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WoH Credit card! [Launched 2018] (Chase)

Old Aug 11, 2018, 3:23 pm
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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
Additional Free Night Award (Category 1-4) with $15k spend
  • 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
Two Additional Night Credits with every $5k spend
  • 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
Other Benefits
  • 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 up to 50,000 Bonus Points and 10 Night Credits (last checked: Dec 22, 2020 - no mention of 10 night credits)
  • 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 up to 50,000 Bonus Points (ended Apr 14, 2020)
  • 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 up to 60,000 Bonus Points (ended Jan 9, 2019)
  • 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.
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WoH Credit card! [Launched 2018] (Chase)

Old Nov 12, 2018, 12:02 pm
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Originally Posted by joe_miami
You’re looking at this only in terms of single $5,000 increments, which don’t get reported to Hyatt in real time. It makes no sense that spending $50,000 on the WoH card on Dec. 3 could result in 0 qualifying nights for 2018 and 20 qualifying nights for 2019.

Anyone who wants to bet their Globalist status, or want to risk battling Chase over an interpretation after the fact, is obviously free to do so. Otherwise, the prudent thing to do, given that this is new for both Chase and Hyatt, is to wrap up any needed spending before one’s December statement cuts.
I'm saying that not only is this prudent, but it's required. The nights are not issued until the statement closes, and it's very clear from the terms of service that the nights are valid for the year where they are issued.
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Old Nov 12, 2018, 12:22 pm
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Originally Posted by VegasGambler
That would directly violate the terms and conditions of the card. It specifically says that you get two tier-qualifying nights every time you make $5,000 in purchases. There is then about a page of fine print, and none of it says that all $5000 of spend has to come in the same year. If you spend $3000 in December and $2000 in January, you have spent $5000 and are entitled to the two qualify nights.

I'm not sure why people are speculating about Chase not giving you what the terms of the card say they will give you. That's like speculating that maybe if you get 60 nights in a year, Hyatt won't make you globalist. Theoretically possible? Sure. Realistic? Not really.
I can see this interpretation making sense based on what is written (or not written, really). A rolling $5K, dependent on statement close, and independent of year makes sense. And., for qualification purposes they fall into whatever year they fall.

The first question I had above was about when the annual 5-night "started" posts. But that won't matter in the end.

Cheers.
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Old Nov 12, 2018, 12:23 pm
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Originally Posted by joe_miami
You’re looking at this only in terms of single $5,000 increments, which don’t get reported to Hyatt in real time. It makes no sense that spending $50,000 on the WoH card on Dec. 3 could result in 0 qualifying nights for 2018 and 20 qualifying nights for 2019..
Does it make any more sense that a 30 night stay beginning on 3 Dec results in 0 nights in 2018 and 30 nights in 2019 ?

I'm not counting on any spend-based qualifying nights for 2018 after my December statement closes.
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Old Nov 12, 2018, 1:59 pm
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Originally Posted by brp
The first question I had above was about when the annual 5-night "started" posts. But that won't matter in the end.
Oh... ok. You get 5 nights when you open the card (mine posted before the card arrived in the mail).

Then you get 5 nights at the beginning of each calendar year. You don't need to wait for your anniversary.

The only thing that the anniversary date is relevant for is the $15k spend. You need to spend that in an anniversary year to get the cat 1-4 free night -- the counter resets to 0 at your anniversary.
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Old Nov 12, 2018, 3:07 pm
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Originally Posted by VegasGambler
I'm saying that not only is this prudent, but it's required. The nights are not issued until the statement closes, and it's very clear from the terms of service that the nights are valid for the year where they are issued.
“Required”? By whom?

Cardholders who need four qualifying nights for Globalist and spend $10,000 on Dec. 3 are going to be miffed if the spending doesn’t count until 2019.
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Old Nov 12, 2018, 3:17 pm
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Originally Posted by skj
Does it make any more sense that a 30 night stay beginning on 3 Dec results in 0 nights in 2018 and 30 nights in 2019 ?

I'm not counting on any spend-based qualifying nights for 2018 after my December statement closes.
No, but we know this one is fixable with a phone call. Nobody should bank on being able to make their CC spending count in the year they want. Not sure how it was controversial to point that out, but here we are.
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Old Nov 12, 2018, 3:32 pm
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Originally Posted by joe_miami
No, but we know this one is fixable with a phone call. Nobody should bank on being able to make their CC spending count in the year they want. Not sure how it was controversial to point that out, but here we are.
I think I'm making a stronger version of the statement than you are. You are staying that the nights might count for 2019. I'm saying that they will.

You are also saying that this is a stupid policy. I agree with this, but find it irrelevant.

Conclusion: Get your spend in before your December statement closes. I'd suggest, well before. In the past, with other cards, Chase has delayed things by one statement cycle when passing a threshold close to the closing date. According to the terms and conditions, they have until the end of the month + 8 weeks to issue the nights, and the nights are valid in the year that they are issued. I'd aim for at least 10-15 days before statement close if it's critical.
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Old Nov 12, 2018, 3:34 pm
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Originally Posted by VegasGambler
Conclusion: Get your spend in before your December statement closes. ...
That’s exactly what I said about 10 comments ago.
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Old Nov 12, 2018, 3:37 pm
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Originally Posted by joe_miami
No, but we know this one is fixable with a phone call. Nobody should bank on being able to make their CC spending count in the year they want. Not sure how it was controversial to point that out, but here we are.
in two months we will know for sure.

just to be safe I spent on my credit card enough before my november statement closed to get the 8 nights I needed
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Old Nov 12, 2018, 5:23 pm
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Originally Posted by VegasGambler
I actually need to call them about my points. Only some of the points posted.. the points from some of the categories never made it. Hyatt shows them all as different line items, so I know exactly what's missing. Still, I have a feeling that this is going to be a difficult conversation.
Just to close the loop on this, in case anyone is in a similar situation -- the rest of my points posted without me having to call.

So, 4 of my 6 "line items" worth of points posted the day after my statement closed, and the rest posted 4 days later.

It seems like Chase is on top of things. Even if there are hiccups, there seem to be automated audits or sweeps or whatever that eventually make things right. Definitely keep a close eye on your account when your statement closes and make sure that ALL your points make it to your Hyatt account.
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Old Nov 13, 2018, 6:19 am
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I think we have come to conclusion on this. I'm going to complete my spending by end of Nov and my statement cuts on the 7th each month. I believe the spending is counted by Chase and the actual status, points and nights are managed by Hyatt. Based on the points posting, we should see the points, status and nights updated before the end of the year. I'll give Hyatt 10 days....
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Old Nov 13, 2018, 2:09 pm
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Was denied for the Hyatt card based on "too many credit cards opened in the past 48 months." Closed previous Hyatt 2 weeks ago, current stats are 10/24, 18/48. Hoping this doesn't mean this card is under 5/24. Rep said he is unable to reconsider due to this reason. Not sure if I should just call to reopen my closed account since I do value the free night cert.
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Old Nov 13, 2018, 10:32 pm
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Was impressed my night credits posted within 24 hours of the monthly statement closing!
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Old Nov 14, 2018, 3:57 am
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I think this card is under 5/24 I just applied and had only 9 cards but was denied for too many cards when I called.
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Old Nov 14, 2018, 8:11 am
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I applied during the 1st of November and I was able to get approved at 7/24. It would suck if this card is suddenly a 5/24 card.

It just hurts Hyatt more than it hurts chase at this point.
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