Awesome dive into the power of Hyatt award bookings Mark! I've gotten so much value from my Chase points with booking both luxury and more normal Hyatt properties. Though I haven't stayed at Alila Ventana Big Sur yet, certainly up there on my bucket list.
Great content! A couple notes though in regard to Ventana. You said you need a 2 night minimum to stay with points. That's not the case anymore and in fact you proved that you don't need because when you clicked the link, it showed that it was bookable with points and it only populated the stay for 1 night. Also sometimes maxmypoint isn't accurate to the minute. I've messed around where I saw one night was available on let's say a Monday, I then extended the dates to Friday and it showed base room availability for the whole week! It's an absolutely beautiful property and I hope you get to experience it in the future 🙏🏽
Very interesting on the 2 night min not being a requirement anymore. The most recent articles from late '23 I was researching indicated it still had a 2 night min so things may have changed since then. And thanks for the heads up with extending dates to confirm availability! Hoping to visit this property in the next year and will for sure be doing that to see if the weekend I want is available
Alila Big Sur is the ultimate bucket list hotel!! thanks for this info!
Same here with the bucket list item!
Awesome dive into the power of Hyatt award bookings Mark! I've gotten so much value from my Chase points with booking both luxury and more normal Hyatt properties. Though I haven't stayed at Alila Ventana Big Sur yet, certainly up there on my bucket list.
Agreed with the normal properties bit. I usually redeem at +2cpp on even weekend getaways through Hyatt Place/Regency
Great content! A couple notes though in regard to Ventana. You said you need a 2 night minimum to stay with points. That's not the case anymore and in fact you proved that you don't need because when you clicked the link, it showed that it was bookable with points and it only populated the stay for 1 night. Also sometimes maxmypoint isn't accurate to the minute. I've messed around where I saw one night was available on let's say a Monday, I then extended the dates to Friday and it showed base room availability for the whole week! It's an absolutely beautiful property and I hope you get to experience it in the future 🙏🏽
Very interesting on the 2 night min not being a requirement anymore. The most recent articles from late '23 I was researching indicated it still had a 2 night min so things may have changed since then.
And thanks for the heads up with extending dates to confirm availability! Hoping to visit this property in the next year and will for sure be doing that to see if the weekend I want is available