Originally Posted by
jayer
This is a theoretical question or an actual stay is planned?
Not a recent data point, but when I was in my heavy work travel period I didn't even always know. Sometimes it was eligible. Sometimes it was not. I might or might not even know the hotel till I landed, let alone the rate bucket.
On an advance reservation add your Hyatt number before arrival one way or the other. Then it was by calling in. I suppose it can be done online now.
This is a circumstance where handing the physical Hyatt card to the FDC on top of your credit card is helpful and avoids awkward. You want your number on for incidental spend anyway.
It will work or it won't. But for me "special rates" need to be really special before they are worth losing club access on an ongoing stay over.
It's actually quite simple - ineligible rates are all those NOT booked on Hyatt.com or through Hyatt directly, with only a few exceptions (Prive, Costco, etc.)
What happens are a combination of mistakes and courtesies... the FD agent makes a mistake and removes resort fees when they see your a Globalist, but fail to notice you are on an ineligible rate. Many of the circumstances described above are simply that. The other is SOME consciously offer courtesies, but my bet is it's mostly a situation where a mistake is made and they did NOT intend to provide you with elite benefits. So the moral is if you want to cheat Hyatt out of club access when you are not entitled to it (and yes, you know you aren't entitled), then find a harried, new-hire FD agent and roll the dice...