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From T&C's

(i) Earn a Free Night Award – Category 1-7 Hyatt Hotel or Resort: Upon completing sixty (60) Tier-Qualifying Nights or earning one hundred thousand (100,000) Base Points in a Calendar Year, Member will be provided with one (1) standard-room Free Night Award redeemable at a category 1-7 Hyatt hotel or resort (“Category 1-7 Free Night Award”). (A list of Hyatt hotels and resorts, sorted by category, can be found at goldpassport.com.) The Category 1-7 Free Night Award is valid for one hundred and twenty (120) days from the date of issuance and must be redeemed for a reservation with a checkout date before the expiration of the award. This award is available only to Members who complete the qualifying number of Tier-Qualifying Nights or earn the qualifying number of Base Points starting from the Effective Date of these Terms. While this award requires the same Tier-Qualifying Night and Base Point accrual requirements as are required to achieve Globalist status, the Category 1-7 Free Night Award is not provided as a benefit of Globalist status and a Category 1-7 Free Night Award will not be provided to Members who receive Globalist status through any means other than satisfaction of the Tier-Qualifying Night or Base Point accrual requirements (e.g., Members who receive Globalist status as part of the migration from the legacy Hyatt Gold Passport program to this Program). Redemption of a Category 1-7 Free Night Award is subject to standard-room availability at the selected hotel or resort and to all redemption terms generally applicable to Award Reservations as set out in the section of these Terms titled “Redeeming Free Night Awards, Room Upgrade Awards, or Points + Cash Awards.” Category 1-7 Free Night Award is not valid at M life Resorts. Any Category 1-7 Free Night Award that is not used within one hundred and twenty (120) days after issuance will be void and forfeited by the Member. Other Free Night Awards, including those valid at category 1-7 hotels and resorts, may have different expiration and other applicable terms.

KC01

They've posted and was able to redeem for a stay in Oct at PH. Much smoother IT rollout than anticipated.

MSPeconomist

Do you mean the free night from already having 60 nights in 2017? Or are you seeing your welcome to Glob cat 7 free night gift cert?

KC01

Sorry, I should've added context.
Welcome to WOH 1-7 Cat Cert, valid for 1 year.

MSPeconomist

IIRC there's a separate thread for that.

OsakaWino

No there does not seem to be a separate thread for the welcome free night, and I imagine it will be a while until someone actually gets the 60-night cert.

But as with the other new threads for WoH experiences, especially the suite upgrade at checkin, if the poster does not state the property, the info is pretty much worthless.

MSPeconomist

I'm sure that someone on FT is sitting at 31 + 28 = 59 nights right now. If they checked in before NYE, they would be beyond 60 nights already, although this depends of course on the relevant checkouts having already occurred.

OsakaWino

ok, if you would prefer a separate thread for the 2 different types of free night cert, that's fine too, but I could not find the other one.

krazieman

I see my new Globalist status.
So I have 9 nights so far this year, it says 51 more nights till Globalist. I thought we only need 55 total nights to requalify?

pWei

Longer term, it's probably better. We don't need old datapoints for what is essentially a one time thing commingling with that recurring benefit.

Kacee

You need 60.

HHonors OUTSIDER

It seems that everyone must actually achieve 60 nights one time before they qualifying for the 55 night renewal.

ceebee100

From the T&C, it appears that in order to get the 4 suite upgrades you will need to keep on staying 60 nights every year. 55 nights after this year will just get you all the other Globalist perks except the 4 suite upgrades.

krazieman

Well.. that sucks. At least I was able to use one of the new DSUs on the PH Seoul for May.

beachfan

I don't have the T&C handy but I'm pretty sure that after you qualify with 60 this year, it's just 55 in 2018