Hyatt has announced category award changes for 2022. The main points are as follows:
- Changes will go into effect on 3/22. Book by then to lock in pricing, if you book a property that decreases in price you’ll be automatically refunded.
- 70 properties will be moving up categories and increasing in price
- 76 properties will be moving down categories and decreasing in price
- Hyatt properties are moving to category 8 for the first time. Previously category 8 properties were reserved for SLH properties.
Keep in mind Hyatt introduced peak and off peak pricing late last year, so it’s very possible for Hyatt to increase prices without them moving a category. There’s a handy list of properties that you will/won’t be able to use the free night certificate on here.
Booked Andaz Maui for a week next winter @ 30k per night before it spikes to 45k. Shocked to find availability. Score.
How’d you book 7 days?! Most was 3 days, even tried booking thru P2 but no availability
Mixed bag here.
Had plans floating around my head for Moab, NYC GIld Hotel, Regency Valencia, and the Elms.
Ah well, still plenty of good deals around.
Guessing the two Hyatt Place 3->2 changes in Orlando are to take pressure off the one next to the convention center.
Pattern of increasing college town hyatt places, which makes sense. Those 5K or 8K nights are at like 3-4 cpp on gamedays.
I usually use mine in downtown Chicago. It’s a great deal at Cat. 4. I’m glad they haven’t changed this.
Losing Portland Maine really sucks!
Presently at the Park Hyatt Jeddah (cat 6) for 4 nights with suite upgrade a $12K redemption. 0.12 per point. Love you Hyatt.
Can we really blame Hyatt for raising the categories for popular locations? It’s supply & demand and they’re doing what’s best for their business. For what it’s worth I’ve had nice certificate redemptions in New Orleans & Sedona, which are remaining in their current categories.
Yeah I can blame them. I let my two certificates expire they were worthless. Staying at 5 star Hiltons with their free nights much better deal. But keep staying at dumps and think you are getting a deal.
Honestly dunno what I’ll use my certs on anymore after this change. Last year was able to use it on PH Istanbul which I was happy with. Will probably try to book Confidante Miami before the changes go into effect.
Asia properties still seem like the best use of these certs but given the continued restrictions, things don’t seem feasible until next year.
I was at the confidente last week. My first time. The property was nice but the room was not at all. I would have been upset if I’d have paid the $550 price tag. I used 15k points.
For people want to stay near Manhattan, Hyatt House and Hyatt Regency Jersey City (both cat 4) are right next to subway (PATH) station, one stop to World Trade Center.
You can also transfer another PATH line to midtown Manhattan. PATH is wayyyyyyyyy cleaner and safer than New York Subway.
I didn’t know NY Subway was unsafe.
you could get eaten by a rat at any second
ask michelle go. sorry, i guess you can’t.
1.7 billion rides a year on average over the last decade and you single out 1 person as evidence of an issue.
Maybe this crap flies at r/beermoney, but we’re not a bunch of dolts over here.
It’s always interesting to see how selective and inconsistent some people are in evaluating risk of death lol
I bet you are not Asian. You may want to r/azidentity and see it yourself how dangerous NYC subway is.
Anti-Asian Racism and genocide are done majority by mentally ill chimps that should not have human rights and belong in zoos and cages.
There is a lot chatter about anti-Asian racism and hate, but a lot less chatter about WHO is doing most of it. Hint: it is a group that believes their “lives matter”
Racist
Correct. Attacking someone due to their ethnicity is racist, and it is a hate crime. RIP to Christina Yuna Lee who was stabbed in her Chinatown NYC apartment two days ago, by a dark skinned attacker who followed her home.
sdf
It is utterly mind-boggling how so many people, in an attempt to be non-racist, do exactly the thing that they’re trying to claim they aren’t doing. When you live in a bubble, I guess.
If you don’t come from someone’s lived experience or identity, you don’t get to tell people what theirs is like.
Reviewing data that goes back to pre-pandemic is dishonest — try reviewing the data since New York State ended cash bail and the rates are telling.
Enjoy your subway ride, fool.
Yes, subways can still be a fairly safe mode of transportation but always be cognizant of your fellow passengers and try to ride during peak hours — never late at night or very early morning, especially women.
And, yes, the PATH system is eminently safer and cleaner. Moreover, as they have their own police force and a good deal of the system extends into NJ, NY’s insane bail laws are not operative here — Here in NJ, bail laws were reformed ahead of NY’s reforms and the NY law tracks the NJ law with one important exception — the judge still has the right to set bail, and fortunately, none of the counties that PATH traverses in NJ have woke prosecutors like Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who releases criminals for “minor” offenses — such as assault — which both of the criminals who are charged with offenses against Asians had pending against them when they were arrested.
So glad we don’t have to deal with all that nonsense in Tokyo. Even drunk women falling on the floor at 1am in the morning before train closures have nothing more to worry about other than stumbling their way back home.
They just have to deal with…being sexually assaulted in trains, on a regular basis.
You’re right, it’s SO much better.
That’s where you’re wrong and what the media wants you to believe it’s such a common occurrence.
@Jack,
If I follow your logic and deem every mode of transportation that has resulted in a death unsafe, then driving cars, flying airplanes, cruises, trains, motorbikes, of course I can keep going…… are all unsafe and we should avoid.
Data is a dangerous thing in the hands of the manipulative.
As a New Yorker, I can tell you the subway is a shithole. And crime is up big time. Watch your back when you go to the big city.
Alila properties in Bali are going down. Cat. 1 for high season Alila running at $170ish is a nice value. But I see what Hyatt did here… elsewhere Cat 7 are being moved to Cat 8 because you used to get 4 to 7 cents per point. By moving a cheaper (albeit still quite nice) property from Cat 3 / 2 down one category the outsized value only increases at a much smaller margin.
I’ve been to Alila in Bali and I am looking forward to using Hyatt points over there. Since I usually don’t stay in Cat 7/8 hotels anyway, the change is positive for me.
Hard to be mad about Ventana Big Sur when they never have standard rooms available anyway
Same with the Andaz Maui (though I will admit I was lucky to find three nights there during a seven night honeymoon).
Is that because they don’t have many standard rooms to begin with or because they’re snapped up quickly? I spent three nights there late last year without much trouble and so didn’t think much of it, but now I can’t find any standard rooms at all.