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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)
#423
Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 56
How would you handle this situation?
It's been >24 months since I've received the bonus on the old Hyatt card, so I am planning to cancel and apply for the new product. My anniversary and thus award night are approaching in September. I'd like to wait to cancel until that award hits my account, but I'm wondering how much Chase might frown on the timing of that - receiving the free night and then canceling either before the AF posts, or shortly after to receive a credit. Any experiences here with this or other cards that have awards tied to the card anniversary? I'd even be fine telling Chase to keep my $75 and forgo any credit, as I'll get more value out of the award night, but I'm assuming these types of things are generated automatically.
It's been >24 months since I've received the bonus on the old Hyatt card, so I am planning to cancel and apply for the new product. My anniversary and thus award night are approaching in September. I'd like to wait to cancel until that award hits my account, but I'm wondering how much Chase might frown on the timing of that - receiving the free night and then canceling either before the AF posts, or shortly after to receive a credit. Any experiences here with this or other cards that have awards tied to the card anniversary? I'd even be fine telling Chase to keep my $75 and forgo any credit, as I'll get more value out of the award night, but I'm assuming these types of things are generated automatically.
#424
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: MIA and VRN
Programs: SEN LH Hyatt Globalist AA EXP
Posts: 612
#425
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: SFO
Posts: 3,881
#428
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: FL
Programs: AA EXP, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat, IC Plat Amb, HH Diamond, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 1,299
#429
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: PHL
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, AA Gold, FB Gold, ITA Volare Executive
Posts: 3,294
How would you handle this situation?
It's been >24 months since I've received the bonus on the old Hyatt card, so I am planning to cancel and apply for the new product. My anniversary and thus award night are approaching in September. I'd like to wait to cancel until that award hits my account, but I'm wondering how much Chase might frown on the timing of that - receiving the free night and then canceling either before the AF posts, or shortly after to receive a credit. Any experiences here with this or other cards that have awards tied to the card anniversary? I'd even be fine telling Chase to keep my $75 and forgo any credit, as I'll get more value out of the award night, but I'm assuming these types of things are generated automatically.
It's been >24 months since I've received the bonus on the old Hyatt card, so I am planning to cancel and apply for the new product. My anniversary and thus award night are approaching in September. I'd like to wait to cancel until that award hits my account, but I'm wondering how much Chase might frown on the timing of that - receiving the free night and then canceling either before the AF posts, or shortly after to receive a credit. Any experiences here with this or other cards that have awards tied to the card anniversary? I'd even be fine telling Chase to keep my $75 and forgo any credit, as I'll get more value out of the award night, but I'm assuming these types of things are generated automatically.
Remember, by the way, that once the award night is issued, it is basically something between you (or me) and Hyatt, not you (or me) and Chase. Not like Amex clawing back its own points from its own accounts.
If I am reading you right ("these types of things are generated automatically") then, yeah, approval for the new card will depend on whether we qualify on universalistic terms (waited a few days, have no balance to payoff, haven't gone hog-wild on new cards recently [speculative; I know 5/24 does not formally apply], credit score, and so on). Those are likely programmed into the decision algorithm. Resentment ("Hey, I just gave you a free night and look what you are asking me for now!") likely is not.
#431
Join Date: May 2015
Programs: United MileagePlus
Posts: 157
I cancelled my cards 33 days ago, and applied for the WoH today.
I got the 30-days messages. Could I call the reconsideration lines as follows?
I think the benefits of WoH suit me better than old hyatt, so i closed the old hyatt and apply the WoH. Does this sound good?
I got the 30-days messages. Could I call the reconsideration lines as follows?
I think the benefits of WoH suit me better than old hyatt, so i closed the old hyatt and apply the WoH. Does this sound good?
#432
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 263
I cancelled my cards 33 days ago, and applied for the WoH today.
I got the 30-days messages. Could I call the reconsideration lines as follows?
I think the benefits of WoH suit me better than old hyatt, so i closed the old hyatt and apply the WoH. Does this sound good?
I got the 30-days messages. Could I call the reconsideration lines as follows?
I think the benefits of WoH suit me better than old hyatt, so i closed the old hyatt and apply the WoH. Does this sound good?
sometimes it's a real quick fix (like moving credit limit over from another card). Sometimes it's been flagged for whatever reason for manual review, but calling may expedite this.
#433
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Orange County, CA
Programs: DL Diamond, Hyatt Globalist, HH Diamond, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 142
#435
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Live: IWI; Work: DCA/Everywhere; Play: LAS/SJU/MLE
Programs: AA EXP, DL PM, Hyatt Glob, Marriott Ambassador/LTP, Nat'l Exec Elite, LEYE Gold
Posts: 6,670
Per your comment in #396 , your card was approved on August 9 or 10 and was "ordered on 8/13," but you apparently still don't have it, despite supposedly receiving a notification that next-day delivery was scheduled for 8/16. That doesn't sound like expedited delivery to me.
In any event, glad to have the card ^ the 4x Hyatt and 2x Uber will come in handy, not to mention the bonus points.