The Offer
- Chase is offering a bonus of up to 65,000 points on the Chase Hyatt card. Broken down as follows:
- 35,000 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
Card Basics
- This product is available to you if you do not have this card and have not received a new cardmember bonus for this card in the past 24 monthsÂ
- Annual fee of $95
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 4x points per $1 spent on Hyatt hotels (they advertise this as 9x, but it’s 4x plus the 5x you normally get anyway)
- 2x points per $1 spent on local transit and commuting (including taxis, mass transit, tolls and ride-share serivces)
- 2x points per $1 spent on restaurants, cafes and coffee shops
- 2x points per $1 spent on airline tickets purchased directly from the airlines
- 2x points per $1 spent on fitness clubs and gym memberships
- 1x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Receive up to two free nights annually:
- One free night at any category 1-4 Hyatt property every year after your card member anniversary
- An additional free night at any category 1-4 Hyatt property if you spend $15,000 during your card member anniversary year
- Status:
- World of Hyatt Discoverist status for as long as the card is open
- 5 qualifying night credits towards your next tier status every year
- An additional 2 qualifying night credits towards your next tier every time you spend $5,000 on the card (no limit)
Our Verdict
We’ve previously seen a 60,000 offer that only required $6,000 in total spend, whereas this new offer requires $15,000. It is slightly better than the 60,000 point bonus we saw recently. You can also usually get 50,000 points via referral after only $6,000 in total spend. Because of that reason I won’t add this to the best credit card bonuses.
Annual fee of $95 and 30000 bonus? Hard pass
I for some reason am unable to send referrals. Is anyone else having this issue?
referrals are dead

It’s a lot of money to spend for a small bonus, but I’m considering whether it may be a good card to hold long-term for annual certs and potential Chase spending bonuses.
Help me understand the math though. Does the 15k include the 3k for the SUB or it’s additional? Is it essentially 3 points everywhere card for that 15k?
15k is technically not a threshold. It is extra 1 point earning per dollar up to 15k. If you only do the 35k, you’ll have 3k points from normal earning, and an extra 3k points from the second clause.
Why do you think this slightly better than the 60k offer? With the 60k offer, you actually got 60k bonus plus the 6k spend points, so you’d have a total of 66k points for that $6k spend (if you spent an equal $15k, you’d have 75k points). The current offer looks like a much worse deal, where you have to spend a very big $15k and even then end up with just 65k points total.
This is a garbage sign up bonus for a card with useful Hyatt benefits.
This is possibly the lamest sign up bonus out there.
The 50k points after $6k spend referral bonus hasn’t been around for years, right?
I only see it on the business version
This card is worth holding even with 0 bonus (though I snagged it with 2 free nights anywhere anytime a while back).
I’ve had it for 8 years now — and there’s always some useful excuse to say in a Hyatt — one night in Amsterdam …. one night for a random out of town concert … simple leg to the grand Canyon … run a marathon somewhere…
The price is $95 a year now …. but usually I book a hotel room worth $300 every year. So the card essentially grants me +200 a year for holding it, in my view. I’ve rarely had to “force” a stay at a Hyatt.
One night situations seem to come up all the time.
sounds like ur shilling for Hyatt. But as a Globalist, I will too minus all the shithole American trash hotels who don’t respect people who actually get Globalist.
Yeah that hotel in Amsterdam you can’t use this free night for anymore. Useless certificates.
The offer is not good at all.. if I ever need to stay at Hyatt and use points I will just transfer from Chase UR
Its crazy to me that the cards are from Chase. Like, do they not see this? Why would anyone get the Hyatt Card over a UR earning chase card?
Hyatt Status. I would get it if I was under 5/24 as the annual fee is cheaper then the free night
2 nights per $5000 toward status, 4x at hyatt vs 3x CSR, extra FNC after spending $15,000 are the main reasons.
It’s not good, but it’s better than what has been kicking around the last couple years (same offer but only 30k after $3k spend)
As others have mentioned, churning this card so you get 5 nights in January, resigning up for another 5 nights plus the nights from the initial spend puts you a quarter of the way to globalist and that much closer to valuable milestones.
Yeah pounding Ink is better, but IDK at some point you have to wonder if you are poking the bear getting 5+ inks in such a short span. This isn’t horrible if you want to take a break from them. Other UR cards are very limited (Sapphire once every 4 years, etc)
well you don’t need to open any new ink card just use Ink cash for Staples MC/Visa GC and 2k spending got you 10K UR, 15K spending got you 75K of UR.
75K UR is DOUBLE of 30K Hyatt point with the 6 month offer.
And Hyatt Discoverist is not much better than a member..
The only upside is the Hyatt free night but this is available anytime you apply this card, so THIS offer is not giving you any extra.