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World of Hyatt has launched a new promotion which, in keeping with their promotions over the last few years, is also called Bonus Journeys. It’s giving 3,000 bonus points for every two nights you stay starting with your second stay, as well as 500 bonus points for every two nights you stay in 10 major cities if you’re a Hyatt cardholder.
The Deal
- World of Hyatt is offering the following two-pronged promotion:
- Earn 3,000 bonus points for every two nights starting with your second stay
- Earn 500 bonus points for every two nights you stay in the following cities starting with your first stay if you’re a World of Hyatt credit cardholder:
- Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, or Washington, D.C.
- Direct link to registration.
Key Terms
- Register by April 30, 2023, and then complete your qualifying activity between March 20 and May 26, 2023, to unlock your rewards.
- 3,000 Bonus Points: Beginning on your second eligible stay after registration and during the Promotion Period, you will receive 3,000 Bonus Points for every 2 Eligible Nights at participating Hyatt hotels and resorts worldwide, participating MGM Rewards destinations, Small Luxury Hotels of the World (“SLH”) properties, and Lindblad Expeditions. A maximum of 45,000 Bonus Points may be earned under this promotion.
- World of Hyatt Consumer and Business Credit Cardmember 500 Bonus Points: Beginning on your first eligible stay after registration and during the Promotion Period, World of Hyatt Credit Cardmembers will receive 500 Bonus Points for every 2 Eligible Nights at participating Hyatt hotels in 10 cities only—Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, and Washington D.C. Eligible Nights must be on stays completed by May 26, 2023. For a list of hotels participating in the World of Hyatt Consumer and Business Credit Cardmember bonus offer, please click here. A maximum of 7,500 Bonus Points may be earned under this World of Hyatt Consumer and Business Credit Cardmember bonus offer. Chase is not responsible for the provision of, or failure to provide, the stated benefits and services. Bonus points will post directly to your World of Hyatt account and will not appear on your credit card statement.
- General Terms for Both Offers: Promotion is not valid at hotels that do not participate in World of Hyatt at the time of your stay. All points awarded under this promotion and bonus offer are Bonus Points. For the purpose of this promotion and bonus offer, an “Eligible Night” is defined as any night where a member is paying an Eligible Rate or redeems a free night award. For the purposes of this promotion and bonus offer, consecutive nights at the same hotel constitute one stay (even if you check out and check back in). Only the room occupied by the member will count toward this promotion and bonus offer. You must provide your World of Hyatt membership number at the time of check in for each stay. Please allow two to four weeks after checkout for Bonus Points to be posted to your World of Hyatt account. Except as expressly stated, this promotion and bonus offer are not valid with other offers, promotions or discounts and is non-transferable. Hyatt reserves the right to alter or withdraw this promotion and bonus offer at any time for any reason without prior notice. This promotion and bonus offer are subject to the terms and conditions of the World of Hyatt program available at hyatt.com/terms.
Quick Thoughts
The world is healing – hotel promotions are once again including the specification that you’ll only earn bonus points starting from your second stay. That’s a frustrating requirement, especially if your first stay with Hyatt was due to be a longer stay. For example, if your first stay during the promotion period was due to last a week, you’d be missing out on 9,000 bonus points which is a fairly significant chunk of points. If you’ll find yourself in that position, it’d be worth booking a one night award stay at a category 1 property if that’s not too much hassle as you’d still come out ahead, plus it would get you an additional elite night credit towards status and Milestone Rewards.
While I dislike the requirement that you’ll only earn 3,000 bonus points starting from your second stay, a feature that I do like is the fact that you can earn bonus points on both paid and award stays. This could also be a great mattress-running opportunity if you’re concerned that you won’t earn 60 elite night credits this year to lock in Globalist status. It’s very early in the year to consider a mattress run, but this could be the best value opportunity you’ll get all year, especially seeing as you can potentially stack both parts of the promotion to only have to spend a net 1,750 points per elite night credit as a Hyatt cardholder, or 2,000 points per night if you’re not a cardholder.
The reason this is possible is because there are quite a lot of category 1 properties – at least 35 – that are located in and around the 10 cities where you can also earn 500 bonus points for every two nights. If you can find off-peak dates at those properties (easy to do using the Hyatt points calendar for each property), you’d initially be paying 3,500 points per night or 7,000 points for every two nights. In return, you’ll earn 3,000 bonus points from your second stay for every two nights, as well as 500 bonus points for being a cardholder. That makes your net cost 3,500 points per two nights, or only 1,750 points per night. If you aren’t a cardholder you’d miss out on those additional 500 points which would mean your net cost would be 2,000 points per night on average – still not at all shabby.
If you don’t live in or won’t be visiting any of the 10 eligible cities for the 500 bonus points, you might still earn the bonus points nonetheless. That’s because Hyatt is being generous with the zoning for those cities. For example, Baltimore, MD and Bethesda, MD are included as part of Washington D.C., while New York stretches as far north as Shelton, CT and as far south as Princeton, NJ.
The terms clearly state that both paid and award stays are eligible for this promotion, but it wasn’t clear if Points + Cash bookings were eligible too. We reached out to our rep at Hyatt and they’ve confirmed that Points + Cash reservations are also eligible for this promotion.
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Hi Stephen would you know if guest of honor booking would count as qualifying nights with this promo? What I’m trying to say is if the person doing the challenge is they one staying in the hotel. Will those qualifying nights count for the 10 for explorist or 20 day for globalist challenge?
Yes, it should do. The person actually staying – not the Globalist member themselves – would earn the elite night credits for the stay and I’m not aware of those being regarded differently to non-Guest of Honor elite night credits for the purposes of promotions like these and status challenges.
Will guest of honor bookings count towards eligible nights?
Provided the Guest of Honor reservation is set up correctly by Hyatt, the person staying would earn eligible elite night credits.
My plan is to stay 1 night at Hyatt in Tucson to trigger first stay and then wait 1 or 2 nights to stay again for 10 days at the same hotel at Tucson. Will this work in order to get the bonus points?
Yes
Is it possible to book two different hotels for the same weekend if i can check into both and receive the elite nights?
Officially, no. I don’t think it would work, but I guess there’s always a chance that something like that could work. I wouldn’t want to count on it though.
“3,000 Bonus Points for every 2 Eligible Nights at participating Hyatt hotels”…how can we find out which hotels are participating?
Have the same question 🙁
I ironically (given the recent devaluation announcement) have nights booked with Hyatt via Hotels.com. Will those qualify or must it be booked with Hyatt directly? Thank you!
They have to be booked with Hyatt directly I’m afraid.
This is quite confusing for me. Can someone explain the 2 nights? If i spend a hotel in Atlanta for 1 night and come back a week later and spend another night. Is that 2 nights, therefore, i should get the bonus? It does not has to be 2 consecutive nights, correct?
Correct, it doesn’t have to be two consecutive nights. However, you only earn the bonus points for every two nights after your first stay. As a result, if the first stay of one night in Atlanta is your first stay during the promo period, you would need to stay two more nights after that in order to earn the bonus points.
I’m still confused. So if I still 1 night in HYATT that should count as first stay, and my second night is with another Hyatt for 1 night. Would this qualify for the 3000 point ?
and If I book another Hyatt later , would that consider the first stay again. If that the case, on the odd booking, the longer stay ( more than 1 night ) is not a good idea.??
No, that’s not quite how it works. If you stay 1 night, that would count as your first stay. If you then have a separate stay of 1 night, that would be the first of the 2 nights you need to earn some bonus points. You’d therefore need to stay another night at some point to earn the 3,000 bonus points, with all those subsequent stays all counting towards the eligible nights for earning bonus points in 2 night increments.
Thank you so much . Would this bonus with combine with the Blit reward for fast track bonus ?
Yep – there’s more about that here https://frequentmiler.com/hyatt-globalist-fast-track-through-bilt-rewards-for-rent-day/#Is_this_promotion_mattress_run-worthy
I have a 5-day trip coming up at the same Hyatt property — can I book a one-night stay and then a 4-night stay and check out/in?
Or will they combine both this as a single stay? Thanks!
That might work, but it depends on if they combine it into a single stay.
Thanks Stephen — I did see in their terms the following:
For the purposes of this promotion and bonus offer, consecutive nights at the same hotel constitute one stay (even if you check out and check back in).
That’s what they say, but it doesn’t always work out that way – sometimes two consecutive stays will be processed as stays, other times only one. Unfortunately there’s no way of knowing how any individual hotel will process this.
but if you stay at a separate hotel entirely, then back to back night stays should be fine?
Yes, two separate nights at two separate hotels would be classed as two separate stays, even if one night was after the other.
I’m going to be in Tucson in a couple of weeks and could do a mattress run and they have a category 1. No off peak though. Still tempted. I think I’m going to end up around 48 nights this year, so will need 12. So either $25k in spend on the credit cards or book 12 nights for 5k points and get 18k back from the promo. 48k points seems like a lot for 12 elite nights. On the fence. I’ll probably hold off on this one and hope either for a better promo later in the year or figure out a way to see if I can prepay taxes or something to swing the spend later in the year.
Does anyone know if a stay “completed by May 26” include a stay with check in ON May 26? Before this was announced I already had one night booked to check in on May 26.
Unfortunately not – you’d have to be checked out by May 26.
Yes – the FAQs for the promotion helpfully mention this exact scenario:
9. I have registered for the promotion and have a stay on March 19 with a checkout on March 20, 2023. Will the night count towards the promotion
Yes, Eligible Nights completed between March 20 and May 26, 2023, will count toward the promotion. This would count as the first stay needed to start earning. However, it will not earn Bonus Points.
Hello,
I did check out on March 20 and this did not count as my first stay. Can we do anything to make it count as first stay ?
You’d need to reach out to Hyatt about this. One option would be to contact them on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HyattConcierge
I got the below reply from support :
Thank you. The bonus points start with the second eligible stay after registration within the dates of 3/20/2023 and 5/26/2023, the stay checking out on 3/20 does not qualify. ~ Christi
Now i see check out date on March 21 instead of March 20 in frequently asked questions.
Hmmm….that seems super-shady. I’ve just sent screenshots of the old and new wording to our rep to see if there’s a way we can convince them to have the March 19 stay nights count as the first stay.
Thank you. Please let me know if this works.
Hello,
If i check in on may 23 and check out on may 26. Will this qualify for bonus ?
Yes
I just looked… out of 4 US cities with promotion, literally no single off peak award night available. Out of all, I think I found 1 single night offpeak which won’t work unless you are looking for a single night to start the promotion. Other than that, no off peak. 5k minimum and many peak 6.5k.
I also looked and saw at most 1-2 off-peak nights (3.5k) from now to May 26 for the qualifying properties. Expect 5k and 6.5k as the norm.
If your initial stay is two nights, you won’t get the bonus, since that doesn’t happen until the second stay.
So, from my perspective, having your first stay be only one night is ideal.
…“participating MGM Rewards destinations“…do nights booked via MGM app in Vegas count as qualifying nights?
MGM app or through MGM website, same thing. You have to make sure you add your hyatt number at the check in and as long as that’s done, you will get the credit. Correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks @tjp74 – I should have added or website; this is good news!!
I have heard that free (“comped”) nights won’t count for any EQN credit, so watch for that. But as long as you have at least one paid night in the reservation, the system has been reported to give you EQNs for each night in the reservation. Sometimes it takes an email to MGM to get any credit at all, which is a mixed bag in terms of what EQN’s you’ll be credited for by the agent performing a manual entry.