Marriott vs. Hyatt: Which 5 free night offer is better? | Coffee Break Ep89 | 1-20-26
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Chase is out with offers for both their Marriott Bonvoy Boundless® Credit Card and Chase World of Hyatt Credit Card, both offering up to 5 free nights. So which of these offers is better?
(00:32) - World of Hyatt Card
(01:17) - Marriott Bonvoy Boundless® Card
(01:36) - Which is better?
(01:47) - Marriott advantages
(05:17) - Hyatt advantages
(08:10) - Caution: Annual category changes coming soon (last year it was March 25 for Hyatt, unknown for Marriott)
(09:28) - Final answer
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Freakimilers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:16.3 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less, pour your money back. |
| 0:23.2 | Marriott v. Hyatt, which five-free night offer is better? |
| 0:28.1 | Chase is out with offers for both their Marriott Boundless card and their World of Hyatt card. |
| 0:33.8 | Both of them are offering up to five free nights. |
| 0:37.4 | So it's probably not at all obvious at |
| 0:39.9 | first blush, which offers better. Let's get into that. Yeah, so let's look at the basic details. So |
| 0:45.0 | the World of Hyatt credit card has a $95 annual fee and it's out with an offer for up to five or |
| 0:51.6 | kind of six free night certificates. You earn three high at category one to four |
| 0:56.1 | free night certificates after $5,000 spend in the first three months. So five K spend gets you three |
| 1:01.1 | of the free nights. Plus, you get another two certificates after $15,000 spend in the first six |
| 1:08.1 | months. So that's a total of five after $ 15K. And then, of course, the card |
| 1:13.0 | as a standard benefit offers an additional free night certificate after $15,000 in purchases |
| 1:18.9 | in a calendar year. Plus, of course, you'd earn the 15,000 points on the $15,000 spent. So that's |
| 1:25.5 | the basic gist of the World of Hyatt-Ombuds card. The Marriott Bonvoy |
| 1:29.3 | Boundless card also has a $95 annual fee. The offer there is significantly simpler to state anyway. It's |
| 1:36.6 | five 50K free night certificates after spending $3,000 on eligible purchases within the first |
| 1:42.7 | three months. So you've got to spend $3,000 to get all five |
| 1:45.5 | certificates on the Marriott side. Regular listeners know that we love transferable points. And |
| 1:51.9 | Bilt has a terrific set of transfer partners, Hyatt, United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Air Canada, Air France, |
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