The Offer
- Hyatt is offering 1,000 American Airline bonus miles for any qualifying stay at Hyatt Place or Hyatt House properties. You must register by April 30th and stays must be completed from now until June 30th, 2018. This is in addition to the normal Hyatt points you’d earn (or you can opt to receive 500 additional miles instead)
The Fine Print
- Eligible stays under this promotion must have a checkout date from February 20, 2018 through June 30, 2018 (“Promotion Period”). You will receive 1,000 AAdvantage® bonus miles for each eligible stay at Hyatt Place and Hyatt House properties during the Promotion Period
- Promotion may not be valid with other offers, promotions, or discounts.
Our Verdict
You’ll want to stack it with this other Hyatt promotion that gives 500 bonus Hyatt points per stay at Hyatt place/house properties (1,000 for other brands). Personally promotions like this aren’t enough to change my booking behavior but it’s still worth registering now just in case (otherwise I often forgot to register if I do stay at an eligible property). Might also want to match your M Life gold status to Explorist if possible.
I’ve just registered for this promotion. Will a stay that I already had booked that begins and ends during the required stay period be eligible, or do you think I have to cancel it and rebook? In other words, is it critical that the booking itself occur after registration for the promo, or just the stay? TIA
The booking generally needs to occur after registration, so you should probably book, then cancel, to ensure there’s room at the hotel
According to the fine print, an eligible stay includes reward nights.
“For the purpose of this promotion, an “eligible stay” is defined as any stay where a member is paying an Eligible Rate or redeems a free night award for at least one night of their stay.”
Signed up and look forward to some free AA miles.
Thanks DoC!
When it says you can choose between Hyatt points or AAdvantage miles, do I verbally tell front desk during check-in or is there some option to do this? Since there’s no option on the registration form.
Verbally at check in.
Just checked in to Hyatt Place Las Vegas after registering this morning. They had no idea what I was talking about, which is what I fear will be the case each time. I just worry whether the “default” election will be AA miles only and I won’t see another WOH point for months.
I’d say the default is Hyatt points
Indeed it would be cheaper for Hyatt to pass out worthless AA miles, instead of their own. Unless we know otherwise, I’d rather not register for this offer for now.
This promotion is for 1k AA miles on top of either the Hyatt points or AA miles you’d normally earn.
This is additional. So a Hyatt House stay that would ordinarily be 5,000 Hyatt points (often a fantastic points value even without these bonuses) is now an effective 4,500 Hyatt points with a free 1,000 AA miles thrown in for good measure. If you value AA and Hyatt at about the same (actually, points brokers generally value AA at slightly higher than Hyatt) that’s an effective net 3,500 points for hotels that can cost $180+ per night in cash.. Unreal!
Does Hyatt verify that it is your name on the American Airlines account?
Not sure, anybody know?