World Of Hyatt Adds (Reasonable) Limits On Gifting Awards

This makes sense except for GoH, which exists solely to be gifted and should be uncapped.

As someone who received a GoH award, even I have to disagree with you. If you are receiving more than 10 awards in one year then not only is that not within the spirit of the whole loyalty program, that's fully abusing the system. At that point you should be getting Globalist on your own.

The only people who want to receive more than 10 per year are brokers/abusers who then turn around and sell the awards.

Seems completely reasonable. A lot of award restrictions originate from China for whatever reason and I can’t help but wonder if the fraudsters there found a way to abuse the system that Hyatt is trying to limit.

Um, the spirit of the GoH system is literally to give them to people. You're making an unsubstantiated assertion based on your gut feeling from having "received a GoH award".

If I were to get Globalist from 10 stays, I'd need to average at least 6 nights per stay. I often do weekend trips and have several friends with Globalist status. I'm not sure I do get to 10 in a year, but I go through at least 5 every year and now I'll have to start keeping track to make sure I don't exhaust my quota before my end-of-year holiday trip.

If Hyatt's only goal is to go after brokers, they could set a cap that would be ridiculous for an individual but highly unprofitable for a broker, like 30. Even 20 should be enough. 10 is just cutting it a bit too thin for GoH.

If you have a spouse who travels for work and racks up GOH it is conceivable that when the family travels together they would use a GOH frequently. Maybe cap receiving GOH from someone at a different address (at first I though same last name but than that would work against partners/Spouse with a different last name) But for people getting more than 10 from non-household sources it is more than generous. I know when we travel as a family we frequently change hotels every couple of days since we don't stay in one spot normally so I could see using close to 10 GOH over a year.

I traded my 5 Miravals last year as there aren’t any outside the US for either 2 FNA or a combo FNA and SUA and my GOH for more FNA.
No sense in reaching 150 Hyatt nights anymore for me.

Great. But Hyatt can we please address the way you have to transfer points to other members? Also, FNCs now need to be a 5 and an 8. Hilton is smoking them with the FNCs.

If they're going to do this and apply it to GoH, then they need to give out more GoH awards when you hit 60 nights. This is my first year as a "full Globalist" and last year they just gave out four GoH because "reasons," so I just assumed they gave those out on 2/28 or 3/1. It turned out to be a one-off thing. They should give out five GoH when you hit 60 nights. Then you'd have six total when you combine it with the 40 night award.

If you don’t think there is a huge black market for trading and selling these things I have a pair of gold sneakers to sell you. Also no offense but if you need to be constantly getting freebies from Globalist friends and families then you probably need to start getting your own status and stop asking for benefits charity. Benefits on demand isn’t the intent of the program. It’s getting you to like the benefits so you can then get them on your own. 10 is more than enough.

If you’re traveling together then you don’t need the benefits unless you are constantly booking two rooms. And even with two rooms the free breakfast will cover a family of 4.

@Michael please do share where I said or even implied any of that. Read my last paragraph as you clearly missed it the first time around.

And no, I don't need freebies. I like them, and am neither a broker nor a Globalist myself. That's the whole counterpoint to the absurd argument that the only people who could use 10+ GoH are brokers abusing the system.

> It’s getting you to like the benefits so you can then get them on your own.

Uh, no, it's getting me to stay at a Hyatt when I might otherwise stay somewhere else. Hyatt makes more money giving me free breakfast than they do when I stay at a Marriott. That's why the GoH donor gets a qualifying night - it encourages them to be "salespeople" for Hyatt. If Hyatt really thought they were losing money on GoH they wouldn't incentivize Globalists to give them out.

Any Hyatt loyalists able to provide data points on using GoH? I have these things burning a hole in my account but I can't find a practical use for them domestically. Even parking charges waived at Grand and Regency properties is a Globalist benefit for free night stays only. Anyone received any significant upgrades, welcome amenities, stay credits, etc. using GoH as a Discoverist or Explorist?

One thing that seems a bit weird here is that it sounds like I can't use all of my GOH awards with one person? That, in particular, seems a bit odd since that award is inherently designed to be given away.

We thought Hyatt is better than Marriott and Hilton.
But NO!
Hyatt global customer services in Germany is the worst consumer care ever.
Vengence is the word to shut us up not to complain.
when we have a problem at a European hotel
although we are American with American Concierge,
they took over, and restricted our US Concierge from resolving it.
It not the way, over the years, our American Concierge always handled it. It shows that there is no Hyatt prodecures or there are but the Executive in Europe who overseas several countries restricted it to Germany.
It was a Hostility instead of a Hospitality!
Second thoughts now about Hyatt

You can gift to whoever you want but you or whoever can only receive 10 GOH in their account a year.