jimmychang

"Outside of the United States, the total charges will be reduced by converting the USD value of the Hyatt Check Certificate into local currency according to the daily foreign exchange board rate. "

I assume this means whatever the bank rate is not the one the hotel is selling at.

J.Edward

It's a check.

stephem

Can these be used to pay for pre-paid rates or only for rates where you pay at check out? I ask, because my local Hyatts have pretty decent weekend rates (prepaid) and any discount these cards give would be lost by the BAR. I'd love to get an additional discount off the prepaid rate though...

hobo13

I'm gonna find out tonight and this weekend. Just last night we booked a long weekend's worth of mattress runs, all pre-paid. Today, on my own, I saw the GC's at Costco, and was like 'grrrrr'. So I bought a bunch, and will try to switch the payment on our pre-paid room from a CC to these.

And I can confirm -- Arvada and Sheridan, CO, have them. In fact, they have a huge rack of them. But considering that I only brought one cardboard flyer to the front, yet bought 7, I wonder what happens when they run out of certs, but still have the flyers out on the floor? I can imagine some unhappy folks.

236Dakota

Per the T&C's on the back of the check, "Not valid.... for advance purchased packages"

But who knows, YMMV.

azepine00

I think "packages" are not meant as prepaid rates but rather some third party arrangements.

I just had a refund posted to my cc after paying with GC at check out on a prepaid rate.
12/07/2009 Mon HYATT HOTELS -51.84

kevino

Jimmy, that would be great if it's true. ^^ Thanks for pointing out it says that on the back of the checks.

Mary2e

I picked up a bunch of these last night. The 3 Costcos in my area each have around 100 packages in stock.

Will be nice to get a 20% discount on my stays, etc. - particularly for the spa charges

m3m3m3

The way I read that is the Hotel cashier's foreign exchange board... Does anyone have experience using these certificates overseas and shed some light? Thanks!

honey4life12

I called the South Austin location yesterday around 5 pm and they had 48 in stock. Went at 8 pm to buy - out of stock. Someone just beat me
Called North Austin this morning, out of stock too.
So sad, b/c I had a MR this weekend. Oh well, the stores both have some more on order, so maybe next time.

gooseman13

I was at North Austin last night around 8, out of stock until 12/16...they said South Austin had 40 some at that time....and I was about to go drive down there - glad to see this post before I left!

MrHalliday

It wasn't me buying them !

I stayed home and worked on my five qualifying purchases
for US Airways shopping promotion.
A number of people are laying down $7K++ on that one.
edit: now its $10K++
edit: $15K

What is the largest purchase anyone has made of these Hyatt cards?
I saw $5100 posted so far...

Jeeves

I just bought $1,800 of gift checks. It will cover most of my known personal travel for next year.

I didn't buy any for my business travel - seems kind of unethical to pocket the savings for client expenses. Nor do I want to go through the hassle of saving the client 20%.

I went to the Aurora Village Costco, north of Seattle. They didn't have any out on display. I asked one of the managers and he said they had just received 500 packets that morning. He was surprised they hadn't sold any yet. He finally figured out it was because they weren't on display.

He wrote down the product number and said the cashier could ring me up that way. I overhead a woman buying a couple Hyatt packets at the adjacent cashier. Perhaps a Flyertalker.

Firewind

With all great respect for the careful financial analyses and conclusions above, this is not a straight "20%-off" coupon. The savings are nothing to sneeze at, but...

And I know I'm repeating myself.

jumpdogjump

Diamond line transferred me to the Gift Check/card/cert/etc. center - they told me prepaid rates like LTO wouldn't qualify. Not sure how you could do it, anyway.