FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador: World of Hyatt
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: NJ
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Fairmont Lifetime Plat, UA Silver, dirt elsewhere
Posts: 46,919
For some people here, they travel quite a bit, so it's not that difficult to get status is multiple chains. In some cases, they have inexpensive properties where they can do mattress runs to top off a program for status.
Some chains have stay or point promotions that make it worthwhile to attain status for very little net cost.
I generally stick with Hyatt, as they are where we often go, and being diamond is a pretty big benefit for us.
It just depends upon your travel patterns.