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World of Hyatt announced hotel award category changes for 259 hotels worldwide effective March 18, 2019 at 11:01pm CST. Overall the changes are even-handed with 130 hotels go up one category and 129 hotels go down one category. For years I have railed about hotel loyalty programs depopulating their lowest award categories rather than redistributing…
On the first Saturday of January we landed in Fort Lauderdale when our British Airways flight arrived 45 minutes late to FLL from London Gatwick. We missed our American Airlines flight connection by 20 minutes by the time we reached that terminal. We walked up to the American Airlines ticket counter after missing our flight…
Nine major hotel chains with loyalty programs currently number 152 different hotel brands for earning and redeeming points. Most of the major chains had at least one new hotel brand become part of their respective hotel loyalty program within the past year. Smith Travel Research provides a hotel industry standard market segment ranking for most…
World of Hyatt members can buy points with 30% bonus points through February 22, 2019 when buying 5,000 or more points. This reduces the purchase price from $24.00 per 1,000 points to $18.46 per 1,000 points. Members can buy up to 55,000 bonus points in a calendar year and bonus points do not count toward…
‘Next time book KLM nonstop Amsterdam to SFO’ is Kelley’s request. Our trip shutdown clock was two days more than planned after completing 13 wonderful days of travel from San Jose to London to Windsor to Amsterdam, then back to London for our British Airways flight to Fort Lauderdale and onward flights home to California.…
There are three World of Hyatt promotions for bonus points and miles you can use for December 2018 stays, but you had to register for two of them by November 30. That is kind of a drag for an offer like 1,000 AA bonus miles per stay when the registration date ended less than half-way…
The initial list of Small Luxury Hotels of the World properties in the World of Hyatt partnership launching December 6, 2018 includes only 54 hotels in 12 countries. See my previous article for stay and redemption benefits World of Hyatt members receive at participating SLH hotels. This article looks at 11 SLH hotels in United…
Hyatt Hotels launch a partnership with Small Luxury Hotels of the World December 6, 2018 making earning points and redeeming points for stays available to World of Hyatt members. There are currently 54 participating SLH hotels worldwide with 5 in Asia and 49 in Europe. This represents only about 10% of the total SLH global…
Hyatt changed Points+Cash reward nights on Nov 1, 2018 from a fixed copay to a variable copay amount set at 50% of the Standard Flexible Rate. In most cases this increases the cost of Points+Cash reward nights at low level hotels as seen in my analysis of Category 1 and 2 hotels and category 3…
Hyatt Points + Cash reward rates changed November 1, 2018 to make the copay 50% of the Best Available Rate (non-discounted flexible cancellation rate). In general, this change makes most hotel reward nights using Points + Cash rates higher priced for the cash payment. There was no change to the points required, which are 50%…
