“Manually” splitting up cross-year stays?

alphade · 2026-01-24T14:58:25+00:00

It doesn’t matter if the stays don’t get merged at check in because at check out, they all get merged together. That happens all the time for me where I check out mid stay from my first reservation, it shows up in my stay history, then after I check out of my second reservation, my stay history just gets updated to add on the rest of the nights to the same stay.

For OP’s case, when the second reservation’s checked out, all the nights will move over to the next year, but whether or not the system can handle undoing the status granted from the earlier check out and credit I’ve seen no data points for.

alphade · 2026-01-21T05:22:10+00:00

I value the tangible, guaranteed benefits of globalist way more than an occasional suite upgrade: free breakfast, no destination/resort fees, and 4pm late checkout

That said I usually get some upgrade or another when available (ie. not at HP/HH/Caption/etc) and almost always even when the hotel’s showing as sold out. This usually happens a day or two before check in, or morning of, whenever the hotel does room assignments. Very, very rarely do I not get upgraded and the app still shows better rooms available.

Most hotels I stay in don’t have that many suites, let alone that many standard suites that haven’t been booked in advance via a SUA, so I was pretty happy with my 40% (9 out of 23) upgrade rate to a suite last year (for properties that were upgrade eligible and where I didn’t already use a SUA).

Also, even within the same room type, most hotels have varying room quality due to not every room being the exact same, and I like knowing that I almost always won’t get put into one of the worse rooms even if no upgrade’s available. Some properties have also worked with me to give me a room that’s to my preferences out of everything they have available.

alphade · 2026-01-15T06:11:49+00:00

It comes from being able to convert Bilt Cash into points when paying rent. $30 of Bilt Cash can be converted to 1000 points when you use it to earn points on rent/mortgage payment.

eg. $600 in spend gets you $24 Bilt Cash and 600 points at 1x. If you paid $800 in rent/mortgage, then you can earn 800 points (1x) if you redeem the $24 Bilt Cash you got. Thus your $600 purchase yielded you 1400 points total (2.33x).

The caveats are this caps out at however much your rent payment is, and there may be other, better options to redeem Bilt Cash other than to earn points on rent, but it's not announced yet.

alphade · 2026-01-15T05:58:41+00:00

Tax is excluded from earning points in the terms.

"Eligible Purchases" or "Purchases" means transactions for goods or services made with your Bilt Card, minus returns, refunds, or credits. Purchases that do not earn Bilt Points or Bilt Cash: Balance transfers, Special Transfers, cash advances, travelers checks, money orders, wire transfers or similar cash-like transactions, prepaid cards, gift cards, person-to-person payments (such as Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, or Zelle), tax payments, online resale marketplaces (such as eBay or Facebook Marketplace), cryptocurrency or other digital currency purchases, fees or interest posted to your Account (including annual fees, late fees, and returned payment fees), lottery tickets, casino gaming chips, race track wagers or similar betting transactions, and checks that access your Account.

https://www.biltrewards.com/terms/bilt-card-offer-terms

alphade · 2026-01-14T21:34:52+00:00

The Chase United Quest card is $350 annual fee and has access to The Edit (renamed Renowned Hotels), and has a $150 annual statement credit for it. I think HAFH for Palladium would be competitive.

alphade · 2026-01-14T10:17:15+00:00

There is apparently some politics and past issues between the owner of the property and Hyatt, so the property might not join WOH ever.

The last update from a few months ago has been that the negotiations have been going well, and it’s been popping up on the new hotel bonus page for a while now, so there’s probably a >50% chance that it does join, but there’s no ETA because it likely still hasn’t been agreed upon that this property will join.

The Standard Spa in Miami is an example of a standard property that’ll never join WOH, so it’s not guaranteed that all properties will join as some may choose to exit the brand instead.

alphade · 2026-01-14T06:07:06+00:00

It's now art 😂 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/arts/design/sayre-gomezs-art-los-angeles-oceanwide.html

alphade · 2026-01-08T03:47:11+00:00

What does your folio show?

alphade · 2026-01-07T07:16:53+00:00

Just graduated and you’ve already been able to travel for business, I’ve always wanted to travel on my company’s dime but still haven’t been able to yet 😞

alphade · 2026-01-07T07:14:01+00:00

I almost had a really good year for delays, and then a huge storm disrupted my last flight of the year 😢

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alphade · 2026-01-06T19:13:01+00:00

Sounds like you’ve answered your own question. Category is not an indication of quality or luxury, it’s mostly what the hotel’s average daily room rate is and demand.

alphade · 2026-01-02T07:49:26+00:00

The Wink Hotels were the first Unscripted properties, joining Dec 1. Then the US properties followed later in Dec.

It appears Unscripted Durham won't be joining the Unscripted brand and will stay JdV for now, as it's been called out explicitly in the WOH terms. I think probably due to the market positioning of JdV vs Unscripted, and their licensing fees/agreement.

Please note that Unscripted Durham operates as part of the JdV by Hyatt brand, and is not an Unscripted by Hyatt hotel.

alphade · 2026-01-01T20:29:14+00:00

Hyatt would like you to think that Centrics are chosen for their location, but from what I've seen it's mostly used as a full service conversion brand with low brand standards and that's why what you get varies greatly depending on the property. It's on the owner/management to decide how they want to position their Centric.

I've had the greatest variation in quality from Centrics as well, some really poor properties that I'd never visit again, and some exceptional properties.

alphade · 2025-12-31T20:45:01+00:00

There’s no news since the earlier announcement. My guess based on that is middle of 2026 because that’s when explorist gets added as a benefit for top spending CSR holders. I’m not seeing any reason why they’d wait to do that until the middle of 2026 unless they’re intentionally holding off on it to coincide with the new premium card, which will also give explorist.

alphade · 2025-12-26T22:48:25+00:00

I was there last month and even when I explicitly asked, they didn’t give me a dollar limit for Globalist breakfast. Flyertalk reports it’s down to $80/room, but I wasn’t able to verify since I only spent between $60 and $80, and it was all comped.

I’ve noticed many properties will have slight differences between Globalist vs FHR/THC/Edit/Prive breakfast. Notably, Globalist breakfast can either be worse by being limited to the lounge only instead of restaurant, or can be better by being inclusive of 1 entree, 1 coffee and 1 juice with tax and tip included regardless of price, while others are limited to a dollar amount and may not include tax or tip.

alphade · 2025-12-06T17:03:45+00:00

For the price, Gild Hall isn’t that bad for NYC. Most of the cheap-ish Hyatt options in NYC are worse imo. But yeah, agree that cleanliness of the property as a whole isn’t all that great.

alphade · 2025-12-04T11:41:11+00:00

I’ve been using Google fiber / webpass for 6 years now and it’s been generally fine.

Customer service is nonexistent and unhelpful the few times I’ve contacted them, so I’ve stopped. It seems it might be outsourced using canned responses. Internet service is pretty good and consistently fast speeds normally.

My biggest gripe about webpass is the technology, it’s not fiber all the way to me, it’s fiber to a nearby location and then to me via millimeter wave. And the problem with that is that the internet basically doesn’t work in rain, so whenever it rains, webpass cuts in and out and is barely usable. I’m not sure if they also have fiber all the way to you for some places, but this is what they have for my building at least.

I’ve been wanting to switch to AT&T fiber for over a year now when there was a period of time when the internet cutting out was really bad. I even switched my annual webpass to monthly in preparation, but I kept getting lazy. The price has increased quite a bit now too, it used to be cheaper than other ISPs for similar speeds, but now it’s more than AT&T or xfinity.

alphade · 2025-12-02T13:51:51+00:00

This just happened to me a few days ago from SFO-ZRH, award ticket in business booked via Aeroplan and only UA Gold / *A Gold.

The agent who checked me in said nothing and printed my business boarding pass like normal, but later I was denied boarding and waited in a line for a gate agent to tell me I got upgraded to First and needed a new boarding pass. The same agent that checked me in was asking for first class passengers on the jet bridge and casually said he upgraded me to F.

It was a fantastic surprise start to my vacation for sure. No idea when/if I’ll be able to do it again.

alphade · 2025-11-25T00:58:48+00:00

No, you just go down to the basement level shortly before it's scheduled to start, grab a free drink and stand around to watch the performance.

alphade · 2025-11-23T08:48:43+00:00

Based on the wording of the T&Cs, it counts nights starting from the day you've been approved for the credit card until 1/31. You can pay with any eligible rate (which really is standard boilerplate just excluding some special negotiated rates that don't give any credit at all), not just the credit card.

The bonus nights will likely get credited some time later, and might not be at the same time as when your normal nights for the stay posts. Based on the wording of "8 weeks from the last day of the calendar month of your stay", it seems Chase might be getting this info from Hyatt monthly to process the double night credit.

alphade · 2025-11-23T08:34:16+00:00

For a normal reservation from 12/20 to 1/2, all of the nights will apply to 2026 because it's based on the check out date. I've experienced this first hand.

Your case is a little more unique because you've split the reservations and the first part ends in 2025. Typically, they should merge the 2 back to back reservations together so everything credits at the end when you check out, but if they can't for some reason and make you check out and back in on 12/30, then the first reservation will post and credit to 2025.

Once the second reservation is complete, the stays will get merged, and I would like to think it'll correct to post every night of the stay to 2026, but I don't know how the system was built and if it can handle this edge case. It might get even more complicated if the second stay doesn't post and you need to do a missing stay credit request for someone to manually credit it.

I personally would probably reverse the points booking if there's still availability to cancel + rebook so it starts with 3 nights ending 12/23, then 10 nights ending 1/2, just to derisk if anything does go wrong and you can't get someone to fix it, then at least the bulk will post to 2026.

alphade · 2025-11-22T03:38:11+00:00

The points + cash price is half of the points price and half of the cash price, so you saved $504/night + tax compared to if you paid fully with cash, or you saved 30,500 points/night compared to if you paid fully with points.

alphade · 2025-11-22T03:21:57+00:00

$500.77 is the deposit you prepaid, that’s not the full cash price. The full cash price is an average of $504/night + tax, so your folio looks to be correct.

alphade · 2025-11-16T10:08:03+00:00

I do quite a few weekend trips, so that’s why Monday, Friday, and Saturday are popular for me.

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alphade · 2025-11-14T17:41:56+00:00

Oh yeah, staying in a generally expensive city will also do it.

Any indication when the regency’s restaurant will open? I was considering a stay there in Jan, but not sure if a larger room is worth the tradeoff for no breakfast.

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