Double points promo (15Nov-31Dec 17)
Nov 16, 2017, 1:57 am
#32
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Nov 16, 2017, 9:16 am
#33
Join Date: Nov 2017
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THIS IS IT!
The final nail to the coffin.
I'm at 36 paid nights this year, was waiting for a 75k points for 25 nights promotion to requalify for globalist. This promotion won't even earn 1/9th of that.
I'm cancelling almost all paid reservations that I have for next year, except for a few locations where it's already too late to rebook a hotel, and a points+cash stays.
I'm not leaving Hyatt, Hyatt left me...
The final nail to the coffin.
I'm at 36 paid nights this year, was waiting for a 75k points for 25 nights promotion to requalify for globalist. This promotion won't even earn 1/9th of that.
I'm cancelling almost all paid reservations that I have for next year, except for a few locations where it's already too late to rebook a hotel, and a points+cash stays.
I'm not leaving Hyatt, Hyatt left me...
Nov 16, 2017, 9:57 am
#34
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Nov 16, 2017, 10:29 am
#35
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Argentina
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Nov 16, 2017, 11:13 am
#36
Join Date: Jan 2008
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I personally don’t think this promotion is all that bad, despite the limitations on booking channel. Yes, I wish it had come earlier, was longer, and was more amenable to corporate rates, but just $2,600 of spend during one of these gets you enough points for a top tier redemption (30k). I can’t think of any promos run in recent memory by the other brands that come close to this. Can you imagine earning the 30-35k required starpoints for a top tier redemption at SPG by spending only $2600? It would require one of their rare, restrictive 3x starpoints promos AND being a 75 night Plat!
Excluding points earned by credit card spend, of course. This is also just factoring in the value you’d get from hotel night redemptions. Once you get into comparing Hyatt with the flexibility of SPG, it gets a little murkier.
Excluding points earned by credit card spend, of course. This is also just factoring in the value you’d get from hotel night redemptions. Once you get into comparing Hyatt with the flexibility of SPG, it gets a little murkier.
Nov 16, 2017, 12:17 pm
#37
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Join Date: Oct 2017
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Nothing in the terms posted above suggests that a stay that begins prior to Nov. 15 wouldn't get the bonus. To the contrary, the terms suggest double points for any stay that *ends* during the promo period, regardless of when it started. (I'm on a stay that began prior to Nov. 15 and will end long before Dec. 31, so I guess I'll be seeing what happens.)
Nov 16, 2017, 1:19 pm
#38
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Kinda crazy that corporate bookings thru corporate booking tools (BCD, Concur, etc) don'y qualify for this. So basically, that means I need to cancel pre-existing reservations made thru those tools and rebook thru the website in order to qualify for the promo? Why? I have my corporate code, so it's not like they are going to get a higher rate out of me because of this. Do they have to pay commissions to the corporate booking tools? Half of me wants to say F it, but the points whore in me says.....arg
Nov 16, 2017, 3:33 pm
#39
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Stilllwater OK (SWO)
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I'm thinking, like, great -- I will earn another 15,000 points on my already planned trips. I come on here and all I see is 'rabble rabble rabble'. The entitlement is something I guess I still need to learn
Nov 16, 2017, 5:34 pm
#41
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The terms don’t say anything about reservations needing to be booked after Nov. 15. Hyatt would be inviting a lot of senseless cancellations and rebookings.
Nov 16, 2017, 5:50 pm
#42
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Texas
Programs: Hyatt Lifetime Globalist
Posts: 454
This one finally sealed the deal for me. If the corporate bookings don’t count, I will basically not qualify for any of my stays (according to my PLA) as I am currently on one that ends after 11/15 but started before 11/15 and my award booking in PH Maldives (totally understand the award nights don’t count for base points but double points on the dining and spa spend that this will generate would have been a nice bonus). I have been a Hyatt fan for too long and will finally switch all of my business to SPG/Marriott. For those that this bonus works well for, congrats, but for those of us that held on with Hyatt this year with higher expectations, we have not been rewarded. HGP did what a loyalty program should, it drove me to make irrational decisions based on perceived value in a program. WoH came along and fixed that so I guess thanks are in order!
Nov 16, 2017, 6:27 pm
#43
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Italy + Switzerland
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Checked-out on November 15th of a 3 nights stay booked on hyatt.com, upgraded via telephone.
Got credited today including the bonus double base points!
So it applies also on stays ugraded via telephone, provided the original booking was made by electronic means.
Got credited today including the bonus double base points!
So it applies also on stays ugraded via telephone, provided the original booking was made by electronic means.
Nov 16, 2017, 7:18 pm
#44
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This one finally sealed the deal for me. If the corporate bookings don’t count, I will basically not qualify for any of my stays (according to my PLA) as I am currently on one that ends after 11/15 but started before 11/15 and my award booking in PH Maldives (totally understand the award nights don’t count for base points but double points on the dining and spa spend that this will generate would have been a nice bonus). I have been a Hyatt fan for too long and will finally switch all of my business to SPG/Marriott. For those that this bonus works well for, congrats, but for those of us that held on with Hyatt this year with higher expectations, we have not been rewarded. HGP did what a loyalty program should, it drove me to make irrational decisions based on perceived value in a program. WoH came along and fixed that so I guess thanks are in order!