Ahead of the May 20 World of Hyatt award chart changes — which included a switch from three pricing tiers per category to five and 136 properties changing categories — many loyalists feared the program would lose much of its value.
Luckily, the changes haven't been as bad as many feared. TPG's Nick Ewen wrote about his first impressions of the Hyatt award chart changes on May 20. Two days later, we used data from Gondola (a free hotel search and direct booking platform for frequent travelers) to discuss how award pricing changed at 19 popular Hyatt properties.
Now, we're back with more data from Gondola — this time across 1,078 properties, including every property that changed categories May 20 and a broad sample of other properties. This data shows that while some redemptions became dramatically more expensive, many Hyatt sweet spots survived, and some properties even became cheaper on points.
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