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At the beginning of the month, I asked “since when can World of Hyatt peak, standard and off-peak dates change mid-year?” after I had noticed that someone had changed the off-peak, standard, and peak season dates at Hyatt Regency Seattle.
At the same time, I noticed that the property seemed to have a disproportionate number of peak season night in its calendar and very few off-peak nights (an added benefit of Hyatt making month-by-month award availability viewable on its site), but as I had better things to do with my time, I didn’t delve into things any further.
Recently, however, I decided to revisit the award calendar for the Hyatt Regency Seattle to see just exactly what award availability at the property was like, and the results of my very brief and very basic analysis surprised me.
Starting from today (12 September 2025), this is what award availability at the Hyatt Regency Seattle looks like.
In case you’re having trouble viewing the table above, here are the highlights:
Between 12 September 2025 and 30 September 2026, just 3 nights (out of 385) at the Hyatt Regency Seattle are available to be booked at off-peak rates.
Between 12 September 2025 and 30 September 2026, just 57 nights (out of 385) at the Hyatt Regency Seattle are available to be booked at standard rates.
Between 12 September 2025 and 30 September 2026, 263 nights (out of 385) at the Hyatt Regency Seattle are available to be booked at peak rates.
Between 12 September 2025 and 30 September 2026, 62 nights (out of 385) at the Hyatt Regency Seattle are not bookable with points.
In percentage terms this means that out of the dates that are currently bookable between now and the end of September 2026 (323 nights) …
- 0.93% can be booked at off-peak rates
- 17.65% can be booked at standard rates
- 81.42% can be booked at peak rates
Does anyone else thing that looks a little odd for what is, essentially, a very standard city center Category 4 Hyatt Regency property?
I’m reasonably sure that when seasonal pricing was introduced, Hyatt told us that we wouldn’t see massively skewed numbers like this … at least not at properties like this one (I think we were warned that the very high-end properties would have a significant number of dates where peak season pricing was enforced).
To put these numbers in some sort of context and to give you an idea of just how odd they look, here are the statistics from two considerably more popular properties.
First up, the Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill:
In percentage terms, out of the dates that are currently bookable between now and the end of September 2026 (358 nights) …
- 2.51% can be booked at off-peak rates
- 54.47% can be booked at standard rates
- 43.02% can be booked at peak rates
In January alone, the Churchill has more than twice as many number of off-peak nights than the Hyatt Regency Seattle has all year.
Sure, the pitiful percentage of nights that can be booked at off-peak rates at the Churchill is depressing, but at least the ratio of standard rate nights to peak rate nights doesn’t look bad.
Next up, the Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme (one of the most aspirational properties in the Hyatt portfolio … even if I didn’t like the room I stayed in!).
In percentage terms, out of the dates that are currently bookable between now and the end of September 2026 (328 nights) …
- 10.98% can be booked at off-peak rates
- 42.38% can be booked at standard rates
- 46.65% can be booked at peak rates
What does it tell you about the Hyatt Regency Seattle when the Park Hyatt Paris is offering 12 times the number of off-peak dates (36 vs 3)?!
All of this just goes to show how ridiculous the award pricing is at the Hyatt Regency Seattle and I have no idea how whoever is setting the seasons at this property can justify what they’re doing?
Selling under 1% of the available dates at off-peak pricing is bad enough, but selling over 80% of the dates at peak pricing is just a rip-off and it makes me wonder how many other Hyatt properties are doing this?
And how many other properties are changing their seasons mid-year as the Hyatt Regency Seattle has done?
Is the Hyatt Regency Seattle an outlier or are there other very ordinary Hyatt properties who think that changing their seasons mid-year and charging peak rate award prices on an overwhelming majority of nights is an acceptable thing to do?
If any readers know of any other properties that price award nights as appallingly as the Hyatt Regency Seattle, let me know in the comments. perhaps it’s time we had a list of shame?
Featured image is not the Hyatt Regency Seattle.
