Originally Posted by
notquiteaff
60 nights - 5 nights for having the card - 20 nights at hotels = 35 nights from spend, so roughly17*$5k = $85k in spend.
I don’t think I value Hyatt glob status enough to justify the opportunity cost from putting that much spend on my Hyatt card. The earnings from other cards can buy a lot of breakfasts. Maybe if those 20 nights were guaranteed to all be at luxury hotels, it could make sense, yet my travel pattern would likely mean 10 nights at HH/HP and 10 at nicer hotels. So really not worth it for me.
That said, I have a couple of stays coming up and some stays that I could shift to Hyatt. Will have to do the math, but it might make sense for me to sign up for the promo for Explorist status (even though it isn’t worth much). Doubt that it would make sense to aim for Glob as it would require currently 10+ nights of unplanned travel.
I do end up staying primarily at full service Hyatts (even if I just have 20 nights, all but 1 or 2 would be a HR or better), often with much appreciated TSU upgrades and comp breakfast for all three of us (me+wife and kid). So, for me, there is a lot of cost to -not being globalist-. What's tricky, is that every other year, I may have 60-80 nights in Hyatts (split between work and pleasure), and every
other year, I might have 20-30 nights (primarily pleasure), and you earn based on this years stays for the
next year's status. So, like this year, I may stay 20-30 nights (mostly on pleasure), but earning status this year by putting a lot of my personal spend on the WOH card is to qualify for the 60-80 nights I'll likely spend in Hyatts
next year (which may include some Asia trips for work!).
And, I've been getting 2.5+ cents per point on vacations I really want to take lately, no cash back card is doing better and the squeeze for bit more on bonus categories by holding other Chase cards with UR isn't worth the effort.
Originally Posted by
craigthemif
More whining about "Glob-lites", without recognising that people who aren't staying 60+ nights per year aren't at your hotel competing for upgrades either...
We all want upgrades at the nice hotels we are on vacation for -- The competition there isn't other globalists nearly as much as the general public paying cash for upgrades. Got to use a TSU, or stay off peak when the cash-paying public isn't buying out the place.