One of the many great perks of being a Hyatt Globalist is the ability to use Suite Upgrade Awards. These awards allow you to upgrade from a standard room to a suite at booking, provided that there is standard suite availability. Each award can upgrade a room for up to seven consecutive nights.
Unfortunately, the process is a bit of a pain. You have to call, e-mail or tweet the Globalist Concierge Team, then they have to check availability, contact the property, have the suite set aside and then another team manually removes the upgrade award from your account. Not exactly straightforward.
We’ll, it looks like that’s about to change.
Spencer over at Pointswire shared that a friend of his recently saw the ability to book a standard room with points and then add a Suite Upgrade Award on the Hyatt app. We checked ourselves and, sure enough, at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue Lakeside:
Pointswire confirmed that Hyatt is in the process of rolling out this change and that it was fairly limited for now. I looked at multiple cities and properties, but the only one where I was able to see the online upgrade option was the Regency Bellevue Eastside.
It sounds like this will be limited to points bookings for now, but hopefully we’ll also see it on cash bookings soon. Who says there’s no IT in Hyatt?
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Sweet! (or should I say “Suite!”?)
Do you and Stephen do everything for this site now?
Greg is obviously traveling right now since he’s the only one not posting. Even if that wasn’t the case, Greg has done plenty in his years of blogging. If he wants to ease up a little does it really hurt the site content all that much?
Guess you also skip Nick’s posts? Too bad!