World of Hyatt has just announced some major changes to award pricing. While the program is maintaining published award charts, these changes have the potential to be pretty brutal, especially as time goes on. Separately, I’ve covered a couple of minor positive program updates, related to points sharing and early access to awards.
With these changes, World of Hyatt is keeping the same number of award categories that there are now. Instead, what’s changing is that we’re going from three to five redemption levels within each tier:
Hyatt notes how it will continue to have annual hotel category shifts in the future, as it does now, with yearly changes announced in April. However, over time, expanded redemption levels are intended to reduce the need for larger category shifts.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
