And people laughed when I said Hyatt was becoming Marriott. Just another nail in the coffin. Pretty soon the random Hyatt Place middle of nowhere will have $40 resort fee, $40 parking, and everyday will be highest TOP point rates.

I still get very high cpm with AA. I�m in an AA hub so obviously that won�t work for everyone. I�m putting my spend back on AA and Amex (avios and virgin can have some good redemptions). I�ll reevaluate next year.

My travel is leisure. I�m Explorist which already is a crappy tier. I�ll book whoever has a decent hotel in a decent area, and hopefully use the $600 FH and HC bookings with Amex. No more spending a little more for a Hyatt. No more using UR points for Hyatt and hoping for 2cpp or more. At this point the new program is as bad as Hilton and I gave up on them when they cut the 140,000 point Amex 4 night bookings.

Yep this represents me and my family as well. I think some of my CC spend might change slightly, and also I will likely lower my points valuation which will alter when I use points vs cash...I had been hovering around the 1.9cpp mark but will drop it down to maybe 1.75 or so...depending how my personal searches go and also what other blogs do.

OK, so let's call it semi-dynamic. Whatever, the chart has become very complicated.

Yes. VFTW reports Hyatt's CMO Blair says Hyatt will not pay hotels more for redemptions as a result of these changes. That guarantees no upside for program members to offset these higher levels.

As individual hotels continue to seek revenue enhancements where they can actually get it, I expect more Hyatt Places in the middle of nowhere will charge for parking. Maybe some will come up with a compulsory lobby use fee. Guests cannot avoid using the lobby so hard to argue against hotels imposing that.

This!

I was new to the World of Hyatt program, and this is now my fourth year as a Globalist. Until recently, I had planned to pursue lifetime status. Going forward, however, I won�t prioritize staying at Hyatt, as I already hold lifetime Bonvoy Platinum and Hilton Diamond through the Aspire card as well as IHG diamond via point purchase offer. I will also utilize Amex FHR and Chase the Edit more.

Thank you, Hyatt, for allowing me to become a free agent and won't let me regret 10 years later.

Where would you go? FHR gives you breakfast and late checkout, so that's an option.

Or eat locally outside the hotel when traveling, especially in Europe? I actually dislike the tension I feel when being presented with a free hotel breakfast knowing that I'm getting a version of the same standard hotel breakfast that exists at every US-based hotel chain when I could be out in the culture I'm actually there to visit, finding something at least a bit more foreign and new.

Wishful thinking probably, but I hope Hyatt explores some type of tiering with the announcement of 'early access to awards'. Theses changes so far have not been accompanied by incentives to want to stay or gain status in the program. Providing the same level of early access to all levels (except Explorist) and CC holders doesn't really cut it in my view. I'd like to see Hyatt adopt something similar to the airline FFP I'm most familiar with which provides its top tier not only exclusive access to awards but also provides access at times at a lower redemption rate.

By your definition, Hilton's program wouldn't be called "dynamic" either. But nearly all of us probably agree that Hilton's program is dynamic. I'd even say that the new Hyatt program is even more dynamic than Hilton's, because most Hilton properties have fewer than 5 levels of pricing in reality throughout a year.

I assume you're referring the UA FFP. Both UA and Hyatt are partners of Chase. Chase will likely see a significant drop in spending not only on its Hyatt cards but also on its own UR-generating cards (i.e. all Sapphire/Ink/Freedom cards). With one of the most severe devaluations of any loyalty program's currency, Hyatt is no longer the most valuable transfer partner of Chase that anchored the value of Chase's own transferrable currency, many of us would shift our spending to other credit cards. Hopefully, Chase may push Hyatt to adopt what UA has done, giving its cardholders (and Hyatt elites) some incentives to continue to engage with their respective programs.

Was actually referring to Singapore Airlines PPS/Solitaire members. I've never transferred CC points to Hyatt as I was generally generating enough for my award needs through work travel. As I'm a Lifetime Globalist, I can easily be a free agent but I would hope Hyatt would want to do a little something to sway me towards them. We'll see what comes next.

This is what you get when credit cards become dominant. Eventually you need to make a credit card point worth less...

Personally, I've never found Hyatt's "earn and burn" to be particularly compelling, especially with no cashback options. It's the elite benefits and milestones that make it all worthwhile. But Hyatt is obviously aware that pure dynamic pricing would be suicidal.

The baseline for me is 2 cents per point, because I could easily simply earn 2% cash back (e.g. via Fidelity or Citi cards). I am not the type of person who's going to mess around with multiple cards to optimize category spend, I need just one solid card.

I have been sticking with Hyatt because in my experience, I can easily get 2 cents per point (I typically only redeem at Category 1-4 properties, very rarely higher than that, and it's really easy to get 2 cents a point at low categories - today).

If I can't keep doing that, I will more than likely just start using the Fidelity 2% cash back card and stop doing things like paying my estimated taxes via credit.

The only other currency I can reliably get 2 cents per point from is AA, and by extension Citi TY points. But, I already have almost a million of those and I can't imagine that value is going to last forever given where DL and UA are.

I would be fine with dynamic pricing or the upcoming banded paradigm if the average valuation stays at 2 CPP - even at Marriott, I find it easy to get the average valuation or higher with dynamic pricing (though, I�m not always going to the highest-demand hotels - because there are so many options). My decision process for cash vs. points as well as CC spend is nearly entirely based on that average CPP of 2.

The blogs have been focusing on the maxes, but we don�t know how often that will be. But middle tier today (of 3) vs middle tier (of 5) in May is brutal

HYATT MIDDLE-TIER POINT REDEMPTION
(Current �Standard� vs New �Moderate� Pricing)

Category | Current Standard | New Moderate | Change | % Increase
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Cat 1 | 5,000 pts | 6,000 pts | +1,000 | +20%
Cat 2 | 8,000 pts | 10,000 pts | +2,000 | +25%
Cat 3 | 12,000 pts | 15,000 pts | +3,000 | +25%
Cat 4 | 15,000 pts | 20,000 pts | +5,000 | +33%
Cat 5 | 20,000 pts | 25,000 pts | +5,000 | +25%
Cat 6 | 25,000 pts 30,000 pts | +5,000 | +20%
Cat 7 | 30,000 pts | 35,000 pts | +5,000 | +17%
Cat 8 | 40,000 pts | 55,000 pts | +15,000| +38%

I think from the credit card business perspective, they are (and we should be too) looking at return per dollar spent. Let�s look at non-bonus categories. At 0.7 cpp, each dollar spent on the Marriott cards gets you 1.4 cpd. That�s much less than the current 2 cpd on the Hyatt cards. Once you factor in the bonus categories on Chase UR, the return is significantly higher when transferring to Hyatt.

Hyatt value is also higher than Chase�s own UR (if you exclude Hyatt transfers).

So I suspect their goal is to bring down this average anchor of 2 cpp.

Was thinking about a summer 2027 Chicago trip with the family. Maybe I can book June 2027 in May 2026 depending when the change goes in. I doubt I will be that lucky.