Originally Posted by
iflyjetz
Sir, the changes to WoH after rollout now make it easier to get Glob than the old 25 stay requirement. Specifically, night credit for credit card spend. One can now simply manufactured spend their way to Glob and then just burn those points and free nights accumulated along the way without ever paying cash for a room. Including having full club access and TSUs. While $125K in charges sounds like a lot, that is a light month for some experienced Manufactured Spenders.
If you are unfamiliar with manufactured spending and how easy it is, I recommend you visit the Manufactured Spending forum on this website.
The only way that World of Hyatt makes it easier to get Globalist over Hyatt Gold Passport is because the latter never had a tier called "Globalist" (it had a tier with a name that meant something, was easily recognisable and didn't come with political assertions). As for the credit card, how do I get one? The last time I checked, unless you have a US Social Security number, you're outta luck, which means it might be easier for you (and what I presume would be the majority of its program members as they reside in the US) but a blanket statement that World of Hyatt makes it easier for top tier is blatantly false.
Originally Posted by
MikeFromTokyo
The world is quite a bit more complex than your Hyatt hotel room and your good ol’ reusable water bottle...
We've gotta start somewhere, though. If this is a cost-cutting exercise dressed as an environmental initiative than that's poor form (although par for the course these days, it seems).
I am interested in suggestions that recycling plants cause their own environmental disasters.
To my mind, I would like to see hotels have filtered water stations available. The Hyatt House Chelsea has one, for example and I think the Grand Hyatt Denver also has one. Give guests one bottle per person, per stay and add a swing tag letting them know they can refill their bottles with perfectly filtered water as much as they like. I assume glass bottles would be better again but I wouldn't want to be a housekeeper having to add 30 or 40 of those to a trolley.