Why not have your cake and eat it too? You get stay credit at Hyatt for Priceline rates.

I rarely pay more than a Priceline rate of $60 for Hyatts with the help of betterbidding.com. In return, with bonus points, I earn several free nights at their top hotels each year. I also earn many, many more free nights with their Faster Free Nights program. I also get the elite status.

Whether I am on my own dime, or more typically my company's, I get a great rate for a great hotel. The personal payback is about 20 free nights per year (at virtually any Hyatt) for having spent less than $2,000 on the rooms for about 50 nights. Plus I get all the perks of my elite status. That is a free night for every $100 spent on the room.