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World of Hyatt Credit Card benefit details and notes
Anniversary Free Night Award (Category 1-4)
- Issued 10 weeks after cardmember anniversary date
- Expires 1 year after issuance
- Ineligible for use with Club Lounge Access Awards and Complimentary Suite Upgrade Awards
- The spend counter for this benefit tracks total cumulative purchases during the current calendar year (excluding $95 annual fee and any other non-qualifying transactions).
- The spend counter for this benefit resets at the beginning of every calendar year. Chase does not make this spend counter visible to customers, so interested customers must calculate their own. Note that this is a separate spend counter from the "Two Additional Night Credits" spend counter below.
- Issued 1-2 days after statement closing date of the triggering transaction (the transaction causing the spend counter to cross $15k)
- Expires 1 year after issuance
- Ineligible for use with Club Lounge Access Awards and Complimentary Suite Upgrade Awards
- Cardmembers are eligible for only 1 Additional Free Night Award per calendar year (e.g., spending $30k does not result in two Additional Free Night Awards
- The spend counter for this benefit tracks total cumulative purchases since account opening (excluding $95 annual fee and any other non-qualifying transactions)
- This spend counter never resets. Chase does not make this spend counter visible to customers, so interested customers must calculate their own. Note that this is a separate spend counter from the "Additional Free Night Award" spend counter above.
- Issued 1-2 days after statement closing date of the triggering transaction (the transaction causing the spend counter to cross a multiple of $5k)
- For World of Hyatt status qualification purposes, the night credits are associated with the TRANSACTION date of the triggering transaction, not the posting date and not the statement closing date. For example, triggering transactions on 12/31/2022 (transaction date) will result in 2 night credits for the 2022 status year, regardless of posting date or statement closing date. Based on FT reports, transaction date appears to be based on the US Eastern Time Zone.
- World of Hyatt Credit Card: timing for $5k spend 2 qualifying nights
- 4 Bonus Points per $1 spent on purchases at Hyatt hotels
- 2 Bonus Points per $1 spent on restaurants, airline tickets purchased directly from the airline, local transit and commuting, and fitness club and gym memberships
- 1 Bonus Point per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Discoverist status every year
- 5 qualifying night credits every year
- No foreign transaction fees
- Travel & purchase coverage
Other notes and tips
Chase spending tracker
- The Chase spending tracker is useful for calculating your spend counter for the $15k Additional Free Night Award and your spend counter for the Two Additional Night Credits
- Chase mobile app: "View all transactions", then switch to the "Spending Summary" tab
- Chase website: From the main page, on the right hand side, click the "Spending & Budgeting" menu, then choose "Spending Summary"
- Remember to add spend from prior calendar year(s) as needed (see spend counter notes above), and to subtract $95 annual fee and any other non-qualifying transactions from all years
- Full list of non-qualifying transactions: returns, refunds, balance transfers, cash advances, travelers checks, foreign currency, money orders, wire transfers or similar cash-like transactions, lottery tickets, casino gaming chips, race track wagers or similar betting transactions, any checks that access your account, interest, unauthorized or fraudulent charges, and fees of any kind, including an annual fee
Sign-up bonus offer
Chase card overview and application page: Link
Current sign-up offer (as of Feb 1, 2022): Earn up to 60,000 Bonus Points
- 30,000 Bonus Points after you spend $3,000 on purchases in your first 3 months from account opening.
- Plus, up to 30,000 More Bonus Points by earning 2 Bonus Points total per $1 spent in the first 6 months from account opening on purchases that normally earn 1 Bonus Point, on up to $15,000 spent.
Previous sign-up offer:
Earn 25,000 Bonus Points after you spend $3,000 on purchases within the first 3 months of account opening.Earn an additional 25,000 Bonus Points after you spend $6,000 total on purchases within the first 6 months of account opening.Apply by December 31, 2020 and get 10 qualifying night credits towards your next tier status in 2020 and 2021.
Previous sign-up offer:
Earn 25,000 Bonus Points after you spend $3,000 on purchases within the first 3 months of account opening.Earn an additional 25,000 Bonus Points after you spend $6,000 total on purchases (including first $3,000) within the first 6 months of account opening.
Previous sign-up offer:
Earn 40,000 Bonus Points after you spend $3,000 on purchases within the first 3 months of account opening.Plus, earn an additional 20,000 Bonus Points after you spend $6,000 total on purchases (including first $3,000) within the first 6 months of account opening.
WoH Credit card! [Launched 2018] (Chase)
#46
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Madison, WI
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 973
It isn't really 9x. It's 4x (from Credit Card) + 5x (for being a Hyatt member).
Currently I wouldn't put a single dollar of spend onto the Hyatt card. I put all of my spend onto CSR because I got 3x points and the points were transferable to other programs (in addition to Hyatt) if I needed them.
So really, 4x points/$ is not that high of a multiplier. It's good (given that Hyatt points are generally 1.5-2 cents), but not amazing.
Really though
Even with that, if you spent $15K instead of $5K, you should upgrade (since you would get an anniversary cert, plus a $15K cert). For an extra $20 in AF, a free night at a category 1-4 seems like a bargain.
#47
Suspended
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Miami, Florida
Programs: AA ExPlat, Hyatt Globalist, IHG Spire, Hilton Gold
Posts: 4,009
@uppereastsider — The card isn't subject to 5/24.
#48
Moderator: Hawaii-based airlines & Hawai'i forums
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Ka ʻĀpala Nui, Nuioka
Programs: NEXUS/Global Entry, Delta, United, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott, and Hertz
Posts: 18,038
Just won a free set of wireless earbuds at the WoH booth in NYC. The booth has four mock hotel room doors and you get an cardkey from the staff. You randomly pick a door to open and take the prize sitting in it.
By flashing my WoH card at the check in booth, I was able to use the VIP line and skip the queue to get my door prize.
Last edited by FlyinHawaiian; Jun 28, 2018 at 5:18 pm
#51
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,333
This card isn't aimed at you. Night credits are bonuses aimed at people trying to get higher level status, which you admit to not being.
Even with that, if you spent $15K instead of $5K, you should upgrade (since you would get an anniversary cert, plus a $15K cert). For an extra $20 in AF, a free night at a category 1-4 seems like a bargain.
Even with that, if you spent $15K instead of $5K, you should upgrade (since you would get an anniversary cert, plus a $15K cert). For an extra $20 in AF, a free night at a category 1-4 seems like a bargain.
The bottom line here is that they seem to gearing up to engage in the massive points dumping that IHG and Hilton have been engaging in, which only means that the value is about to plummet.
#52
Original Poster
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: DTW
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titainum, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Delta Diamond
Posts: 142
9X on hotel spends...I guess this is confirmation that a major points devaluation is coming in the very near future. Other than that, not much here for a 5-10 night/$5k spend per year loser like me. I will stick to my lower AF card, since everything else is the same. Maybe if they had an Explorist card with a cat 5-6 cert at a higher AF, I would bite, but this is an easy pass.
#53
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 263
That's a lot of MS, and not exactly free at an unbonused 1x. Sure there'll be a few crazies, but I think the bigger effect will be those who hit 40ish organically and use all the associated night credits at lower spend level to top off the tank.
#54
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: New York, NY, USA
Posts: 12,482
@uppereastsider — The card isn't subject to 5/24.
#55
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 263
I think there's a few. If you're banking on this though, get it soon...
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#57
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 6,385
hit 40k in spend or hit 40 qualifying nights?
#58
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 263
I meant 40ish nights.
I think a lot of people will target the $15K spend level.
They'll get that extra free night plus 6 extra night credits (on top of the already 5). Couple that with the using the points generated for free nights (3 more credits if used at Cat 1) , the other two free nights with globalist + the first free night on the CC, and you get to a realistic path to globalist for the organic 40ish night a year crowd.
I think a lot of people will target the $15K spend level.
They'll get that extra free night plus 6 extra night credits (on top of the already 5). Couple that with the using the points generated for free nights (3 more credits if used at Cat 1) , the other two free nights with globalist + the first free night on the CC, and you get to a realistic path to globalist for the organic 40ish night a year crowd.
Last edited by ClarkGriswold; Jun 28, 2018 at 10:51 pm
#60
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: California
Programs: Hyatt Global, Marriot Lifetime Titanium
Posts: 2,282
I can't say I'm happy. I've had the original card for years and frankly don't really want to cancel it but I'm not going to forego the sign up bonus and it just makes sense to have the new card over the old. I also don't like that they're making it easier to get the top tier benefits without actually staying, which I despise that other brands have done and now Hyatt is also. So basically back to 50 nights for glob with zero effort.