A Wonderful Weekend Getaway to the Hyatt Grand Champions

One of the things Jenn and I both love is taking vacations. Heck I have a feeling most reading this blog have noticed that I more frequently post before, on, and after Jenn and I take trips. As much as we love traveling abroad there is also something really awesome about getting in the car and just have a nice weekend getaway. Case in point this past weekend. A little over a year ago we did the exactly that, we booked a quick weekend getaway to Indian Wells, CA for the Indian Wells tennis tournament (PNP Paribas Open). We got an amazing deal at the time for a two bedroom villa, booked it, and enjoyed a great weekend. Why do I bring this up? Well I posted a YouTube video of the room and we were contacted by the Hyatt and thanked for the video and asked if we would want to come back, and of course our instant answer was of course, so they comped us two nights in a one bedroom villa.

So a year later we took the nice people over at Hyatt up on their offer and enjoyed a fantastic weekend at the Hyatt Grand Champions. In fact in the tradition with the last time we went to their hotel I took a video of our room. I apologize for the poor lighting in the video but I wanted to make sure I took video while the room was still some what orderly.

 

We had such an amazing weekend. We got down to the hotel at around 4:30pm Friday 6/25/10 and checked in with relative ease considering the massive line of people checking in. We got into our first villa which sadly did not have a spa in the backyard area, so Jenn called up and they moved us right away to a unit that did. Once settled in we went to a Yelp.com suggestion of Ristorante Mamma Gina's an upscale Italian restaurant. We shared an order of calamari while Jenn ordered her normal pasta with meat sauce and I had a pasta with a red pepper sauce and shrimp. I had a very good creme brule for desert while once again Jenn went with her go-to vanilla ice cream. It was a lovely (albeit a bit pricey) evening dinner that was really a wonderful start to the weekend. Saturday came around and Jenn was making sure that we got out their to enjoy the 105+ degree temperatures by laying out by the pool. First I managed to have her let me watch the US World Cup game in between laying out. We did enjoy a number of Pina Colada's at the poolside bar. For the most part we just took it easy throughout Saturday laying out by the beautiful pool taking in the rays.

Saturday evening we ventured out of the resort and went out to dinner at Outback where we got our classic lineup of wings, prime rib, and our favorite desert in the world the cinnamon oblivion. We went to go see Toy Story 3 that night in 3D which was a great movie, it 100% kept true to the Toy Story series. One observation that both Jenn and I had about the Pixar movies as of late is that they have been a lot more heavy handed then some of their earlier films. The weekend wrapped up much like it started laying out by the pool and just enjoying every minute of being away from the normal day to day.

This weekend was the perfect weekend getaway and we really appreciate the nice people over at the Hyatt Grand Champions for giving us the opportunity to come back. This once again reiterated in both Jenn and my minds how much we love to travel. Which in fact we are not done doing in 2010 we have a few more trips planned throughout the rest of the year that we cannot wait to plan and enjoy.