FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador: World of Hyatt
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: NJ
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Fairmont Lifetime Plat, UA Silver, dirt elsewhere
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Actually, the hotels told me that they were under a great deal of pressure from DSUs and free nights in general. They tightened up suite availability and stopped giving nicer suites even if they were empty. The base suite is now given on a DSU or even points when in the past at slow times nicer suites were given.
I don't know if people are on a challenge or not, but it seems pretty odd to me that when the blogs started pumping Hyatt and the challenge, the suites and upgrades started to dry up at the aspirational properties.