BeyondTravel

Checked in yesterday at Hyatt VIP room. Now they provide a card for breakfast and bottle water.
And yes, they do ask for the water card to redeem bottle water (tried this morning lol)

Couple of things that is not quite out there:
RIO is not part of Hyatt yet, until they finish phase 1 renovation, which hopefully in this fall. So when the hotel staff tell you �we are not part of Hyatt�, they are not wrong or being snobby. This also means, if you use your Hyatt credit card to pay for the room, you will only get 1 Hyatt points, instead of 4 (I learn this the hard way, and found out above info)
You will still get 5 points & bonus points comes with your tier, when you book room via Hyatt. Food and beverage wise, you only earn points on House Hash A Go Go spending. Any other spending you can submit to RIO reward for their points. (Learn this the hard way too. Spent couple of hundred dollars at other restaurants, that won�t be adding to my Hyatt points)

New menu is limited, as everyone already know. I wish they can change the name of the first dish �basic breakfast� like: that�s right, that�s all you get, the basic. 🤣 Anyways, the portion is not bad. Taste better than most of the breakfast buffet in town. Just the selections are nothing near the full menu. It is valued at $20.99, should just put everything under that amount from regular menu on Globalist menu.

The good news, the cashier at HH thinks a Club Lounge is coming. They haven�t picked the location yet. And Globalist will be dinning at HH until the Club Lounge is opened.

Matt4200

I feel like if a property is bookable as an advance purchase rate that should/could/would/might code as Hyatt.

I definitely think a Club lounge is a bad idea because people (non-Globalist) would book 5 nights Sunday-Thursday and get 5 days of breakfast on a large scale. More people have noticed less Globalists and more lower tiers staying often already. If they�re staying at $20-$30 rates they�re likely running net negative.

myperks

club lounge only has to offer continental. If manned at breakfast time to weed out the tailgaters, should be a lot cheaper (for Rio) than paying out to HashHouse.

SP03

Club lounge would be a cost saving... buffet items at a lower cost (think HH or HP)

ManFactSpendLA

To add to this thread. Was at breakfast and overheard this couple giving the manager and server an ear full because they have �3� people in their room but only globalist benefits cover two people. They tried to push off their third person as a �kid� but that didn�t go well cause they looked WAY older than 12.

Interesting to me to see how far people push things. But I guess that�s what America is all about, complain and make it someone else�s fault you don�t want to or will not follow the rules. Honestly I thought some of the posts on this thread about people trying to push the limits of the breakfast benefits could have been overblown, after seeing what I saw today, all I can say is, probably a majority of them are real�.

777 global mile hound

Didn't Bill Clinton once state it depends what your definition of participating is?Or something similar to that
For my own interpretation once you are a fully participating property in World of Hyatt
be it a Tommie Hotel, Park or Thompson how are you are not a Hyatt property?
And Hyatt developed the new Globe welfare menu more as band-aid to cut any costs
Not that it really matters I suppose.
But interesting data points and suggestions Beyond Travel

Based on my perception of the hotel early on both the partner and Hyatt I see frugality as the name of the game here.
And even in some select Full service Hyatt hotels the club lounges have sunken to embarrassing lows in recent years sadly
I can only imagine what Rio might be like with a lipstick on an old pig hotel.
The club lounge frightens me with just the thought of it.But I hope they all prove me wrong!
I can just imagine the the powdered eggs now in my dreams
in a steam table sitting for hours on a Monday and Nutrigrain bars as the alongside Pop Tarts as the featured pastry

BeyondTravel

That�s what I thought initially. Even the customer service at Hyatt didn�t know how to define RIO. They had to submit the case to upper management. That�s when I got email to explain the whole situation. At least I still get the regular booking points via Hyatt, and mange to get some extra points to cover the difference on credit card points, after debating with Hyatt.

As far as I hear, RIO will become a Hyatt Regency. If that�s the case, club lounge is the standard amenity. I�d prefer club lounge, but it�s only base on my good experience with Hyatt Regency on Waikiki & Maui (before COVID). Time will tell.

BeyondTravel

lol I know, right? Their answer is something like: The name hasn�t change yet. Still undergoing construction. Name change will be right after the phase 1 is done. (Maybe there are some standard to be met?) The FD @ VIP room said the same thing, that they are just affiliate with Hyatt now, and can�t even call themselves Hyatt. They have to wait until the name change.

I surely hope the club lounge won�t sink to that low level. But� It�s Vegas, even the paid buffet are going to sink. We went to MGM weekend brunch. It was horrible. Not worth it even with my 2 for 1 coupon. Damn, now you got me worried. lol

Matt4200

I wonder how it�s coded if it posts as Hyatt for advance purchase rates though. I�ve seen some available for Rio. Since you�re booking through Hyatt it might code Hyatt as opposed to paying directly at Rio.

Matt4200

What I was saying is people will then go out of their way to stay there to use Club Award who otherwise would not be getting breakfast to begin with which would add up.

For me there�s also a vast difference in a HH breakfast vs. a HP breakfast. Some HH�s really take pride in their breakfast offerings. I also haven�t had a club lounge go strictly continental, at least not with Hyatt, Hilton does that and it wasn�t the best. Definitely a plus would be grab and go drinks/snacks throughout the day as those small things in Vegas are insane prices.

kauppias

I would prefer a club lounge to the new and revised hash house menu, but I just dont see that happening... hard to imagine the rio as a HR.

Matt4200

From what I understand originally a portion of Rio was supposed to be set aside and bookable as a HR. That was scrapped and the company that bought Rio (Dreamscape) agreed to have it a Destination by Hyatt after renovation.

drnilescrane

Hyatt has properties process deposits locally. It'll use the same merchant account as normal front desk charges.

Hilton is the only chain I know of that process deposits centrally on a chain-wide MID.

Matt4200

Yeah, I didn�t mean a deposit I meant a full prepayment advance purchase rate. The ones where it�s processed immediately.

I know the ones where it says �One night deposit due at booking� those are processed by the property. But rates like �Member�s Advance purchase rate� things like that I think are Hyatt, I could be wrong though.

BeyondTravel

Doesn�t matter if it�s prepaid or deposit only. As long as you book through Hyatt website or app, it�s a Hyatt booking. If you book through RIO website, it�s a RIO booking, you got no Hyatt point.

FYI, We got free room offer from RIO since we signed up their reward program. Called and confirmed, resort fee won�t be waived, even for Globalist, since it�s NOT a Hyatt offer, but a RIO offer.