Carolina2Cali

My take is that you'll get credit for 4 nights, and thus a bonus of 4000 points, too. But what the terms say and what might occur may vary... and you may be contacting customer service in the future. Weird how they can calculate this one independent of dates but the prior promotion had to end within the right day. I would say you should earn double nights for the 28th but we know that won't happen.

You may be our first Guinea pig, do let us know what occurs?

Matt4200

It’s definitely possible they’ll run a separate promo concurrently likely for 2x points and free parking as they did the last few quarters.

I don’t see this and incentivizing any spend at anything above a Category 2 property.

It’s actually a much lower rebate too.

I just don’t see this as being all Hyatt will offer until mid-June.

With travel restrictions loosening people will want to travel. But with better offers from Hilton/Mariott people will likely opt for those.

For example -

Hilton stay at DoubleTree Costs 20k per night on a 5 Night stay. You get the 5th Night free so total cost is 80k points. Plus 2k per stay and 5k every 5 nights, net cost 73k points.

I feel like Hyatt’s offer will spur travel to the lower tier properties for many people for the first 10 nights to earn 10k points and the Cat 1-4 Certificate.

After that not so much.

Beckles

Well, my stay next month at a Ziva will get me 5,000 bonus points for the four night stay instead of the 30,000 bonus points I earned for a similar stay in January ... bummer. We know that Hyatt is not overly imaginative since they couldn't even be bothered to come up with a different name for this new and different promotion.

jpdx

Obviously this promo isn’t great for anyone staying at properties that cost more than $100/nt or so. Which is presumably most Hyatts. However, I see it as a good sign for two reasons: First, there is no gap between promos. This is extremely unusual, and clearly signals that times are not good for hotels, and they know it. Second, there is a free night component. A Cat 1-4 for 10 nights is a far cry from the glory days of FFN, but it means that free night promos are back on the table (in contrast to what Zidell said a few years ago). I look forward to what the second half of the year will bring.

GUWonder

So this could be used to get ten Category 1 award nights + one Cat 1-4 night for an effective price of 37,500 points.

coleslaw

For Cat 1 awards it’s equivalent to the 25% rebate that’s been running up to 2/28 (excl the added one off Cat 1-4 cert). Which is great! If you’re only staying at Cat 1s. Which is not so great! Since there aren’t very many Cat 1s worth staying at.

GUWonder

Yes, but until 2/28 stays count double toward elite status and the milestone awards for those already registered for all the promos?

lAzyTraveler

Just curious when Peak/Off-Peak point redemption starts.... IF that starts during the Q2 promo, staying at a Cat 1 hotel for 10 nights off peak (3.5k), you could earn 10 elite nits + 1 free stay for 20k-25k points. It might be somewhat helpful for those who missed Q1 promo but trying to archive Globalist or Globalist-lite.

josephstern

Tried to register and it said I was already registered . . . maybe my concierge did it for me?

Not a huge deal either way, frankly, but this still feels wrong.

Kacee

Disappointing, but to keep things in perspective, we got two consecutive quarters of an amazing promo.
Yeah, but you have to stay at a Marriott.

lAzyTraveler

I was just optimistically hoping for a better promo in Q2.....

Matt4200

It doesn’t start until mid-July. Which just happens to be “Peak” season for most properties lol, and after this promo ends.

lAzyTraveler

At least this promo doesn’t need to be consecutive so can find off-peak days to stay.

I guess category change thing also happen around the same time?

AndyKehn

No more waived parking for globalist with paid stay is a bummer

Matt4200

Category changes were cancelled this year. 4 properties going up (Hyatt Centric Santa Barbara - renamed Mar Monte, PH Aviara and 2 others), 12 going down in Category almost all of them Destination Hotels properties so nothing worthwhile, those are the exceptions. Happening in mid-March.

Don’t count your chickens just yet. IIRC they had two overlapping promos last year one ended while the other continued then 10 days later the other was revamped (this was around September).

I definitely don’t see this as the only offerings Hyatt will have until July as it doesn’t encourage paid stays at all, which means no big revenue stream coming in. I have a feeling mid-March or early April a second part or overlapping promo will be added, which may include Globalist Parking on paid stays.