The Offer
- Chase is offering 60,000 Hyatt points after $7,000 in spend within the first three months when you open a new World of Hyatt Business card and explorist status through 2/28/26
Card Details
- $199 annual fee (fee is NOT waived the first year)
- Card earns at the following rates:
- Earn 4x points per dollar at Hyatt properties
- Earn 2x points per dollar on your top three categories, from a selection of the following eight categories (they call this “Adaptive accelerator”):
- Dining
- Shipping
- Airline tickets when purchased directly with the airline
- Local transit & commuting
- Social media & search engine Advertising
- Car rental agencies
- Gas stations
- Internet, cable & phone services
- Earn 2 points per dollar on fitness club and gym memberships
- Earn 1 point per dollar on all other spend
- Spend $50,000 or more on the card in a calendar year and receive 10% of redeemed points back as Bonus Points for the remainder of the calendar year (maximum of 20,000 Bonus Points per calendar year)
- Earn $100 in Hyatt credit each anniversary year: Spend $50 or more at any Hyatt property and earn $50 in statement credits up to two times each anniversary year
- Automatic Discoverist status in World of Hyatt (typically requires 10 Tier-Qualifying Nights or 25,000 Base Points)
- Gift up to 5 Discoverist statuses to their company employees (they do not have to be cardholders)
- 5 Tier-qualifying night credits with each $10,000 in spend on the card in a calendar year
- Access to Hyatt Leverage, Hyatt’s global business travel program that offers special rates to qualifying small and mid-sized enterprises at participating Hyatt hotels worldwide
- No foreign transaction fees
- No fee for employee business cards
- Primary rental car collision damage waiver
Our Verdict
Recent offer was the same but came with a category 1-4 certificate instead of the Explorist status. Think most people will have preferred that compared to this offer. There was also a straight 75,000 point offer in the past as well. Because of this we won’t add this to our best business credit card bonuses. Chase business cards don’t count towards your 5/24 status (you still need to be under 5/24 to get approved though).
Personally i prefer this card over the 60K + CAT 1-4 cert. as the CAT1-4 cert requires $15K spend. The $8K additional spend can be another SUB or on a C1 VX for 16K points which covers the certificate already.
Explorist, although mostly useless, has allowed me to get early check in, late check out, and upgrades.
Nevertheless, I would still recommend the $6K, 75K UR no AF ink cards, less spend, for more UR
You get one cat 1-4 FNC by just paying the $95 AF. And then spending 15k gives you a second FNC.
So odd the poor offerings on this card vs the annual fee. The arrangement of points must be costly to one of the two entities. Maybe the demand for this card is already so high they like to toe the line on “lowest possible cost”? The inks offer way more chase/hyatt points and the personal card has better breakage when the SUB isn’t split into 30k.