Official Entry Thread: 2 Lucky Winners Get a 2-Night Stay at Any Hyatt Place Hotel + Personal Assistant Services

by Gary Leff

As I described several days back, Hyatt is offering two of my readers a 2-night stay at any Hyatt Place and two months of personal assistant services from TaskUs.com.

This is the official entry thread. Regular readers know that Hyatt Gold Passport is a loyalty program that’s come a long way over the last year and currently offers one of the very best top tier experiences, and they’re promoting their limited service Hyatt Place brand as a great work-life balance. My own view is ‘more hotel properties is better’ even if Gold Passport Diamond status doesn’t get you as far at Hyatt Place as say at a Park Hyatt — but the less expensive hotels are a great way to requalify for status and earn Faster Free Nights credits when that promo is being offered.

To enter, just leave a comment in this thread! Any comment will do. One entry per person, please.

The contest will run through noon Eastern time on Monday, March 22. And two commenters will be selected at random as the winner. I’ll be traveling when the contest closes but it shouldn’t take long for me to announce who has won.

You have a pretty great shot of winning. I don’t have all that many readers, actually. And everyone can only enter once. So each entry’s odds are pretty darn good. Plus it’s easy to enter, you just have to leave a comment in this thread and make sure you’ve registered with a valid email address when leaving that comment so I can contact you if you win.

Here’s how the contest works. Everyone is welcome to enter the contest once. If you would like to win the free nights and personal assistant services, leave a comment in this official entry thread. You need to register to leave comments if you haven’t already, and in order to win need to use a valid email address so that I can provide your email address to Hyatt’s PR rep to contact you if you win.

While no doubt there are ways to circumvent the one entry per person rule, and some of those approaches might slip by my watchful eye, I’m going to ask eveyrone to simply honor my request. One entry per person, just leave a comment in the official entry thread post that you’d like the night.

Then after the conclusion of the contest I will use a random number generator to come up with the winning comment in the official entry post. And as long as that entry appears to be a unique entry (not duplicated by an additional entry), I’ll provide winner emails to Hyatt’s represenative to get in touch.

This is a giveaway, and the spirit is a generous one, I don’t want a lot of rules here. I ‘reserve the right’ to interpret the rules however makes the most sense to me, to determine if and when a winner is indeed eligible, and at what point a winner has abandoned their prize by not replying to my email that they’ve won. Those and all other interpretations are at my sole discreiton, I don’t want complaints or to be sued because I want to give away a free hotel night. Thank you for understanding!

And thanks in this, of course, go to Hyatt Hotels and Hyatt Place which made the giveaway to y’all possible!

(Separately, I understand there will be another giveaway run by Hyatt Place directly, a ‘second chance’ if you will — and I’ll let folks know when that website is up. But the best chance of winning will clearly be here on this blog!)

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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  17. I’d love to win this because it would be great to take a trip and already have accommodations!

  53. Gots to get my entry in 🙂

    Stumpy and his wife Martha went to the state fair every year. Every year Stumpy would say, “Martha, I’d like to ride in that there airplane.”
    And every year Martha would say, “I know Stumpy, but that airplane ride costs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars.”

    One year Stumpy and Martha went to the fair and Stumpy said, “Martha, I’m 71 years old. If I don’t ride that airplane this year I may never get another chance.”

    Martha replied, “Stumpy, that there airplane ride costs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars.”

    The pilot overheard them and said, “Folks, I’ll make you a deal, I’ll take you both up for a ride. If you can stay quiet for the entire ride and not say one word, I won’t charge you, but if you say one word it’s ten dollars.”

    Stumpy and Martha agreed and up they went. The pilot did all kinds of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but not a word was heard. He did all his tricks over again, but still not a word. They landed and the pilot turned to Stumpy, “By golly, I did everything I could think of to get you to yell out, but you didn’t.”

    Stumpy replied, “Well, I was gonna say something when Martha fell out, but ten dollars is ten dollars.”

  61. A piece of string walks in to a bar. The bartender says, “Sorry we don’t serve your kind here,” so the piece of string walks back out side, twists himself around and ruffles up one of his ends.

    The string walks back in to the same bar and the barman says, “Hey, aren’t you that piece of string I just kicked out?”

    The piece of string replies, “I’m a frayed knot.”

    THE ARISTOCRATS!

  148. Reaching the end of a job interview, the human resources person asked a young engineer fresh out of MIT, “And what starting salary were you looking for?”

    The engineer said, “In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package.”

    The interviewer said, “Well, what would you say to a five-week vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching your retirement fund to 50% of your salary, and a company car leased every two years, say, a red Corvette?”

    The young engineer sat up straight and said, “Wow! Are you kidding?”

    The interviewer replied, “Yeah, but you started it.”

  153. Thanks for all the great info, Gary. You have helped me understand the complexities of frequent travel, miles and points through your blog.

  160. Thanks for the blog — I’ve learned a lot from it. And thanks for running this contest.

  166. Have already learned so much from this blog. Wouldn’t hurt to glean some more! Thanks for sharing!

  211. 1st comment on the blog, thanks for the help in the past and sign me up for the fre night.

  213. I’ve been reading your blog for months, Gary, and this finally got me to leave a comment. Thanks!

  215. I’d say the odds of winning are not so great as you think, Gary. You may have more readers than you realize…

  217. Hyatt Place interests me as a frequent traveller for business as it’s the right price point for work and provides that combination of amenities that makes it easier to be on the road and putting in late nights to get home sooner.

    Thanks for running the contest!

  230. Please, may the flawed but better-than-nothing healthcare bill pass and I win this contest. Thanks

  235. I’ve very fond of Hyatt Place. True, status doesn’t get you much, but the bed is miles better than most mid-tier properties (e.g. a Courtyard or Hilton Garden Inn), and net’s free. Hard to go wrong. Now if they’d just get better fitness centers.

  253. Always enjoy reading your site — very informative & useful. Thanks for everything! 😀

  256. Seems like Hyatt is doing everything right and care for the brand and customers! Well, so are you! Thanks!

  261. Please enter me! Can’t wait to use my free Platinum status at my next vacation, coming up pretty soon.

  268. Thanks…count me in. I folded a corner on my entry to increase my odds of being selected.

  275. Gary,

    Win or no win, thanks for your blog and advice over the years…it’s been invaluable!

  278. Originally joint Gold Passport back in 2005 when I stayed at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Chicago; very nice property.

  281. thank you for the chance to win a couple of night for our vacation this summer. We have the city picked out……. YUL.

  326. I am a loyal Hilton Honors Diamond member looking to spread my wings after the recent Hilton devaluation-would love to win!

  369. Gary – thanks for the info. the latest Hyatt promo – formerly the “Faster Free Nights”, now the Next Big Thing (?) was a great way to stock up on free nights.

    Thanks for a chance to win.

  393. so much for having a good shot i think you have more readers than you thought,tee hee!we really appreciate the shot 🙂

  399. Great prize! Thanks to you, Hyatt Hotels, and Hyatt Place for sponsoring this giveaway! Good luck to everyone!

  401. Hyatt rocks! Loved those old Portman-style Regency atrium lobbies. Grand Hyatts are spectacular. Not familiar with Hyatt Place. Might be my chance.

  414. Based on the posted rules, it might not make any difference, but I’m typing this *right now* from within a Hyatt Place (Columbus/Dublin).

    Curiously, the H-Place is actually more expensive than the average Priceline win at the Hyatt on Capitol Square in downtown Columbus, but parking is free and this is a better location for the wedding we’re attending. (Plus, no points if you do Priceline… 🙂

  417. Love and shout outs to you and the Hyatt for a great promotion and give-away! I am a starving Tourism Student and I appreciate the chance to win! Thanks for all the great insight via twitter!!
    Cheers!! Shannen

  423. Thanks for the offer – keep up the fantastic blog, I have learnt so much from reading this over the last few months.

    Cheers

  443. thanks for all the great tips and stories!

    (btw, that is a legitimate email address – i’m not obsessed with you, it’s just that we run own the domain and can assign any address in that domain, which makes it easier to sort by sender. just in case you were wondering… 🙂 )

  446. Love the jokes! Best contest ever, jokes, Hyatt, and a personal assistant. What more could you ask for?

  447. Looking forward to reading more here and would love it if i won – -need the break and the Help assistant wise!! 🙂 thanks Liz

  449. Gary, I follow the same strategy with Hyatt. Diamond status does not have many benefits at Hyatt Place, but earning Diamond through Hyatt Place was easy for me and gives me the bennies for the upscale properties

  453. Interesting blog. Thanks! Just bookmarked it after roaming around. Hope your connecting flights worked out. I missed one to St Petersburg Russia once due to weather delays leaving the US and had to stay over in London a few days. Was stressful.

  494. Hyatt Place is the best moderately priced hotel chain for personal and business travel. In fact, I stayed at a Htatt Place last week and will stay at another one next week.

  498. Hi gleff,

    Please sign me up!

    If I win I am hoping to get some help figuring out what FFP I should patronize at EWR for upgrades.

    Thanks so much, and fingers crossed!

  542. In the words of Rowan Atkinson’s character on Rat Race: “I hope I win!”

  544. Gary,

    I am regular reader of your blog and have gotten tons of valuable ideas and info.

    Keep up the good work.
    Thanks

  566. Hi, love your info. And love the Dallas HyattPlace, so close that I can walk to my business partners locations….yea, walk in Dallas.

  572. Enjoy the blog; I’ve learned a lot and netted a lot of points. I would love to win the contest.

  573. After all the snow in the northeast and the hurricane last week (when my basement flooded) and my kitchen under construction for the last 4 years winning a 2 night stay would be so wonderful. Thank you so much. I’ll keep my fingers (and toes) crossed.

  674. Just discovered your blog and found it very informative; more than most given that many seem self-promotional; thank you for helping those of us that spend part of our lives “up in the air”.

  697. Love to stay at Hyatts and the personal assistant.. well that’s just gravy!!

  705. This would be awesome! Thanks so much for your enlightening & entertaining blog!

  714. greetings from bangkok airport! and much love to hyatt. their membership program is great.

  745. Do you read them all to select one? Or just randomly select a number? Thanks for the chance.

  762. I’ve never stayed at a Hyatt Place before because in locations I visit, other brands are cheaper. This would give me an opportunity to try out Hyatt Place for the first time if I am chosen as the winner. Thanks for running the contest!

  793. Hyatt is great. They will match Diamond status from Hilton. You do get more personal service from Hyatt than Hilton

  813. If you earn hotel points, spend them on that hotel. Same for airlines. Never spend on a partner award.

  831. I LOVE hyatt! had some of my nicest stays in hyatt regency. although once my room was so tiny, i had to turn sideways to get by the bed, but that’s another story.
    love hyatt.

  832. I LOVE Hyatt Place! We try to stay there regularly. They are SO family friendly too!

  833. This is such a great idea! Surprised it hasn’t been done before, what a great way to target high-potential customers.

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