Hyatt has announced their category changes for 2016, which go into effect for bookings starting August 1, 2016. In total 50 hotels will move to a higher award category and 56 hotels will move to a lower award category.
50 hotels will move to a higher award category. Free night award redemptions at these hotels will require additional Hyatt Gold Passport points effective 12:01 am CST, August 1, 2016:
Hotels that are increasing in category include:
- Hyatt House Dallas/Frisco
- Hyatt House Dallas/Lincoln Park
- Hyatt House Dallas/Uptown
- Hyatt House Denver/Lakewood at Belmar Hyatt Place Augusta
- Hyatt Place Buffalo/Amherst
- Hyatt Place Champaign
- Hyatt Place Corpus Christi
- Hyatt Place Dallas/Grapevine
- Hyatt Place Nashville/Franklin/Cool Springs
- Hyatt Place Nashville/Hendersonville
- Hyatt Place North Charleston
- Hyatt Place Sacramento/Roseville
- Hyatt Place Salt Lake City Airport
- Hyatt Place Santiago/Vitacura
- Hyatt Place Savannah Airport
- Hyatt Regency Suites Atlanta Northwest
- Hyatt Place Asheville Downtown
- Grand Hyatt Amman
- Grand Hyatt Chengdu
- Grand Hyatt Incheon
- Grand Hyatt Santiago
- Hyatt House Atlanta/Downtown
- Hyatt House Belmont/Redwood Shores
- Hyatt House Boston/Waltham
- Hyatt House Emeryville/San Francisco Bay Area
- Hyatt House Falls Church/Merrifield
- Hyatt House Naples/5th Avenue
- Hyatt House Pleasanton
- Hyatt House San Diego/Sorrento Mesa
- Hyatt House San Juan
- Hyatt House Santa Clara
- Hyatt Place Chicago South University
- Hyatt Place Fort Worth Historic Stockyards
- Hyatt Place Garden City
- Hyatt Place Houston/The Woodlands
- Hyatt Place Mohegan Sun
- Hyatt Place Portland Airport
- Hyatt Place San Juan/City Center
- Hyatt Regency Dallas
- Hyatt Regency SF Airport
- Hyatt Valencia
- Grand Hyatt DFW
- Hyatt Place Dewey Beach
- Hyatt Place Nashville Downtown
- Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
- Hyatt Centric Park City
- Hyatt Centric The Loop Chicago
- Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco
56 hotels will move to a lower award category. Free night award redemptions at these hotels will require fewer Hyatt Gold Passport points effective 12:01 am CST, August 1, 2016:
Hotels that are decreasing in category include:
- Hyatt Ahmedabad
- Hyatt Amritsar
- Hyatt Bangalore
- Hyatt House Gaithersburg
- Hyatt House Mt. Laurel
- Hyatt Hyderabad
- Hyatt Place Albuquerque/Uptown
- Hyatt Place Ciudad del Carmen
- Hyatt Place Dallas/Arlington/Grand Prairie
- Hyatt Place El Paso Airport
- Hyatt Place Fredericksburg UMW
- Hyatt Place La Paz
- Hyatt Place Los Cabos
- Hyatt Place Mt. Laurel
- Hyatt Place Phoenix Chandler-Fashion Center
- Hyatt Place Phoenix/Gilbert
- Hyatt Place Phoenix-Mesa
- Hyatt Place Pittsburgh Airport
- Hyatt Place Pittsburgh/Cranberry
- Hyatt Place San Antonio North/Stone Oak
- Hyatt Place Tempe/Phoenix Airport
- Hyatt Pune
- Hyatt Raipur
- Hyatt Regency Ahmedabad
- Hyatt Regency Chandigarh
- Hyatt Regency Changchun
- Hyatt Regency Chennai
- Hyatt Regency Chongqing
- Hyatt Regency Dulles
- Hyatt Regency Fairfax
- Hyatt Regency Guiyang
- Hyatt Regency Gurgaon
- Hyatt Regency Kolkata
- Hyatt Regency Ludhiana
- Hyatt Regency Tianjin East
- Park Hyatt Chennai
- Hyatt Place Secaucus/Meadowlands Hyatt Regency Belgrade
- Hyatt Regency Delhi
- Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg
- Hyatt Regency Mumbai
- Hyatt Regency Pune
- Hyatt Regency Qingdao
- Hyatt Regency Thessaloniki
- Park Hyatt Hyderabad
- Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur
- Grand Hyatt Lijiang
- Grand Hyatt Mumbai
- Hyatt Regency Baku
- Hyatt Regency Changbaishan
- Hyatt Regency Houston/Galleria Hyatt Regency Perth
- Hyatt Regency Phuket Resort
- Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort Hyatt Regency Sochi
- Hyatt Centric South Beach Miami
This might be slightly OT but how do they determine what the points cost should be? Higher the price – Higher the cost in points?
If that is the case here is an interesting anomaly in that that scenario…
Hyatt Place Downtown the Loop is going for $324 and 12,000 points
Hyatt Place River North is going for $247 and 15,000 points.
@Patrick
These are category changes, not price changes. Irrespective of the price, the number of points for redemption is based on the category.