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Old Feb 7, 2024 | 10:40 am
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Originally Posted by antonius66
We all know why this failed and it's one very simple reason. You had to grossly overpay through the Hyatt channel to get credit with Hyatt at all SLH property. It just made zero sense to book SLH through Hyatt with very very few exceptions, which is 100 percent why this failed. Full stop. Not surprising at all. If you had been able to get Hyatt credit for any SLH stay booked period, this would have been far far more in demand. On the one hand, I would say I hate to lose ANY options, but on the other, over several hundred nights during the SLH partnership, I did 1 stay at an SLH property and 90 percent of the time I found that you couldn't even book an SLH property on the Hyatt site anyway.
As I intimated above, I have an upcoming stay at Cougar Ridge Lodge in Utah that was nearly double the price to book the same room via Hyatt channels. The EQNs and marginal increase in points is simply not worth hundred of extra dollars per night.
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