In the summer of 2023, Hyatt acquired Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is essentially a luxury hotel booking platform and travel agency — the company doesn’t manage hotels, but rather just gets a commission when you book through it, and offers you some perks in exchange.
While Hyatt plans to give World of Hyatt members the opportunity to earn and redeem points at Mr. & Mrs. Smith properties, the collaboration between the two companies is starting in a rather unusual way.
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Earn points & elite nights for Mr. & Mrs. Smith gift cards
World of Hyatt has rolled out a special promotion for buying Mr. & Mrs. Smith gift cards through this link, which is valid for purchases through March 31, 2024:
- You can earn 5x World of Hyatt base points per dollar spent on eligible Mr. & Mrs. Smith gift card purchases through Hyatt
- You can earn one World of Hyatt elite night credit for every $300 spent on eligible Mr. & Mrs. Smith gift card purchases, up to 60 elite nights
As you’d expect, there are some terms to be aware of:
- The gift cards purchased with this promotion don’t expire
- Each gift card has a maximum value of $1,000, and you can purchase up to $10,000 in gift cards per day
- The gift cards can only be redeemed for stays directly through Mr. & Mrs Smith’s website, and you can use up to five gift cards toward a single booking
- Gift cards can only be used to pay for room rate, and not to pay for any incidental spending on property
- Stays booked with these gift cards won’t be eligible for the accrual of World of Hyatt points, or for elite nights, beyond the rewards you’re earning for buying the gift cards
- For the purposes of the 4x points on Hyatt spending offered on the World of Hyatt Credit Card (review) or World of Hyatt Business Credit Card (review), don’t expect gift card purchases to qualify for 4x points
My take on this World of Hyatt promotion
I suspect many World of Hyatt members will be confused by this promotion, and that’s understandable. World of Hyatt is offering bonus points and elite nights for purchasing gift cards that you can redeem through a company that it acquired, but then you won’t actually earn additional points or elite nights when you complete the stay.
My interpretation here is simply that the integration between World of Hyatt and Mr. & Mrs. Smith is going rather slow, so as an interim, Hyatt is giving people some incentive to still book with Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
My assumption is that Hyatt is working toward offering World of Hyatt perks for Mr. & Mrs. Smith bookings, but only when booking them through Hyatt’s website.
Fortunately this promotion is valid for several months, so you can hold off and see how this plays out. Hopefully we see World of Hyatt roll out some sort of reciprocity with Mr. & Mrs. Smith in the coming months, but who knows. Based on the current end date of this promotion, maybe Hyatt is aiming for a spring 2024 launch for integrating Mr. & Mrs. Smith bookings into Hyatt’s channels.
Regardless, I wanted to flag this promotion, and also emphasize that you shouldn’t take advantage of this if you’re expecting that you’ll be able to “double dip.”
Bottom line
Hyatt has acquired Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and has a promotion offering 5x World of Hyatt base points for buying Mr. & Mrs. Smith gift cards, plus one elite night for every $300 in gift cards purchased. The catch is that you won’t have any additional earnings with Hyatt when you go to redeem those gift cards through Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
This promotion is better than nothing if you want to earn Hyatt credit for stays with Mr. & Mrs. Smith, but I’d recommend waiting to see how reciprocity between Hyatt and Mr. & Mrs. Smith will work.
What do you make of this Mr. & Mr. Smith promotion?
I was just on the website and you can buy $100 gift card for 8,333. Not a great ratio but another offer.
Not sure if this has been mentioned - but if your American Airlines is linked to your hyatt account, these gift card purchases also result in 1 mile/ 1LP per dollar spent on Mr and Mrs Smith gift cards in addition to earning hyatt base points and EQNs
Wow, I just looked at their portfolio of hotels and it's quite amazing. If this is really going to be fully integrated into Hyatt this will be a game changer. Imagine being able to book Soho House as a Hyatt!?!
I have an upcoming stay at one of these properties so I think it makes sense to buy gift cards and rebook as I need a few more qualifying nights. But what is the best card to purchase with if not able to double dip? I assume not the Hyatt card?
Its useful if you already were looking for a Mr & Mrs Smith hotel, what is my case.
If you were to do this, when would be the best month to complete the 60 nights so you can take full advantage of total months in the Globalist program?
Lucky, can you do us all a favor and caption the names of the hotels in your photos? Those are obviously some very beautiful and scenic spots and I'm sure many of us would like to know where that is, so we could potentially stay there at some point.
It's not just this post, but in all your posts, you choose not to caption the photo with the name of the hotel. I'm not sure if that is on purpose, or what. Anyway, just a thought. Cheers!
Question - why would Hyatt have a promotion for Mr and Mrs Smith gift cards, which aren't valid at Hyatt and never expire, if it's planning on folding MMS into Hyatt soon? Seems to me this Hyatt’s way of saying that MMS will remain separate and sadly not bookable with Hyatt points. Or am I just totally misreading this???
You're totally misreading this.
Try: We're planning on folding MMS into Hyatt, but it's harder/taking longer than we thought, so this is something we're able to do in the meantime.
As society we've made such great progress on LGBTQ2+A issues over the last few years - would have been nice if they opted for something more inclusive than Mr. and Mrs. - 'Mx. and Mx. Smith' has a nice tone to it I'd say.
It's annoying to have to repost my response to this again, but here we go:
As a gay man, there is literally nothing wrong with Mr & Mrs Smith's name. Stop choosing/pretending to be offended by nothing
Is this a parody account?? Not everything is about gender / identity politics. Mr. And Mrs. Smith is a name & a fun movie too lol
No, this is not a parody account and if has nothing to do with politics - only to do with inclusivity and treating all persons with respect. Hard to wrap your head around, dink?
Naw, you suck. Expecting 90% of society to accommodate you is selfish and self-absorbed. Which fits today's society of over coddled snowflakes.
Parody account indeed.
Does the night credited occur imediately upon purchasing the gift certificate?
I would be surprised if this were not driven by some terms in the merger agreement guaranteeing minimum bookings, etc that means Hyatt would have to pony up additional cash or modify terms of the acquisition.
The problem with buying status through these gift cards is that you then have to stay at Mr and Mrs Smith hotels where your status is useless.
Any great mid-price hotels? I tried the Cambria Beach Lodge and it was just a motel. In a great location but zero luxury.
“My assumption is that Hyatt is working toward offering World of Hyatt perks for Mr. & Mrs. Smith bookings, but only when booking them through Hyatt’s website.”
“This promotion is better than nothing if you want to earn Hyatt credit for stays with Mr. & Mrs. Smith, but I’d recommend waiting to see how reciprocity between Hyatt and Mr. & Mrs. Smith will work.”
Q and A does say you will also earn WoH credit card 4 X bonus.
Where are you seeing that? I’m reading that you’re able to get the usual credit card points - in this case 1x non bonused for WoH since the gift cards are sold by Redeam, not Hyatt directly
Theoretically, if you did three 7 night trips at high end hotels with club lounges and a parking fee next year, and three the following year; for 15k it would be very possible to get:
$2k 90k points
$1500 2 cat 1-4 and 1 cat 1-7 certs
$5k upgrades on 45 nights
$10k free breakfast
$10k free dinners in club lounge
$2k free parking
$15k Mr and Mrs Smith...
Theoretically, if you did three 7 night trips at high end hotels with club lounges and a parking fee next year, and three the following year; for 15k it would be very possible to get:
$2k 90k points
$1500 2 cat 1-4 and 1 cat 1-7 certs
$5k upgrades on 45 nights
$10k free breakfast
$10k free dinners in club lounge
$2k free parking
$15k Mr and Mrs Smith gift cards
If you were new to chase and signed up for every personal and business chase bank card and hyatt card, you could get another 550k points for zero dollars buy using the $900 from the biz card thst is only cash back to pay for all annual fees.
You could then ms to get another 750k points and 2 more cat 1-4 certs for approximately $2500.
All those points added together would pay for 42 nights at the best Hyatts in the world during peak season. Call that another $40k in value.
So for $17,500, you could theoretically get $80k worth of value.
Tried purchasing a gift card but it seems like their backend isn't sorted out yet because I haven't received the gift card yet.
Seems useless promo, why going to purchase a gift card if not earning anything while using it? It would be better just directly purchase the room with cash….
It would not. With this gift card offer, Hyatt is essentially making ALL Smith properties earning-eligible. You'll earn your 5 points / dollar on spend, plus you'll earn an elite night based on an average per-night cost of $300 per night. If you purchase the night with cash, you'll pay the same rate and earn nothing with Hyatt.
Seems like a useless post Henry. reading comprehension these days... yikes
That's not a very kind thing to say to a perfect stranger @maxwell. He possibly is new at this or didn't think through it. I don't really see a need for anyone to make personal attacks online. I am grateful for these articles and even more grateful for the comments from readers at the end of the article to learn even more. But I really don't like to see readers being unkind to each other. I think we can share useful information without being cruel.
Melinda,
i dont offer Grace to people who are Brash + Wrong in their comments.
Ifs one thing if he said " i cant see the value in the promotion". If hes new at this, that would be even more reason to be cautious with your statement, as not to seem ignorant
Even better - what are the resale possibilities for Mr/Mrs Smith gift cards? If it is allowed and you only lose 10-20% of face value, it could be an inexpensive path to Globalist
Yup- always someone ready to game anything. This is why we can't have nice things....
@DC - the promotion that Hyatt is offering is gaming in itself - it does seem like a good idea to get the gift cards and resell. If you're not into it, maybe you should not read a points blog.
Beyond inexpensive path to Globalist, it could be an inexpensive path to Lifetime. I'm shocked they didn't think this through... unless they're planning to devalue that. Which feels like the more likely outcome these days.
Not really "inexpensive." Regular spend on Hyatt is 5x base pts / $1, so it's the same expensive. It's probably safer to buy Hyatt gift cards rather than Mr&Mrs Smith gift cards, because generally easier to spend.
Thalanil - if you can resell them at, say, 90% of face value, then you can get 90% off Hyatt LT Globalist status. That's comparatively inexpensive in my book.
Theres a limit to how much you can buy.
Mr/Mrs Smith gift cards seem to expire after 2 years so I highly doubt the resell value is high
In the post Ben states that these gift cards don't expire.
A world of hyatt chase card holder could wait until January 1st, buy $15,000 worth of these gift certificates and qualify for globalist while also walking away with 75k hyatt points, two category 1-4 nights, one category 1-7 night, 4 suite upgrade awards, and $15k to burn at mrs & mrs smiths. All in, that wouldnt be that bad of a deal.
I was just thinking the same thing, this could be a less expensive way to close the gap between actual nights stayed and the Globalist threshold compared to the normal 2 nights/$5000 spend on the personal card...unless we're missing something?
Thanks for the inspiration. Not sure I'll go as far as $15K, but may very well be leveraging this strategy.
Plus something on the spend -- if you got two new Inks, for example, that's another 180,000 UR points, transferrable to Hyatt.
Ryan, can you explain how the $15,000 spend qualifies one for Globalist? I could conceivably use the gift certificates for a European trip next year.
$15000 worth of gift cards using the WoH credit card earns you:
1. $15K / $300 = 50 elite night credits as per this promotion
2. Every $5K of WoH card spend earns 2 elite nights = (15K / 5K) * 2 = 6 elite nights
3. You get 5 elite nights annually for having the WoH card
The total of 61 elite nights would make you Globalist.
Additionally, you should end up...
$15000 worth of gift cards using the WoH credit card earns you:
1. $15K / $300 = 50 elite night credits as per this promotion
2. Every $5K of WoH card spend earns 2 elite nights = (15K / 5K) * 2 = 6 elite nights
3. You get 5 elite nights annually for having the WoH card
The total of 61 elite nights would make you Globalist.
Additionally, you should end up with 90K Hyatt points:
1. $15K * 5 = 75K points for the promotion
2. Earn 1 Hyatt point per dollar on WoH card = 15K Hyatt points
If you also choose points for the 40 elite night milestone, you'll end up with 95K Hyatt points
Can we stack this promotion with the American/Hyatt stays challenge?
Platinum Pro and above only need 20 nights within 3 months to get Globalist
I’m curious how that looks because I’m currently in the 6 month 20% loyalty point/miles bonus window with AA after reaching 60k loyalty points.
I have AA’s world elite executive mastercard but not WoH
If you have the WOH Chase card, you get 5 status-qualifying nights just for having it on January 1 of each year (or at least very close to January 1). Thus, you actually need 55 nights and not 60 nights to achieve Globalist status. 55 nights at $300 for 1 night with this promotion = $16,500, right?
Well, for each $5,000 you spend on the WOH Chase card, you get 2 status qualifying nights....
If you have the WOH Chase card, you get 5 status-qualifying nights just for having it on January 1 of each year (or at least very close to January 1). Thus, you actually need 55 nights and not 60 nights to achieve Globalist status. 55 nights at $300 for 1 night with this promotion = $16,500, right?
Well, for each $5,000 you spend on the WOH Chase card, you get 2 status qualifying nights. So for spending $15,000 on this promotion, you get 6 status qualifying nights, so then you're at 11 nights with the initial 5 nights for having the card, and really only need 49 nights for Globalist. If you spend $15,000, you'll actually be at 61 nights and all set for the year.
In addition, you'd get 75,000 hyatt points for the promotion plus another 15,000 hyatt points for spending on the card. It's not that bad of an idea.
You'd be all set for the next 2 years and 2 months.