How to use Hyatt Stay Certificates for potentially large hotel savings

Hyatt Stay Certificates can be a very interesting tool for the luxury traveller – or, at least, the traveller who like to travel in luxury but wants to pay less than rack rate to get it!  This article is an introduction to using them.

What are Hyatt Stay Certificates?

Here is the home page.  Put simply, they are vouchers which are valid for room-only accommodation, including all taxes, at Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt and all other brands in the Hyatt portfolio.

All of the participating Hyatt properties (there are a couple of non-participants) are grouped into one of seven categories.  There are five different certificates you can buy, reflecting these seven categories:

Classic ($109 per night)

Choice ($152.22 per night)

Premier ($188.89 per night)

Elite ($260 per night)

Inspire ($325.55 per night)

Exclusive ($394.44 per night)

Ultimate ($461.11 per night)

Certificates can be delivered to the UK if you pay the $25 FedEx fee.

You can buy certificates for up to 5 nights.  However, for maximum flexibility (should you need to shorten your stay) you should just buy lots of one night certificates and book back-to-back nights.  There is no cost saving in buying a multi-night certificate.

Do I have to buy the certificates before I book?

No!  This is one of their greatest benefits.

You can redeem Hyatt Stay Certificates at hyatt.com before you have bought them.

You need to look up which category your chosen hotel falls into – the chart is here.

For each night of your potential stay, you need to check availability at hyatt.com by putting the code below into the ‘Gift Certificate or Special Offer Code’ box:

Classic – HSCLN1

Choice – HSCHN1

Premier – HSPRN1

Elite – HSELN1

Inspire – HSINN1

Exclusive – HSXLN1

Ultimate – HSULN1

To check availability for between two and five nights at once, change the number at the end of the code to 2-5 from 1.

Once you have successfully made your booking, you can order your certificates.  They must be presented at check-in.

How much money could I save?

The ‘game’ with Hyatt Stay Certificates is to stay at the most expensive hotel, at the most expensive time of the year – assuming they have made availability available!

Let’s look at a few examples.  Calculations exclude the $25 delivery charge, and I have converted room rates to US$ for easy comparison.

Hyatt Regency The Churchill, London – 11 Dec – Elite certificate $260, cheapest room $447

Park Hyatt, Tokyo – 23 July – Inspire certificate $325, cheapest room $501

Park Hyatt, Sydney – 23 July – Ultimate certificate $461, cheapest room $773

Hyatt Regency Palais de la Mediterranee, Nice – 28 October – Choice certificate $152, cheapest room $339

As you can see, all of these examples generate genuine savings using Hyatt Stay Certificates.  Unfortunately, they are not accepted at the Park Hyatt resort in The Maldives.

Note that certificate availability is blacked out during peak periods.

Anything else I need to know?

You will NOT earn Hyatt Gold Passport points on these rates, although you should get any elite status benefits you are due.

Rooms do not include breakfast, so if you want breakfast in the hotel then you should compare the cost of the certificate plus breakfast to the cheapest cash rate with breakfast you can find.

World of Hyatt update – December 2024:

Get bonus points: World of Hyatt is not currently running a global promotion

New to World of Hyatt?  Read our overview of World of Hyatt here and our article on points expiry rules here. Our article on what we think World of Hyatt points are worth is here.

Buy points: If you need additional World of Hyatt points, you can buy them here.

World of Hyatt is offering a 25% bonus when you buy points by 4th January 2025.  Your annual purchase limit is increased to 110,000 points and you could buy your 2025 allowance between 1st and 4th January to benefit twice. Click here to buy points.

Want to earn more hotel points?  Click here to see our complete list of promotions from Hyatt and the other major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.