Us military getting spouse hyatt benefits ?
Feb 11, 2018, 8:58 am
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Us military getting spouse hyatt benefits ?
Hello, I work for the US Air force, and my wife works for Hyaat Regency in IL.
She gets 12 free hotel stays a year and she usually wastes them. This year I am going on deployment and was hoping to use some of her free 12 days on my return back home.
Is that possible. Can I use her free days to stay in the hotel under her name ? My command can route a letter if needed that I am on deployment.
Please advice.
FYI, I am planning to go to Melbourne on my way back.
Thank You
She gets 12 free hotel stays a year and she usually wastes them. This year I am going on deployment and was hoping to use some of her free 12 days on my return back home.
Is that possible. Can I use her free days to stay in the hotel under her name ? My command can route a letter if needed that I am on deployment.
Please advice.
FYI, I am planning to go to Melbourne on my way back.
Thank You
Feb 11, 2018, 10:02 am
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I don't understand why you would think that your military status warrants any special treatment. Shouldn't the question be whether an individual can use his/her spouse's employee free nights (or is it really 12 free stays of any length?) without the employee spouse being present?
Feb 11, 2018, 10:13 am
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We don't have a lot of hotel employees on FT, so you might get a better answer if your wife reviews the terms and conditions of her free night passes. Surely there's some written material that accompanies them, either in print or on the corporate website, as to whether she needs to be physically present to use those free nights? If she doesn't know the answer, I'm sure someone at Hyatt in Omaha would be able to sort it out for her. I just wouldn't expect a Hyatt corporate employee to appear on this forum to discuss employee benefits in this area.
Feb 11, 2018, 4:21 pm
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I don't understand why you would think that your military status warrants any special treatment. Shouldn't the question be whether an individual can use his/her spouse's employee free nights (or is it really 12 free stays of any length?) without the employee spouse being present?
Feb 11, 2018, 7:22 pm
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This is a question for OP to ask his wife and for his wife to ask her HR people at Hyatt if she can't locate the answer herself. Maybe it's allowed in general, maybe there is an exception for active duty spouses and more likely, neither.
Feb 11, 2018, 10:04 pm
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I don't understand why you would think that your military status warrants any special treatment. Shouldn't the question be whether an individual can use his/her spouse's employee free nights (or is it really 12 free stays of any length?) without the employee spouse being present?
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Feb 11, 2018, 11:38 pm
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Hello, I work for the US Air force, and my wife works for Hyaat Regency in IL.
She gets 12 free hotel stays a year and she usually wastes them. This year I am going on deployment and was hoping to use some of her free 12 days on my return back home.
Is that possible. Can I use her free days to stay in the hotel under her name ? My command can route a letter if needed that I am on deployment.
Please advice.
FYI, I am planning to go to Melbourne on my way back.
Thank You
She gets 12 free hotel stays a year and she usually wastes them. This year I am going on deployment and was hoping to use some of her free 12 days on my return back home.
Is that possible. Can I use her free days to stay in the hotel under her name ? My command can route a letter if needed that I am on deployment.
Please advice.
FYI, I am planning to go to Melbourne on my way back.
Thank You
Feb 12, 2018, 3:24 am
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First of all thank you all for your responses, secondly Neither did I write, imply nor do I think I deserve a special treatment because I am in the AF , that was to show the situation why I am checking in without my wife. If I hurted anyone's sensitive feelings then I apologize.
I guess the best the best thing I could do is ask my wife to call her HR, but I was hoping to see of anyone was also in that situation and how they handled it.
Thank you.
Very respectfully
I guess the best the best thing I could do is ask my wife to call her HR, but I was hoping to see of anyone was also in that situation and how they handled it.
Thank you.
Very respectfully
Feb 12, 2018, 3:58 am
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First of all thank you all for your responses, secondly Neither did I write, imply nor do I think I deserve a special treatment because I am in the AF , that was to show the situation why I am checking in without my wife. If I hurted anyone's sensitive feelings then I apologize.
I guess the best the best thing I could do is ask my wife to call her HR, but I was hoping to see of anyone was also in that situation and how they handled it.
Thank you.
Very respectfully
I guess the best the best thing I could do is ask my wife to call her HR, but I was hoping to see of anyone was also in that situation and how they handled it.
Thank you.
Very respectfully
You may find there is a 'Friends and family' rate or similar. Best to get her to ask.
Feb 12, 2018, 8:25 am
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First of all thank you all for your responses, secondly Neither did I write, imply nor do I think I deserve a special treatment because I am in the AF , that was to show the situation why I am checking in without my wife. If I hurted anyone's sensitive feelings then I apologize.
I guess the best the best thing I could do is ask my wife to call her HR, but I was hoping to see of anyone was also in that situation and how they handled it.
Thank you.
Very respectfully
I guess the best the best thing I could do is ask my wife to call her HR, but I was hoping to see of anyone was also in that situation and how they handled it.
Thank you.
Very respectfully
You could have just said "She gets 12 free hotel stays a year and she usually wastes them. Is that possible. Can I use her free days to stay in the hotel under her name ? "
have her check the terms and conditions on her employee nights, but I doubt it will have terms such as "can be used for spouse returning from deployment, but only with command letter"
Feb 12, 2018, 11:29 am
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It seems implied that by including the detail that you are AF and would be on deployment and could have your command route a letter you are hoping for special treatment. If you did not hope it would allow you special treatment, you could have left all of that information out.
You could have just said "She gets 12 free hotel stays a year and she usually wastes them. Is that possible. Can I use her free days to stay in the hotel under her name ? "
have her check the terms and conditions on her employee nights, but I doubt it will have terms such as "can be used for spouse returning from deployment, but only with command letter"
You could have just said "She gets 12 free hotel stays a year and she usually wastes them. Is that possible. Can I use her free days to stay in the hotel under her name ? "
have her check the terms and conditions on her employee nights, but I doubt it will have terms such as "can be used for spouse returning from deployment, but only with command letter"
Hospitality firms may offer discounts because it's good marketing or out of civic duty. The OP does his part in ensuring the safety of Hyatt, so I hope they return the favor, but that's their decision, not anyone else's. The only thing the OP has done wrong is backing down to internet bullies.
Feb 12, 2018, 9:17 pm
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What exactly is the problem with hoping for a military discount? I hope I get a AAA discount. So what? If I get it, I get it. If I don't, I don't.
Hospitality firms may offer discounts because it's good marketing or out of civic duty. The OP does his part in ensuring the safety of Hyatt, so I hope they return the favor, but that's their decision, not anyone else's. The only thing the OP has done wrong is backing down to internet bullies.
Hospitality firms may offer discounts because it's good marketing or out of civic duty. The OP does his part in ensuring the safety of Hyatt, so I hope they return the favor, but that's their decision, not anyone else's. The only thing the OP has done wrong is backing down to internet bullies.
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Feb 12, 2018, 10:47 pm
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So do policemen, firemen, first responders, crossing guards, bouncers and bartenders among others. It's become de rigueur at this point to worship the military or face a backlash which, IMO, is not healthy and if Joe Schmoe doesn't have this allowance than others shouldn't either.
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But if other businesses want to provide a discount, not your place to judge that.
Feb 12, 2018, 11:16 pm
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Let me understand, if someone robs a business they call the military? LOL do you live in a banana republic? And who are you to tell me not to judge? Taking away my right to an opinion as well? Jeeeeeeez.
And haven't police discounts been outlawed in many forms?
Feb 13, 2018, 7:11 am
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911 dispatchers don't discriminate when assigning calls. If your business has just been robbed (as in someone just came in and pointed a gun at you and took money), you'll get the highest priority of response or both the dispatcher and beat officer risk joining the ranks of the unemployed.
