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Easy way to search: Hyatt Cash and Points Group Code
One of the best ways to stay at expensive hyatt properties and make your points stretch is to use the Hyatt Cash and Points rates. They can be extremely laborious to search for individually. I was looking at hotels in San Francisco and one popped up with Cash and Points – I clicked through to the final booking page and noticed that the Corporate or Group code was listed 51440. Once you have this group code you can actually input that into your search query thus getting only results with Cash and Points availability.
Let’s look at how Hyatt Cash and Points can increase the value of your points.
There are three options for booking:
- Cash
- Hyatt Gold Passport Points
- Hyatt Cash + Points
Option 1 : Cash
The Grand Hyatt San Francisco was nearly $400/night when I searched. That’s a no go.
Option 2: Points
I could use 20000 outright and get $0.02/point. I wouldn’t pay any taxes and the room would be free of cost. At this valuation I’m kind of getting fair market value. I either have earned these Hyatt points through stays, or transferred over from Chase Ultimate rewards. Either way, I’m not losing money at this valuation. But, I like to be profitable when it comes to redemptions, i.e. get more than the fair market value.
Option 3: Cash + Points
Using Hyatt Cash + Points the rate is knocked down to 10000 + $146 – a discount of $254 from $400. This means that my 10000 points saved me $254 or $0.0254/point. In addition to this, I actually earn points not only off the $125, but as a diamond, I earn an extra 1000 points at check in.
The net looks like this
- Pay 10000 GP points and $146
- Receive Stay credit
- 6.5x $125= 812.5
- check in bonus = 1000
- Net is 8187.5 for $254 value = over $0.03
Use 51440 when searching for Hyatt Cash and Points rates
You will see the hotels listed that have the Hyatt Cash + Points rate listed for your search dates. I did a hypothetical search in New York in August…The list was ridiculously long for cash and points avail but I listed to show what the process would look like:
The Chase Sapphire Preferred is a great starter card that earns Premium Ultimate Rewards that can be transferred into over a dozen partners many of which are US based.
Welcome Offer
60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months
80k offer in branch currently – I think this should be online soon
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
Super solid welcome offer.
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.
- 3x on dining
- including eligible delivery services for takeout
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Ultimate Rewards – Chase Travel Portal
- $50 Annual Credit on hotel stays purchased via Ultimate Rewards/Chase Travel
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 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 Portal and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including primary rental car insurance, purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 13 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in the Chase Travel center for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Primary rental car coverage is my favorite
There is currently an 80k offer after $4k spend in 3 months available in branch, and up to 90k after $6k spend in 6 months. I suspect some version of this will be online soon if you don’t want the hassle of going into a branch.
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 60k is a very, very good offer. 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.
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