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Welcome to Freakimilers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points.

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less or your money back.

Today's coffee break, searching for good news in Hyatt's devaluation.

As you probably have heard, Hyatt is changing their award charts for the worst on May 20th, 2026. And it's pretty devastating. So they're going

from, they're going to keep the idea of having eight different categories of hotels. But in the

old chart, they had three prices for each category.

They had off-peak, a standard and peak.

They're moving to a new five-tier system

that goes from lowest to low to moderate to upper to top.

So all of those are different prices.

We're seeing huge increases in prices in most cases.

For example, the middle price.

If you look at just the new moderate price versus the old standard price,

so this is the middle price in both cases,

we're seeing an average 25% increase in point price.

It gets worse if you look at the top price.

So if you look all the way to the right of each chart, the average increase is 48%. That's huge.

Ouch.

Ouch.

Ouch.

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