Is there any Hyatt points availability for SLH?

[Michael_S]

I have bunch of hyatt points and I feel like they’re a bit useless if you want to book a non-hyatt (SLH) properties

You want to book any ski hotel? Too bad, entire ski season is blocked out. You wanna book vista palazzo in como? Come in february please

Is there even any point in this partnership? If I’m supposed to pay 1,800 per night, why would I even bother to book at hyatt website!

[Rob]

Surely you are confusing two things here?

EARNING – totally agree, you can often get a better deal via the hotel website, the SLH website or via Emyr (many SLH hotels offer Emyr better deals than the SLH website offers)

REDEEEMING – if you want to stay for free, Hyatt points via hyatt.com are the only way

I think you’re expecting too much here. SLH hotels are not owned, managed or franchised by Hyatt. It is a very loose marketing relationship, where by Hyatt sells the rooms for a commission (which funds the points you get) and the hotel in turn agrees to give some slim benefits.

Hyatt won’t pay much for a redemption room. Let’s be ludicrously generous and assume it pay 1p per point. This still means a hotel putting up an €1800 room gets £450 max as a redemption. Where’s the value there? If a hotel wanted to be tied into this sort of deal it would go all out and become branded. If Hyatt started to insist that a fixed % of rooms were put up for points the hotels would pull out rather than accept a haircut on peak seasons rooms they can sell many times over.

This is worth a read – https://frequentmiler.com/a-return-to-the-grand-hotel-victoria-a-dream-within-a-dream/

[Michael_S]

I was referring to redeeming indeed

I guess I have generally been happy with Park Hyatt redemptions, which works out as a bargain if you even just purchase points on sale, and slightly frustrated I can’t get anywhere close to this value for SLH redemptions, which is understandable. But if Hyatt puts you in a £1,000 room in Hadahaa for 30,000 points, clearly they can make the math work?

[Rob]

Plenty of hotels charge £1,000 per night and know they can’t sell out at that rate, but for various reasons (profit maximisation, image etc) don’t want to drop their rates to fill up. In such a scenario offering Hyatt a room or two at £300 / night (assuming 1p per point) is a win for everyone. For a hotel that thinks it can fill itself at £1,000 per night, less so.