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If you’re unfamiliar with Hyatt Privé, it’s a VIP program whereby you get special treatment by booking with an authorized rep. You can read all about it here, but you can expect to pay the Hyatt Daily Rate and get substantial benefits. It’s not avail at all Hyatt properties and has some stay requirements, so read that link if you’re interested in using it for your trip. I’m going to be trying it out soon, but wanted to Stack it with an upgrade. I had been under the assumption that this was built into the program, but actually ran into a bit of issue with doing it.
Stacking the benefits
I wanted to use points to upgrade my future stay to a suite at 6k points a night. Once I made my reservation through my Hyatt Prive rep, I called World of Hyatt to add it. They couldn’t do it. The program is so new that the World of Hyatt rep didn’t even know what my rate was, but said that it didn’t qualify. Hmmm
I reached out to my rep.
She reached out to her contact, and was told that right now, point upgrades couldn’t be applied. In my situation only Explorist Club Upgrades could be stacked. That’s a big bummer. They went ahead and applied a Club upgrade to our reservation.
The next day we got a suite confirmation email
The Front Office manager was in contact with my rep and attached the Suite upgrade with points to our reservation. They also redeposited my Club Upgrade as it was redundant with the Suite upgrade.
My Advice
If you end up in a similar situation, I’d advise you to ask your Prive rep to see if the Front Office can manually attach your desired upgrade if World of Hyatt or another contact runs into a problem. It is possible 🙂
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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