Hyatt and Chase have two cobranded cards: one for consumers and another for businesses.
The consumer card comes with 2 elite qualifying nights for every $5K in qualifying spend, while the business one awards 5 nights for every $10K but which resets every calendar year.
You can access Hyatt’s page for its card products here.
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Bonus & Award Nights Consumer Card:
- Earn 2 additional Tier-Qualifying night credits towards your next tier status every time you spend $5,000 on your card*
- Receive 5 qualifying night credits towards your next tier status every year*
- Receive 1 free night at any Category 1-4 Hyatt hotel or resort each year after your cardmember anniversary*
- Earn a second free night if you spend $15,000 in a calendar year*
Bonus Nights Business Card:
- Earn 5 Tier-Qualifying night credits toward status for every $10,000 you spend in a calendar year**
So, what might confuse people here is that most spending is based on the CALENDAR YEAR while the consumer card’s additional tier qualifying nights are earned of continuous expenditure on the card (2 nights for every $5K). The nights count for the year when the charge was completed, which puts you over the next threshold, regardless of when the statement closes or the bill is paid.
The issue is how you can track your qualifying spending?
The Hyatt and Chase certainly don’t make this easy, but you can easily create a spreadsheet like the one above.
If there are no finance or other non-qualifying charges and you pay your balance in full, you can use the statement balances and deduct the yearly fee once.
The statement that closes on December 22 will result in 4 elite qualifying nights.
Conclusion
Then there is the question of the stays that span over the New Year, like mine this year.
Hyatt counts the nights for the year when the stay ends, not when they were consumed. If your stay ends in 2025, all the nights are counted for that year.
The 4-bonus elite qualifying nights will put me at 151 nights for the year (I can drop one if I want to hit 50 with Marriott for Nightly Upgrade Awards), and I don’t need to break the stay that takes place at the end of the year (I can let those nights count towards 2025).
It makes sense to try to hit these various Milestone Rewards (based on calendar year), and the 150-night one (the Ultimate Free Night Award) is quite good.
I don’t usually use this card for anything other than Hyatt spent, but I decided to use it for a couple of yearly business expenses to ensure that I get the four nights.
How do you track these? Please comment below.
