Originally Posted by
BigBopper
I've done some crazy things to earn or keep status over the last 25+ years but I have to be honest, I don't understand flying somewhere to hotel hop each night for Bonvoy status, especially PLT.
Surely for most people it would cost less to just do a local mattress run every so often. If you have to fly somewhere to get 5 or 6 extra nights to make PLT are you even traveling enough to enjoy it? Between the vacation time, the airfare, rooms costs, food, etc is their an actual return on your investment?
I'm on the fence at the moment. Lucky for me I have flight benefits so the travelling part isn't even hard or expensive. I have a big Asia trip coming up at the end of the year and several next year where titanium would be quite useful. The Hyatt footprint is just too limited for me at this point so while I'll always requalify for Globalist I need other options. I was debating getting the Amex and aiming for maybe 10 nights during the promo. Yeah the bouncing around is annoying but I used to do it all the time when I qualified for Hilton on stays. The other option is just go FA when travelling abroad where there's not a Hyatt.