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World of Hyatt made a minor but super helpful tweak to its website to help prospective award travelers easily navigate search results. Now, when you search for a Hyatt hotel, you'll see the property's award category appended to the top of the listing. For those with Hyatt Category 1-4 night certificates, this adjustment makes it even easier to find properties where you can use your certificate.
As to why this feature wasn't already a thing, well, we don't know. But we're glad Hyatt opened its website editor and added each hotel and resort's respective category.
There's no rollout, as the categories are already showing on all of Hyatt's properties — except those that fall under the Mr & Mrs Smith umbrella.
Category numbers are visible to the right of each hotel or resort's star rating.
This new feature is very minor but majorly helpful. In the past, award travelers were all but required to visit each hotel's website and look around for text that specified the category. Savvy travelers who had memorized Hyatt's award chart had it a little easier, as Hyatt prices fall into a handful of memorizable rates.
Plus, as Hyatt recategorizes select hotels and resorts annually, the changes will be easier to spot.
But thankfully, those days of poking around for categories are gone, as Hyatt simply just spells the category out on each listing. Now, when you redeem your Category 1-4 free night certificates courtesy of Brand Explorer awards or The World of Hyatt Credit Card, you won't have to guess or dig around to locate whether or not your free night is valid at a property that catches your eye.
- Earn up to 60,000 Bonus Points. Earn 30,000 Bonus Points after you spend $3,000 on purchases in your first 3 months from account opening. Plus, up to 30,000 more Bonus Points by earning 2 Bonus Points total per $1 spent in the first 6 months from account opening on purchases that normally earn 1 Bonus Point, on up to $15,000 spent.
- Enjoy complimentary World of Hyatt Discoverist status for as long as your account is open.
- Get 1 free night each year after your Cardmember anniversary at any Category 1-4 Hyatt hotel or resort
- Receive 5 tier qualifying night credits towards status after account opening, and each year after that for as long as your account is open
- Earn an extra free night at any Category 1-4 Hyatt hotel if you spend $15,000 in a calendar year
- Earn 2 qualifying night credits towards tier status every time you spend $5,000 on your card
- Earn up to 9 points total for Hyatt stays - 4 Bonus Points per $1 spent on qualified purchases at Hyatt hotels & up to 5 Base Points per $1 from Hyatt as a World of Hyatt member
- Earn 2 Bonus Points per $1 spent at restaurants, on airline tickets purchased directly from the airlines, on local transit and commuting and on fitness club and gym memberships
- Member FDIC
- Rates & Fees
- Up to 9X points total per $1 spent at Hyatt - 4X points per $1 when you use your card at Hyatt hotels & 5X points per $1 you can earn as a World of Hyatt member
- 2X points per $1 spent at restaurants, on airlines tickets purchased directly from the airlines, on local transit and commuting and on fitness club and gym memberships
- 1X point per $1 everywhere else
Related: Sweet Spots for World of Hyatt Award Redemptions
Final Thoughts
We like it when brands make things easier for travelers. It's always a good day when the process of redeeming points, certificates, or anything else is simplified. While it's a small, nearly imperceptible change, Hyatt made booking free nights through its website far simpler by adding each property's category to its listing. The next time you peruse Hyatt's website, you'll likely see it as the rollout is already complete.
For rates and fees of the cards mentioned in this post, please visit the following links: The World of Hyatt Credit Card (Rates & Fees)
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