Update 7/15/21: 32 more properties added.
Update 2/12/20: Another ~50 properties have been added. Hat tip to Will Run For Miles
Update 12/10/19: Another 56 properties have been added.
Update 10/14/19: Another 49 properties has been added. Bringing the total to over 250. Full list available here.
Update 7/20/19: Chase Hyatt cardholders now earn 3x/4x points on all purchases made at SLH properties.
Update 5/9/19: More properties have been added, there are now more than 200 properties available.
Update 2/27/19: An additional 57 SLH properties have been added. Bringing the total to 167 or ~30% of the portfolio. Full list available here.
Update 1/30/19: You can now book an additional 56 properties, bringing the total to 110 properties or roughly 20% of the SLH portfolio. You can view all these properties here.
Update 11/29/18: The Hyatt & Small Luxury Hotels of the World partnership is now live. To begin with 54 properties are available to book through Hyatt, this is roughly 10% of properties under the SLH umbrella, with the rest to be rolled out over time. You’re able to make reservations starting today, but first stays aren’t possible until December 6th, 2018.
Hyatt has announced a new partnership with Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH). Starting soon Hyatt members will be able to earn and redeem World of Hyatt at participating properties under the SLH banner. A full list of the 500+ SLH properties can be found here. Hyatt members will also get elite night credits for these stays if booked through Hyatt channels.
It’ll be interesting to see if the full 500+ property list will be eligible, or if it will be heavily property restricted based on properties opting in/out for the program. It looks like you’ll also need to book through Hyatt directly instead of SLH, so we will need to compare the pricing of the two as well. Keep in mind your Hyatt status isn’t recognized and SLH has their own elite program, so don’t expect room upgrades/breakfast based on your Hyatt status.
This partnership has the potential to be very useful for Hyatt members, but the execution will be what matters.
One of these appears to be an all-inclusive motor yacht that involves the Galapagos? I don’t even know how you’d book that online. A lot are category 8, including a ranch on the Wyoming/Colorado border. I am sure these will be difficult to impossible to book with points.
Is there a link I am.missing for the 32 additional properties?
Some of these hotels don’t show both the paid and point nights no matter what dates I put in. Any idea why?
Probably because the partnership just went through. May take their systems a little bit of time to update.
Ya. More Hyatt options.
A digression: Is World of Hyatt really better than Marriott Bonvoy? Do Hyatt hotels have good redemption availability? After being bonvoyed by Marriott, I’m looking to diversify beyond Hilton.
Yes. Better redemption value, better customer service (easily reachable by fb msg, twitter, and phone), and properties usually recognizes status correctly.
Just this: when you redeem nights on points and free award, resort fee and taxes are waived. Sometimes even parking fee is waived even not as a globalist. That’s probably my least favorite part about Bonvoy where it charges you resort fee and taxes even on point booking.
Thanks. I’ve read that Hyatt hotels have too much leeway over redemption-availability. Any inputs on that?
Their are a handful of properties that pull a lot of BS such as the Andaz Maui and Regency Sonoma wine country, really only a few. The vast majority you’ll have no problems in terms of inventory.
Just in the past year I’ve experienced inventory manipulation at the park Hyatt aviara, mar monte Santa Barbara, Andaz Scottsdale, and Andaz Savannah. The aviara is Hyatt owned. Hyatt is as bad as anyone with award misrepresentation.
What was the manipulation? Was it that they had no standard rooms, or that standard rooms were being sold as packages but not under the normal rate? What did Hyatt customer service say when you pointed it out to them?
Look at my comment history to find the Scottsdale situation. We just got back from California and the Park Hyatt Aviara soured my experience permanently on Hyatt. I mean yeah Hyatt has great value if you can get in and I’ll always use them but their behavior with the Aviara was enlightening. Hyatt and its property owners commonly manipulate inventory by misrepresenting what rooms are available and you can often easily prove this. You look for award rooms and find them and then take screenshots of the room photos, the listed amenities, and room square footage. Then go back to the dates you want and if there are not rooms available for awards, look at the rooms they have for cash. More often than not those same rooms are available but they change the names of the room. I went round and round with the property manager at Aviara about this and the argument eventually got to the point of “every room has a unique view.” This is after I was pointing out the award rooms said view types and had the same language as the rooms he wouldn’t let me use. He was trying to rationalize upcharging for rooms because they had particular views. Anyhow we got to the property and used points but they were at about 50% capacity and I walked all around the property. Sure there were chunks of rooms with this view or that view, wings of the property with truly different views. But it was obvious he was saying whatever he had to. And by the way he was the nicest guy about it and I think his hands were tied by Hyatt corporate because again Hyatt owns that property. He and the Aviara were ultimately very nice to us. But what Hyatt did there was fraud by misstating what their true inventory was and by lying about what rooms they had available. It was also against their blackout policy. Another person below is saying just be patient and wait until they release award space. Um, no. Hyatt has a no blackout policy. But what they do is change the names of the rooms and call them a different category but what they’re really doing is fraudulently manipulating the system to block us from using our points. This has happened to me numerous occasions over the years and usually it is a dishonest property owner who doesn’t want a lower reimbursement rate from Hyatt, but when it happened to me at a Hyatt owned property then I knew Hyatt condones this behavior. I hate being lied to.
Just track when they release award space and don’t be insanely picky about dates and you’ll be fine. Booked Andaz Maui in 2019 and Andaz Papagayo in 2020 over NYE and moved it to NYE 2021 with no issues. If you’re on the ball and prepared, you can generally get the properties you’re looking for.
I’ve been blown away by these. Similar properties are at least 3x on bonvoy for comparable property and you can’t book them for even 140% on UR points vs. transfer. Got 5 more nights planned in Italy this year.
Nice! Where are you staying / have you stayed that you’d recommend?
Is there a simple list of all participating properties (preferably grouped by region) and the number of points required? I’m more interested in the affordable boutique properties than the ones than the ones that will cost me 25,000+ points.
Here you go: https://www.hyatt.com/explore-hotels/small-luxury-hotels-of-the-world
You can switch between “list” and “map” view in the top right, and even filter down to specific award categories.
Thanks. That page is quite useful. Of course, it does show (not surprisingly) that most of the Small Luxury Hotels are expensive. But if you find one for 15,000 points, does anyone know if you can use a Hyatt certificate (like the Chase or Brand Explorer certs) to pay for it?
The certificates work for cat 1-4 regardless of peak/off peak unlike marriott.
Anyone stayed the Enzo Ango Fuya II in Kyoto? We were thinking of just staying at the Regency Osaka but this seems like a great option.
Is there a list of these hotels, sorted by average room cost per night?
I tried to do dummy bookings (lots of dates) at both The Liming Baquia and the Sailrock Resort. Both show that they are not available to book on points. So even though they have been “added,” I can’t book them. What gives? Hyatt tells me that these hotels are not participating (yet?). If that’s the case then why market them as participating!!??
I stayed at The Liming Bequia on points, we managed to get 2 rooms per night with them. It’s a very small resort so I’m sure availability is limited. It’s well worth it if you find availability. I’m pretty sure that Sailrock is a similar situation.