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Leak Details Hyatt Award Overhaul With New Categories 9 and 10

The leak outlines steps to rein in redemption costs without abandoning Hyatt’s fixed award chart.

Overview

  • Reported tiers would price Category 9 at 45,000/50,000/55,000 points and Category 10 at 55,000/60,000/65,000 for off-peak, standard, and peak nights.
  • A broad reclassification is described, with metro Park Hyatt hotels moving to Category 9 and Category 10 reserved for a tiny set such as Park Hyatt Kyoto.
  • A new super peak mechanism for select limited-service brands would value points at 1.5 cents until reaching the peak rate two categories higher, with each hotel capped at 10 such nights per year.
  • Free-night certificates would rise to Category 1–5 and 1–8, with a top-off feature letting Explorist top to Category 7 and Globalist to Category 8, priced by the gap to the certificate’s standard band.
  • The details remain unverified, originating from an anonymous Reddit post relayed by One Mile at a Time.