That's the one! Convenient to all transit, super-helpful (well, this is Japan, everyone is), decent little gym, nice cigar/brandy bar. Only downside is that the cabs got a little confused -- not only did I have to fake my way through Engrish to pronounce it more like "legency," but apparently that name is fairly new, it used to be called the Century or something, and a couple of times we got taken to another, not so nearby, Hyatt place when they just heard "Hyatt."

That's correct -- it used to be called the 'Century Hyatt.' The Park Hyatt is not too far away.

I'm not surprised that they are offering lower rates these days. In Feb., there was a pre-paid rate of 19k yen -- which was really cheap compared to the regular rates -- but I can imagine that the rates are even lower now!

@:-):cool:

Pay for work travel using Cap One...seems like the best deal :-)

I like the idea of using the Cap One card for Priceline purchases due to the 6 points/$ earned. But that doesn't have any relevance to the best use of Cap One points discussion. One can make as many purchases as they want on Priceline and earn 6 points/$ and then they can use all those points for other things.

My guess is that the group of Priceline users and the group of folks who would find value in the one redemption option that's been mentioned that is actually worth more than 1 cent/point (Hotel certs) overlaps very little. Priceline users probably use Priceline for most, if not all, of their hotel bookings whereas people who get excited for the $900 Hyatt cert for $510 worth of points probably don't use Priceline much, if ever. I use Priceline quite often and Hyatt is my favorite hotel chain.

If you book all of your hotels through Priceline, then the hotel certs aren't of much value to you. But that doesn't mean you're getting more than $1100 for your 110k Cap One points by using them for Priceline reimbursement. A much better option for those folks, and an option that actually increases return, is to redeem for the hotel certs and then trade them for something worth more than the $510 of travel credit you spent on them. You can probably sell the $900 certs on eBay for $700 or so and turn your 110k Cap One points into more than $1400 of Priceline credit.

Don't get me wrong. I am not a PL user. In fact, I started the thread on the Hyatt forum about the $900 Hyatt certificates and plan to take advantage of that option. I just thought it was an interesting added bonus for those wanting to use their C1 points for PL purchases. If someone plans to use them for PL, they need to charge the purchase to C1 card, so may as well use the C1 link to get the bonus.

I saw that thread and it'll be tremendously helpful if it works as it sounds. Thanks for posting that - it'll let me get a hundred thousand or so Hyatt points back and earn more points and stay credit in the process.

Also good to know about the 4 bonus points/$ for using the Cap One card through the Cap One shopping portal for PL purchases. That gives this card a slight advantage over most shopping portals and rebate sites. For example, Fatwallet gives a 3% rebate on PL purchases.

Keeping track of all the rebate sites and what's best for each purchase is, in my opinion, not worth the time. Much easier to just use one site, but now I'll look through the Cap One site and see if it makes sense to shop through there for most things.

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Keeping track of all the rebate sites and what's best for each purchase is, in my opinion, not worth the time. Much easier to just use one site, but now I'll look through the Cap One site and see if it makes sense to shop through there for most things.[/QUOTE]

there are sites like this one: http://www.cashreporter.com/category...avel-&-leisure that keep track of the rebate sites with best offers for whatever you are buying, there are others but this one is pretty good.

I just realized that I didn't have to wait for the statement for the Cap One points to post; they posted at the time of purchase. Another nice advantage over competing cards.

Now I will see if I get the redemption (two Hyatt certs) before I've even paid the bill. That would be kind of cool.

I agree that the 6% Priceline deal is attractive as well.

Thanks for that. I'll take a look.


It's a marginal bonus of 4% since you'd be getting the 2% back anyway just for using the Cap One card without going through any rebate site. That's still a better standard offer than any other cash back site I know. But sometimes there are double rebate offers from some of the sites that offer 2 or 3 percent back on PL purchases. Then you would get 4 or 6 percent on top of the 2% just for using this card, so that might beat out going through the Cap One portal.

Trade for miles in the Coupon Connection?
 

I have read this thread since inception, but so far, have not been able to brainstorm anything to add to the mix. It is difficult, since Cap1 has pretty much everything valued at 1 cent per "mile."

Trading Cap1 miles on the Coupon Connection may be one option to get a better value. Cap1 "miles" seem to be pretty liquid, and many of the airlines are tightening up on their award availability, so they may have some added value in that forum.

I just received the $900 Hyatt gift cert(s) that I had redeemed my C1 'miles' for & can confirm that they are in the form of 3 certs: one for $500 and two for $200 each. They look similar to the Hyatt gift certs that were sold at Costco. They have an expiration date of 6/30/2012!

Anyone know if purchased AA upgrade coupons qualify as travel spend?

Big thumbs up for this info!!^^

I just received the $900 Hyatt gift cert(s) that I had redeemed my C1 'miles' for & can confirm that they are in the form of 3 certs: one for $500 and two for $200 each. They look similar to the Hyatt gift certs that were sold at Costco. They have an expiration date of 6/30/2012!



Are they transferable? It doesn't have your name pre-populated on the gift certificate?