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This week's question of the week comes in from Matt.

Let's move into this week's frequent miler question of the week.

Okay. into this week's frequent myler question of the week. Matt writes, I recently succeeded in changing a Hyatt Awards Day to avoid canceling and

forfeiting the Hyatt points. Side note from us here. So what we've mentioned before on

the show is sometimes if you're within the cancellation

penalty window, like let's say a hotel has a 48-hour cancellation window and you're less than 48

hours in advance, if you cancel, you might lose your points or get charged a cash rate. However,

sometimes it works to just change that reservation to some future time,

more than 48 hours from now, and then cancel, and you'll get the free cancellation. It doesn't always

work universally everywhere, but it just worked for us plenty of times before. So Matt was referring

to that trick of changing first and then canceling in order to get the benefit of free cancellation.

So Matt continues and says, I'm wondering if that could be a strategy to leap past the upcoming

changes to the World of Hyatt Program. For example, I'd create a reservation using points

at a Hyatt property now and change the date later for a stay that's not currently

bookable because it's more than 13 months away. So for instance, Matt is saying maybe books a

reservation for 10 months from now and then waits and later on changes it to like a date that's

18 months from now once that those booking dates open up. So Matt says,

has anyone successfully used this strategy in previous years when category changes were announced,

avoiding the need to make up a point difference due to the associated program changes at that

time? I understand that this is highly prospective and perhaps wishful thinking, but it could

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