As some of you may already know, I have recently returned from a lovely break in Houston, Texas. The main reason for our trip was to go to "Wrestlemania", the WWE's large yearly event. Yes it is slightly sad to travel 5000 miles for wrestling, but you only live once and I am indeed sad! To ensure the expense and hassle would be worth it, we added an additional 7 night's holiday to the trip, making it a 10 night get away.

My initial reaction when we were told and confirmed on the package, of where we would be staying for the last 3 nights of our trip, I was ecstatic. I have never been one for spending lots of money on hotels, as long as there is a bed I'm usually happy. But as we opted for a "platinum package" for our trip we were given a better hotel in the deal. I can honestly say I have never stayed in a 5 star hotel prior to this, and in all honestly I think the Hyatt was the only down side to a brilliant holiday otherwise.

The hotel itself is located in Downtown Houston. This basically being the city centre with all of the sky scraper buildings, it's quite a noisy area due to the traffic located near by but we didn't hear anything once in our room.

Also in the lobby is a large bar with seating for approximately 50 people with TV screens. There is a small café in the lobby that sells drinks and snacks as well as freshly made pizza and little things such as travel essentials and tourist gifts like key rings and T-shirts. I found this café pretty handy for picking up little snacks between being out and about and great late night if you fancied something hot like the pizza which was very nice and reasonably priced.

The hotel also boasts its own steak house restaurant which I must admit I was very disappointed with; It is a lot smaller than the pictures on the website would imply and the menu at 5pm went we went was very limited. I mean so limited there was only one option I could have and did have. If you do not want a salad or would rather not have a 20oz steak, you have the choice of one burger. Who can eat a 20oz steak?! The smallest steak they served was 16oz, which is double what I could manage, and the staff were very arrogant and were more than happy to lean over us to clear plates and then interrupt our conversation to suggest one of their "fabulous deserts" in full detail even after we had made it clear we would not like to see the desert menu which did not cater for my other half as everything came with nuts.

Our room was a king double bed room and was the main disappointment, we had stayed at the Hilton Post Oak (review coming soon) for the previous week and in comparison it was simply very hard not to be a little let down.

My main off put was the light switches, which in themselves were very old fashioned hard white plastic weird little flick switch types but also had a lovely orange/brown residue around the edge from when the floor was previously a smoking floor. This was a very little detail in comparison to the grander scheme of things but I couldn't help but feel let down by it all. Simply, I expected a lot more.

Seeing as this was the day we checked into the Hyatt and had no other plans, we wanted to watch it to be up to date for Sunday's event. We had checked the room's helpful guide that detailed what TV channels they had available and it seemed they didn't have the channel the show was on. It's not the end of the world and we would have happily gone without watching it, however, a lot of the channels were numbered incorrectly and were called different names to what they seemed to actually be. Not wanting to miss out if the channel was there right in front of us, I popped down to the lobby to ask someone at the customer care desk exactly what channels we had in the room and if they knew if they had the channel the show was on. I was served by a man who seemed like he had just had a very long day and could no longer be bothered. I asked if he knew if perhaps they were showing it at the bar (as having 922 rooms booked for wrestlemania, I thought it might be an option) apparently nothing was planned. Fine. So I continued to ask if he could confirm if our rooms had "myTV network" being the channel smackdown was on. I was bluntly informed that there was a directory in the room and that should say which channels we had.

It wasn't unpleasant, but it was different than advertised, the staff were overall helpful, and the room was bearable if not a little grubby and small, so I know I wont be staying there again if I needed to, and I wouldn't recommend it. It was the only down point to a lovely holiday and I would have much rather stayed where we were!