Strategic spend-timing
Got my WoH Visa in September, 2018.
The 5-night Card-Holding credits for 2018 appeared in my night-count tally before the card had even landed in my mailbox. (Annoyingly, as per usual Hyatt IT lameness, there's no line item in my WoH account describing those 5-night credits ~ the total simply went up by 5). Those 5 credits, plus my remaining stays for 2018, got me just over the line to 56 nights for the 2018 Calendar year. Strategically spent ~$3400 during Sept~December on the WoH Visa card. This got me the initial 40k bonus points offer on $3k spend in first 3 months.
5-night Card Holding credits for 2019 appeared on my WoH account in mid-January.
Hit ~$5200 cumulative spend some time in late January. This triggered the 2-night credits for Rolling $5k spend meter.
Will hit surpass the $6k total spend by end of February for the 20k additional bonus points offer on $6k Total spend in first 6 months.
Will certainly hit second Rolling $5k spend meter in 2019, possibly even a third.
That's 9-night credits (possibly 12) for 2019 for using the card. And I'll need them, as my travel has been curtailed somewhat lately. Will hopefully make it to 55 again this year. Have been Diamond since 2014. Hitting the *re-increased* 60-nights during 2020 is gonna be a stretch. Lions share of the $6k minimum spend for the 60k total sign-up bonus was/will be Hyatt spend for the 4x (add'l ~ 24k points) so account point balance has gotten a healthy boost :-)
Last edited by yoganeck; Feb 7, 2019 at 6:44 pm