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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)
#2881
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: NYC suburbs
Programs: UA LT Gold (BIS), AA LT Plat (CC SUBs & BD), Hilton Dia (CC), Hyatt Glob (BIB), et. al.
Posts: 3,290
Wait...is the 5 points/$1 a promo you have to register for? I didn't see anything like that recently. I know in the height of the pandemic there were a bunch of random bonuses that popped up.
In terms of your EQNs, I don't have a firm answer, but based on the timing of everything, it doesn't really matter if you still have it on your WOH account versus if you have it later? I mean if they do claw it back, it shouldn't be a big deal to just spend back up to the 5K limit to get the 2 EQNs back right?
In terms of your EQNs, I don't have a firm answer, but based on the timing of everything, it doesn't really matter if you still have it on your WOH account versus if you have it later? I mean if they do claw it back, it shouldn't be a big deal to just spend back up to the 5K limit to get the 2 EQNs back right?
Second questions (“… have it later? and … spend back up to the 5K limit …?”), that’s why I asked and why I changed the deposit from the personal card to the biz card. I don’t plan to spend back to the 5K threshold for the personal card, probably end up several hundred $$ short, would rather put the spend on the biz card toward the 10K threshold.
My gut is that it will not be clawed back, some credit card spend based bonuses do not include returns in the calculation.
#2882
Join Date: Sep 2020
Programs: AA EXP, BA Gold, VS Gold, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Platinum, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,947
I see people put spend on this card to get to $15k for the free night certificate. So if you put $140k you also get 9 free nights which together with Globalist status and all the milestone awards makes it somewhat competitive with putting the spend elsewhere. But I would combine achieving Globalist with stays and spend because I can't see myself reaching 60 nights just on stays.
Alternatively, I noticed that you get 5 nights of credit per $10k spend on the Hyatt Biz card but you don't get any free night certs as far as I can tell so not sure which way is better for spending your way to Globalist.
Alternatively, I noticed that you get 5 nights of credit per $10k spend on the Hyatt Biz card but you don't get any free night certs as far as I can tell so not sure which way is better for spending your way to Globalist.
#2883
Join Date: Nov 2007
Programs: Marriott Bonvoy Platinum, Hilton Honors Diamond, Delta Gold
Posts: 4,347
#2884
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 39
Anniversary certificate
Hi, just signed up for the WoH personal CC in February 2022. I spoke to a chase rep asking about the anniversary award certificate (free night stay at cat 1-4) and they said I wouldn’t get it until end of 2022. Is that right?? Kind of disappointed TBH
#2885
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: SFO
Posts: 4,914
incorrect… you won’t receive it until after your anniversary which would be February 2023.
#2886
Join Date: Feb 2001
Programs: IHG Diamond, HH Diamond, BW Diamond Select, Accor Silver, Marriott Gold
Posts: 4,228
Anniversary + 10 weeks, so roughly Apr/May 2023.
#2887
Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 983
Odd...anyone recently notice your WOH points from the CC spend not posting as timely as normal? My WOH account usually posts my points from the CC spend on the 11th of each month, but I didn't see it today. Anyone have a delay like that happen recently?
#2888
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: The place where it gets so hot in the summer some planes can't take off.
Programs: Marriott LT Titanium, WoH Globalist, National EE, United Platinum
Posts: 1,446
what’s your statement close date?
#2889
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: The place where it gets so hot in the summer some planes can't take off.
Programs: Marriott LT Titanium, WoH Globalist, National EE, United Platinum
Posts: 1,446
just a rant but my original inquiry to where my cert was resulted in a letter being mailed to me with the terms of the free night award… I called in livid that they were wasting my time before someone finally dug into it.
#2890
It has been several years since I received a meaningful response from Chase on the first iteration of a query--about anything. It's like a cheap bot does word matching and spits out a canned response that any human with high school reading comprehension would know does not answer the question. (Yeah, I've been livid, too.)
#2892
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: SFO
Posts: 4,914
I remember the $15k cert was deposited into the account than the anniversary certs. should be a few days after your normal points hit the account.
#2893
Join Date: Aug 2015
Programs: Hyatt Glob; M Titan; Hil Dia; IHG P, AMB;
Posts: 79
Correct. Spent $16K from 01/02 to 01/16. Ya its different from anni cert after renew CC.
#2894
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: SFO
Posts: 4,914
i'm coming up to my $15k spend but trying not to go over so early so the validity won't start so early.
#2895
Join Date: Mar 2022
Programs: WOH Glob
Posts: 48
Hi, question about stacking the annual 5 EQNs, have looked in the forum but can not find this question addressed. I have received the 5 for 2022. If I cancel my card and sign up for a new card, will I receive another 5 EQNs in 2022 after opening the new card? Will they try to claw back the first 5? I am well beyond the 24 months to qualify for a new bonus and under 5/24 so those are non-issues.
Many thanks!
Many thanks!