First impressions of the new World of Hyatt order | Coffee Break Ep107 | 5-26-26
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The World of Hyatt new award charts are live now, and we have thoughts! We'll give our first impressions in this episode, and you can read more about the new award charts here.
(00:25) - World of Hyatt's new award charts are live
(01:44) - Where it hurts the most
(04:05) - It's not all doom and gloom
Read more about our first impressions here.
(11:55) - Analysis
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at |
| 0:07.1 | voyescape.com. Welcome to Frequent Milers Coffee Break, the first impressions of the new world of Hyatt |
| 0:19.9 | Order. Welcome to Frequent Milers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:26.2 | Each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less or your money back. |
| 0:32.0 | Is the new order the dark side or the light? |
| 0:36.3 | And so, Nick, it is march 20 or may 22nd as we record this the end of |
| 0:44.3 | the hyatt award charts came two days ago and with it the quote unquote new hyatt award charts now |
| 0:52.8 | these new hiate award charts have eight categories and |
| 0:58.0 | five pricing tiers for the normal Hyatt hotels, six categories and five pricing tiers for the |
| 1:07.1 | all inclusives. And another six categories and five pricing tiers for Miraval. |
| 1:11.6 | So not even counting Mr. and Mrs. Smith, our Hyatt Award charts now include, if I'm doing my math right, |
| 1:19.6 | 100 different possible prices. A hundred. Now, I don't know what kind of, like, the line between dynamic and chart is getting really fuzzy here. |
| 1:31.9 | And that's before we even get to standard and premium suites. |
| 1:34.6 | So now we're two days into this. |
| 1:36.9 | What have you found? |
| 1:37.7 | Like have you, have you seen changes? |
| 1:39.5 | Or are you, what are you seeing as your fingers are tickling the ivories of the high booking engine? |
| 1:45.8 | Yeah, I mean, we obviously are seeing changes. |
| 1:49.5 | Some are obviously painful and some are better than we might have expected. |
| 1:55.0 | So where it hurts the most so far is pretty much things that we expected. |
| 2:00.0 | So for instance, category changes. Category changes |
| 2:03.0 | are pretty painful because not only did properties go up in category, but then because of the |
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