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Hyatt announced its annual changes to the number of World of Hyatt® points needed for award redemptions. This year, 151 properties are shifting categories with 118 of them increasing. While the total number of properties changing categories isn’t as high as the past three years, there are more properties whose redemption costs will go up.
World of Hyatt® members have until March 25th to book hotels at their current redemption costs. It doesn’t matter if your stay dates are in the future, reservations just need to be booked by this date. If you go to change dates in the future, you’ll be charged the new rates. This could have been much worse in my opinion, but an increase is never welcome.
Some of the hotels increasing are not that great in my opinion and not worthy of costing more (looking at you Andaz Costa Rica Resort at Papagayo Peninsula). One nice thing that Hyatt does for members is that it automatically will refund point differences if you have a future stay and the number of points needed goes down with this change. These refunds will begin redepositing on March 25th. If you really want to make sure you lock in a lower rate, tae the time to pick dates that you can stick with as changes after March 25th will incur the new rates.
The World of Hyatt® redemption chart still provides great value, overall. I have stayed in suites that were thousands of dollars nightly for 25,000 or 30,000 points. The full list of changes can be found here.
Hyatt offers eight hotel categories (not including all-inclusive resorts). Each of these have three tiers, Off-Peak, Standard, and Peak. Points range from 3,500 to 45,000 per night. The Andaz Peninsula Papagayo, Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills, Grand Hyatt Kauai, Grand Hyatt Tokyo, and Park Hyatt Tokyo are all increasing to Hyatt’s top-tier, Category 8 redemption rates.
Anthony’s Take: These changes come every year and bloggers bemoan the inevitable increases. Hyatt provides an overall quality product and my experience has been a great one. As long as they don’t price themselves out like Hilton and Marriott have done with some hotels, I will continue to be loyal.
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I’m not a blogger but I’m bemoaning these changes. Every single one of my favorite hotels in Bali is going up and not a single hotel in Europe is going down. For the USA and the rest the changes are also overwhelmingly bad. If Hyatt would change their category 1-4 certificates to 1-5 and the category 1-7 to use at any hotel to keep up with a decade of devaluations then this would be less awful. You know it’s truly bad when the best excuse people can muster is “It could be worse.”. I’m not dumping my Globalist status or ditching Hyatt but I became loyal because they showed me that my loyalty counted to them. That’s increasingly not the case anymore.