Aug 11, 2018, 3:23 pm
Last edit by: TravelinSperry
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)
Jun 29, 2018, 1:09 am
#61
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: California
Programs: Hyatt Global, Marriot Lifetime Titanium
Posts: 2,282
Just to put the "minimum spend for status" into perspective, you can actually do it for MUCH less than $140K spend.
Breaking out the math:
5 nights from the card
1 Cat 1-7 cert
$105K spend =7 1 free 1-4 certs + 42 night credits (21 batches of $5K) + 105K points. (T&C say you only earn ONE free Cat 1-4 night from spend)
So you're actually at 5 + 1 +71 + 42 = 49 nights already if you use your certs. And if you're truly trying just to get status, you can use just 25K 55K of those points for 5 nights at a Cat 1 to be a globalist from scratch.
@ 90K spend:
6 1 free 1-4 certs (T&C say you only earn ONE free Cat 1-4 night)
+ 36 night credits (18 batches of $5K)
+ 90K points
5 + 1 + 1 + 36 = 43 nights. Use60K 85K of your points for 12 nights at a Cat 1 and you're to globalist. Still with 30K 5K points leftover. And that's assuming you have absolutely zero paid stays (why would you get globalist in that case??) AND you didn't previously qualify for Globalist.
So with just $90K of spend at a no-bonuses location, you can get globalist status if you're willing to use your earned points towards it (or if you were already going to be staying at some Category 1 locations on points).
Breaking out the math:
5 nights from the card
1 Cat 1-7 cert
$105K spend =
So you're actually at 5 + 1 +
@ 90K spend:
+ 36 night credits (18 batches of $5K)
+ 90K points
5 + 1 + 1 + 36 = 43 nights. Use
So with just $90K of spend at a no-bonuses location, you can get globalist status if you're willing to use your earned points towards it (or if you were already going to be staying at some Category 1 locations on points).
Is this the only Chase card not subject to 5/24?
Jun 29, 2018, 9:22 am
#64
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Madison, WI
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 973
Of course I am not anyone's target, since I only travel for leisure and do not have a trust fund. I just thought it would be good to provide a lone voice of dissent, as all of the preceding posts seemed to praise this card as if it were the second coming. But I have to wonder, aside from using for business expenses (which is not an option for me), how many people spend $15k, much less $150k on a credit card? Maybe if I could pay my mortgage with a card, I could pull it off. From the posts here, it seems like just about everyone in the room has a very robust business account, which makes me wonder why not just call it a business card from the onset? I may not be in the 1%, but I am at least in the top 5, and I could certainly not afford to drop $25k+ a year on crap and miscellaneous expenses on a credit card (and if I were in the 1%, I doubt I would be wetting my pants at the prospect getting a few hundred dollars worth of free nights and comped clubhouse sandwiches from a credit card promo).
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.
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.
$15K seems like it is actually a pretty normal amount for someone who is in the top 5% of travelers/income to spend in a year. $1250 a month; on everything from groceries, gas, eating out, plane tickets, hotels, car rentals, insurance, activities, etc.
In addition to that, many people on Flyertalk (and other boards) have ways of doing credit card spend without really spending the money. I won't go into it much here, but search for Manufactured Spend.
Jun 29, 2018, 9:59 am
#65
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Homeless
Programs: Hyatt Glob; Hilton Dia; Marriott AMB; Accor Dia; IHG Dia Amb; GHA Tit
Posts: 4,835
To answer my own question, after checking with Chase, the free night is credited on each card anniversary and could take up to 10 weeks to show up in the Hyatt account
Jun 29, 2018, 10:05 am
#66
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Sunny AZ
Programs: HH Diamond, Sixt Platinum, IHG Spire Ambassador, Marriott/SPG Gold .....
Posts: 3,208
The last few years my cert always arrived just before the AF was charged or shortly after. So getting the cert and cancel and not paying the AF should be possible (worked for me this year).
Jun 29, 2018, 12:13 pm
#67
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 543
So, I need some help from you experts with my long term planning.
I'm currently Marriott Plat, so will have the new Plat Preferred with the combined program through Feb 2020. A lot of my 2019 stays will be with them to take advantage of my status, but I think I'll let it go after that and am thinking of coming back to Hyatt. I'm Explorist now, but haven't stayed much this year, and will just be Discoverist next year.
I'd like to be efficient in plotting my return to Globalist. I won't really need it until 2020, and would like to maximize bang for buck.
So... remind me, please, how does timing work with Hyatt status? You get it for the rest of the year you earned it, plus the whole next year? If that right, seems like it would be ideal for me to earn Glob early in 2020? But the mechanism for the card isn't a clean "spend xx, get status", rather, it's accruing nights as you go with every $2500 spent, and status is based on nights is the normal calendar year counting right? So maybe there's no timing to be maximized, other than matching spending with butt in bed nights to get to 60 within a calendar year? And if I plan to start really going with Hyatt long term, and thus requalifying, the timing matters less. So, I could aim to spend on the card in 2019 and pepper in enough nights to get to 60 night credits, while still trying to get good use of my Marriott status for one last year.
In any case, I need to wait until October to apply for the new card bc I got a bonus on the old card in Oct 2016. Hope they still are offering 60k by then!
Also, would a six night stay from 12/26/18 - 1/1/19 credit all 6 nights to 2019? 1 night? None?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or insights.
I'm currently Marriott Plat, so will have the new Plat Preferred with the combined program through Feb 2020. A lot of my 2019 stays will be with them to take advantage of my status, but I think I'll let it go after that and am thinking of coming back to Hyatt. I'm Explorist now, but haven't stayed much this year, and will just be Discoverist next year.
I'd like to be efficient in plotting my return to Globalist. I won't really need it until 2020, and would like to maximize bang for buck.
So... remind me, please, how does timing work with Hyatt status? You get it for the rest of the year you earned it, plus the whole next year? If that right, seems like it would be ideal for me to earn Glob early in 2020? But the mechanism for the card isn't a clean "spend xx, get status", rather, it's accruing nights as you go with every $2500 spent, and status is based on nights is the normal calendar year counting right? So maybe there's no timing to be maximized, other than matching spending with butt in bed nights to get to 60 within a calendar year? And if I plan to start really going with Hyatt long term, and thus requalifying, the timing matters less. So, I could aim to spend on the card in 2019 and pepper in enough nights to get to 60 night credits, while still trying to get good use of my Marriott status for one last year.
In any case, I need to wait until October to apply for the new card bc I got a bonus on the old card in Oct 2016. Hope they still are offering 60k by then!
Also, would a six night stay from 12/26/18 - 1/1/19 credit all 6 nights to 2019? 1 night? None?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or insights.
Last edited by rbw5t; Jun 29, 2018 at 1:19 pm
Jun 29, 2018, 2:01 pm
#69
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: PHL
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, AA Gold, FB Gold, ITA Volare Executive
Posts: 3,294
I'm 4/24; love UR=Hyatt points; am 3 mos. shy of next AF posting; and am 3/4ths of the way to Globalist mid-year. Thus I am leaning toward waiting until the current free night posts, canceling, and then getting the new card. Should be enough time before year's end in the case where I would need the five nights to qualify. The only thing that might cause me to play it safe and just upgrade is if we get more systematic reports of Chase shutdowns on "normal" folks who don't MS but do happen to apply for at least five cards every two years.
Jun 29, 2018, 2:13 pm
#70
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: PHL
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, AA Gold, FB Gold, ITA Volare Executive
Posts: 3,294
Of course I am not anyone's target, since I only travel for leisure and do not have a trust fund. I just thought it would be good to provide a lone voice of dissent, as all of the preceding posts seemed to praise this card as if it were the second coming. But I have to wonder, aside from using for business expenses (which is not an option for me), how many people spend $15k, much less $150k on a credit card? Maybe if I could pay my mortgage with a card, I could pull it off. From the posts here, it seems like just about everyone in the room has a very robust business account, which makes me wonder why not just call it a business card from the onset? I may not be in the 1%, but I am at least in the top 5, and I could certainly not afford to drop $25k+ a year on crap and miscellaneous expenses on a credit card (and if I were in the 1%, I doubt I would be wetting my pants at the prospect getting a few hundred dollars worth of free nights and comped clubhouse sandwiches from a credit card promo).
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.
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.
The $15K thing is a different issue, in part for some reasons mentioned just above (if you stay in hotels several weeks a year, if you fly on airplanes ...); but also because the real issue in thinking about a card like this is not really whether one can make $15K, but on how many cards? As a concrete example, I am working toward $15K this year in the Amex Hilton Ascend, not because I like staying in Hiltons that much, but because the transition from the old Citi Hilton Honors card created a one-time situation in which $15K spend this year will lead to two weekend Hilton rooms. Then, yeah, you are right: Speaking for myself, there are only so many $15K annual spends that make sense (or $10Ks, as when Citi gives $350 back on a high-end card for that kind of spend, as a retention offer). So you have to -- I have to -- make some decisions, or risk falling into the cardinal trap of spending money that I wouldn't spend otherwise chasing credit card hotel benefits. In my case, I value Hyatts and Hyatt status a lot, certainly relative to a couple of Hilton weekend nights. In that sense I am rather blown away by the value of this card. If not this year, then next year I'll sure as heck be spending on it.
Jun 29, 2018, 2:15 pm
#71
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Madison, WI
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 973
You also earn your 4 TSUs on August 1st 2019, they also expire February 2021.
If that right, seems like it would be ideal for me to earn Glob early in 2020? But the mechanism for the card isn't a clean "spend xx, get status", rather, it's accruing nights as you go with every $2500 spent, and status is based on nights is the normal calendar year counting right? So maybe there's no timing to be maximized, other than matching spending with butt in bed nights to get to 60 within a calendar year? And if I plan to start really going with Hyatt long term, and thus requalifying, the timing matters less. So, I could aim to spend on the card in 2019 and pepper in enough nights to get to 60 night credits, while still trying to get good use of my Marriott status for one last year.
I agree - the strategy is to have spend + Butt-in-Bed nights = 60+ in a single year. I don't think that credit card year really has anything to do with it.
Good question. In practice, if it is a single stay it has typically credited all 6 nights to 2019. Hyatt's T&C aren't super clear and they haven't been 100% consistent. Hyatt's IT generally credits night credits completely to the year in which you check out.
Jun 29, 2018, 2:43 pm
#73
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upper Sternistan
Posts: 10,031
It's just a feature of the card.
What makes you worry that it won't happen?
Jun 29, 2018, 6:26 pm
#74
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: ABQ & RNO
Programs: AA EXP 4MM, Piper Dakota, Admirals Club, Hyatt Glob, Hilton Gold, Wyndham Diamond
Posts: 1,425
When I upgraded my card yesterday the Chase representative told me that I would get my free night on my October/old card anniversary date. We'll see...
Jun 29, 2018, 6:58 pm
#75
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: AL
Programs: AA Plat Pro, DL Sil, UA Sil, Hyatt Global, MR Amb, Hilton Diamond, National Exec, Hertz Pres
Posts: 477