Guests Horrified As Hyatt Hotel Gives Up In Final Days: 'Green Pool, No TV Service, Soap In Takeout Containers' - View from the Wing

by Gary Leff on June 30, 2025

Hyatt Place Bowling Green is dropping the brand at the end of the month, and June 30 can’t come fast enough.

As one guest relays, “apparently the pool wasn’t worth fixing after it turned green and the hand soap is in a takeout sauce container.”

Effective June 30, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. local time, Hyatt Place Bowling Green will no longer be affiliated with Hyatt, and the hotel will not honor reservations for stays June 30, 2025, and beyond.

Usually I’m concerned about reservations that don’t get honored due to properties transitioning out of a chain. In this case it’s probably a good thing – dodged a bullet! – because most people booking this hotel likely didn’t realize how bad it was? Sadly it’s not the first chain pool that’s been green.

Hyatt Place Bowling Green is a 10-year old property with 108 rooms that received finance subsidies, conected to the WKU Alumni Center. In general I always found new build Hyatt place properties to be reasonably nice, while legacy Amerisuites tended to be awful.

This particular property was probably more or less fine at one time, but they prefer not to buy new batches of amenities before leaving Hyatt, and not to pay for amenities that won’t be on the hotel to cover going forward. Western Kentucky university is leasing out the hotel as a dorm for up to 3 years at a cost of $150,000 per month. Two of their curent dorms have “design and construction flaws” with one having to be demolished. Both were designed by the same architecture and engineering firms. Reportedly this hotel was as well.

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