Hyatt Status Promotion.

Hyatt hotels - lovely as they are - are very overpriced except when on conference rates or when you've got them via alternative means.

However, Hyatt are trying to ween us in with a Status Match (which has been going on since July) where you can do the following:

• Enroll online - get upgraded to Platinum for 120 days (4 months)
  
• 5 stays/nights to keep Platinum until Feb 2011
• or 15 stays/night to go to Diamond until Feb 2011

Now this is all well and good - but if you're a Gold member at the moment, you might think you're being hard done by - yes?

Well no actually. You DO need to phone up customer service (and for those outside the USA - it is alas a Toll Free number - Skype is your friend for this as they don't charge for 800 numbers) and you can ask customer service to match you to either Platinum of Diamond with the same T&C's as newbies.

If you're in and out of Hyatts, or you're in conference land, this could be a useful boon - least of all the 15% point bonus....

See:

• Offer - http://www.goldpassport.com/gp/en/offers/trial-platinum-offer.jsp
• T&C's - http://www.goldpassport.com/gp/en/offers/pop-trial-platinum-offer-tc.jsp;jsessionid=I10AOFRXFIIXKCTEAGECFFQKMQAYSIV0?wt=pop_up

Offer ends of August - So activate it when you need it.