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Old Feb 7, 2015, 6:33 pm
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hailstorm
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Originally Posted by FlyingOutTLV
500 is the number of hotels in the Hyatt portfolio, not rooms per hotel. Hyatt actually has closer to 550 hotels if I'm not mistaken.
Fair enough, but that doesn't have an effect on the calculation of average percentage of Diamond members on property.

Originally Posted by nhwiki
If one were to simply look at the Hyatt FT property threads for total views, one might get a much better sense of which properties get a concentration of attempted award redemptions, and, judging by the increasing difficulty of scoring a DSU suite even a year out at some of these properties during vacation periods, compared to the relative ease with which one could get an award suite for the same room 6 months out 5 to 10 years ago, well, that might need some explaining as well.
I don't think your limited, anecdotal evidence invalidates the data. For every person that posts here having a problem, there could be another person that has an easier time with benefits than normal and consequently doesn't feel the need to post about it.
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