World Of Hyatt Brand Explorer: Free Nights For Trying Different Brands

World Of Hyatt Brand Explorer: Free Nights For Trying Different Brands

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There are several ways to earn World of Hyatt free night award awards. In this post, I want to talk about one of the often overlooked ways to earn Hyatt free nights, which is with World of Hyatt’s ongoing Brand Explorer promotion.

This offers World of Hyatt members the opportunity to earn free night awards for exploring Hyatt’s portfolio. Given the huge brand inflation that Hyatt has seen in recent years, this can potentially offer up to six free night awards, and counting.

Basics of Hyatt’s Brand Explorer promotion

With World of Hyatt’s Brand Explorer promotion, you can earn a Category 1-4 free night certificate for every five unique Hyatt brands you stay at:

  • As of now Hyatt has 32 brands, meaning you can earn up to six free night certificates (which you’d get for staying at 30 brands); Hyatt’s number of brands continues to increase, particularly thanks to Hyatt’s expansion in the all-inclusive resort space
  • There’s no registration required, and any qualifying stay that’s tied to your World of Hyatt account will count toward this; yes, this includes when you redeem points
  • This isn’t in any way tied to the calendar year or typical membership year, but rather you can earn these free night certificates for stays over several years if you’d like; for example, if you stay at one new Hyatt brand every year, you’d get a free night certificate after five years
  • The free night certificate is valid for one year from when it’s issued, and you need to complete your stay by that date, rather than just having to book by then
Earn free nights when you explore Hyatt’s portfolio

What are Hyatt’s current hotel brands?

Hyatt currently has 32 brands, which are as follows:

  • Alila
  • Alua
  • Andaz
  • Breathless
  • Caption by Hyatt
  • Destination by Hyatt
  • Dream Hotels
  • Dreams
  • Grand Hyatt
  • Hyatt
  • Hyatt Centric
  • Hyatt House
  • Hyatt Place
  • Hyatt Regency
  • Hyatt Studios
  • Hyatt Vacation Club
  • Hyatt Zilara
  • Hyatt Ziva
  • Impression by Secrets
  • Joie de Vivre
  • Me and All Hotels
  • Miraval
  • Mr & Mrs Smith
  • Park Hyatt
  • Secrets
  • Sunscape
  • Thompson
  • The Venetian Resort Las Vegas
  • Unbound Collection
  • UrCove
  • Vivid
  • Zoetry
Hyatt now has over 30 brands

How can you track Hyatt brands you’ve stayed at?

You can see how many Hyatt brands you’ve stayed at either through the World of Hyatt website or mobile app. Just go to the “Brand Explorer” section, and there will be a display showing how many unique brands you’ve stayed at (including which ones), and also how many free night certificates you’ve earned.

The Hyatt Brand Explorer dashboard

This is a fun way for Hyatt to engage members

This promotion is a fun way for World of Hyatt to engage members and try to get them to try more brands. At least in one case it impacted where I chose to stay, because I do love checking this dashboard every so often, both to see the progress that I’m making, and be reminded of all the brands I’ve stayed at.

Even though I’ve had top tier status with World of Hyatt for over a decade and have now earned lifetime Globalist status, I haven’t even stayed at half of Hyatt’s current brand portfolio. As a matter of fact, I’ve only stayed at 13 of the 32 brands.

Looking at the Hyatt brands I haven’t stayed at, most of them are all-inclusives, as that’s an area where Hyatt is growing significantly. However, in general this has limited appeal to me, based on the type of travel that I do. I’m sure I’ll knock out a few more brands in the coming years — maybe I’ll get to 15 brands, though I doubt I’ll make it to 20 brands in the foreseeable future.

I checked out a Miraval for the first time a couple of years ago

Bottom line

With World of Hyatt’s ongoing Brand Explorer promotion, you can earn a free Category 1-4 free night awards for every five Hyatt brands you stay at. This is a way to earn up to six free nights over time, based on Hyatt’s current portfolio of well over 30 brands. As Hyatt’s portfolio continues to grow, the opportunities to earn free nights continues to increase.

However, staying at Hyatt’s all-inclusive properties requires some effort, given that they’re not typically places you just drop into for a night.

Given how easy Hyatt makes it to track this, I’m curious — how many Hyatt brands have you stayed at? Which OMAAT reader has the record for the most brands?

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  1. Jack Guest

    I just stayed at my first Andaz last week which earned my second free night. So I'm at 10 now. 15 and a 3rd free night should be no problem whatsoever but the All-inclusives have limited appeal for me as well, and some of the non all-inclusives either have less than 5 properties worldwide or are based exclusively in one region or country like South America or China. I can see eventually reaching 20 but...

    I just stayed at my first Andaz last week which earned my second free night. So I'm at 10 now. 15 and a 3rd free night should be no problem whatsoever but the All-inclusives have limited appeal for me as well, and some of the non all-inclusives either have less than 5 properties worldwide or are based exclusively in one region or country like South America or China. I can see eventually reaching 20 but it's going to take a lot of work and planning to make that happen.

  2. Johnny Guest

    Will my march 2023 stay count? What about from Jan 2025 as well?

  3. Bgriff Guest

    There are multiple more brands coming soon too with Standard.

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Jack Guest

I just stayed at my first Andaz last week which earned my second free night. So I'm at 10 now. 15 and a 3rd free night should be no problem whatsoever but the All-inclusives have limited appeal for me as well, and some of the non all-inclusives either have less than 5 properties worldwide or are based exclusively in one region or country like South America or China. I can see eventually reaching 20 but it's going to take a lot of work and planning to make that happen.

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Johnny Guest

Will my march 2023 stay count? What about from Jan 2025 as well?

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Bgriff Guest

There are multiple more brands coming soon too with Standard.

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