I wonder how that’ll work out.

In theory, this would make complete sense, but in practice I see very little chance of this happening.

Not sure which blog I saw it one, but one suggested that off-peak/standard/peak dates were to be set by geographical region and not by individual property. So if Chicagoland is off-peak, it'll be off-peak at every property.

Unfortunately, I can't find the reference for this info at the moment.

I was wondering the same recently when I came across his Introducing WoH post here. Two new jobs, actually.

RoomItby CWT: http://news.mycwt.com/pressreleases/...tments-2937995

... and adjunct professor

https://business.wvu.edu/news-and-ev...tality-program

Ahhh, the good old days... now back to your regularly scheduled deval programming.

I am surprised that most people in this thread see the negative part and continuously consider this a devaluation. There is also a positive aspect!

From what I can say right now... I will most probably benefit from these changes as my wife and I tend to travel off season anyway avoiding all the crowds.

So let me start a call this change a major elevation or improvment of WoH.

A lot of us have been through changes like this before and they basically never work out well for the consumer overall, and usually the potential bright spots dim pretty quickly after execution.

Maybe the HP Jacksonville Airport also?

Cat 1’s in Chicago.

Cat 1’s in Dallas and Houston

I agree. I always schedule vacation for off-peak times anyway. I do my best to avoid tourists and kids. This could work out well for those of us that can be a little more flexible with dates. I'm looking forward to some long weekends in European PHs for 25k.

I believe it’s more of a deval than it is beneficial.

I feel like there will be many less “off peak” dates than there are “peak” dates for most properties in the Hyatt Portfolio. Now if they said they must designate equal numbers of “peak” and “off peak” dates that would be fair and definitely a good thing.

Time will tell, but typically these types of changes to peak vs non peak in all the years I've traveled it only got worse.

I wonder if suite UG certs will be harder now to use...

I agree with you. From what I gather, Hyatt will have a hands off approach to regulating this. If true, hotels will probably abuse this. After all, everyone wants to maximize their profits and minimize costs right?

The word is it will not be hands off at all. Hyatt corporate will decide peak vs off-peak for entire regions, hotels won’t get to set this themselves.

Maybe I misread it then. If what you say is true, then that would be great.

I doubt that it would be great for anyone but Hyatt itself. Hyatt has way more interest in capping its redemption-related expenses than the properties (which are hosting guests on points stays) do in capping Hyatt’s redemption-related expenses, and this means Hyatt will be doing itself a favor at the expense of its loyalty program customers and at the expense of most of its affiliated properties.