Originally Posted by antonius66

This "perk" remains pretty pathetic honestly. A one time cat 4 certificate for 5 brands is just not a real incentive. So once you hit 10 or 15, it's pretty much done (although now I guess you can get up to 25 technically?).

Really wish they either A) made it an annual benefit that reset and gave something like 5k points at 5 brands, 25k at 10, 50k at 15, etc every year or even B) one time 15k points at 5, 50 at 10, 75 at at 15, 100 at 20 etc. I'm at 12 and not counting the new brands, 15 is my realistic max because the chances of me staying at the other 3 brands are almost 0. But honestly, who cares... when i hit 15, I'll use the cert but it isn't moving my behavior at all, which creates a situation where instead of driving business, you're actually just giving away value for nothing in return, which is ironic. Every year I should always be looking at getting value at driving a stay to a Hyatt brand, even if cost is a factor because of that value. I should always be looking to go out of my way to more Hyatt brands, not just thinking, oh well whenever I get the next multiple of 5 that's cool.