PARK HYATT Jakarta, Indonesia 🇮🇩【4K Hotel Tour & Review】NEWEST Park Hyatt on EARTH!

[@happytravel_777]

Thanks for all that you do! Kevin you are my #1 go to travel expert on youtube. Your review qualities surpass that of the luxury travel expert guy due to your detaled dialogs. Now let's hit that 1 million subscriber mark! 🙂

[@tfft]

Well now there’s something to look forward to 🙃 Thanks very much for the support and for watching (as always!)

[@akshanshsingh3580]

Agreed

[@kkokkodak]

definitely agreed. you said what i want to say. By far the best. Pls keep updating, ignore the number of subscribers.

[@tfft]

Thanks very much… but this time last year I was under 500 subs… so I’m quite pleased with the subs so far 😂 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@marcopanti1017]

I agree! The expertise on food quality gives you are real edge. The only thing you could perhaps add is to get into the pools and comment on experience of the pools the warmth the water quality the depth and so on. When I take my family to resorts these are very important elements for us. Thank you Kevin!

[@Corrosionchemist]

THANK YOU for mentioning that awful problem about the train horn and train rumble sound leaking through the windows and being noticeably audible within your room! I had a similar problem at the Mulia Hotel. Us light sleepers hate noise at night so your solution is definitely worth mentioning to all us viewers! If I ever stay at the Park Hyatt in Jakarta, I’ll be sure to ask for a room on the other side, away from the train!

[@tfft]

I originally thought it was just a SUPER loud train… but then was at the Four Seasons the next night and even on a highway I couldn’t hear a peep- so they must have cheaped out with the glass quality (or whatever element would make sense haha). Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@RIZFERD]

There are so many hidden gem in plain sight around Jakarta including my former very first Penthouse "Puri Casablanca" in early 2000's next to old cemetery of Dutch military from colonial era and walking distance to Dutch embassy, JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, etc Beloved Jakarta is much richer much bigger than Paris, Jakarta is 6 times size of Paris Europe's largest city. Even world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569. Real Indonesia is almost as huge as Russia even the richest natural resources in the entire world and the oldest ancient modern long before Toba Sumatra erupted 75,000 years ago. Including about pyramids, Egyptian isn't the oldest but Indonesian including 25,000 yeara old Gunung Padang. The climate is so wet here the wettest, most humid in the entire world that's why there were so many ancient artifacts were decayed so easily and fastly unlik in other parts of the world especially northern and southern hemispheres has dry air and mostly very cold and they're like refrigerator.

[@agnitrambley]

Thanks for the review!! I miss Jakarta, the city where I grew up. So many things have changed I’m sure, and I’m looking forward to visiting the this summer.

[@tfft]

Enjoy your trip! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@imfjhi]

Finally!! Only a few seconds in and I'm already loving it! Also, loving the humorous bit in there, kinda elevates the serious flow of the review

[@tfft]

Thanks very much for watching 🙏🏻

[@michaelwerner5165]

This looks stunning, very, very nice. Thanks for a great review including the warning about the train line.

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@denisesommer-roque3169]

Hi Kevin, after a 48hr travel, including a cancelled flight from BRU-DOH causing a 24hr delay…we have finally arrived in Bali. I just unpacked the suitcases and what is the first thing I do….? Watching your new video…I call that dedication and a testament to the quality of work you deliver with each new upload! Fantastic video and thank you again for your unbiased review and quality content 🙏🏼

[@tfft]

Well that’s a wonderful comment to wake up to ☺️. Hope you’re able to acclimate after the long travel day(s) quickly and enjoy Bali!

[@edward88881]

I've been anxiously anticipating this review for a few months. As an admitted hotel geek (sometimes my whole trip revolves around staying in a hotel) this is a property that I'll go out of my way to visit. Now I'm going to start Googling some of those Indonesian artists you did a great job researching. (... and yes, I did grab a bag of popcorn before watching)

[@tfft]

I hope the popcorn was good, I could go for some myself 😅 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@RIZFERD]

There are so many hidden gem in plain sight around Jakarta including my former very first Penthouse "Puri Casablanca" in early 2000's next to old cemetery of Dutch military from colonial era and walking distance to Dutch embassy, JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, etc Beloved Jakarta is much richer much bigger than Paris, Jakarta is 6 times size of Paris Europe's largest city. Even world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569. Real Indonesia is almost as huge as Russia even the richest natural resources in the entire world and the oldest ancient modern long before Toba Sumatra erupted 75,000 years ago. Including about pyramids, Egyptian isn't the oldest but Indonesian including 25,000 yeara old Gunung Padang. The climate is so wet here the wettest, most humid in the entire world that's why there were so many ancient artifacts were decayed so easily and fastly unlik in other parts of the world especially northern and southern hemispheres has dry air and mostly very cold and they're like refrigerator.

[@gilbydog7350]

Beautiful hotel, II loved the outdoor bar area. The fitness room looked great as well. Thanks for the tip on the train being on one side of the hotel, and when I go to Jakarta will request a room on the other side.

[@tfft]

Thanks very much for watching 🙏🏻

[@Loupadron2010]

Thank you for showing us the new Park Hyatt hotel very beautiful, new of course and clean and tidy with growing pains as you mentioned and explained.

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🩴

[@christian_globalimages]

Another great Park Hyatt. Can't go wrong with Park Hyatt!

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🩴

[@Scott-pe6te]

I have become a faithful subscriber to your videos. You give a comprehensive, objective view of hotels and airlines with the right balance of narration and video panning speed. Thank you. One question and one suggestion: - In any given city, a myriad of hotels exist. How do you choose which hotels you review? - Perhaps consider routinely describing the atmosphere in each hotel you stay (e.g., formal or relaxed, arrogant or friendly, mainly adults or many families, etc.). For example, I avoided Park Hyatt up to now as I believed (perhaps mistakenly) that it appealed only to the super wealthy in a stuffy, unwelcoming manner).

[@tfft]

Thanks very much for the kind words. I’ve been ‘training’ myself on panning for quite a while now. It’s a very unnatural way to move in real life in order to make it presentable on film 😂. For your first point, it is a myriad of factors that go into it, including location, brand, age, content-friendly, etc. The intricate details of I’ve actually just started to lay out in one of my Patreon posts and plan on diving into the topic much deeper as I get more content loaded on there. And just FYI, I don’t make a habit of promoting my Patreon in comments, but I’ve just begun posting content there and your question was very specifically what I’ve started to dive into and I don’t want to dilute the value for my patrons- don’t want it to seem I’m brushing you off! Second part, I try to find a balance in how much I say and everything for me is relative to what I think is a reasonable perception of the property. So, if your best guess would be that “property A” is a stuffy atmosphere- and in my review I didn’t mention it, that’s me “saying” that the perception is correct. Same thing applies for something like noise bleed. If I don’t mention it, there were no problems- if there was noise bleed I will surely point it out. Otherwise I’d need to double the length of near all videos to actually say everything I’d like to say 😂. In my experience for high end brands though, it has A LOT to do with the location, often more than the brand itself. For example, I know for a fact that I could casually stroll through just about anywhere at the Peninsula Bangkok in shorts and flip flops. The Peninsula Hong Kong? I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t allow me to walk through the lobby in shorts and I wouldn’t dare with 🩴🩴. Sorry that was a long winded answer! Haha. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@talamt]

Love your reviews

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@new2melbtango]

Thanks for this review. I've not come across many hotel reviews of Indonesian hotels. Good job. BTW, in your other video, I never knew there was another Raffles Hotel in Jakarta.

[@tfft]

I've got a whole bunch of Bali reviews as well and more on the way! Thanks for watching & Happy New Year 🎉

[@TonyTony.321]

Beautiful hotel and nicely done video! I noticed that you call this a Raffles Room, which is the name from your previous video.

[@tfft]

Ah! I blame too much caffeine and editing all day 😂 Fixed. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@mogublogjapan]

Great! I want to stay someday! nice video thank you

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@GlennTedja]

I loved this hotel when I went a few weeks ago! And wow, we even stayed in the same room type...

[@tfft]

Hope you didn’t have any train noise! 😊 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@beyondmoneybusiness]

Jakarta looks like it might be nice for a day or 2 going by the hotels. I was there for a day earlier this year and 90% of time was in a taxi. KL has a few new hotels opened this year with Kempinski, Indigo, Four Points, Park Hyatt just to name a few still to come. Another great video Thank you.🙏👍

[@tfft]

Yupp I look forward to all of them in KL… a city that’s well overdue for a lift in the hotel market. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@OttawaLife21]

Hi Kevin, glad you got to check out the Park Hyatt! If I could make a suggestion, could you show the gym more in-depth? Maybe show what weights the dumbbell goes to, if there's a smith machine or peloton bike, or around how many machines they have. Thanks for all the great work!

[@tfft]

I just (like 3 minutes ago) filmed another gym and made sure to get all of the equipment and weights in the shot, having read this comment just before 😊. Sometimes mirrors or guests (who I don’t want to disturb) make it difficult to get it all, but I shall try! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@HotelSnob]

Now that’s a bathtub! Much more costly to build then that way than the freestanding ones. Lovely!

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@Drod8899]

Beautiful interiors and furnishing as you said sublime, Aloha from Hawaii

[@tfft]

Would be nicer if it was in Honolulu 😂 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@tanzil88]

That golden hour was quite beautiful.

[@tfft]

It was! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@liftoffandtravel]

Really enjoyable video. We've decided to stay here in April. We like trains but not sure whether to avoid that side

[@tfft]

I also love trains but certainly wouldn't suggest being subjected to a Jakarta commuter train chugging along haha. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@new2melbtango]

Love that the tv in the gym was showing badminton and one of the most well known mens doubles pairings who have been the number one pairs in the world (Sukamuljo/Gideon aka Minions) was on :)

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching & Happy New Year 🎉

[@baliwalknshops1517]

THANKS FOR VIDEO

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@akshanshsingh3580]

Great review, kev. P. S I have achieved this only second time ie I HAVE WATCHED EVERY SINGLE VID ON THE CHANNEL. You have an eternal sub here. :)

[@tfft]

I do feel like I need to ask then, which was your favorite? Haha. Thanks very much for your support 🙏🏻

[@akshanshsingh3580]

@@tfft If I had to,then, Conrad Bali & Qatar Airways A350 Qsuites reviews.

[@RDAOFFICIALKU]

Nice ❤

[@tfft]

Thanks very much 🙏🏻

[@Mrdepedro]

I CAN'T LOVE MORE YOUR CHANNEL

[@tfft]

❤️ Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@viwantstoknow]

lovely

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🩴

[@fancynancymacy]

This is exactly what I don’t like in a hotel. Hard lines everywhere you look. I love the raffles in Jakarta that you showed I have been to Jakarta, but may go back just for that buffet

[@tfft]

I prefer modern style myself but I do my best to present each hotel for what it is- through the lens of someone that would book a hotel with that design.

[@adilabdullah4589]

Can you share the link for the background music please your videos are awesome

[@tfft]

All of my music comes from artlist.io Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@sawbo2119]

Just had a 3 night stay here in the Deluxe Suite. Insanely beautiful hotel, lots of positives with a limited negatives I can think of. The driver situation I agree with 100%. Do not use Grab here if you're used to it in other countries, Bluebird seems to be the best service for taxi's out here. There's also a weird 5K parking ticket that all drivers get when they pick u up from the roundabout, seems pretty silly to charge taxis 5K to come to the roundabout. I missed most of the breakfast buffet during my stay, my gf had a stomach virus from Vietnam she was fighting so there was a lot of room service. Food was inconsistent but fine, pricey. I disagree about the train, as I did hear it from time to time, the mosque was actually the loudest culprit throughout my stay which may be part of your great/horrible rating. The 4AM wakeup calls were quite loud from our room and I had to get up and close all the doors in our hotel then put on music to drown it out. Maybe it's a sensitive subject, I'm not sure, I had heard mosque's in Yogyakarta year's back and I have no issue with it as I know it's a cultural thing, but for a Park Hyatt this was pretty disappointing that it was so apparent in our room at 4am. It is an oddly placed hotel....that's for sure.

[@tfft]

I’m curious if you were on the same side of the building as me- as I never heard any calls to prayer 😂. Perhaps we just have different sensitivities lol. Glad you enjoyed and Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@khaterinak1829]

The owner of the hotel is a media tycoon here in Indonesia. His daughter got married in April in that hotel, so they expedited the hotel opening for her wedding!

[@tfft]

But the hotel opened over a year ago 😅 Thanks for watching 🩴

[@khaterinak1829]

@@tfft yes, I meant they got married in April 2022. So they expedited the hotel opening for the wedding

[@RIZFERD]

There are so many hidden gem in plain sight around Jakarta including my former very first Penthouse "Puri Casablanca" in early 2000's next to old cemetery of Dutch military from colonial era and walking distance to Dutch embassy, JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, etc Beloved Jakarta is much richer much bigger than Paris, Jakarta is 6 times size of Paris Europe's largest city. Even world map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569. Real Indonesia is almost as huge as Russia even the richest natural resources in the entire world and the oldest ancient modern long before Toba Sumatra erupted 75,000 years ago. Including about pyramids, Egyptian isn't the oldest but Indonesian including 25,000 yeara old Gunung Padang. The climate is so wet here the wettest, most humid in the entire world that's why there were so many ancient artifacts were decayed so easily and fastly unlik in other parts of the world especially northern and southern hemispheres has dry air and mostly very cold and they're like refrigerator.

[@tfft]

You lost me with, "Real Indonesia is almost as huge as Russia "

[@inrain_bows]

Great vid. Design wise this is probably the best PH of all 3 designed by Conran and Partners (Changsha and Auckland are just garbage town). Great place to use a Cat 1-4 promotional award. There are far more than 3 PHs in pipeline though!

[@tfft]

Still excited to visit PH Auckland in a few months though! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@inrain_bows]

@@tfftDon’t have high hopes for room design!

[@marquis51]

Thanks for the amazing videos as usual! My understanding about the shower amenities is that Hermes doesn't want to do bulk ones so far. One hotel im often staying at moved away from using them because of that reason. Hopefully they join the trend so we can have Hermes amenities again, in bulk, as I was sad to see them go.

[@tfft]

I can understand not wanting to do bulk for a luxury brand but the green plastic bottles they use now have been around for decades and are just about the cheapest feeling ones you can find these days. I’ve seen some beautiful metal ‘single use’ containers for high end stuff- if they’re so stubborn they should at least go that route. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@ryshabh11]

I know your India trip is over but if you do ever visit again, Would love to see a review of Park Hyatt at Chennai. It's a Category 1 Park Hyatt and available at 5000 points. Super economical. Wonder how that one stacks upto other Park Hyatts.

[@tfft]

I've actually been back to India for an entire new trip already 😉 - Chennai wasn't on the list this time though. Thanks very much for the support ❤️

[@ryshabh11]

@@tfft Can't wait to see more India hotel videos! Cheers!

[@dolorumvir8484]

Hello, what is the model of your shooting equipment?

[@tfft]

iPhone 14PM

[@altsnake6609]

do you have any hotel videos from Seoul?

[@tfft]

Not yet! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@ilhamrj2599]

When Indonesians say "smallbites", they really mean it as literally small. Please Dont get offended. Lol... Yes, that price is quite exorbitant for "smallbites". But, this is Hyatt hotel locating at Jakarta Diplomatic Quarter and most of Central Government buildings are located in Central Jakarta. Central Jakarta is like a Washington DC of Jakarta, while South Jakarta would be something like NYC of Jakarta.

[@tfft]

Oh I’m not offended 😊. I’ve just never seen potato chips served in a (small) dipping sauce bowl 😂. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@jkjkjk100]

They have residences as well. If you have couple of million dollars to drop then you can definitely move in. Haha

[@tfft]

I will alert my accountant right away!! Haha 😊 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@stomperr69]

Look at that solution

[@tfft]

🤔

[@lewisbarnett640]

I’ve stayed here twice now. I love the hotel so much but the big negative to me is how utterly dead the place is. Went to get a drink in the bar at midnight on a Saturday night and there was precisely zero people there and the staff were closing it down I guess because of this. The hotel seems to be as empty as in your video all of the time! Last time I stayed I had the fear that the place will eventually close as surely it can’t be profitable. So sad!

[@tfft]

Interesting. My guess is that some of the rooms are held for embassy contracts and the like- potentially giving it an empty feel while they're still making a nice coin.

[@treckerdude]

Great video, but what's up with that disclaimer? I doesn't work in my opinion.

[@tfft]

I get bored of formats quite quickly as you’ll see if you’ve followed my videos for a while. This too shall evolve after a few weeks, but what is said in that “warning” will in some way remain in future videoed as content with hidden sponsorships are the biggest road blocks to channels like this growing. I’m sorry you didn’t like it, but it did get your attention- that’s all I was testing out in these first few videos with it. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@treckerdude]

@@tfft Thanks for responding Kevin. Despite the disclaimer, your videos are awesome ! Keep 'em coming !

[@tfft]

Thanks very much 🙏🏻

[@travelbliss5148]

Kevin. the soup you ate is rawon pronounced rahwon, a specialty of east Java. IMO most Jakarta hotels serve just mediocre Indonesian food. A better option is to dine in fine dining Indonesian restaurants in Central and South Jakarta.

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@alvinomartin]

Lol its not the cloud. Its the polution of jakarta 😂

[@tfft]

Thanks for watching 🩴

[@JHuJonathanHu]

Fwiw, the disclaimer bit comes off really unsmoothly. Maybe it's meant to be humorous, but it kills the rythmn of these videos for me and i just find myself rolling my eyes and reaching to skip that bit of the video.

[@dickoevaldo8051]

But its actually funny tho

[@tfft]

To each their own. It’s meant to be disruptive and absurd specifically for the viewer to know this great (or crappy) review is my own opinion, nothing more- and to not take anything so seriously. Trying to get to that point in a less disruptive way generally falls on deaf ears. At the end of the day it’s only 17 seconds and I’m sure will evolve over time as I’m watching the data about those seconds very closely with these videos. Thanks for the comment and for watching 🙏🏻

[@tfft]

I think so too… but, everyone has their own favorite flavor of ice cream 😊

[@nicow6808]

Dining id probably just order gojek

[@tfft]

At the Park Hyatt? 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@jamesphelps1958]

Would you consider pushing globalist status in the future? I find it super valuable, but don’t know if it would make the reviews less “honest”. Also - you can create a hyatt leverage rate (basically a small business discount) for free. It often times will save you 10 or 15 percent.

[@tfft]

Have Globalist already from this year's stays. Won't make me any less honest. It's a 'thing' that anyone could have, not something especially for me.