Well, I just booked this for 7 nights in June, on points + cash (7500 pts per night+$100; point value of 3.3 cents/pt compared to the current cash-rate ). The only problem with points plus cash is the only room option is the deluxe double, but I hope that my then-Globalist status will get me at least a nice view! I normally don't like to book this far in advance, but I couldn't stop thinking about the possibility of them upping the category after the upgrade or dropping the cash/pts options. I think they probably wouldn't upgrade the cat, but the line of evidence that concerns me is that even the Hyatt House and Hyatt Place in Manhatten are cat 5s

We've been wanting to go to New York as well, and it turned out that it was fairly cheap airfare-wise to nestle a round trip mid-week JFK-CDG tickets within roundtrip SWO-LGA tickets (all told - $1000 per person for both roundtrips, compared to $1500+ for any SWO-CDG tickets or any multi-city tickets (which aa.com was pricing out in the 2K-3K range)). I am totally jealous at how the coastal markets get competitive airfares.

So: Grand Hyatt NY for three nights, HR Paris Etoile for 7, back to new york for the Times-Square Hyatt Centric for three more nights. I should actually be able to get my 5-brand certificate next year