When these things happen, sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you don't. Well, in this case, I got really unlucky! While this isn't anything I'm proud of, even the Hyatt's often criticized minimal footprint is probably too large for me, since, for whatever reason, there are only a handful of places in the world I personally look forward to visiting for leisure--three of those places happen to be NYC (PHNY), Paris (PH Vendome) and Kyoto (PH Kyoto). They're all getting whacked.

Now, I suppose, on the bright side since I've been lucky to have gotten an extra 80K from the bonus journey last Q & 12K pay-off for whining incessantly about the expired Club Access Rewards (virtually useless for Globs), I should see those "gifts" as renumeration for the inflated prices I must now fork over to stay in those 3 properties. And, like yourself, given this current environment, there is no way I'd pay $500 - $1,000 for any of them.

The only viable strategy I see is to try to keep earning points faster than their pace of inflating it.