Robert C.
Yelp
1. This is the biggest, and most modern hotel in Bryce Canyon, 2 miles from the entrance to national park.
2. Only 7 years old, the 4 story hotel is located about an 8 minute walk from downtown Bryce, with its many restaurants, and the free bus shuttle to enter the park.
3. Huge parking lot, huge open areas next door, with immediate road around hotel lacking sidewalks, and a large pond in front of the hotel.
4. The 4 story hotel is shaped like a triangle, with the sides being the lobby with breakfast area, the north tower and the south tower, and designed to fit into the woods environment.
5. We reserved at least two months in advance, and arrived the last week of April, with cloudy skies, high winds and snow flurries. Fog and mist in the mornings in the park 2 miles away.
6. Our third floor room faced the interior courtyard with its pool and spa, both closed due to the very cold weather -not too many takers for swimming under snow flurries!
7. Four story towers, with interior corridors and no balconies -nobody wants to shovel snow off the decks during the long winters here at 8,000 feet elevation.
8. Odd number rooms face the interior courtyard, while even number rooms face the outside, with the parking lots, and barren grassland. No rooms have any view of Bryce Canyon National Park, 2 miles away, as the area is relatively level.
9. Rooms are huge, with two queen beds, and a separate area for loveseat and fully
padded sitting chair. Plenty of empty space area around the clean and comfortable beds.
10. Clean, relatively new carpet with little padding but good sound insulation -minimal noise from the upstairs neighbors, but that may change in the summer when the kids are out of school!
11. Rooms equipped with flat screen cable TV, free wifi, microwave oven, coffee maker, mini refrigerator. Single large window opened about 6".
12. Quiet modern AC/heater unit -it can get hot here in the summers.
13. Large double sink with marble countertop. Only shower, no bathtub in separate room with toilet.
14. Computer kiosks, business center, lobby fireplace, exercise room, coin operated laundry room with multiple washers and dryers and detergent, outside firepit, pool with lounge chairs, and spa.
15. Awesome complimentary breakfast buffet for guests 630-930am, each morning, with potatoes, sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, waffles, pancakes, juices, fruits, and pastries. Huge selection, very large dining room, with nearby conference rooms for overflow seating.
16. Exceptional service from the cleaning staff, registration desk, and kudos to Crystelle (spelling?) and Rev for rapid clearing the plates and dishware from hundreds of dining guests during breakfast.
17. Beverage and ice machines located on each of the 4 floors near the elevator.
18. We ate 2 dinners at Ruby's Inn, the best restaurant around, an 8 minute walk from the hotel. We drove, as walking not advisable, due to lack of sidewalks next to hotel and high winds in late April in the afternoon/evenings.
19. Main competitor would be the Bryce Canyon Lodge 6 miles away, 4 miles inside the park, easy walking distance to the main attraction: the Navajo Trail from Sunrise to Sunset Points, going into the Bryce amphitheater.
20. Bryce Canyon Lodge is more expensive than the Grand Hotel, and you are paying for location. No TV, no free breakfast, nor wifi in the rustic cabins of the Lodge, and the local restaurant is expensive with limited offerings.
21. Older, two story Bryce View Lodge next door to the Grand Hotel, for those wanting to save some bucks.
22. Yes, we would come again, as this 7 year hotel is clean, comfortable with all the amenities of a modern hotel. Only drawback would be that there are no park views, only views of the parking lot.