Originally Posted by
MarkOK
Yes, I think that is a good point. This makes decent benefits available for a much less frequent traveller. Let's say there is someone -- Jane Doe, that is a relatively light traveller. Maybe 2 weeks of vacation and 8 nights of work travel a year. If she swings those nights all to Hyatt, she can earn lounge benefits for those 2 weeks of family vacation at a property like HR Lake Tahoe, HR Honolulu, GH Baha Mar, etc etc etc. The 10 extra nights would be out-of-the-way to make 30, and the 4 lounge passes are probably not all usable anyways. The changes can be decent incentive to choose Hyatt over Marriott or Hilton.
That is a good point. It also ironically may act as a disincentive for people — specially those who would have otherwise stayed enough to reach/maintain Explorist with 4 lounge access award certs — to stay at Hyatt hotels as much as they may have when qualifying for lounge access award certs was a 4 or nothing business.