Book Hyatts for 1,000 points per night

Good morning from my cozy bedroom suite inside Istanbul Airport!

I’m still in the middle of the journey I started when I wrote to you yesterday, and I’ve got around 28 hours left to go before I can sleep again.

But enough about me… today is all about YOU – and how you can earn lots of points to travel like me:

• 🏨 New (stackable) Hyatt promo

• 💳 The card I’d recommend to my mom

🏨 New (stackable) Hyatt promo

Well, I’ll be darned.

Hyatt is out with ANOTHER promotion to earn some super easy bonus points. And like always, this stacks with a number of other concurrent Hyatt promos.

I guess they feel pretty bad about the whole award chart devaluation… that’s fine. Let them feel bad.

Anyway, for the next few months, you can earn 2,000 bonus points per two nights on stays all over the world.

Here is the fine print:

• You need to register for this offer

• You can earn a maximum of 8,000 bonus points

• Stays must take place between July 1 and September 7

• You’ll only start earning bonus points on your second stay during the promo period

Basically, this boils down to earning an extra 1,000 bonus points per night (when booking in 2-night increments).

But here’s why that’s surprisingly good…

Hyatt promotions apply to both cash and award stays – so you can really treat this as a 1,000-point rebate per night.

And since Hyatt charges just 3,000 points for some properties, that means paying a net 2,000 points per night at hotels like this one:

Now, at this point, you’re probably thinking:

“Wait, Mike… the headline said you could book Hyatt hotels for 1,000 points per night… is that a typo? Are you an IDIOT?”

And my answer would be this:

You see, this promo stacks with another Hyatt promo that you might’ve forgotten about… 😏

Earlier this year, Hyatt dropped a promo to earn 5,000 bonus points for 5-night stays at Hyatt House and Hyatt Studios, which is valid for the entire year through the end of December.

That promo effectively also offers a 1,000-point per night rebate.

So if you stack these deals and redeem points at the right brands, you could pay 3,000 points per night and get 2,000 points back per night.

Now, my friends, you’re booking Hyatts for 1,000 points per night. 😎

But there’s actually a reason you might want to pay cash instead…

There is a THIRD Hyatt promotion that I currently have to earn double points on all stays of two nights or longer.

So let me give you an example of how I’m using this triple stack next month.

In July, I’ll be spending some time in Yinchuan, China – the wine capital of China (and home to deserts, mountains, and more… it’s awesome).

Anyway, there’s a brand-new Hyatt House there that costs $36 per night:

I’ll stay there for five nights, trigger all of the following:

• Normal points earnings: 900 points

• Double points promo: 900 points

• Globalist bonus: 270 points

• Hyatt House promo: 5,000 points

• New global promo: 4,000 points

Finally, this stay will put me over the 40-night Hyatt milestone reward… which comes with another 5,000 points as an option:

In the end, my 5-night stay will cost me $180… but it will earn me 16,070 Hyatt points.

Plus, I’ll earn another 720 UR points by putting the spend on this card. Oh, and I’ll get a suite upgrade, free breakfast, late checkout, etc.

That might be the single best $180 purchase of my entire year so far.

And to be clear, you don’t need to go to Asia to do this. The stackable promos and earnings I just described will work at any Hyatt hotels in the world that fit the same parameters (though you’ll have a hard time finding them that cheap 😉).

I know I’ve buried the lede a bit here, but let me summarize:

Hyatt just dropped a new promo. More importantly, they’re dropping other stackable promos left and right.

If you have any travel plans this summer, make sure you register for this offer (and any others) and consider Hyatt as a way to earn and/or save tons of points.

💳 The card I’d recommend to my mom

A lot of travel rewards cards are honestly kind of ridiculous.

They have huge annual fees, a long list of credits you’ll forget to use, and benefits that only make sense if you’re spending your free time reading points blogs (which, to be fair, some of us do).

But if my mom asked me what travel card she should get, I’d probably point her toward one specific flexible-points card.

Here’s why:

Right now, it’s offering a welcome bonus of 100,000 UR points, which is a massive haul, especially for a card with an annual fee that’s under $100.

But what I like most is that it doesn’t require you to become a points nerd.

You can use points to book travel through the bank’s portal and call it a day.

Or…

If you eventually decide you want to learn a few tricks, those same UR points can be transferred to airline and hotel partners for even more value.

And even beyond the points, the math is pretty compelling.

The card comes with two travel credits worth $220… So even if you ignore the welcome bonus entirely (which you shouldn’t), it’s not hard to come out ahead during the first year.

It also earns bonus points in a lot of the categories that retirees tend to spend money on anyway.

The more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve realized that retirees don’t necessarily need the “best” travel card. They need a card that’s easy to understand, easy to use, and flexible enough to fit however they actually travel.

And that’s exactly what this one does.

If you want to check out the card, I’d recommend reading more about it or applying now while the points buffet is still open:

That’s all for today, kids. I know that was just two pieces of content, but I feel like they’re both pretty packed with layers of goodness.

Take care, and I’ll see you tomorrow for even more travel tips and tricks.

Ciao,

41.0082° N, 28.9784° E.

With contributions by Sam Anthony.