World of Hyatt is broken. Here's how to fix it. | Coffee Break Ep43 | 1-28-25
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
World of Hyatt has been a favorite amongst points and miles enthusiasts for years. You can use your points for excellent properties at typically excellent values and the elite benefits are actually valuable. But...they're far from perfect, especially more recently. Not to worry - we have some suggestions for what they can do to get back on track.
(00:10) - Has been a great program for years
(02:20) - Long term problem: limited number of hotels
(04:29) - But they've killed a lot of the progress they'd made towards the footprint problem and moved instead towards dynamic award pricing
(07:54) - Our suggestion: Fix Mr & Mrs Smith awards
(10:54) - Or, more realistically: Fix free night certificates
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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. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to coffee break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:17.0 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less for your money back. |
| 0:22.3 | World of Hyatt is broken, but we're going to talk about how to fix it. |
| 0:27.9 | Yeah, you know, World of Hyatt was great for a lot of years. |
| 0:31.1 | I mean, really, it's been probably our favorite hotel program and a favorite of most. |
| 0:35.3 | And there's a handful of reasons in particular why we love it so |
| 0:39.2 | much. First of all, you can get extremely good value when you're using your Hyatt points to stay at |
| 0:44.8 | high at properties, which is probably the most important thing to a lot of people. You can very, |
| 0:49.2 | very commonly get excellent value when you're using points for awards. And that's true, not just at one end of the |
| 0:55.3 | award chart or the other, but really top to bottom. Of course, not every award every time is going to be |
| 0:59.8 | a great value, but the vast majority of them are a really good value. It's not too difficult to get |
| 1:04.2 | great value for your points. They have best in class top tier elite benefits. As a high at globalist, |
| 1:09.3 | you get stuff like free breakfast or lounge access. |
| 1:12.3 | I just spent a weekend in New York City, and we got free parking because it was an award stay, |
| 1:17.5 | and we were globalists, which was, I think, $85 a night. It would have been, plus tax. And that, |
| 1:23.0 | of course, was waived. So that's really nice. Get no resort fees even on paid stays as a globalist. |
| 1:28.2 | Lots of good stuff there. They have the best milestone rewards of any program. As someone who |
| 1:33.5 | stays often or earns a lot of elite nights in the program, you can earn things like sweet |
| 1:38.0 | upgrade awards. I used one of those to have a suite in New York City, tons of space for Manhattan. |
| 1:43.7 | And, you know, lots of other stuff like |
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