Earn 3x Hyatt points at Homes & Hideaways by World of Hyatt

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While Marriott’s Homes & Villas offering has been around for some time, Hyatt is considerably newer to the vacation rentals space, and just like Marriott, it seems to be keen to incentivise usage of its Homes and Hideaways properties through its World of Hyatt loyalty program.

For a limited time, Hyatt is now offering World of Hyatt members the chance to earn 3x points on stays booked through its Homes & Hideaways portal that take place in the next couple of months.

Hyatt Homes & Hideaways

There’s no big mystery to Hyatt’s Homes and Hideaways. Where the main Hyatt portal sells nights at hotels around the world, the Homes and Hideaways portal sells nights at home, villas and condos around the United States (locations outside of the United States have not yet been added).

World of Hyatt + Homes & Hideaways

Homes & Hideaways is part of the World of Hyatt program so members can earn 5 World of Hyatt Base Points per eligible dollar spent, as well as standard elite tier bonuses, and Tier Qualifying Nights when they stay at a qualifying property.

This is what members and those with elite status can expect to earn outside of any promotions:

• Member – 5.0 points/dollar
• Discoverist – 5.5 points/dollar (includes 10% status bonus)
• Explorist – 6.0 points/dollar (includes 20% status bonus)
• Globalist – 6.5 points/dollar (includes 30% status bonus)

Points are only earned on charges identified as the property’s periodic (e.g., nightly, weekly) rental rate and so are not earned on any ancillary fees (e.g. cleaning fees, booking fees, damage fees, security deposit, taxes, etc…).

World of Hyatt on-property benefits are not applicable to stays booked through Homes & Hideaways (that’s unsurprising given the nature of the properties being booked) but World of Hyatt points may be redeemed for Homes and Hideaways bookings.

Earnings in this promotion

With 3x earnings on offer, all World of Hyatt members will earn at least 15 points per eligible dollar spent in this promotion, so that’s what this looks like for members and elite status holders.

• Member – 15.0 points/dollar
• Discoverist – 15.5 points/dollar (includes 10% status bonus)
• Explorist – 16.0 points/dollar (includes 20% status bonus)
• Globalist – 16.5 points/dollar (includes 30% status bonus)

Given that we value World of Hyatt points at 1.5 cents each (based on the value we know we can get out of them with relative ease), you could say that this promotion is boosting the effective rebates on offer to between 22.5% and 24.75%.

That’s impressive … assuming you need to make a Homes and Hideaways booking.

Using the right credit card for bookings

Unfortunately, bookings made through Homes & Hideaways do not count as Hyatt purchases for the purposes of the World of Hyatt Credit Card or the World of Hyatt Business Credit Card, so bookings that are paid for with these cards will only earn cardholders a single extra point/dollar.

For this reason, it would make more sense for someone using the Homes & Hideaways portal to use a card with strong earnings in the ‘travel’ category.

We suggest the following (terms apply):

• Chase Sapphire Reserve® – 3 points/dollar on most travel spending
• Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card – 3 points/dollar on most business travel spending
• American Express® Green Card – 3 points/dollar on most travel spending
• Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card – 3 points/dollar on most travel spending

Given that the points earned by the Chase Sapphire Reserve® card, the Ink Business Preferred® credit card and the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card can be converted to World of Hyatt points in a 1:1 ratio, those cards would work well for anyone looking to maximize their Hyatt earnings.

Note: All information about the American Express® Green Card has been collected independently by Traveling For Miles. The American Express® Green Card is not currently available through Traveling For Miles.

Key promotion terms

• You must be a member of World of Hyatt in good standing to participate (obviously!)
• Only Eligible Stays completed between August 21, 2024, and November 3, 2024 will count towards this promotion.
• All Eligible Stays must be completed by November 3, 2024, in order to count in this promotion.
• During the Promotion Period, members earn triple World of Hyatt points for each whole U.S. dollar (or U.S. dollar equivalent) spent on Eligible Rate per Eligible Stay at properties booked through Homes & Hideaways by World of Hyatt.
• For a property to be participating in the promotion, the property needs to be participating in World of Hyatt at the time of the member’s stay.
• All points awarded under this promotion are Bonus Points. You will receive ten (10) Bonus Points per eligible dollar spent on your Eligible Stay. This is in addition to the five (5) Base Points you would earn as your base earning.
• For the purpose of this promotion, an “Eligible Stay” is defined as any stay where a member is paying an Eligible Rate.
• Please allow two to four weeks after checkout for Bonus Points to be posted to your World of Hyatt account.
• Except as expressly stated, this promotion is not valid with other offers, promotions or discounts.
• A limited number of rooms are allocated to this offer; reservations subject to availability.
• Offer not valid in conjunction with previously booked or held stays and may not be combined with other offers, promotions, or discounts, except as expressly stated.

Link to full terms and conditions (which you should read carefully).

Bottom line

Hyatt has launched a limited time promotion for its Homes & Hideaways booking platform in which it’s offering guests triple base points on select bookings. Given our valuation of Hyatt’s points at 1.5 cents each, this promotion could be said to be offering rebates of over 22%, and for anyone wanting to book a home/villa/condo for a stay in the next couple of months, that could be a tempting proposition.

Featured image courtesy of Homes and Hideaways by World of Hyatt