Originally Posted by
GrayAnderson
Edit: I probably should have thrown in the asterisk that folks with the CC and driving spend over it can also easily take 10-15 nights off of these requirements, and can potentially knock even more off under the right circumstances. Also, I'd note that this creates an odd sweet spot for diverting CC spend: If you run $25,000 over the CC, you get ten nights, which equates to one 10-night award slug...a 10,000 point bonus for spending $25,000 is not a trivial bonus in terms of Hyatt points. But the lack of anything past 100 nights partly inverts that, too.
Having the Hyatt CC and spending over $25K annually gets you 15 nights towards tier status. 5 nights annually just for having the card and then 2 nights for each 5K spend during the calendar year.