peteropny

What BlissWorld refers to is the $100 off a 2-night stay cert (I think) that comes from a variety of sources including UA. They are only worth about $40 or so due to the restrictions in rate. I'm still really wondering about these from Capital One.

krazedtrader

Am I confused? A biz class ticket is worth much more than $1800 (52k x 2 certs). For 120k miles on some airlines I can get to Asia! Why would anyone want to use if for anything else?

azureautumn

Because cap one "miles" are not real airline miles. 1 mile typically worths 1c on travel.

jbalmuth

Assuming that you have the Cap1 Venture card, I think that your math may be a little off. $900 of Hyatt certs is obtained by redeeming 52k Cap1 miles, which are earned by charging $25.6k on the Venture card. Therefore, two certs are obtained by charging $51.2k on the Venture card. If one charges $128k to the Venture card, one can redeem miles for 5 Hyatt certs, worth $4,500. Depending on where you're travelling to in Asia, and depending on which airline you redeem miles on, $4,500 of redeemable value might appear to be a very competitive offer to airline miles.^

krazedtrader

Ah I was confused. I thought the Q was about the 100k Venture Card offer which is a 100k match of miles in the account. Am I still confused??

mnmag

The cert has to be used for one stay -- no credit or cash back for any remainder -- so it's best used for a multi-nt stay!

mnmag

Yes, the 'match' consists of Venture 'miles' which are redeemed through Cap1 -- they are not deposited in any FF a/c.

gomike

Great deal, too bad it has to be used in one stay.

johnep1

Thanks OP. If this works as it seems, I'll grab a few for use on a 3 room, 3 night stay at the PH MEL in June and switch my stay from points to cash and also use a suite upgrade. This will effectively reduce the rate from $300/night to ~$175/night. Not too shabby.

iluvthsgam

So it looks like there is also the same $900 "certificate" available for Fairmont and Ritz-Carlton.

There is also a 2 night stay for a standard suite in Collection C for Raffles available as well.

All for the same 51,250 "miles".

51,250 "miles" covers $512.50 in travel spend, so if you can use the $900 all in one shot, this is a really good redemption.

baliktad

Hmm, requiring use all in one stay is much more limiting. I don't really expect to have any single $900+ stays in the next year; if I did I would probably want to use points anyway.

Wonder if there might be a market to trade the $900 single cert for ~$800 in Costco certs.

Moy

A bit of searching shows that these are "Hyatt Incentive and Promotion Certificates". The T&Cs are the same including the 15 month expiry, etc:
https://www.certificates.hyatt.com/OrgFaq.aspx

I was gonna say that I'm fairly confident this would be 9 x $100 certs rather than a single $900 cert due to the fact that these certs are only offered in $10/15/25/50/75/100/200/250/350/500 demoninations. However if you read the FAQs closely, the #1 FAQ says:
Which would certainly be the case here. So I'm not sure afterall how the certs will come. You could call CapOne and ask them, but frankly I wouldn't trust some CSR who isn't familiar with it. I'd only trust them if I were talking directly to the person who stuffs the envelopes with these certs. So probably somebody here will have to test it out by redeeming for it and report back here. Certainly somebody has a $1500 stay coming in the next 15 months to use this at. This would basically turn our 110k CapOne miles from $1100 instead into ~$1860. Not a bad return for a CC signup offer!!!!

skimple

There are going to be a LOT of disappointed new Venture card customers

Snyder81

Are these good on the public rates on Hyatt.com? We're looking at staying in Hawaii for a few days it and would be great to use these on an Ocean Front room. Do the certs also cover taxes?

mnmag

Not sure what you mean by 'public' rates, but any non-prepaid rate on Hyatt.com should be eligible, & whatever taxes or other services that are charged to your room (meals, etc.) should be covered by the certs, AFAIK!