Originally Posted by
Globalist on points
This year I have 16 nights coming from credit card spend (5 from the personal card, 6 for spending $15k, 5 from the business card). I will also collect 5 FNC's through credits cards and milestones. This leaves 39 more nights on points. I have already stayed at Regency Gainey ranch Cat 5 (4 nights), Maui Regency Cat 6 (8 nights), Andaz Mayakoba Cat 6 (7 nights), so far this year, and I have reservations for Andaz Maui Cat 7 (8 nights), Indian Wells Regency Cat 5 (6 nights), for later this year. I am also using my FNC's for 4 nights at the Eliza Jane. Those stays will take me very close to 60 nights, and I've only spend 596,000 points.
You're definitely going around and hitting the high value Hyatts. I have a pretty good stash of Chase points, but I still need to do quite a lot of them on paid nights.
On your list, I've done Mayakoba a few times on $$ because at least outside of Jan-Mar it's regularly got decently priced rooms (especially with Corp rates and/or Prive). Basically I'd never use points at Hyatt if I'm getting less than 1.5 cents/point. And generally aim for 2+.
I'm also going to agree with the other posters here - you can absolutely churn
some on Ink cards and do
some MS, but at your scale (particularly if it's just you and not P2/P3) it seems like you're very likely to run into a shutdown. To me it just isn't worth that risk because my Hyatt status is much more difficult to maintain and isn't as valuable/useful if I'm no longer able to earn/use chase points and cards.