I put together a list of the cash rate for each Hyatt hotel (and partners) to find the Hyatt hotels’ best points to cash value, the most expensive Hyatt hotels, best category 4 Hyatts (for the free night) and the average points rate.
This ended up being especially valuable to me since I was unfamiliar with many of the SLH hotels Hyatt added for booking, as now I can see the rates and values for every hotel.
The process was to find the lowest best flexible rate for each hotel. Then to get the value I just took the cash rate and divided it by the points rate to get the cents per point value.
Best Value Hotels With Hyatt Points
Average Hyatt Redemption Value: 1.27 cents per point.
While the average hotel redemption value is 1.27 cents, I wanted to start with a list of the highest redemption values.
Oddly enough, this points to cash method of “value” that people love actually favors low category hotels. So I’m not recommending you vacation at airport hotels in Dallas, perhaps the most expensive hotels lists would be more interesting.
This list is purely “value” of lowest cash rate to points price.
The winner: Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest
This is a hotel rarely under $400 a night and it’s only 8,000 points!
This is the first hotel I mentioned on my post on using Hyatt points for SLH hotels, so this may not be news to readers, but it’s nearly double the value of most hotels.
Most Expensive Hyatt Hotels (including SLH)
This really favors four most popular Park Hyatt hotels:
- Park Hyatt Paris-Vendome
- Park Hyatt New York
- Park Hyatt Sydney
- Park Hyatt Milan
But there are a number of other stand out hotels, like the Viceroy Bali (shown below), Sailrock in Turks and Caicos, and The Liming Bequia in St. Vincent & Grenadines.
Most Expensive Peak Season Hotels (/w Hyatt Points):
- Santorini Secret Suites & Spa – often over $900
- Eight Hotel Portofino – often over $800
- Carpe Diem Santorini – often over $600
- Boheme Hotel Mykonos – often over $600
- Eagles Villas Halkidiki, Greece – often over $600
- Muse Hotel Saint Tropez, France – often over $500
Mediterranean-heavy, these hotels have “cheapest” rates that are much lower than their average rates, so I wanted to give them their own dedicated shout out.
Unfortunately, they’re all 40,000 points, and some don’t have great award availability… But if you’re looking for a $900 a night resort in Santorini, Hyatt now has you covered!
Most Expensive Hyatt Category 4 Hotels
The stand-outs to me are:
- Park Hyatt Zanzibar
- Park Hyatt Istanbul – Macka Palas
- Hyatt Regency Kyiv
- Park Hyatt Saigon
Honorable mentions:
- Hyatt Regency Seragaki Island Okinawa – often over $500 a night.
- Grand Hyatt Washington – this hotel has some crazy expensive peak rates
Conclusion
Believe it or not, SLH didn’t help Hyatt’s value one way or the other. It did add a lot of high end hotels, however, many of those hotels are 40,000 points a night.
And now that every top end hotel is 40,000 points, the Park Hyatt Vendome is a better deal than ever at 30,000 points (and ofter over $800 a night). Same with the Park Hyatt New York, Milan, and Sydney.
Also, there are actually a lot of great category 1 hotels for 5,000 points: Hyatt Regency Mumbai, Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Hyatt Regency Kathmandu, and Hyatt Regency Dushanbe are great examples.
However, the thing that’s apparent is that the hotel in Budapest is too good to last. It’s value is way above the others.
Good analysis! Somehow I missed the park Hyatt Maldives on this list, which regularly costs over $1000 a night.
Believe it or not, right now the Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa is regularly $425 best flexible. I mean really consistently.
If you just google “Park Hyatt Maldives Hadahaa” you’ll see a graph of rates and it’s flat at $408. Even the average rate wasn’t higher. Maybe it’s the result of a sale, idk.
Pretty cool. I probably won’t go out of my way to stay somewhere just because it is a good value, but this does a good job of highlighting areas where you could stay for fewer points than maybe expected. Was there an easy way to determine the lowest rate value or was there just a lot of manual work?
Yeah, I agree. It would have to be an absurdly good deal to take an extra flight.
But yeah, I may go to Budapest anyway soon, and this would be an obvious choice if I have the points for an entire stay.
There’s no easy way to do it, so yeah, took a little work.
I agree with Jason. I use my free nights where i need them.
We just stayed at Hyatt Place North Charleston last week. Not the greatest location BUT the rooms were spacious, the hotel was well-maintained, and the employees were friendly, and even though it’s a bit out of the way you’re still only 20 minutes from downtown Charleston in good traffic. Would definitely recommend this one for value-seekers.
And it didn’t make your list, but Hyatt Place Asheville is a Cat 3 that often hits $400+ per night during peak season in the fall (and probably other times too). Not an unbelievable deal like when it was Cat 1, but still a good deal, plus it’s got a pretty good location.
Hyatt Place Asheville has quickly become one of our favorite points hotels, period. Obviously when it was brand new and category 1 it was a steal, but we still consistently get great value from it. For a quick weekend trip, it’s hard to beat the location or quality of the staff. We’ve never had an issue at that hotel.
There are some new Hyatt/SLH options from a few weeks ago (after you made the SLH deal post). We just booked Enso Ango Fuya II in Kyoto for 15,000 points/night, pretty good value for our nights though maybe not on average.
Thanks! Somehow I missed the earlier post referencing Párisi Udvar Hotel Budapest. I’m going to be there in August, just booked it. Looks fantastic. Seems it opened a week or 2 ago.
+1
I am going to be in Budapest in 2 weeks and just booked as well. This property had been on my radar from trying to fill out my brand explorer but the property said it wasn’t going to be open till July when I had reached out a few months ago. Luckily from this post I decided to try again on a whim and they must have moved up their open date.
Can you do this for Marriott?
What about Ziva and Zilara all inclusive properties? I’ve found they can provide great value
I also was thinking about the all-inclusives bands, especially Miraval. I think the cheapest I’ve seen at Hyatt ziva los Cabos was $350/by for two people, but typically $500/nt when on sale, so that makes it 0.025 cpp of value on average. Pretty good deal to me!
I think that from the data some would be tempted to say that Hyatt / Chase are overvalued at 1.7 cpp.
But, you’re looking at the *minimum*, and I don’t think that you included taxes, fees or resort fees (that all get waived for everyone on points stays).
And parking for Globalist.
Having trouble reading your charts on my phone, so I may have missed it, but there are fantastic deals on Chicago during busy days.
The Chicago Athletic Association is cat 4 and $742 plus tax during Lollapalooza. Sold out for 2019, but I imagine you could get it for 2020 when that opens up.
HR Wacker on the river is now cat 3 and often a fantastic value during conventions or big sporting events.
And during slow times, hotels here can be REALLY cheap for cash.
Hyatt Place Moab for Arches National Park.
7/6-7/7 = $279.13
279.13/8000=$0.0349/pt
This is an awesome list, thank you. But the entire post seems to be off because you didn’t include taxes or fees in the CPP calculations, only the room rates. It doesn’t make sense to exclude taxes/fees when the points cover them too. All these CPP calculations should be higher.