notquiteaff

Apparently you have to opt in to the monthly email statements to get the balance.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hyatt...nd-status.html

canyonleo

I've already done that... but I don't have any statements on hand, and I'm not aware of how one can see that data without waiting for a next statement to arrive.

CopperSteve

I re-opted-in for the newsletter and my first one arrived via email Nov 21st. If you're opted-in and not receiving it, I believe if you call GP customer service they can give you the number over the phone. If you have a Diamond Concierge, s/he can also give you the number.

canyonleo

I opted in many months ago. I receive the newsletter monthly. I don't have the recent one (it was tossed the day it arrived, after I read it). Thus, with the information not available on the website, I can't answer the question as to my lifetime balance, other than to say that it's around 80%+ of the requirement, not IMO every within reach (given my travel expectation for the rest of my work life), and thus not a variable in the decision to dump Hyatt (thanks WoH) and move to (maybe) SPG(Marriott).

notquiteaff

Well, you could contact Hyatt GP customer support. I just did that an hour ago, via their website, and got the result very quickly.

"I would like to inform that currently you have 2,53,784 Lifetime base points in your Gold Passport account"

Quite far from the cool million.

GUWonder

Yes. Amex Platinum is good toward Marriott Gold status regardless of amount spent on the card. Given authorized user cards, it's easy to get three people Marriott Gold for under $250/person. Courtesy of linking SPG to Marriott.

nineworldseries

What do we think the chances are of Hyatt realizing in the next couple of months that they completely botched this and announcing "hey, just kidding, let's go back to HGP"? Near zero? Or might it happen in 2018 after most of the migrated Globalists refuse to requalify?

Biggie Fries

The problem here is that it is going to take them a while to figure out what is happening.

Like you, I'm a reasonably economical Diamond, although I do give them money and doubt that I am a problem to them (in the same way that I seem to be to AA as a <strike>penny-pinching</strike> rules- and price-savvy Executive Platinum). I won't make it to Globalist in 2017 for 2018, but I am a Diamond now and don't want to cut off my nose to spite my face, so I am booking plenty of Hyatts for 2017 to use the current benefits.

From Hyatt's perspective, don't I seem like someone who will be satisfied in 2018 forward by Experientialist (or whatever) benefits? Anyone who cooked up a system where folks who liked your brand and were in hotels 75+ nights a year but still couldn't make 60 nights with you even if they wanted to is the kind of a person who could drift for a year-plus imagining ambiguous evidence were in support of their illusion, not reality.

The reality is is that if there is a 2018, then without the Diamond benefits, I won't much stay in Hyatts.

craz

Id say as good as DL,AA,UA,VX , JB ditching a rev based RDM program and going back to miles flown = RDMs = its not gonna happen, if anything Hyatt will end up ahead by all of the frugals and 25 Stayers leaving

Now if we end up with a Global economy like it was back in '08 then anything can happen,but barring an economy going down the drain Hyatt will end up gaining by doing what it is and we will be the losers

The smallest state

I agree with that. Not because the evidence isn't out there easy to figure out, but World of Hyatt-jacking has changed into some sort of lifestyle brand instead of a Hotel points program. That ridiculous AMA was so poorly handled, nobody at the corporate office has so much as glanced at the internet since

josephstern

I would actually think that the HP/HH bookings should be down substantially for 2017. There are effectively no benefits there for Diamonds now, and the prices are generally higher.

So I'm keeping my high-end Hyatt stays, but dumping all of my cheap ones for even cheaper hotels. Frankly, I like Aloft much better. So I'll go back to those. Four Points? Harder call. But since I have no chance of elite status with Hyatt for 2018, I might as well move those over to SPG on the off chance.

If anyone should be screaming foul, it should be the HH/HP owners and operators.

MSPeconomist

It would have been so easy to include HP in the suite upgrade at check in benefit since increasingly the newer HPs do have some suites. For HH, I can understand not offering the benefit of an upgrade for extended stays, but there's no problem if it's limited to short reservations.

The smallest state

I'm thinking they are the ones who demanded the change in the first place. All those suites and extra charges going to guests for free must have been a big detractor. So now the solution that Hyatt has rolled out might be akin to treating a broken ankle with amputation. They've killed the mid-level executive traveler who used to show up 15-35 times a year.

duhe

Help me understand what you mean here. Suite upgrades are not a HH or HP guaranteed benefit. The only reason that I have ever stayed in either is it was the most convenient Hyatt (definitely not the most convenient hotel).

edgewood49

I have been traveling this past two weeks through Europe and into the Mid East and have spoken with a number of staff of various Hyatt staff at the RC level and they are all confused as well about the new "system" None expressed privately happiness over it.

On another note as to staying Hyatt or changing "flags " There is differently TWO Hyatt hotels. One is the US version we for the most part are use to and there's the international version of Hyatt where you get real professional service and when you have status it means something. But then you don't see too much whining at the check in counter for upgrades. The staffs and RC clubs are truly grand and real service not just the dried whatever for breakfast and snacks or whatever they can get away with.

Frankly if the US version was better I would stay the course and devote those 55/60 nights but frankly as a Lifetime Marriott I am treated better.

Just a thought from two weeks "Hyatting" around the world