Figures that Hyatt would make these changes to include other award nights, but not really go all the way here.

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Yep, I believe this is SOP. Makes sense, if you ain't paying for it, why get credit for it?

You're paying for that more than you are for the free night award you get from the Chase credit card.

For the credit card free night award, you have to pay an annual fee of $75.

For this, you have to pay for three nights at the hotel.

Well, feel free to take it to your Concierge or Hyatt Corporate and let me know how it goes. As far as I know, there's no credit for the 4th night.

That's fine if there's no credit. I'm just disputing your logic for why there's no credit.

Any experiences from Globalists re. how the Prive benefit of a complimentary upgrade operate with the Globalist benefit of upgrade to a base category suite wherever available? Would staying on a Prive rate at a property that usually puts Globalists into a base category suite see me bumped further into a premium suite?

I've emailed my conceirge to ask the exact question but figured I'd seek inputs from the hive mind here as well!

For me, my agent had a good relationship with the property and the Prive upgrade came confirmed and beyond a Grand suite. YMMV.

Does Prive not significantly reduce the value of having status with Hyatt anyway?

It's a nice add-on and Globalist still means something since Prive does not cover the entire Hyatt footprint.

If the difference between the member rate and the standard (prive) rate over the course of the stay is less than the hotel credit I will do Prive. Otherwise I'll just pay the cheapest available member rate.

I find that the most valuable benefit of globalist is the waived resort/destination fees, and there's no overlap between that and prive. I suppose that for a family the breakfast might have a lot more value (since it's a per-person value) but I often travel solo and the resort/destination fee is often more than I would actually pay for breakfast.

Prive clearly has more value for those who have low or no status, but even as globalist the value is often there, especially for short stays.

Globalist requires 55/60 nights per year. If you can get benefits at a fair chunk of Hyatt properties through Prive/Virtuoso/AMEX FHR, then it gives less reason to give Hyatt so much business. Much better to free yourself of the burden, and try out more hotels! It's not like Hyatt is going out of their way to say thanks for you giving so much business to them..

What? Why? That doesn't make sense. Why should I pay an extra $1500 or so per year in resort fees, and give up all my suite upgrades (both at check-in and confirmed through upgrade awards), and all my breakfasts when I'm not on a Prive rate, and the lounge access?

Prive rate gets you a room-to-room upgrade (generally worthless; usually same room on a higher floor) and a restaurant breakfast, and a hotel credit. I won't pay for it if the credit does not offset the rate difference.

Prive does not get you waived resort fees (say, $1500/year), free breakfasts on your other stays, lounge access (often including free drinks), suite upgrades at check-in, confirmed suite upgrades for 4 stays per year, a free cat 1-4 night, a free cat 1-7 night, or a 30% bonus to points earned.

Globalist status is worth about $3k per year to me. Why would I give that up again?

Everyone's situation is different. So for you it may be worth it

But the existence and expansion of these programs, makes earning status the hard way less valuable for many people

Also Hyatt's footprint is not great, so you are limiting yourself to the hotels you stay in. I personally take value in being able to try different hotels in the same location, but you may not

Also, the best Hyatt hotels will be on Prive/Virtuoso/AMEX FHR, so you would still get benefits at the most desirable properties

Every year, hotels reward their elites less and less. At the same time, they offer more and more through credit cards. I just don't think earning status the hard way, is as attractive as it used to be