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The Hyatt Regency London Olympia has been in development for at least 5 years (it was in development in December 2020) and now, finally, we have an opening date for the property – 26 May 2026.
Location
Olympia is one of London’s major exhibition venues (it dates back almost 140 years) and the Hyatt Regency London Olympia forms part of a £1.3bn redevelopment of the site which will include a purpose-built theatre, a 4,000 seater music venue, exhibition halls, two hotels (the other is a CitizenM property), 30+ restaurants and cafes, offices, a school and quite a bit more.
Olympia’s location is to the west of central London and it sits in a relatively residential (and mostly affluent) part of the city.
Transport connectivity is very good in the area (as you’d expect from an area with a big exhibition center) so getting from the Hyatt Regency to the various sights that London is known for should be easy and quick.
Hyatt Regency London Olympia (brief overview)
The property is expected to open with 196 rooms and suites with entry-level rooms starting at 258sqft/24sqm and rising to 290sqft/27/sqm.
The largest non-suite rooms appear to be the property’s “King Bed Premium Corner with Terrace” rooms which measure 570sqft/45sqm.
The property will have three different suite-types – Regency Suite, Regency Executive Suite, and Regency Executive Suite with Terrace – but with the entry-level suite measuring just 387sqft/36sqm, this may not be a property at which to use a World of Hyatt suite upgrade award (the two larger suite types both measure 570sqft/53sqm).
On the dining front, the property will offer a space called “Pillar Hall” which, according to the hotel’s website, is a combination of a dining room, a bar, a conservatory, and garden cafe and which will serve “refined European and Asian flavors” all day.
Hidden behind the Pillar Hall will be a speakeasy and “curated performance spaces” which will be open in the evenings.
The lobby will feature a “Lounge Cafe” which will be open daily between 07:00 and 23:30 and which will serve “expertly roasted coffee, light bites & timeless cocktails”.
The lobby will also offer a “Hotel Market” where guests (or anyone else walking through the doors) can purchase from “a wide range of food and beverages”.
Interestingly, there’s no mention of a Regency Lounge anywhere on the hotel’s website or the original Hyatt press release, so it’s probably safe to assume that there won’t be one. That’s disappointing and it means that the Churchill will remain as the only one of London’s five Hyatt Regency properties to offer a Lounge.
Pricing
At the time of writing, the cost of an entry-level room appears to sit between £250 and £350 per night ($335 to $470 per night including taxes), and as London prices go, that’s not too bad.
Strangely, while the cost of an entry-level suite appears to start at around £520/$695 per night, the cost of one of the largest non-suite rooms (which is between 14% and 25% larger than the entry-level suite) appears to start at around £350/$470, and that leaves me wondering what the suite is offering to justify the significantly higher rate?
World of Hyatt information
The Hyatt Regency London Olympia will join the World of Hyatt program as a Category 5 property and so will charge 17,000/20,000/23,000 points per night for a standard room (off-peak/standard/peak seasons) and 29,000/32,000/35,000 points per night for a standard suite (which seems a lot for a suite that’s just 387sqft in size).
Bottom line
The Hyatt Regency London Olympia looks like it will be the next Hyatt to open in the UK when it opens its doors to guest on 26 May 2026.
Room are now bookable on Hyatt.com (with cash or points), but be aware that this far out from the official opening date things can still change and the opening date may slip, so don’t make any non-refundable plans if this is a hotel that you’re planning to book.
Anyone that spends more than $200/night for a place to shower and sleep is either on an expense account or, more likely out of their mind.
Folks when you are not using the property for longer stays or for a holiday you can find a great many very good hotels for under $200.
Of course there is the I want to be seen (by folks that will never remember you) by the glitterati.
Please elaborate on a few of these hidden gems in central London.
As a long time Hyatt loyalist I have to admit I’m not impressed. The rooms are small, the location acceptable but unspectacular, no club lounge in a city HR, and priced on points beyond the category 1-4 certificates. Outside of being new I’m seeing nothing to draw me to this hotel. I’d hoped for better from Hyatt but feel they’re not the company they were a few years back. I’m not abandoning Hyatt as my primary hotel chain at this point but my loyalty is no longer unstinting.
I’m not really wow-ed either (primarily because it looks like it’s going to be another cookie-cutter hotel), but to be fair to the hotel’s rooms, its entry level rooms are bigger than or equal to almost all the rooms at the Hyatt Regency Albert Embankment, they’re bigger than the first three categories of room at the Great Scotland Yard, (258sqft vs 236sqft/247sqft/247sqft), they’re the same size as some of the entry-level rooms at the Hyatt Regency Blackfriars, and they aren’t much smaller than the entry level rooms at the Churchill (258sqft vs 269sqft).
Even if we look outside the Hyatt bubble, this property’s entry-level room are the same size or larger than than the entry-level rooms at quite a few more established London properties (e.g. Marriott Grosvenor Square, JW Marriott Grosvenor House, InterContinental Park Lane, Hilton Park Lane etc..).
Clearly I’m not about to put the HR Olympia in the same category as most of those properties, but the sizes of most of its rooms are par for the course in London (I’m excluding the entry-level suite because that’s ridiculously small) so I think the property’s room sizes say more about London hotels in general than this particular property.
Having said all of that, however, I agree with all of the rest that you said (this looks like a Cat 4 property to me, but I’m not is the slightest bit surprised that it’s coming in as a Cat 5).