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)
Apr 2, 2019, 11:15 am
#1068
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Long Beach, CA
Programs: AA PLTPRO, HH Diamond, IHG Plat, Marriott Plat, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 3,559
When you log in to your account on Chase.com, on the upper right there is a drop-down for "Things You Can Do" - choose "Spending Report" and that should do the trick
Apr 2, 2019, 12:08 pm
#1069
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 1,303
UR have basically been generated by time, not money the last 3-4 years for myself personally, so I don't have the need to pay the $75. In a vacuum it's still a solid deal.
Apr 2, 2019, 3:48 pm
#1070
Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 984
Are you a heavy Hyatt user? If so, it might be worth converting to the WOH. But I can definitely see why cancelling is attractive, especially since you now have the free night pocketed.
Apr 2, 2019, 4:37 pm
#1071
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upper Sternistan
Posts: 10,043
Maybe I have some underlying facts incorrect, but this report generates totals based on calendar year. I thought that the $5K night credit is rolling and can cross calendar years, and that the $15K free night cert is based on card anniversary year. Am I incorrect?
Apr 2, 2019, 4:57 pm
#1072
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: PHL
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Diamond, AA Gold, FB Gold, ITA Volare Executive
Posts: 3,294
For now, we can just add 2018 and 2019 to see where we are. But after our first anniversary date in 2019, everything will get a lot more confusing for the free night certificate, unless we make a note of where we are spending-wise on that date... and we know precisely what that date is in WOH's accounting system.
Also, as folks have pointed out above, the indication of the two-night credits in our Hyatt histories is pretty opaque. I still back-out all the nights from my calendar (it is hard sometimes in the Hyatt history, with award points deductions showing up twice and so-on) to convince myself that the $5K spend nights are coming in conjunction with the spend. As noted above, I still screw up.
Apr 2, 2019, 5:29 pm
#1073
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Long Beach, CA
Programs: AA PLTPRO, HH Diamond, IHG Plat, Marriott Plat, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 3,559
Oops! Sorry about that - I forgot about the challenge if it spans a calendar year. I didn't get my card until after the first of the year so this mechanism works for me, but forgot that it won't easily solve everyone's needs!
Apr 9, 2019, 5:47 pm
#1074
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upper Sternistan
Posts: 10,043
This is a first. I got this email after my statement closed:
It's a step in the right direction on the accounting/audit trail front of how these night credits work. But, in this case, I actually earned six nights with this statement cycle. I got one email, implying that I only earned two nights. I don't think it would have been too much harder to either send me three emails, or to have a variable in the merge that shows how many nights I actually earned here.
It's a step in the right direction on the accounting/audit trail front of how these night credits work. But, in this case, I actually earned six nights with this statement cycle. I got one email, implying that I only earned two nights. I don't think it would have been too much harder to either send me three emails, or to have a variable in the merge that shows how many nights I actually earned here.
Apr 10, 2019, 12:50 pm
#1075
Join Date: Jul 2001
Programs: Marriott LT Tit; Hyatt Explorist; Hilton CC Gold; IHG CC Plt; Hertz (MR) 5 star
Posts: 5,536
It's a step in the right direction on the accounting/audit trail front of how these night credits work. But, in this case, I actually earned six nights with this statement cycle. I got one email, implying that I only earned two nights. I don't think it would have been too much harder to either send me three emails, or to have a variable in the merge that shows how many nights I actually earned here.
Apr 10, 2019, 2:20 pm
#1077
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upper Sternistan
Posts: 10,043
Apr 27, 2019, 1:27 am
#1080
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Upcountry Maui, HI
Posts: 13,311
Is the consensus still as posted in the wiki, that the spend bonuses are based on YTD spend?
15k bonuses posted to my account yet my YTD spend is under 15k. It's close but shows as less than 15k in the YTD spend tracker on chase.com
No email yet, but they just posted today.
-David
15k bonuses posted to my account yet my YTD spend is under 15k. It's close but shows as less than 15k in the YTD spend tracker on chase.com
No email yet, but they just posted today.
-David