkout – 1pm – without an additional fee (ok if you plan on finishing the marathon within this timeframe)
  • Restaurant on-site
  • Parking on-site
  • Free wifi
  • CIM Bus pickup at 5am and 5:15am

Standard Bathroom

The Cons: Nickle-and-Diming

  • Late checkout only goes until 1pm. If you stay beyond, they’ll charge you 1/2 a night’s stay (the CIM rate this year was $185, not including taxes/ other charges)
  • Parking fee is $17
  • The wifi is free but they only allow access for 1 device. Pay a fee for additional device access.
  • The mini-fridge in the room is monitored with sensors. Any item moved will incur a charge.
  • No live TV options. Everything is pay-per-view.
  • When I got back to the hotel room at around 11:30am after finishing, only middling warmhot water in the shower was left.

Next year (uh, if I do decide to run CIM next year…) I’ll do a little more research before booking. We ended up getting a room with 2 Double beds since by the time we checked in (around 3pm on Saturday), the desk was having difficulty finding a room with a Queen/ King bed as originally requested.

We headed out for dinner after the Expo, to Palermo’s Ristorante in Elk Grove, dinner reservations at 5pm. We returned around 7:30pm, in pouring rain, and the parking lot was packed. We could only find a few spaces on the roof, some a bit difficult to squeeze into due to bad parking by some inconsiderate jerks like this one:

D-bag Cadillac

If we had known that the parking lot would have gotten so tight, we might have just chosen to stay and eat-in at Dawson’s, the restaurant onsite and DD’s namesake that looks like it gets decent reviews.

Shenanigans at Dawson’s!

Hyatt Regency Sacramento

1209 L Street,
Sacramento, California, USA 95814

Tel: +1 916 443 1234

 

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