I'd like to think different of the company than you but unfortunately you are likely right.
The last 6 years Hyatt has become a company I no longer recognize
That said I still encourage others to voice their displeasure through every channel possible even if it falls on deaf ears.

https://www.dailydrop.com/newsletters/hyatt-is-dead

So true on so many levels! I will send feedback, knowing it probably won't matter, but cathartic on some level I guess.

The devaluation sucks big time, but the timing of this is good as I have been meaning to really revamp my points and miles strategy for a while now. I've prioritized building up my Hyatt balance for the past few years for redemptions in the program. Often at the cost of substandard earnings, but knowing I'd get outsized value at redemption. I was leaning towards Bilt and waiting to see what Hyatt rolls out for it's premium card, but I'm not as excited at that now. Bilt might still make some sense as I can also use points on AS, but we'll see.

If a hotel is 25,000 points a night on a cat 7
and the top of that range will be 55,000 points isn't that 125% increase? Or did I flunk math again?

It isn�t the right comparison, though. You are comparing the currently lowest cat7 price to the then highest cat7 rate. The better comparison would be the previous high rate of 35k to the new top rate of 55k.

Sorry, flunked again.
The current category 7 points costs are 25,000 off-peak, 30,000 standard, 35,000 peak.
The new category 7 points costs range from 25.000 to 55,000. So if a current "peak" priced category 7 goes from 35,000 to the new "top" priced 55,000, that is a 67% increase.
It is disingenuous in my opinion to compare the current off-peak price to the new top price.

In order to accurately gauge the devaluation percentage for a particular hotel, the old rate and new rate of every night of the year needs to be considered.
Since we do not yet know the assignment of levels for each night at any hotel, it is not possible to judge the devaluation percentage for any particular hotel, or for the overall program considering all hotels.

Are/where there any tools that tracked the distribution of nights into off-peak, standard, and peak buckets for some/all properties?

Hold up, this says the Cat 4 reward is now up to 25k... does that mean it now works like the Marriott rewards? E.g. does it work for a Cat 5 as well, as long as the room price is 25k or less?

Unfortunately we just put a lot of spend on taxes and business purchases planning on Globalist for 2026-27; sunk cost now but we will not do it again in 2028.
Time to burn the 100k points left.
This may be to allow Hyatt to sell more to Bilt - and given more points in circulation, more fuel to burn the pile of points by increasing redemption costs


0.2c Marriott paid 40$ a night and charged me 20k points - the hotel gave me the sheet by mistake.
0.15c Hilton pays this level and so charge a bit more in points now for the high end rooms
Going by this math, I think Hyat pays hotels 0.35-0.4c at the most per point.
Perhaps 0.5c - or they are like SPG and pay 90% of the average rate
Not true; Hyatt may show the property at the medium level and a week later show this (closer to date with more demand) at the high level
2.625c BofA - soon 2.25c, 2c at Fidelity or better either Citi TY with Double Cash or Capital one with venture X
If you want ability to cash out Citi wins over Cap1, as Cap1 can't be cashed out to statement credit at a good value.
From acquisition cost using hotel card 1 Hyatt = 2 Marriott = 3 Hilton
But then if anyone was idiotic enough to use the IHG card 1 IHG = 1 Hyatt

No, it is still cat1-4, whatever rate the hotel may charge for a given night. That is why, IMHO, it makes little sense to say that the certs are now more valuable. Yes, they can cover a higher points price, but that doesn�t get you into more hotels than it would without the deval.

boo. Then yeah - they aren't any more valuable than before, it's just that Hyatt devalued points and NOT certs. So compared to points they've gained value, but not objectively.

I don't even think that. Properties have a couple of tools to keep you from using certs when they don't want you to. They can just not offer cert rooms while they still offer point rooms, which in my experience is not uncommon. I doubt seriously that folks are going to be able to redeem certs during the "top" periods.

I think we can all agree that in the history of Hyatt this is likely the most
controversial devaluation ever launched by the company.For those of us that are brand evangelists
It means making changes in our travel partners and patterns
I signed up with Gold Passport in 1994 and I can’t ever think of anything that comes close to reducing or eliminating my business. except for the first few years of Starwood Preferred guest back in 1999 when SPG simply crushed the loyalty game and other hotel loyalty programs struggled to compete with similar value propositions and in house recognition

Oh no question and there is helpful information in this thread about the details and how this impacts people based on particular circumstances (e.g., domestic vs. ex-US). You just have to filter out a bunch of handwringing

IIRC, there were some material tweaks to the program after the first year of WOH to mitigate a number of particularly disliked rules, and we might see some of the same, but as you note the fundamental structural changes are unlikely to change.
The switch to WOH (with all new status levels and qualification standards) was extremely controversial. The change there was focused on status rather than redemption levels but in its way it was equally dramatic.

Wonder if the Colorado ski resort properties will be non-stop �top� basically from Christmas through the end of Feb. Assuming no category shift, GH Vail would go up 57%.