Originally Posted by tonyhartphoto

I’m helping my brother research a trip to the Maldives for July/August 2026. We’ve been a few times, including PH but this will be his first trip. He is a solo traveller and his budget isn’t infinite.

Can anyone confirm what’s the board basis cash for bookings via the Hyatt app. I can’t find the board basis mentioned anywhere at all. When we went back in 2022 it was a Travelzoo deal and as I recall we had half board. That would be ideal in my view.

Do PH offer an AI option of any sort?

Originally Posted by nexusCFX

Luxury escapes has PH right now for ~1000/nt beach villa and ~1140/nt OWV, inclusions for 2 persons are breakfast, lunch, dinner, round trip transfer, free flow drinks, so it's not quite AI if one wants that to also include infinite meals and snacks but it's pretty good. Price is inclusive of tax and service charge.

I've been thinking about it for a future trip as it seems to be better than any deals I can find via Prive or the regular rates in the app. Cheapest rate on Hyatt side for beach villa for 7 nights next June is 5400USD after tax and service charge, includes breakfast but everything else including transfers is extra.

Of course, luxury escapes rate is almost certainly not a qualifying rate for nights/points/status benefits. But it seems worth the tradeoff.

Also a lot of AMEX cards with a $350 back offer for luxury escapes right now.