austin_modern

Please read my entire reply prior to commenting. " Albeit, I will agree its certainly larger across the international space with higher quantity of quality properties."

Yes - I consider a vast majority of HP and HH properties to be junk; however, some of the new special built ones in cities like Austin (DT), SouthBay, Emoryville, etc to be nce.

The ones I listed from Marriott are more inline with the junk summerfield suites properties that were converted to HP - those are trash. I've yet to be in a marriott "house" style property that compared to the new HP and HH properties.

jsn55

This kind of thing happened to me with Continental one year. 12/31 flight cancelled, rebooked for 1/1. Just write them a sweet letter and ask them to give you an exception to their rule. Don't mention mattress run, but state how much you love your status.

cdancer20

I do, however, care that when I go visit my family back home, I can't find a Hyatt to stay at for stay credit. There are a couple of Marriotts I believe. Or the night when I got stranded in a city b/c my original flight was cancelled and by the time I got to the airport, the car rental place was closed. I couldn't even take advantage of getting an extra stay credit for the money I was forced to spend. Yet there was a Marriott there. Or how about where I travel for work. I did 15 nights last year of travel. Location had no Hyatts. Only Marriott and Hilton. I would have LOVED to have gotten stay credit and nights on the company's dime. Lastly, with an upcoming wedding, I would have loved to have setup Hyatt as our room block hotel! While there are 4 in my metro area, they are all in the neighboring city and I wasn't going to ask my guests to drive 45 mins between hotel and venue. Guess what is close to my wedding area, more than one Marriott and a few Hiltons. And this is NOT a Podunk area. It's a huge city but Hyatt hasn't decided to open any locations over here.

Therefore, yes it is quite important that the footprint of Hyatt is small and yes it will make it quite harder for the avg traveler, especially those footing their own bill, to get 50 nights even if it is in a "Podunk" area.

JustinSFO

I'm in the same boat as others in this thread and have called three times, and am now in an ongoing conversation with Customer Support via e-mail. Glad to hear that others have had success, and hoping Hyatt does the right thing considering my loyalty last year. I have stayed 0 nights in 2017, so it doesn't make sense that I should have any elite credit yet this year. Crossing my fingers. If anyone has tips on a specific contact within Hyatt GP I can reach out to, would love to hear them!

travelnut14

Just wanted to let you know we did get Diamond Status for my friend as I assume they did research and saw that we both did travel together and he has been Diamond for 5 years! It was a struggle Thank you Hyatt