Hyatt's select-service flagship west of the city, 161 oversized king studios, free breakfast, the easiest West Edmonton Mall booking for business and family travellers alike.
"The select-service Hyatt is rarely the most exciting room in any market, and that is the point. In Edmonton's west end it is the cleanest, quietest, most consistently warm three-star play, with free breakfast that is genuinely free and a corner king studio big enough for a family."
The Edmonton-West Hyatt Place opened in 2017 on the 100 Avenue corridor, four minutes by car from the southern edge of West Edmonton Mall and ten minutes from the Yellowhead Trail heading into Spruce Grove. The building is a purpose-built six-storey block with the standard Hyatt Place vocabulary: a sky-lit lobby bar, an open kitchen for breakfast service, and a small market shelf running 24 hours. The exterior is unremarkable but the interior reads quietly contemporary, with grey woods, navy textiles, and a wall of west-facing windows that catch evening light through the lobby until late summer.
Rooms across the 161-key inventory are the Hyatt Place standard, which is to say larger than almost any three-star Marriott or IHG equivalent in the same price band. Oversized king studios run to 35 square metres with a sectional sofa-bed, a 50-inch television, a granite-topped wet bar with a coffee station and beverage fridge, and a separate work-and-dining surface. Double-queen rooms add a second queen at the same overall footprint, the room of choice for couples travelling with one or two children. Bathrooms are walk-in showers with rainheads, no tubs in most categories, and the building runs unusually quiet for a select-service hotel.
The food and beverage offer is the Hyatt Place house standard with two local upgrades. The complimentary breakfast is genuinely complimentary, runs from 6:30 to 9:30 daily, and includes eggs, sausages, oatmeal, and a Starbucks coffee programme rather than the bottom-shelf brew most select-service hotels rely on. The lobby's 24/7 bar handles cold beers, a tight wine list, and a small menu of flatbreads, salads, and chicken sandwiches that work for late arrivals. The market shelf carries Tim Hortons coffee pods and a workable convenience-store selection for the room.
The recreation deck is small but well-kept: a 12-metre indoor pool, a 24-hour fitness room with Life Fitness cardio and a free-weight rack, and a small business centre with two workstations and a print suite. Complimentary surface parking sits at the front of the building, and the WiFi is fast, free, and stable enough for video calls. The location is the property's quiet competitive case in this market. Anthony Henday access is two minutes away, West Edmonton Mall is four, Edmonton International Airport is twenty-five south, and the business parks of the west end (Acheson, Winterburn) are all under ten minutes by car.
For a west-end Edmonton business trip the Hyatt Place is the value answer when a Westin or Fairmont seat is not in the per-diem budget. The king studio gives you a proper desk and a sectional rather than an office chair and a bed, free breakfast covers the morning meeting, and Anthony Henday access reaches every Edmonton business district within twenty minutes. Hyatt World of Hyatt members get late checkout and a beverage credit on stays.
West Edmonton Mall and Galaxyland are the trip; the Hyatt Place is the bed. Double-queen rooms hold a family of four with a sectional sofa-bed for a fifth in a pinch, free breakfast resets the day, and the indoor pool covers the rainy hour before mall opening. Parents pricing this against the Fantasyland Hotel inside the mall itself will find the Hyatt comes in roughly half the rate without losing the location, and the building runs much quieter at night.
18004 100 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB T5S 2T6
Canada
161 rooms and king studios
King studios from C$135/night
Double-queen rooms from C$145/night
Accessible king studios from C$135/night
Suites to C$320/night for event weekends
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Opened 2017; Hyatt brand select-service
World of Hyatt loyalty programme
Indoor pool and 24-hour fitness room
Complimentary hot breakfast 6:30 to 9:30
24/7 lobby bar with food menu
Complimentary surface parking
Fast complimentary WiFi
Business centre with two workstations
Pet-friendly rooms on request
Adjacent to Anthony Henday for west-end access
From C$135/night. Double-queen rooms book two to three weeks ahead for school holidays and West Edmonton Mall family weekends; mid-week corporate rates are available for stays of three nights or more.
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