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Review: Hyatt’s Thompson Washington DC Hotel

by Gary Leff on May 22, 2021

May 22 2021

Earlier this month I stayed at the Thompson Washington DC Hotel. It’s in a neighborhood where I haven’t spent much time before, and my first experience with the brand that Hyatt acquired when it acquired Two Roads Hospitality.

I didn’t have a fantastic stay at the property. I am not longing to return. But I’d absolutely stay here – for instance this would be my go-to pick if I had a meeting at the Department of Transportation, or for a leisure stay if I were going to a Nationals ballgame and wanted to use points.

You Have A Brief Window To Take Working Vacations Before You Have To Return To Office

by Gary Leff on May 16, 2021

May 16 2021

With the pandemic increasingly under control in the United States, more people vaccinated, and some offices gradually re-opening there’s a brief window where you can really travel and work at the same time. While work from home is likely to be more common than in the Before Times, we may not have the same flexibility in the future that we do right now. Become location independent, if only briefly. Go take a trip and work from somewhere else. Combining work and vacation is actually the best way to vacation anyway.

Review: New Alila Marea Encinitas [Hyatt Award With Confirmed Suite Upgrade]

by Gary Leff on May 9, 2021

May 09 2021

The new Alila Marea Encinitas is a fantastic hotel and a great spot for Hyatt loyalists to redeem points. It’s available as a category 6 hotel for 25,000 points per night. And I was able to confirm an upgrade at booking into an ocean suite that runs of $2000 per night.

The property combines a nice spot on the ocean, great service, and fantastic food – all to go along with fantastic value through the World of Hyatt program.

Hyatt: Stay 5 Nights, Get A Free Day Use Room

by Gary Leff on April 15, 2021

Apr 15 2021

This is a rather unusual offer that combines some of pandemic-era innovation with a traditional stay x, get y free promotion.

[Targeted Quadruple Dip] Earn 1000 American AAdvantage Miles Per Hyatt Night Through June 30

by Gary Leff on April 15, 2021

Apr 15 2021

The American Airlines-Hyatt partnership has a great new targeted offer, and we’ll now very shortly just how many Hyatt members who have linked their American AAdvantage accounts that is: 1000 American Airlines miles per night up to 30,000 bonus miles – stackable with at least three other ways to earn.

20% Off Hyatt Rate, Valid At 45 Major Hotels

by Gary Leff on April 11, 2021

Apr 11 2021

One of the prizes in the American Airlines 40th anniversary game and sweepstakes is 20% off a Hyatt stay. American and Hyatt launched a double dip partnership two years ago.

When you win the Hyatt prize though it’s not 20% off a single stay, instead you’re sent a coupon code for 20% off the standard rate at a specific set of hotels which is usable by anyone and reusable. Here it is.

Will Hyatt’s New Multi-Brand Las Vegas Complex Jeopardize Its MGM Partnership?

by Gary Leff on March 19, 2021

Mar 19 2021

The old Rio Las Vegas will become several Hyatt-branded properties with Hyatt Regency the first to come online, expected in 2023. Full service Hyatts in Las Vegas will be something new, but Hyatt isn’t telling us what other brands they’ll have yet and none of this will happen for several years. So that’s only of limited interest today.

What’s more intriguing I think is what this means for Hyatt’s MGM M life Rewards partnership.

After Promising To Suspend Hotel Category Changes, Hyatt Will Make Category Changes

by Gary Leff on March 11, 2021

Mar 11 2021

Back in the fall Hyatt announced 15 hotels that would change redemption category but otherwise declared they would ‘suspend 2021 hotel category changes’.

That didn’t turn out to hold.

Boycott Hyatt Movement Growing As Chain Hosts CPAC Conference

by Gary Leff on February 25, 2021

Feb 25 2021

Hotels host meetings and events, and generally do not carefully vet the messages that will be shared or the people who will gather at those meetings to make sure they’re consistent with the values of their median customer, consistent with the values of their most vocal customers, or consistent with the values of twitter.

From time to time that becomes a problem, and seemingly becomes a problem for Hyatt (and, oddly, for the Hyatt Regency Orlando) relatively often.

Hyatt Regency Boston No Longer Wants To Be A Hub For Prostitution