Daily Getaways 2022
 

This snuck up fast this year, but no car rentals! But the staple hotels are there

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Wyndham points $175 for 150K seems pricy to me.

These seem like okay deals, not great deals.

There is one set of deals that I will again maximize like crazy. I am sort of surprised if it wouldn’t also be useful to you at times.

I wonder why Hyatt even participates.

$175 for 15K, not 150K
Wyndham had good deal before.
2012 $68.40 for 28K ($2.44/1K)
2013 $216- for 40K ($5.40/1K)
2014 $216- for 40K ($5.40/1K)
Since 2015, I never purchased Wyndham point from Daily Getaway.
Wyndham used to have 5,500 point/night some properties.
It was good time.

It seems to me like Hyatt has fewer packages available for sale than in prior times. Or am I mistaken about that?

Hyatt’s commitment to this seems to be dropping. And already has long been the case, Hyatt packages have been so few that they were very difficult to grab for most prospective buyers. This year looks no better, with such a small allotment of packages.

If it's the program I think it is, it seems like you can never redeem points at the hotel we'd use it for.

If you would be ok with staying in the city close to the Express train to the flygplats, there is almost always availability at the one with a made-to-order omelette station included in the complimentary breakfast for all hotel guests. It might require two rooms depending on party size, and in the week running up to a particular night availability can dry up, but otherwise availability there is usually very good even at peak summer times for the city. With the checked baggage situation, I guess if you want to do it the night before, then it’s not as good a deal.

At c. $55 per room night for a room, I can’t skip being in the buy buy buy game for it. Given they also often move me into their largest suites on one night award stays — something particular to my status in another program — it’s a great return for that area we both connect in on the way to the airport,

Also, if you are looking to put up others while visiting that country but traveling around beyond the golf club storage place, you could do so potentially via this deal. There are many hotels across that country where the points are a good deal.

It’s been many years since Hyatt has offered many packages. Maybe 10 years since I’ve been able to buy any. Bots usually scrape up the small amount available.

Help Request,

Is this offers strict for both american & canadian only ?

Is there anyway to buy this package for other nationals ?

Thanks ...

Hyatt had the exact same offer last time.

As long as the bank card gets accepted for payment, it has worked. But most potential foreign card users faced problems with the payment getting accepted when trying to pay.

The problem is when a foreign bank card doesn’t get accepted for payment because the card billing info is asked for and that can result in a no-match rejection of the card for payment.

If you look up the 2017-2019 Daily Getaway threads on this forum, you will probably find more details there about how it was done. IIRC, even some UK. Amex card users got it to work somehow despite their billing zip codes having letters in them. I don’t recall the exact mechanics of how that worked.

I do know that we did the following for foreign family, friends, colleagues whose loyalty program accounts were/are registered with addresses in Asia, Europe and Latin America: we bought the packages by having unique US bank cards to use for the package purchases and then having the foreign acquaintances transfer money to settle the purchase amounts with us. If you have US bank card holding acquaintances who aren’t using their bank cards for these purchases, maybe you can tie up with such a US card holding relative/friend/colleague and get them to buy the package for you (or perhaps provide you the bank card info to use if the relationship they have with you is such that they trust you with all the bank card info, including the 3/4 digit security code).

But definitely not the year before that last Hyatt offer (in 2019).

In 2018, on May 8th: Hyatt Point Packages

24,000 World of Hyatt points for $260
30,000 World of Hyatt points for $330
40,000 World of Hyatt points for $415
72,000 World of Hyatt points for $775

Points Cost Available Packages
24,000 $260 120
30,000 $330 54
40,000 $415 30
72,000 $775 25

It was stupid then and it's stupid now. Hyatt is spending money to create negative goodwill.

Hyatt should either drop out entirely or offer 100x the packages at 1.5 to 1.6 cents per point. That would be fairer to both Hyatt and its customers.

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.