Duke787

8/60 as an Explorist don't expect many more unless something crazy happens.

Focusing on Marriott/SPG and Hilton - much high value props. Long-term more interested in maintaining my Marriott Plat status which gets me UA Silver (been able to get free E+ at T-24 every time and even been upgraded a handful of times) and DL domestic upgrades (via the free Marriott Plat to SPG Plat status match and DL/SPG Crossover benefits). Plus Hilton has had good points promos for a while that are much higher ROIs than Hyatt and has a footprint in parts of Europe I'm heading to in the next month that no one else has.

CIT85

21/60 YTD, plus 5 award nights that don't count.
10 more nights booked through end of July.
It'll be a stretch to make 60, although I am willing to give it a try.
I have SPG LTP, I'll just drop Hilton.

iflyjetz

I've got 2 stays so far as a Glob; burned a couple of DSUs in Jan.
Moved stays over to Fairmont; now a Fairmont Platinum.
I have a few hundred K of Hyatt points to burn so I'll do a bunch of P+Cs this year to get rid of most of my points. Any remaining points will be burned in 2018.
I'll also try to hit 10 different brands for the two free nights.

?? First quarter numbers aren't out until the first week of May. In the fourth quarter, Hyatt was expecting 2017 systemwide REVPAR to be 0 to 2%. http://newsroom.hyatt.com/news-releases?item=123550

SpeedRicer

Same here, I'll hit 59 nights next week and will stop Hyatt stays until the end of the year. The remainder of my nights this year will probably go to SPG, Hilton and IHG instead. to the expiration policies on the suite upgrades/free nights...

CloudCoder

It's an extremely smart move to hit 60 night as late in the year as possible. I hit 60 nights in early April, and now I'm stuck with:

1. Four suite upgrades which expire in April 2018 (in addition to my four which expire in February 2018) ... and therefore NO available upgrades from early April 2018 through February 2019. This sucks.
2. A free night at any Hyatt (category 1-7) which expires in August 2017 ... and no chance to earn another one until well into 2018.

It's strange that a "top-level" guest who earns the "top-level" awards will actually spend more weeks (on the calendar) without the award (because it expired) than with the award. And the sooner you earn the awards, the more months you'll spend (at the distant end of the graph) without the award. In short, Hyatt punishes their early qualifiers, big-time.

Whoever came up with the new structure for expiration dates must have been on drugs.

Mary2e

Agree.... there is no way I would requalify earlier than December due to the expiration issue.

edgewood49

I am almost halfway having said that at this point I am totally disappointed in the new program. I am seeing less not more. Suite upgrades are slim to none and have found that unless you ask you won't get. I am also fighting the smaller footprint of Hyatt versus Marriott which I have been LFT PLT for years. Told my wife yesterday that this might be the last year as top tier.

Sad, very sad after all these years of loyalty. It's for me all about footprint and my travel.

notquiteaff

Wouldn't you get another four if you stay on the treadmill and requalified again by, say, April 2018 for the 2019 year? Of course, if you start "slacking" next year and only qualify late in the year you would have a gap.

itsallgood

Weren't you a big supporter of the new World of Hyatt program just a few months ago? This post appears to be quite a turnaround in sentiment.

itsallgood

You can get additional suite upgrade certs for every 10 additional nights above 60, at least to 100. So you could get another 4 certs with later expiration dates.

Radiant Flyer

By mid May I'll be at 40 nights and due to the award expirations issues I will take a break from Hyatt so I don't re-qualify until December 2017.

75% of my travel is international and so far have a 100% suite upgrade success rate, I was upgraded to a stunning suite at a Park Hyatt last week. But... I really hate be called a "Globalist" the name is degrading, childish like. On all my guest surveys I'm giving in the World of Hyatt a ZERO.

edgewood49

Oh yes I was and still a fan of Hyatt. Having said that so far I am disappointed in the "new" program. Suite upgrades are far and few between, hell out of 21 nights so far this year I would guess that 75% were exactly the room type reserved sans 'upgrade" and of the upgraded room at least 70 % were a result of saying something to the agent, most light hearted but others is asking directly. Marriott does a much better job of that.

As I look forward at my pending travel schedule I am not sure the new benchmark is going to happen and hey so be it. Where I will miss it the most is on my international travel which is where Hyatt does it best. Saving grace there for me is Marriott bought SPG

One final note my disappointment is not so much the qualification as it is the actual program now. There is not one thing that has made me satisfied so far. I see less not more. And frankly Globalist, really I refer to myself to top tier when talking to the desk agent.

CloudCoder

Yes, you can choose one suite upgrade certificate or 10,000 points. The points are by far the wisest choice.

The reasonable, rational way to design the new program would be if the certificates expire exactly when the status expires (February 2019). Hyatt chose to make the perks expire based on the date they were earned, thus punishing people who stay more often. But it seems to me that a loyalty program should REWARD, rather than punish, frequent travel.

itsallgood

It's good to hear that you've finally seen the light with respect to World of Hyatt. In many ways, Hyatt's successfully transformed itself from first choice to last choice for many.

edgewood49

Look you don't know my background but I have fairly deep ties to several hospitality companies( on a personal level with the families) along with too damn much travel over the years. And being in the construction industry. I have for the most part enjoyed my loyalty over the years and yes I understand todays economics. The venture / equity capitol is forever changing things. In my industry on the supply side they have contributed to a substantial material price increases.

On hotels they are bleeding the properties dry without any investment in maintenance or upkeep.

I did have hopes however that is gone and I agree with many of the posters of past. And I had the $$%#%$ to admit it online.