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Last year Hyatt expanded its footprint in the luxury boutique market with a Small Luxury Hotels of the World partnership. This afforded Hyatt loyalists the ability to earn and burn points at a large crop of independently owned and operated hotels around the world. It created more incentive for customers to choose Hyatt for their business because they’d have more options to redeem for their leisure travel.
They doubled down on this strategy by purchasing Thompson Hotels, Joie de Vivre, Alila and Destination Hotels which added 85 new hotel properties to their portfolio. Now, we get more information as to the integration of the new properties, dates, and even some award levels.
You can search Thompson Properties here, and Joie De Vivre properties here
On March 28th Thompson hotels will be avail, and then on May 15th, Joie de Vivre will join the Hyatt family. Destination hotels and Alila will be announced at a later date
Currently only Thompson has released award redemptions levels:
- Category 4 ( 15k a night )
- Thompson Chicago
- Gild Hall New York
- Category 5 ( 20k )
- Thompson Seattle
- Category 6 ( 25k )
- Thompson Zihautenejo
- The Cape ( Thompson Cabo )
- Thompson Nashville
- Thompson Toronto
- The Beekman, NYC
The Cape is the one Thompson property I’m most excited about experiencing. It’s a sleek, sexy resort that is uber Instagrammable and offers a boutique redemption option in Cabo vs Hyatt’s Ziva and Place options.
Since we still have some time before you can earn, let alone burn, points at Joie De Vivre, I expect we will be hearing which properties are redeemable at different category rates sometime in May. I have no info on this, but it would correlate with the Thompson announcement which stipulated categories the day before they were available.
A Promo to celebrate: 2000 bonus points for your first stay at each of these new brands, plus a free night when you try all four!
- In total 20 new destinations will be serviced
- 60 more hotels
- Hyatt’s Resort portfolio will increase by 60%
I’m planning a trip to Bali later in the year and promos like this certainly incentivize me to investigate Alila has a potential brand to try out vs other competitors. Alila has one location in the US: Big Sur. And wow…does it look incredible.
Are you excited for these new earn and burn opportunities? I AM!
You can view the entire press release here
*feature image courtesy of Alila from the Alila Villas Ubud
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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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