Very interesting point.Instead of banking Hyatt point currency I will likely reallocate to airline miles and make myself even more of an equal opportunity
on and off 3rd party sites earning up to 12 mpd in airline points.Paying cash rates if it makes sense.
As well as buying by price, location and preferred property.Especially as Hyatt has driven award pricing through the roof and lowered brand assurance.
While I enjoy a select group of Hyatt properties I am also not married to them and thankfully I earned my lifetime Globber status a while back.
Within a year or two I expect to reduce my business by half

On the flip side of the equation I do believe Hyatt will attract more Hotels to its portfolio as owners will want to get in on the fleecing of Hyatt's customers pockets!

I have been staying more recently at Accor properties (transferred a lot of TYP during the 1:1 transfer period last year) and I have been impressed with the properties. Also given the points have a fixed value in Euro cents they have actually appreciated in dollar terms since I transferred them thanks to the declining dollar. Obviously their footprint isn't great in the US tough.

I realize that 0.5 is what Hilton points sell for but I find it increasingly hard to get that much value out of them. I am sitting on a million Hilton points (mostly generated by CC spend to get certs) and may have to bite the bullet and redeem for less than this.

If you maximize the 5th night free benefit, you can get close to 0.5 and more frequently than not exceed 0.5 cents / point on properties abroad

Same here - 9500 points per night during sakura season is going to be a huge winner

This has always been my problem with Hyatt is that outside the US as they just often aren't where I want to be or the limited options are much worse than other options. I mean look at their coverage in Spain (honestly Hilton isn't great there either) as compared to Marriott. My use of Hyatt has often be for lower end properties in the US where I could easily get 2 cents of value per point. I just transferred from UR as needed.

I don�t disagree, but I stay at Hilton so little that I primarily just redeem if it makes sense or is close enough (truth be told, I don�t even know how I�m even getting Hilton points).

All of this is really negative for those who don�t have access to US credit cards - assuming that�s where the balancing act here will land in the coming weeks. Combine that with Hyatt�s bad footprint in many locales, and I really don�t see the reason for many folks to invest too much further.

Hyatt may be following Marriott, but they should realize that they can�t get away with everything Marriott gets away with because their footprint is so much worse than Marriott.

Yeah the problem is I rarely want to spend five nights most places. I think my other problem is there are only certain times where I want a high end property and that is where most of the outside value is with Hilton.

Simply speculating as this has happened historically in Hyatt's European hotels notably London and Paris.
There were also far fewer properties in those cities back then that were Hyatts compounding the matter further.
The hotels some will bring back inventory or load more of it when they know they are going to be getting paid more
for redemption's just after the increases go into effect
The announcements are brand new.We all knew some changes would be coming. To what extent no one new for sure
I think there were more rumors than facts!

To your thought/question I believe the most popular properties will tend to be booked in advance over the weeks and months ahead
like never before as this may be the largest
devaluation in Hyatt's history.Especially those members that have saved and don't have large reserves of transferable points.
They are the ones that may likely be hurt the worst.
Thanks to Chase and Citi/others many of us can go transfer with a click to Accor and a wide variety of other hotel programs opportunities
with large reserves in a variety of transferable accounts where it makes sense to likely better protect ones points currency.
I've lowered my account balance with Hyatt.
I know Gary Leff knows the numbers one of the many things hes brilliant at/ I'd like to get the round numbers on lost value

Hyatt has spoken loud and clear despite its limited footprint it will charge as much or more than the larger hotel companies.
Each of us will have to make the best decision for our selves.
I've learned that cost, perceived values differ greatly with members after decades on & off these FT hotel forums and other social media sites.

One giant downturn pandemic economy hiccup and Hyatt will be churning out the promo's unless with the current administration
they pull a miracle out of a hat or file and the travel industry might greatly prosper.
When we look at Int travel down to the US overall a decline in select domestic cities Vegas/San Fran/San Diego etc
Early on I think Hyatt got overly greedy by simply watching other programs rather than thinking out of the box.Some of it makes no sense to me
Time will tell!

Brutal.

The point spreads here kill me. I can�t wrap my head around a category 5 going from 23,000 max to 35,000. I�d prefer a category 9 and 10 to this 🤣 Business wise, I get it, but as a consumer�this kills any incentive for my chase UR and Hyatt card usage. I�m finding it harder and harder to get 2cpp with Hyatt. This will definitely bring it under. Honestly I�m consistently getting the best cpp/cpm on AA. May be time to get into the citi thank you rewards system more.

This incentives me to book more hotels through Amex and take the $300 off, free breakfast and whatever upgrade they throw my way.

Lastly, I just came back from Andaz Jomtien beach (loved it)�glad I did the trip this year since somehow this hotel was identified to go up in category immediately. I received around 2.5cpp on my Hyatt points btw as a category 4, so I�m not sure that was necessarily needed to be immediate. Baffling decision.

Are there any other aspirational properties in the Hyatt portfolio? Just stayed at Ventana (review in thread). No status but happy to spend UR
Meanwhile, enjoying SLH at Hilton

The base Park Room has been removed by hotel sales so it's not bookable for points.

I typically have gone out of my way to stay at Hyatt properties as I've always thought their value for redemption and very few if any black out dates as best. I rarely stay in large metro areas for work, so a lot of times I have to drive a good bit out of my way to stay at Hyatt properties.
Recently, I've noticed getting rooms for any amount of points on weekends at the PH Chicago (one of the properties we've frequented) is virtually impossible. It's become like redeeming miles for flights...has to be so far in advance.

I'm a lifetime titanium with Marriott and with the use of their credit card, it seems to be a better value now and certainly with many more properties to choose from. I think this is the start of me going back to Marriott and putting Hyatt on the back burner.

I�m not that into All-Inclusive resorts, but some of those might be good to book especially if you have no status?

Personally, I like Alila Napa so that�s one (You get their partner winery deals without a status). PH/ADZ in NY and Tokyo, Maui Andaz, PH Sydney, Alila and PH Maldives, PHBC if winter�

It wouldn't be so bad if it opened availability on points for other room categories beside the entry-level as some hotels like to play games with rooms categories and you can barely find availability for the standard rooms... This way, it will just be way overpriced...