Hyatt has announced that they're launching a new veteran and military rate as of today, Friday, October 28, 2018, just a couple of weeks before Veterans Day.
Continue reading: Hyatt Introduces New Discounts For Military & Veterans
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Nice to see as an option. Very surprised took them this long. Marriott and Hilton still offer better military discounts.
@ Jason....You’ll just have to look at each property with that code. I know Hilton and Marriott offer it at properties in Panama and Canada.
Would be nice to provide evidence of military service in my profile, instead of carrying a copy of my DD214 each time. Some states ( e.g.) allow a Vetern designation on your driver’s license after proof of service to the DMV. It would be nice if that would be adequate proof.
@Paul:
I have a Dropbox folder with all my pertinent documents (PDFs of DD 214, auto insurance, etc.) available on my phone. Or, take a picture of it and keep these types of photos in an album as a "digital wallet". That's gotten me out of several jams when keeping paper documents was not feasible or simply not possible but I needed them.
Any word on what 'immediate family' means? I'm immediate family but I don't have a dependent card, yet terms say you must show your card at checkin. Vague terms on that one...
@ TJ -- Presumably to increase business. People are more likely to stay with a brand that's offering a discount to them specifically. It's the same reason hotels often extend discounts to groups like AAA, etc.
@ Robert -- The terms state the following:
"limited to parents, children/legal wards, spouses and domestic partners"
I can't imagine they'd question you if you have a picture of the immediate family member's military ID, or at least that's my assumption.
How about we quit fawning over the military and give discounts to teachers instead. Oh I forgot, they're "protecting our freedom" by constantly invading other countries for no reason
Dear Lucky,
thank you for reporting freshly introduced military and veteran's rate.
Sorry that I have to take the role of the doubter here: I think this move is very risky for all customers and hotels participating in it.
The discount of 10 or 15 % comes with the risk of being identified as military/spouse/veteran. The rate code will be registered in the IT and noone can be sure that there won't be a data breach in the future.
Then the hacker would get a full list of those customers who have used this rate, e.g. when stealing data from a specific hotel.
Together with the address of the customer registered and on the hotel bill this is too much danger for a tiny gesture for the military and veterans.
Military ID and civilian - comparatively unsecure - OT simply doesn't fit together.
I can just suggest all who are serving in military or being veterans just to enroll in the loyalty programme "World of Hyatt". This often has also 10 % on the rates without the need to presend the military ID.
Without risking confidential information.
Just my opinion....