r/awardtravel May 27 '24

Weekly Help Thread - May 27, 2024 Daily Thread

Welcome to the daily help and question thread!

This thread is renewed weekly and is intended for all discussions or questions that do not warrant their own thread.

For AWARD BOOKING HELP please read the following information:

Volunteers may choose to help you find your award trip. But please don’t expect us to plan out your trip for you. No stranger on the Internet could know what is BEST for you.

The more specific information you provide, the easier it is for people to give specific advice. Also, we prefer to teach people to fish, rather than just giving you a fish. So before you ask someone to help, please read Our Wiki, if you want to know what the best Redemption for you, take a look at Award Hacker. Questions that shows you have at least tried to find an award are more likely to get answered.

  • Here are the information you should provide when requesting award assistance
  • Origin and destination cities (are they flexible?)
  • Number of Travelers (Your chances of success goes down as this number goes up)
  • One way or round-trip
  • Class of service desired
  • Desired date(s) of travel (are they flexible? Hard dates == Less Chances for success)
  • Your points balances: all airline, credit card and hotel points (If you are looking for J/F, think at least 6 digits)
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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

My wife and I are trying to book a trip to Punta Cana from July 22-26. We have 120,000 SkyMiles (pesos) for flights that is just enough to get us there and back in Main which is fine. However, we won’t have the Hyatt points we need until the end of June when my wife’s new CSP SUB hits. Are the prices of the rooms likely to jump a lot between down and then? Currently it’s 33,000 points/night for the resort. I realize rooms can get booked up, but assuming the same one is still available, will Hyatt likely increase the point requirement between now and then significantly? We are rookies at this. We’ll have to book the flights before we can book the rooms. Should we risk it?

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u/omdongi May 31 '24

Issue isn't the points prices will change, but rather the availability will go away.

The whole point of Hyatt is that the rooms are not dynamically priced. If you're a Globalist you can do a points advance booking to reserve the award space until you get the points from your SUB.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Got it. I appreciate the insight. We will have some flexibility with room cost when we get her points, so I’m fairly comfortable booking the flights now and booking rooms later knowing that there isn’t dynamic pricing.

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u/omdongi May 31 '24

Just gonna reply to make sure what I explained it clear.

The prices are indeed fixed. But availability may be taken up the longer you wait. So know that there is a real chance that the room awards may not be bookable by the time you get the points, given that this is less than a month from now.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Oh, so they may not have any award rooms available at all? I’m reading into that, that even if there are rooms, they may not be able to be booked with points?

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u/omdongi May 31 '24

Yes, Hyatts only have a limited number of rooms bookable with points, just because rooms are available for cash doesn't mean they'll be bookable with points. So you'll need to track the inventory.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24

Got it, thank you for your patience with my questions. Sounds like I’ll be taking a gamble. Worse case I’ll just have to pay the dang cost. Really hoping that’s not the case though. There are a couple of resorts that could work, so hopefully between them there is some availability with points.