So, 5 nights at Hyatt properties during the promotional period, would earn
you enough Gold Passport points for a free night at a Category 1 property... that's not very enticing.
If you spend 5 nights at Hyatt properties during the promotional period you would earn
enough Gold Passport points for a free night at a Category 1 property.
Not exact matches
I aslo get 40,000
Gold Passport points, which is almost
enough for two nights at any Hyatt.
If I stay another four nights in April (and it has to be increments of four) I'll earn an additional 25,000
Gold Passport points,
enough for a free night anywhere in the world.
I value Hyatt
Gold Passport Points somewhere around 1.4 cents each so 10 nights, which earns 15,000 points, would net an effective rebate of $ 210 or $ 21 / night and that's not
enough of an incentive to make me book more Hyatt stays or to get me to move any stays I have at other hotels over to Hyatt.
Not only would 75,000 Hyatt
Gold Passport points be
enough for a weekend at any Hyatt in the world it would also be
enough for a long weekend at any Hyatt Category 6 property too.
This argument may makes sense for someone topping up a
Gold Passport account to allow them to book a multi-night stay (or for someone wanting to add a night to an existing booking) but it makes absolutely no sense for someone without
enough existing points to book a few more nights as well.
Before my status match I hadn't really done much research into Hyatt
Gold Passport (Hyatt's loyalty program) because Hyatt's footprint never seemed big
enough to warrant looking into.
I think that it's worth remembering that the DSUs to which this change would apply will not be issued for almost 3 months, so that's more than
enough time for Hyatt to give its
Gold Passport members a good amount of advance warning should this change be coming.
This argument may make sense for someone topping up a
Gold Passport account to allow them to book a multi-night stay (or for someone wanting to add a night to an existing booking) but it makes absolutely no sense for someone without
enough existing points to book a few more nights as well.
I may have recently been given a status match to Hyatt's Diamond Tier but the truth of the matter is that I know staggeringly little about Hyatt
Gold Passport, the benefits of the program and how to maximise the status I've been lucky
enough to be given.
First of all you can only purchase 55,000 Hyatt
Gold Passport Points (excluding bonuses) per year and that's not even
enough for 2 nights at one of these super-high-end hotels.
Now that Hyatt have been kind
enough to match my Marriott Platinum status to Hyatt
Gold Passport's Diamond status I'm looking forward to trying out a few of their properties in 2016.
Having recently been lucky
enough to get a status match to Hyatt's Diamond status level I've been doing my best to learn as much as I can about the Hyatt
Gold Passport program.
While the past month saw some big news (like IHG acquiring Kimpton) and several meaningful program changes (including Hyatt
Gold Passport and Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan), none of it was
enough to sway my valuations.
To celebrate their awesome new partnership with MGM, Hyatt was kind
enough to sponsor a giveaway for 22,000
Gold Passport points, two Las Vegas show tickets, and one MGM Resort experience.