I don’t know what that “negative goodwill” amounts to for Hyatt, but it may not amount to much. Despite how difficult it has been to get Hyatt packages, who has been ditching Hyatt just because they missed out on snagging Hyatt DG packages? I suspect that those most annoyed by the difficulty of getting Hyatt DG packages get on or stay on the Chase UR and Hyatt bank card game to play on the Hyatt hamster wheel. Maybe the big commercial bloggers even prefer this “negative goodwill” situation, as it is an opportunity to peddle Chase bank cards and that generates the “positive goodwill” that Hyatt finds most beneficial?

The Choice points are on sale now and seem even easier to grab all of the packages this year than even prior years. [They weren’t that hard to get in prior years either, but the most discounted package type would get grabbed faster while the somewhat poorer value packages would linger around longer.]

Inflation-hit consumers may not have as much appetite to spend money on the discretionary as in 2019 and earlier, and it may be showing with DG Choice sales too — perhaps by not selling out as fast as much or even at all in the days ahead.

That convenient airport property is available again for using points, and its suites are available for the same 20k points as standard rooms. Personally, I’m more into staying in the city and taking ground transport out in the morning. But for just an overnight layover at the airport and an early next day flight, this is a cheap way of having the convenience of not leaving far from the airport to get some shut-eye.

High USD makes this deal not so sweet.

I got in for 2 $250 gift cards today, whew!!

Ok, this is really weird. I received a purchase confirmation from Daily Getaways for IHG points. I recall looking at a few packages but don't remember
buying anything. The purchase confirmation number is exactly the same as a purchase made in Oct 21 but the Purchase price is %%PURCHASE_PRICE%%

Was this a glitch that Daily Getaways re-generated purchase confirmations from last year ? Did this happen to anyone else?

Same here, I just received a confirmation e-mail for my completed purchase of 2x 42,000 Choice points for an amount of "%%PURCHASE_PRICE%%", including the last 5 digits of my credit card. I haven't bought any points though.

The confirmation number matches my last purchase from 2019, and my credit card doesn't show any attempted charges (yet).

hahaha YES !!! I came on FT to see if anyone else got a random email from Daily Getaways. I got one for 7500 Hertz points. Never bought, never been on the website this year. Seems to be a glitch � I bought Hertz points from Daily Getaways like 4 years ago.

Hello,



Thank you for contacting us. We apologize for the inconvenience but our purchase confirmation system had a technical issue and past customers were sent outdated emails.



Please disregard the email you received from DailyGetaways.com as no transactions have occurred.



We apologize for the inconvenience & thank you for your understanding,

Daily Getaways Customer Service Team

I tried to buy Choice points for my own account and after completing all the steps it gave me a "failed" message and no email declaring success.

However, when I tried to buy the same package again it said I couldn't as I already had purchased 4. My Chase card showed charges of $1 and then $880.

And then three days later (today) I get a congratulations email for buying for my wife's account with the %%PURCHASE_PRICE%% line. I guess this one is a resend from a previous year.

I have been able to buy a few packages for myself and the family, though I missed out on the 55,000 ones. Hopefully, they all show up and I don't have to chase them down.
Now if only I could get the Choice>United bonus to actually work...

Anyone who bought Choice points last Tuesday get them yet? First year I've bought them and six days later no sign of them. Is that normal? I've bought IHG and they've never taken more than 2-3 days to appear in my account

That�s within the range of normal for Choice. Unless it goes beyond 2.5 weeks, I wouldn�t bother following up with DG to figure out what happened.

Choice still waiting as well as HH. IHG/Wyndham credited. I have a 476$ one nite stay in GRB for Monday nite stay Packers game that goes for 15K points; also did a doubletree last March in Vail for 80K points which with 100% bonus cost me $400; the best rate I could come up with was 975 not inc taxes so yeah they can be useful. Does daily getaways use the points.com portal for this?

It was a hot night this summer to use points at GRB on the night when Manchester City was playing Bayern Munich at Lambeau (rain break included), so I can see why you would want those points to come in fast so the bank doesn’t get raided by the regular paid rates.

If Daily Getaways uses the points.com portal, it’s removed enough on the back-end that I’ve not noticed that. It’s seemed to me to be be a somewhat more manual and more direct bilateral process when mistakes have been made (and often corrected) in prior years.

Took a full 9 calendar days but just got my Choice points and happily my room is still available.

The three of us got ours as well.