Originally Posted by
Buckeye2604
I got around this once by booking the same nights in separate hotels that luckily were within blocks of each other. This will only work in a large city like Chicago/NYC. Otherwise the inconvenience isn’t worth it.
Even this doesn't typically work. I've tried it a few times (such as staying 3 nights in Denver and then one night in Chicago - I book the 4th night free with Prestige because... it's free and I get the spend credit). I've only gotten it to trigger the extra
night credit once and that was when I was paying cash at Hotel A and points at Hotel B (and it also happened to be when Hyatt started counting points for credit).
So I don't know exactly what it was that triggered it, but it's rare and not officially in the T&C so don't count on it.