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Hyatt Place Colorado Springs Review
This past week I had the distinct pleasure of visiting Randy and the Boarding Area team at their headquarters in Colorado Springs. Lucky for me, just a few blocks away, there is a new Hyatt Place that offered a very polite welcome, a simple room with a great view, and easy valet parking that was gratis since I booked with points as a Globalist. Let’s take a look
Booking Details
I transferred 16k points over from my Bilt Rewards account to book the Hyatt Place Colorado Springs. The cash rate was about $160 a night, and as a I mentioned above, I got valet parking free of charge. That would have been $25 a night. So, in total, $185 vs 8k points was a pretty solid value to me.
There was a new employee at the front desk who was very nice and gave us a warm welcome.
- When: October 202
- Where: Colorado Springs, CO
- Status: Globalist
- upgrade
- free parking
- 2 bottles of water per night
- Rate: 8k a night ( Category 2 )
The Room
The room was very clean, modern, spacious with a couch/workdesk, and had a nice view of the mountains across the parking lot. It was everything we really expected from a Hyatt Place. Oddly, we were given two 2 queen beds when we had booked King. The hotel was pretty empty, but we were quite tired from the travel day and didn’t want to have to move.
Bathroom was a single vanity with basic individual bath products
Gym
There was a decent sized gym with a pool
Overall
Breakfast is served in the morning, which we didn’t make, and the hotel is smack dab in the middle of town. If you’re looking for a modern hotel, that isn’t overly fancy but ticks all the boxes and is a great downtown location, I wouldn’t hesitate to come back here. There are cafes, restaurants, etc all within a few minutes walk. If you’re looking for luxury, I’d look at the Broadmoor that is a 10 minute drive away.
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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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