Hyatt has just announced a new opportunity for World of Hyatt members to earn and redeem points. Hyatt is teaming up with IfOnly, to give World of Hyatt members the opportunity to earn and redeem points for an experiences marketplace. Here's how Hyatt describes this new partnership: These Travel-worthy Experiences, located across several destinations in…
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I understand people are irritated with World of Hyatt. But I find Hyatt consistent and user friendly. The points are valuable and relatively easy to use, unlike Hilton or Marriot. I’m happy with the addition of Miraval. For me Hyatt does basics well. Rooms are nice, they make an effort at things like the checklist of items you can borrow while you are there, as opposed to almost everyone else who just says “contact the desk if you need anything.” What’s anything? I like the upscale Hyatts. Park Hyatts are nice. Ritz Carlton Resorts leave a lot to be desired. I’m not particularly brand loyal but I think the backlash over WOH is overblown. The product itself is solid. Having a great loyalty program like SPG isn’t helpful if your properties make me crazy. I love SPG points but I’ll never stay in a Westin again.
Lucky hit the nail on the head...announcements like this just show they totally have taken their eyes off the ball. This is what they are working on? There is a 5 alarm fire at this program and they are playing on the fringes. if Only? really? how many people will use this? 4?
I’m going with the Balloon Expedition over Mt. Everest!!
What a deal! I could use 651,875,000 Hyatt points or $5,215,000. and that’s for TWO PEOPLE. Nice.
If I book and pay I’ll get 3x points so that would net me an additional 15,645,000 points. That’s nice too.
Man this is tough…
What to do .. What to do.
Suggestions?
I used to be a Hyatt top tier frequent guest (Diamond, I believe), but they had too many BS rules that finally put me off. Not sure what @Emily means by saying that Marriott points are difficult to use, but the opposite is true. I have never had any problems booking the Marriott properties I wanted, and they have a great "book four nights, get the 5th night free" program. I switched to Marriott way back in 1990, when Hyatt stiffed me not just once, but twice by first upgrading me, then downgrading me from Regency Club level because the rate I was paying (U.S. Embassy rate) was too low. It was quite embarrassing to receive a letter while trying to access the Regency Club, informing me that I no longer had access because my rate was "too low". Since then, I have had 1752 nights at Marriott and a few hundred more at others, but none at Hyatt.