LAST CHANCE: Get a 20% discount when you buy World of Hyatt points
World of Hyatt is winding up its current 20% discount when you buy points via this link. This is the first offer of the year, which means the first one since your annual purchase limit reset.
To save you doing the maths, a 20% discount is equivalent to a 25% bonus!
The new offer runs until tomorrow night, 7th April.
What does it cost?
We value Hyatt points at 1.2p. At the top end you are paying $1,144 (£845) for 55,000 points, which is 1.54p each.
This means that it isn’t a no-brainer but you should still come out on top at a good hotel on an expensive night. It’s also fair to say that, given current hotel prices, our 1.2p valuation is very conservative.
This page of the Hyatt website shows Category 4 hotels, for example. These cost either 12,000 or 15,000 or 18,000 points per night so you’d get up to four nights from 55,000 points.
Hyatt will be changing its reward pricing in May, as we covered here, but we are told that the 2026 changes will only be modest. In any event, any bookings you make now will still be against the current reward chart.
Before you buy, don’t forget ….
We normally don’t recommend buying with a 20% discount (equivalent to a 25% bonus) because it is not the best offer that Hyatt runs. You should expect to see a 25% discount, equivalent to a 33% bonus, at some point during the year.
You would also maximise your points by waiting until Hyatt offers a bonus – as opposed to a discount – because a bonus helps you get around the low 55,000 points per year cap.
However, if you want to make a booking in the next few weeks, this is your last chance to jump in with a guaranteed incentive.
Availability is usually great with Hyatt points
Remember that Hyatt GUARANTEES that reward rooms will be available as long as the lowest category of cash room remains available. We should caveat that by saying that some hotels can play games with this by creating an entry level category that is very restricted.
It’s also worth remembering that Hyatt lets you book suites for points at surprisingly good rates, either directly or via a points upgrade. 9,000 points per night would get you an upgrade to a top suite at a participating hotel, whilst 6,000 points per night would get you an entry level suite. The cash rate you pay is the Best Flexible Rate for a standard room.
I spent February half term in Hyatt Centric Tokyo Ginza, for example. For 9,000 points per night I upgraded to a 100 sq metre suite with two king-sized beds. This was great as I was there with my 14-year old son, not my wife, and we had a huge amount of space and a bed each!
Last October I did the same trick at Hyatt Regency Lisbon for World Aviation Festival, where I got another huge suite – albeit, admittedly, I wasn’t a fan of the hotel itself due to its location.
Note that new members of World of Hyatt need to wait 60 days before they can buy points or receive gifted points. If you’re not a member, consider signing up now so you can be ready for next time.
The Hyatt ‘buy points’ site is here.
The offer runs until tomorrow, Tuesday 7th April.