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World of Hyatt just made a few enhancements to its booking flow. Starting today, it's now even easier to apply Suite Upgrade Awards and Club Access Awards. You no longer have to pick up the phone and ring the Hyatt contact center. Instead, you can apply it right at checkout online!
Here's how to apply Suite Upgrade and Club Access Awards online.
Hyatt Club Access Awards and Suite Upgrades Go Digital
Suite Upgrades and Club Access awards can enhance your stay at most World of Hyatt properties. The former allows you to upgrade your room to a suite, and the latter allows you to reserve club-level rooms with lounge access.
The easiest way to earn Suite Upgrades or Club Access awards is via Hyatt's Milestone Rewards. En route to Discoverist, Explorist, and Globalist, you'll unlock a selection of perks you can choose from. Among them are Suite Upgrades and Club Access awards.
Unlike most things in award travel nowadays, both rewards haven't been easy to use. Before now, you needed to pick up a phone or leverage the My Hyatt Concierge benefit to apply them to eligible reservations. Thankfully, this antiquated methodology of using your hard-earned benefits is now a thing of the past.
Starting today, you can see standard suite availability online and apply Suite Upgrades through Hyatt's website or mobile app. You just need to toggle the award on in the booking flow. Similarly, you can apply Club Access awards digitally, too. You can peruse room rates and types and select the room to which you want to apply your award. It's now that easy.
Related: The Most Incredible Suites Bookable With World of Hyatt Points
How to Apply Hyatt Club Access and Suite Upgrades Awards Online
Start by completing a Hyatt stay search as you typically would. On the results page, you should now see a new widget labeled “Eligible Awards”:
Click on the award that you'd like to apply, and you'll see the options available using that award:
Keep in mind that Hyatt Club Access and Suite Upgrade Awards can't be applied to all stays. If there isn't upgrade availability, you'll get a notice that an award is “Not available for this stay.”
To shortcut your hunting, you can use hotel award availability tools like Awayz or MaxMyPoints. Remember that Bilt members get free access to Awayz through the Bilt Rewards site.
Related: Hotel Award Search Tools Comparison
Final Thoughts
It's always a good day when things that formerly required a few too many steps to complete now require fewer. If you value earning Hyatt status and the benefits that go along with it, this minor-sounding but moderately impactful change to Suite Upgrades and Club Access awards can more than likely save you time otherwise spent on the phone.
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