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outgoing
More importantly, for the few properties I checked, the price appears to be the same via Hyatt and via Mr & Mrs Smith web page. This is a major gain over previous SLH relationship. I'm very excited about this.
Did you compare with direct booking price? For the couple of tests I did, there seemed to be about a 3% price increase over the direct hotel price. Anyone else seeing that? If true, you're paying $0.03 to buy points by booking through Hyatt and only getting $0.01 to redeem.
Also Mr. and Mrs. Smith using comes with an extra perk or two over direct booking -- anyone seeing any of those perks on Hyatt because I have not in the couple of tests I've run.