Hyatt’s recently-ended 5-free-night offer on the personal Hyatt card means that the World of Hyatt credit card is back to its business-as-usual offer. But now Chase is out with its highest-ever offer on the business card, but there’s a catch. Scroll down for my take.
Here are the best new cardmember welcome bonuses available on the Hyatt credit cards.
World of Hyatt Credit Card welcome offer
Welcome offer: Earn up to 60,000 Bonus Points: 30,000 Bonus Points after you spend $3,000 on purchases in your first 3 months of account opening and up to 30,000 more Bonus Points by earning 2 Bonus Points total per $1 spent in the first 6 months from account opening on purchases that normally earn 1 Bonus Point, on up to $15,000 spent.
Hyatt card offers offer either World of Hyatt Bonus Points or category 1-4 free night certificates.
Unlike most other cards, which award the advertised bonus in addition to what you’d normally earn, the World of Hyatt Credit Card welcome offer’s $15,000 spending tier includes the points you would normally earn. Keep this in mind when evaluating the value of this welcome offer.
Annual fee: $95
World of Hyatt Business Credit Card
Offer: Earn 80,000 Bonus Points after you spend $10,000 on purchases in the first 3 months of account opening.
This bonus is awarded as World of Hyatt Bonus Points.
Annual fee: $199
My take: The catch with the business card offer is the huge spending requirement.
I appreciate that Chase’s marketing of its welcome bonus offers is usually straightforward…except when it comes to the Hyatt cards.
I don’t like the headline of “60,000 points” on the personal card that is doled out as a bonus, plus an additional point on the first $15k you spend on the card. That makes the bonus look much better than it is.
But this new business card offer also has also raised my hackles.
When you hit Hyatt’s website website, the business card art is tagged with “Our best points offer ever.” While it is the largest number of points that I’ve seen offered on this card, I’d hardly argue that it’s the best ever, considering that you’re getting an additional 20,000 points for spending an additional $5,000 on the card, versus the previous offer.
To be fair, I’m pretty sure that the way these cards are marketed is coming from the Hyatt side, but I really wish that whoever is in charge of marketing this card would structure the welcome offer like most other cards.
All that said, for most people, the personal card is the better card anyway, and this offer isn’t good enough (in my opinion) to warrant a space on my best offers list.
Are you eligible to earn a Hyatt credit card bonus?
With the Hyatt credit cards, generally you’re able to earn a welcome bonus if you don’t currently have the same card and you haven’t received a bonus within the previous 24 months.
Keep in mind that the personal and business cards are seperate products for the purposes of welcome bonus qualification and that the 24-month eligibility clock starts from when you received the bonus. Not when you opened the card, not when you earned the bonus.
Here are the exact terms from the last time we reviewed them on the personal card:
The credit card is not available to either (i) current Cardmembers of this credit card, or (ii) previous Cardmembers of this credit card who received a new Cardmember bonus for this credit card within the last 24 months.
World of Hyatt Credit Card offer terms
And the terms on the business card are quite similar:
This new Cardmember bonus offer is not available to either (i) current Cardmembers of this business credit card, or (ii) previous Cardmembers of this business credit card who received a new Cardmember bonus for this business credit card within the last 24 months.
World of Hyatt Business Credit Card offer terms
More on the Hyatt cards
Want to dive deeper and compare the two Hyatt credit cards? We have a complete guide to the Hyatt credit cards, which compares all of the cards’ benefits side-by-side.
