Hyatt award chart devaluation

[Sporky]

Perhaps overshadowed by the Qantas news - Hyatt also released a new awards chart which is quite the devaluation across all hotel categories.

https://world.hyatt.com/content/gp/en/rewards/award-chart-updates.html

Taking the midpoint of each category is effectively a 1 category devaluation bump.

A shame to see Hyatt heading down the dynamic pricing path.

 

[WilsonM]

Yeah, a Cat 8 hotel (which there are a lot more of now), could cost 75k points a night - You'd need 11.5k USD spend as a Globalist to earn that many points.

Yes, they still have award charts. But if the prices are too high, what's the point of an award chart. Also, they have 40 different pricing points for 8 categories...

 

[levelnine]

They're still the best award program for aspirational properties (Hilton/Marriott/etc run up to 250K per night), but it is definitely one of the bigger devaluations in recent hotel program history.

The bigger problem in my opinion is that Chase has tightened up the number of UR it awards (some common techniques of generating mass amounts of UR through Ink cards, for example, ended last year), and UR are the main pipeline for Hyatt points for many people (though fewer in Australia).

 

[esquire]

They're still the best award program for aspirational properties (Hilton/Marriott/etc run up to 250K per night), but it is definitely one of the bigger devaluations in recent hotel program history.

The bigger problem in my opinion is that Chase has tightened up the number of UR it awards (some common techniques of generating mass amounts of UR through Ink cards, for example, ended last year), and UR are the main pipeline for Hyatt points for many people (though fewer in Australia).

Indeed - but reading some US blogs the programme was being manipulated and in many cases simply rorted and then detailed to all on social media. Of course Hyatt offering big credit card sign ons and transfers made it even worse. In the end many of their rapidly growing members were not loyal as such but playing the game )- and now it has blown up. Sadly those who stay at Hyatts because we actually like the brand standards get left with the debris of a former great loyalty program,

 

[levelnine]

Indeed - but reading some US blogs the programme was being manipulated and in many cases simply rorted and then detailed to all on social media. Of course Hyatt offering big credit card sign ons and transfers made it even worse. In the end many of their rapidly growing members were not loyal as such but playing the game )- and now it has blown up. Sadly those who stay at Hyatts because we actually like the brand standards get left with the debris of a former great loyalty program,

Yes, I should have said the bigger problem from the perspective of those playing the credit card game. For anyone not playing the credit card game, you were never really winning — it was just a case of by how much you were losing and in what ways.

 

[kamchatsky]

These days I don't even bother with hotel programs in general as their points are almost worthless unless you stay with them a lot. Even then their elite status is generally very average unless you are on the top top top tier. I just booked via trip.com, expedia etc with % off coupons for direct discounts.

 

[Cynicor]

They're still the best award program for aspirational properties (Hilton/Marriott/etc run up to 250K per night), but it is definitely one of the bigger devaluations in recent hotel program history.

The bigger problem in my opinion is that Chase has tightened up the number of UR it awards (some common techniques of generating mass amounts of UR through Ink cards, for example, ended last year), and UR are the main pipeline for Hyatt points for many people (though fewer in Australia).

Not sure you can compare numbers like that. It’s like comparing IDR to QF points.
They have significantly different earn rates etc. 250k hh points is huge but you can also earn at 30 per usd$ spend at times.