Mar 19, 2018, 8:57 am
Last edit by: Tokyoite
Club Lounge Awards are just Club Lounge Access while booked in regular rooms. They have nothing to do with Club rooms.
borrowed from post 1.From T&C's (link)
1. Receiving Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards. Upon receiving or re-qualifying for Explorist status, Explorists will receive four (4) complimentary awards redeemable for Club lounge access (“Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards”). For Members who have received Explorist status for a multi-year term, additional Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards will not be awarded each Calendar Year upon elite status renewal (unless the Member otherwise re-achieves Explorist status by satisfying the Tier-Qualifying Night or Base Point accrual requirement). In no event will a Member receive more than four (4) Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards on the Effective Date of these Terms. If, while you have an elite status higher than Explorist, you complete activity that satisfies the requirements to earn Explorist status, you will not receive Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards unless and until you are placed into the Explorist tier for the Calendar Year immediately following such qualifying activity.
2. Redeeming Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards. Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards are valid for one (1) year from the date of issuance and must be redeemed in connection with reservations with a checkout date before the expiration of the Explorist Club Lounge Access Award. Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards can be tracked through the “My Awards” section of the Member’s account. A Member must redeem an Explorist Club Lounge Access Award when making the underlying reservation. Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards are redeemable only at participating Hyatt hotels and resorts that have a Club lounge and are not valid at Hyatt Place, Hyatt House, Hyatt Zilara, Hyatt Ziva, or Hyatt Residence Club hotels and resorts, or M life Resorts. Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards are valid on nights for which the Member has paid an Eligible Rate or has redeemed points for a standard-room Free Night Award, Suite Free Night Award, or a Points + Cash Award, up to a maximum of seven (7) consecutive nights. Not valid in connection with any Free Night Award other than those identified above, including, without limitation, Hyatt Credit Card premium and anniversary Free Night Awards, 5-brand Free Night Awards, Category 1-4 Free Night Awards (defined below) or any other promotional Free Night Award. Breakfast will not be provided to a Member at participating hotels or resorts without an accessible Club lounge. Club lounge access is subject to availability and space limitations. Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards are not redeemable in connection with hotels or resorts that have not yet opened when the Member makes his/her reservation, even if reservations for such hotel or resort are otherwise being accepted.
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Mar 3, 2017, 11:18 am
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Yup. The only people with Explorist status in 2018 should be
- folks who intended to go for Glob and failed to get there due to unforeseen circumstances or poor planning.
- folks who don't care about status, like Hyatt, and stay enough to "accidentally" fall into the Explorist bucket
- folks who charge up a storm on the Hyatt card for no good reason
- folks who intended to go for Glob and failed to get there due to unforeseen circumstances or poor planning.
- folks who don't care about status, like Hyatt, and stay enough to "accidentally" fall into the Explorist bucket
- folks who charge up a storm on the Hyatt card for no good reason
Mar 3, 2017, 11:29 am
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Note that some hotels have regular and deluxe club rooms. It seems that the cert would book into a regular club level room (or just give lounge access, maybe?) but the Explorererist might then be entitled to be assigned the deluxe club room at check in if available. To me, it's not clear but I'm a Glob and haven't seen the club lounge upgrade certs.
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Mar 3, 2017, 12:26 pm
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In any case, it is what it is. I'll put up with it for the one year that I will be Explodist.
What's more interesting to me now is whether these awards are in any way capacity controlled. Can I apply it to any qualifying rate or only when club rooms are (still) sold? Or is it perhaps even more restrictive?
Mar 3, 2017, 4:46 pm
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Yup. The only people with Explorist status in 2018 should be
- folks who intended to go for Glob and failed to get there due to unforeseen circumstances or poor planning.
- folks who don't care about status, like Hyatt, and stay enough to "accidentally" fall into the Explorist bucket
- folks who charge up a storm on the Hyatt card for no good reason
- folks who intended to go for Glob and failed to get there due to unforeseen circumstances or poor planning.
- folks who don't care about status, like Hyatt, and stay enough to "accidentally" fall into the Explorist bucket
- folks who charge up a storm on the Hyatt card for no good reason
- folks who are now Glob but have no intention of going for Glob for 2018
These folks will be soft-landed to Explo from March 2018. That group would include me. And not you as well?
However, if I'm not mistaken, these soft-landed Explos will not receive the 4 Club Access Awards in March 2018 unless we hit 30 nights this year. Is that correct.
My quandary is that I'll easily do 25 nights this year as I enjoy my one and only year as Glob and use up my 4 suite upgrades. It certainly could be 30 nights, but what if it looks like ending the year at 27 or 28? Do I bother to do a few more nights to get this Club Access Upgrades or just say screw it?
Mar 3, 2017, 4:54 pm
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Arn't you leaving off one large group of people?
- folks who are now Glob but have no intention of going for Glob for 2018
These folks will be soft-landed to Explo from March 2018. That group would include me. And not you as well?
However, if I'm not mistaken, these soft-landed Explos will not receive the 4 Club Access Awards in March 2018 unless we hit 30 nights this year. Is that correct.
- folks who are now Glob but have no intention of going for Glob for 2018
These folks will be soft-landed to Explo from March 2018. That group would include me. And not you as well?
However, if I'm not mistaken, these soft-landed Explos will not receive the 4 Club Access Awards in March 2018 unless we hit 30 nights this year. Is that correct.
Upon receiving or re-qualifying for Explorist status, Explorists will receive four (4) complimentary awards redeemable for Club lounge access (“Explorist Club Lounge Access Awards”).
Upon completing thirty (30) Tier-Qualifying Nights or earning fifty thousand (50,000) Base Points in a Calendar Year, Members will be provided with one (1) standard-room Free Night Award redeemable at a category 1-4 Hyatt hotel or resort (“Category 1-4 Free Night Award”).
)If I do get the awards next year, I could see, for example, booking GH HKG over the JW.
Mar 3, 2017, 5:30 pm
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You can hate me early, but I'm one of those SPG guys that matched to Hyatt Diamond when the Marriott merger was announced. I've had 1 stay a year (in a Hyatt property) for the last 3 years. I assume I was soft-landed to Explorist for 2017 after reading this thread. However, I also moved 90K points from a Chase Sapphire card in October 2016 and booked a points stay for March 2017. Is it possible that this 90K transfer triggered Explorist status?
Mar 3, 2017, 5:31 pm
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And no, it won't include me. I am Exploitist this year, Discoverist next year va said soft landing. Haven't been a Diamond of a few years now.
Mar 3, 2017, 5:31 pm
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You can hate me early, but I'm one of those SPG guys that matched to Hyatt Diamond when the Marriott merger was announced. I've had 1 stay a year (in a Hyatt property) for the last 3 years. I assume I was soft-landed to Explorist for 2017 after reading this thread. However, I also moved 90K points from a Chase Sapphire card in October 2016 and booked a points stay for March 2017. Is it possible that this 90K transfer triggered Explorist status?
And, no hate from me.
Mar 3, 2017, 7:07 pm
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Did you get 4 club lounge access awards in your account?
Mar 3, 2017, 10:52 pm
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Mar 3, 2017, 11:01 pm
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It will be interesting to see how these Club Access Awards work out.
As has been mentioned, at some properties there is little difference between a club room and a non-club room other than the club access, but at other properties the club rooms can be significantly nicer than the base entry-level room, in which case there is the decision of whether to book the room level just below club level or to take one's chances on a room upgrade combined with the Club Access Award. Of course this was the same decision that Dias always faced; when properties are full Dias often received only the room booked with no upgrade other than club access.
As has been mentioned, at some properties there is little difference between a club room and a non-club room other than the club access, but at other properties the club rooms can be significantly nicer than the base entry-level room, in which case there is the decision of whether to book the room level just below club level or to take one's chances on a room upgrade combined with the Club Access Award. Of course this was the same decision that Dias always faced; when properties are full Dias often received only the room booked with no upgrade other than club access.
Mar 4, 2017, 2:04 am
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It's a crappy tier level for sure..... but getting a soft landing from Dia/Glob is getting you up to 28 nights with a free breakfast and snacks. For that it isn't bad, but it's hardly worth it earning 30 nights for.
Not getting a club room at some properties isn't great either, but it is what it is... a program to abandon once any useful benefits have run out.
Not getting a club room at some properties isn't great either, but it is what it is... a program to abandon once any useful benefits have run out.
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Mar 4, 2017, 8:51 am
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If it turns out these certs are capacity controlled -- like only available when club rooms are bookable on points anyway -- that would eliminate any lingering benefit to trying to achieve Explorererist. It's hard to imagine myself with 22 nights in Novenember thinking, oh boy, just 8 more nights!