Feb 2, 2025 • 8 min read
13.01.2025 - 19:17 / thepointsguy.com
One of the most exciting hotel openings of the last year was the late 2024 opening of the ski-friendly Grand Hyatt Deer Valley.
The hotel is a cornerstone of the Deer Valley ski resort's East Village multiyear expansion project, which will more than double the resort's skiable terrain and is said to be the largest development of a U.S. ski village in the last 40 years.
The Grand Hyatt, currently the only permanent building in the East Village at the time of publishing this article (everything else is under construction), offers 436 accommodations — including 55 residences — in addition to the more standard hotel rooms and suites.
While we expect the experience at the hotel to evolve as it gets its "ski legs" and the new East Village is built around it, here's a first look at what to expect at the new Grand Hyatt Deer Valley if you are considering a trip in the near future.
Related: These are the best ski hotels you can book with points
Rooms at the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley start at $799 plus taxes and fees this season when spending cash, or they can be booked as Category 6 Hyatt for 21,000 to 29,000 World of Hyatt points per night. Here are some of the top ways to earn more World of Hyatt points, including credit cards such as the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card that allow you to transfer points into Hyatt instantly at a 1:1 ratio.
Right now, you can't miss the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley as it stands proudly (and, for now, alone) at the new East Village base. Eventually, it will be joined by other hotels, such as the recently announced Four Seasons Deer Valley, restaurants, shops, ski facilities, an ice skating rink and more.
But for this ski season, the Grand Hyatt is the sole inhabitable structure located directly across a street from Deer Valley's new ski lifts.
This includes the recently opened Keetley Express lift that serves to essentially connect the new East Village to the rest of the mountain. From the top of that lift, you can take the Sultan Express lift and head over to the main area of the ski resort.
This means the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley is not technically "ski-in, ski-out" in the way that the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek is. You will need to either walk about 100 yards up a slight hill and carry your skis across the street (though you can store them there after your first day) or take a one- to two-minute open-air shuttle that operates in a continuous loop between the new lifts, the day skier parking lot and the Grand Hyatt.
Note that some shuttles are full from the Deer Valley parking lot day guests before they get to the Hyatt, so you may have to wait a bit during peak times.
The hotel is still plenty close and convenient to the lifts for most skiers. The one exception, at the moment, is
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