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I’ve stayed at the Hyatt Regency Dulles several times over the past few years when I’ve positioned myself to IAD for long haul international trips. You can often find cash rates near $100, it’s a category 2 hotel in the Hyatt program meaning rates range from 6500 to 9500 points a night, which means it can easily budget itself into a trip where business or first class awards work out of IAD but not your hometown. What can you expect from the hotel? A lot more than your traditional $100 a night airport hotel, though you are a little ways from IAD and there’s hardly anything around ( thank you GrubHub and Uber Eats! ).
Let’s take a look
Stay Details:
- When:Most recently 2024
- Rate: $100 cash before an Emirates Business Class flight
- Status: Globalist
- I left before breakfast tho lol
- 4pm check out
- upgrade
- Pets
- $65 a stay
- Parking
- $15 a night
- Shuttle
- Every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day
Location
Roughly a 10 to 15 min shuttle ride away
Room
I’ve always ended up in the same style room. A large, junior suite styled room with a view of IAD.
reverse angle
Bathroom
Gym
For an airport hotel… gym and pool. Not too shabby!
Overall
I’ll admit.. I haven’t tried the restaurants because either I arrived very late, or left quite early….or I ordered Uber eats. I can’t really comment on the quality, but from the looks of it and other reviews, I didn’t miss much. That said, you would get free breakfast as a Globalist, but when you compare the prices at the hotel with simply ordering to the hotel…just order to the hotel and use up some of those Uber Eats or GrubHub credits Amex gives you.
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $5,000 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 Points Boost
- each account anniversary you’ll earn bonus points equal to 10% of your total purchases made the previous year
- 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
- Complimentary DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees & lower service fees for a min. of one year when you activate by 12/31/27. Plus, a $10 promo each month on non-restaurant orders
- $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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