Originally Posted by
shorthauldad
I don't think we can blame the weather for this.
Normally I'm a big fan of Hanlon's razor, but in this case I think Hyatt IT have implemented an algo to block scraping/bots - site wide - and it's of the Marvin the Paranoid Android sort.
Try fetching Hyatt's home page using a scripting language and you'll most likely see evidence of it straight away.
Given how they purposely designed their site to subject us all to Roomkey pop-unders, I'm assuming that Access Denied is simply to annoy their best customers and drive away business.