Hyatt Adding New Diamond Benefits, Including Elite Benefits For Friends

Other than potentially leading to overly crowded lounges, the Guest of Honor perk is a significant new GP Diamond benefit. If it is every rescinded, it would be because lounges got too crowded... 😉

Neither of these two new benefits is too meaningful to this diamond. I like the free premium Internet but in most cases have found the standard to be just fine.

Nut rage gets one year in jail.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/world/asia/former-korean-air-executive-Cho-Hyun-ah-convicted-in-nut-rage-episode.html

Premium internet is a good move....especially in light of the shennanigans at Hilton where 'free internet for all' has often meant that elites no longer get fast internet and web speeds slow to a crawl

The increasingly common distinction between "regular" and "premium" Internet is starting to look like the next frontier in scamming guests. In the past I have often been told by hotels not to bother with the premium option as their connection wasn't fast enough to do any better than the regular connection anyway, but I wonder if now hotels will be intentionally throttling the free option to something unusable to force people to continue to choose the premium option.

This has pretty much cemented my preference of Hyatt as my "small footprint" hotel chain of choice. It's a very nice gesture for being loyal and I appreciate it.

@ Bgriff -- Definitely a valid point, and something that has frustrated me in the past as a Diamond member, where standard internet was slow and only the premium internet was a decent speed. That being said, I do believe Hyatt is acting in good faith here, so don't think they'll be worsening the quality of wifi to get people to "buy up" to premium.

I want them to upgrade their membership card. Just received mine and it's the cheapest looking card in the industry. Very tacky and not sexy at all...

'I don’t think there’s anything in the world I love more than wifi'

Krug.

Ben, do you know if there's a cap to the number of times you can transfer status to friends and family on a certain # of reservations per year? I can see this benefit being abused to a certain extent, given that Chase doesn't let you transfer points for free to anyone else, but Hyatt does. Unless Hyatt caps the number of times per year you can do it.

these are nice benefits, I just wish Hyatt had better properties. Not a single Hyatt property really excites me whereas Starwood has so many properties that I would love to stay at. Just with SPG points were as easy to accrue as Hyatt points.

I have 4 nights booked at park hyatt tokyo, park hyatt maldives and park hyatt seoul. I am not a diamond member, but my brother is. Could I cancel these, get hyatt points redeposited, then transfer the points to my brother's diamond account and have him rebook for me. The I would have the diamond benefits for these stays.

-So my question is, does Hyatt allow me to transfer my points into my brothers account? I do this all the time with club carlson, transferring points between multiple accounts.

@ Shawn -- Nope, can't transfer points between accounts. Sorry.

@Shawn - I am not sure how this is difference from a straight transfer which @Lucky says is not allowed but it seems to me that it would achieve the same thing: Combine points (they use the word "transfer" in the T&C so I am sure "transfers" are allowed) 😉

Here are the T&C:
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"Member may combine the necessary number of Hyatt Gold Passport points from their Hyatt Gold Passport account with those in one other specifically designated Hyatt
Gold Passport account in order to have a sufficient number of points to redeem a particular award. A single member may only participate in a point combining transaction
(transferring or receiving of points) once every 30 days. In order to combine Hyatt Gold Passport points, a member must have an active account and a Hyatt Gold Passport
Point Combining Request Form must be completed and signed by both Hyatt Gold Passport members and submitted to Hyatt Gold Passport Customer Service. Forms are
available by calling 1-800-51 HYATT (1-800-51-49288) or by visiting goldpassport.com.

Hyatt Gold Passport points may be combined into only one member's account for redemption. Once issued in the designated member's name, the member transferring
the Hyatt Gold Passport points will relinquish all rights to the combined Hyatt Gold Passport points. Only the number of Hyatt Gold Passport points necessary to redeem
the specific award for which the transfer is being requested may be combined."

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For more info, including a downloadable request form from which I copied the T&C above, go to: http://www.hyatt.com/gp/en/awards/combine_transfer.jsp

You might have to do it 3 times a month apart for 3 different stays

@DCS - Thanks for the comment. Yes, that is how I read it too. I downloaded the transfer form they have on the Hyatt website, and terms state same as your quote above.
I do think I will have to do 3 separate transfers, 30 days apart though. But definitely worth getting free breakfast at Park Hyatt Tokyo, and Hyatt Maldives!
Thanks,
Shawn

@Shawn - Glad it sounds like it'll work out for you to enable you to enjoy the 'legendary' Hyatt breakfast. 😉

Would Guest Of Honor be applicable to resorts such as Ziva Cabo?

@ E -- Yes, if you're redeeming points.

lucky, im a diamond member and my sister isn't. she is redeeming points from her account for me. will i get the diamond benefits?