No judgement but probably because they made much more money (and expect to continue to do it) out of someone who staid 400 nights at an average 500$ over 5-10 years than 1000 nights at ~100$?

Events
 

Is it correct to say that spend for events (outside of rooms) only counts toward bonus points and not base points? https://world.hyatt.com/content/gp/e...gs-events.html

You asked a variation of this about 20 months ago in this thread. The answer hasn't changed.

Thanks for keeping track after all this time. I’ve had too much else going on and forgot

Sigh. Feels like I will never make it and losing 3 years effectively didn't help. Less than 40 percent to go but it feels like it will take an eternity. Definitely hard when none of your spend is OPM. Still hard to imagine I've spent over $120000 USD with Hyatt before taxes. Insane.

Me too. :(

So strange. My account preferences show that I'm opted in to receiving monthly statements yet I've never received a single ones. Called the Globalist line and they confirmed that I should be receiving them...

Yeah, I get that. But there are also issues they need to think about - for example I'm in a country (China) where rates are generally low but maybe margins aren't.

About 70-80% of my stays are in Park Hyatts and Alilas (just checked out of a PH yesterday). But the average daily rate is far below that of say PH NY but profit margins are similar.

Total spend doesn't necessarily equate with profitablity of a customer. I also direct where my employees spend and let them keep the points even though the money comes out of my pocket (one shareholder).

Anyway, I get where Hyatt is coming from.

My wife won't let me go after lifetime intentionally again after what happened with SPG and Marriott. So I'll just keep qualifying for globalist if it is easy.

I won't go out of my way to spend the money. I spent way more than 250,000 USD at Starwood only to see Marriott destroy the program. I think ive had 1 paid stay at a Marriott in 3 years as in still burning off points.

But if I had lifetime globalist, at a minimum I'd do 40-50 nights a year (I'm already at 57 right now YTD)

Well you can call and I believe they can tell you your lifetime points but yeah that's a hassle. Obviously I'm sure you've checked your spam for the emails but possibly a corporate/work/router based security filter that prevents the email from getting through to begin with?

I remember those days... First hit Diamond in 2009 and didn't reach lifetime until 2020. I think for my last 3 years, I was eating dinner at the hotel to increase my spent. $50 buffet, one meal at a time.....

Don't give up, you will get there soon especially with all the crazy higher prices now.

I am happily envious of you. Hopefully I'll get there and, that when I do, Hyatt doesn't become like Marriott.

I do put a lot of spend on food at Hyatts actually, especially when they had the triple point dining during covid. I wish they brought that back. I shifted a huge percentage of my meetings to Hyatts for that to earn points.

I actually think some years I might put more spend on food than rooms. I'm sitting on more than 500,000 Hyatt points. I'll often use points for room but spend the equivalent or more on dining.

Or...

My recent stay at Park Hyatt. One night cash. Ordered dinner in a private room, ordered a late night room service dinner for my son and had afternoon tea in Living Room. I think I might've spent more on food than the room.

I'm happy I did it slowly over many decades when rooms were routinely 100 and 150 dollars a night
In the 90s I stayed at Park Hyatt Sydney for 200 to 250 dollars a night and thought it was a fortune
You got a great bang for your buck.Today not so much.Though with a few nights at Park Hyatt New York these days
and take the bait for their upgrade scheme then pay your overage for breakfast & your easily a LT Globber ;)

It's called inflation. ;)

I hear you. I paid around those Sydney rates for PHs in Dubai and in China in the last month and got spectacular service and incredible upgrades to specialty suites.

Hyatt treats me well and I get incredible value for my buck in Asia and Middle East.
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Not staying at PH Sydney in October - booked 5 nights at Sheraton because it seems better value. The reviews here of PH scared md off, same w PH NY.

US Hyatts treated me well last month but were shockingly expensive for what one gets. I wouldn't be loyal in US if most of my stays were there. I'd be a free agent.

Strange they haven’t increased the 1m points threshold for years despite inflation (no I’m not saying that because I just became LTG a few months ago :D)?