It is time to e book your future Hyatt stays, earlier than a significant devaluation kicks in lower than per week from at present.
World of Hyatt introduced its annual modifications to the place properties sit on its award chart, and whereas we’re thrilled that the award chart itself stays intact, a number of the particular person property pricing shifts will nonetheless doubtless sting. That is why it is time to e book any inns you have had your eye on now. Bookings are open so far as April of 2026, and a few all-inclusives are even bookable into 2027.
A whopping 118 Hyatt inns and resorts — together with a few of our favorites — are transferring to higher award categories. Greater-end and common inns and resorts in massive cities and leisure locations have been particularly exhausting hit: A few of these inns are growing in worth by as a lot as 10,000 World of Hyatt factors — so it is time to lock within the diminished pricing earlier than the modifications hit on March 25.
You will wish to pay particularly shut consideration to properties going from Class 7 to Class 8; if in case you have a Class 1-7 cert, meaning inns just like the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa will not be bookable with these helpful certificates.
There’s a little bit of sweetener within the bitter information, nevertheless, as 33 properties are shifting to a decrease award class.
Our early calculations present that among the many inns growing in award class, the common award price can be greater than 2,444 factors extra per evening as soon as these modifications take impact March 25. That is not as dangerous because the 5,000-point common price improve in 2023 — however it’s greater than last year’s average cost increase.
To provide you an thought of how this yr stacks up, this is a comparability from earlier years:
- 2022: 76 properties went down, 70 went up
- 2023: 152 properties went down, 214 went up
- 2024: 46 properties went down, 137 went up
- 2025: 33 properties are taking place, 118 are going up
As soon as these modifications happen, those that like free evening certificates could have fewer choices for utilizing Class 1-7 certificates. Along with the beforehand talked about Grand Hyatt Kauai, the Grand Hyatt Tokyo is transferring from Class 7 to Class 8, placing it out of attain for many free evening certificates. And one other TPG favourite, the Andaz Peninsula Papagayo Resort, Costa Rica goes as much as Class 8 as effectively. (This property was truly a Class 4 resort only a few years in the past, displaying how rapidly issues can change.)
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Sadly, modifications may also impact properties that fall underneath Hyatt’s all-inclusive award chart, leading to a number of common resorts turning into considerably dearer on award stays. This contains Secrets and techniques Playa Blanca Costa Mujeres, Secrets and techniques Maroma Seashore Riviera Cancun, Breathless Montego Bay Resort & Spa and Secrets and techniques Cap Cana Resort & Spa, which can all improve one degree from 30,000 to 40,000 World of Hyatt factors per evening.
Additionally keep in mind that the precious free evening awards given to Hyatt members at sure elite evening benchmarks or earned by way of the Hyatt bank cards have gotten much less helpful. For instance, as soon as these modifications happen, you will not have the ability to use your Class 1-4 free evening certificates at these properties:
- Hyatt Regency Newport Seashore
- Hyatt Regency Orlando Worldwide Airport
- The Bellevue Lodge
- Thompson Atlanta – Buckhead
- Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui
- Hyatt Home Tokyo Shibuya
- Hyatt Regency Tokyo
- Hyatt Regency Koh Samui
- Hyatt Regency Vancouver
- Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile
- Hyatt Centric The Liberties Dublin
I simply used a Class 1-4 award on the Hyatt Regency in Tokyo, and I’ve additionally used my free evening awards on the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile, so that is personally painful.
Nevertheless, the Class 1-4 certificates will grow to be legitimate on the following inns which might be transferring down into Class 4:
- Lodge Figueroa
- Dream South Seashore
- Park Hyatt Doha
- Grand Hyatt Sanya Haitang Bay Resort and Spa
- Grand Hyatt Jeju
There are a number of different brilliant spots to spotlight. For instance, the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa is transferring down from Class 7 to Class 6, that means you’ll be able to e book an award keep beginning at 25,000 World of Hyatt factors per evening. In the event you e book that resort now, you must get a refund as soon as the modifications go into impact. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of modifications are clustered on the decrease finish of the award chart. Of the 118 properties transferring up in class:
- 34.75% are going from Class 1 to 2
- 23.03% are going from Class 2 to three
- 11.02% are going from Class 3 to 4
All in all — it may at all times be worse. Not less than World of Hyatt nonetheless has a broadcast award chart, did not change per-category costs and did not add the next Class 9 to this system. Moreover, all bookings earlier than the morning of March 25 will comply with the current award chart, so it may be a great time to make some speculative bookings into 2026.
Hyatt added that “members who’ve current award or Factors + Money bookings as of 8:00 am CDT on Tuesday, March 25 for an evening on or after Tuesday, March 25 at a Hyatt resort that moved right down to a decrease class, will obtain an computerized one-time refund on the purpose distinction. Factors can be returned to members’ accounts beginning Tuesday, March 25.”
In the event you plan to make use of your Hyatt factors at any inns transferring to the next class, you must make reservations earlier than March 25 for stays as far out because the calendar will permit, which is usually 13 months. In the event you make or modify a reservation after that point, it would fall underneath the pricing guidelines that come into impact on March 25.
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