It is time to guide your future Hyatt stays, earlier than a significant devaluation kicks in lower than every week from immediately.
World of Hyatt introduced its annual adjustments 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 seemingly sting. That is why it is time to guide any motels 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 motels and resorts — together with a few of our favorites — are shifting to increased award classes. Increased-end and well-liked motels and resorts in huge cities and leisure locations had been particularly onerous hit: A few of these motels are growing in worth by as a lot as 10,000 World of Hyatt factors — so it is time to lock within the decreased pricing earlier than the adjustments hit on March 25.
You may need to pay particularly shut consideration to properties going from Class 7 to Class 8; when you’ve got a Class 1-7 cert, meaning motels just like the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa will now not be bookable with these useful certificates.
There’s a little bit of sweetener within the bitter information, nonetheless, as 33 properties are shifting to a decrease award class.
Our early calculations present that among the many motels growing in award class, the common award price might be greater than 2,444 factors extra per night time as soon as these adjustments take impact March 25. That is not as unhealthy because the 5,000-point common price enhance in 2023 — however it’s increased than final 12 months’s common price enhance.
To offer you an thought of how this 12 months stacks up, here 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 adjustments happen, those that like free night time 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 shifting from Class 7 to Class 8, placing it out of attain for many free night time certificates. And one other TPG favourite, the Andaz Peninsula Papagayo Resort, Costa Rica goes as much as Class 8 as nicely. (This property was really a Class 4 lodge only a few years in the past, exhibiting how rapidly issues can change.)
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Sadly, adjustments may even impact properties that fall below Hyatt’s all-inclusive award chart, leading to a number of well-liked resorts changing into considerably costlier on award stays. This consists of Secrets and techniques Playa Blanca Costa Mujeres, Secrets and techniques Maroma Seaside Riviera Cancun, Breathless Montego Bay Resort & Spa and Secrets and techniques Cap Cana Resort & Spa, which can all enhance one degree from 30,000 to 40,000 World of Hyatt factors per night time.
Additionally keep in mind that the precious free night time awards given to Hyatt members at sure elite night time benchmarks or earned by way of the Hyatt bank cards have gotten much less useful. For instance, as soon as these adjustments happen, you may now not be capable to use your Class 1-4 free night time certificates at these properties:
- Hyatt Regency Newport Seaside
- 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 night time awards on the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile, so that is personally painful.
Nonetheless, the Class 1-4 certificates will change into legitimate on the following motels which can be shifting down into Class 4:
- Lodge Figueroa
- Dream South Seaside
- Park Hyatt Doha
- Grand Hyatt Sanya Haitang Bay Resort and Spa
- Grand Hyatt Jeju
There are a couple of different vivid spots to spotlight. For instance, the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa is shifting down from Class 7 to Class 6, which means you’ll be able to guide an award keep beginning at 25,000 World of Hyatt factors per night time. For those who guide that lodge now, you need to get a refund as soon as the adjustments go into impact. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of adjustments are clustered on the decrease finish of the award chart. Of the 118 properties shifting 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 might all the time be worse. A minimum of World of Hyatt nonetheless has a printed 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 present award chart, so it is perhaps a superb 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 lodge that moved all the way down to a decrease class, will obtain an computerized one-time refund on the purpose distinction. Factors might be returned to members’ accounts beginning Tuesday, March 25.”
For those who plan to make use of your Hyatt factors at any motels shifting to the next class, you need to make reservations earlier than March 25 for stays as far out because the calendar will permit, which is often 13 months. For those who make or modify a reservation after that point, it would fall below the pricing guidelines that come into impact on March 25.
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