Registration is required by March 31.

Hyatt nights completed during the promotion period and prior to registration count as long as member registers by March 31.

Don’t delay. Sign up now!

Interesting to me is the main promotion page makes no mention of the 25% bonus points for being a Hyatt Visa card member that was referenced in last week’s informal announcement. The 25% bonus is being communicated privately to Hyatt Visa card members by email. This proved to be a contentious bonus based on FlyerTalk comments from international Hyatt Gold Passport members. The problem is the Hyatt Visa card is only available to residents of the U.S. 50 states and D.C.

Full-service Hyatt hotels outside the U.S. are typically far more expensive than Hyatt Place and HYATT House properties meaning this bonus is likely far costlier to earn for travelers staying at Hyatt properties outside the U.S.

Promotion Offer

• after 4 nights = 4,000 bonus points.
• after 8 nights = 8,000 more bonus points = 12,000 points total.
• after 12 nights = 12,000 more bonus points = 24,000 points total.
• after 16 nights = 20,000 more bonus points = 44,000 points total.

This promotion offers the potential of earning 44,000 bonus points after 16 nights or 55,000 bonus points for Hyatt Visa card members (25% more bonus points).

Loyalty Traveler Promotion Analysis

In my original post last week I called this Hyatt 44,000 bonus points promotion offer a 3-star value meaning I think it is good value, but not a high value or great offer for most members who do not regularly travel that frequently with Hyatt Hotels. 16 nights in 90 days is a high hotel stay pattern for the average traveler.

This is a better value offer if you are elite with another program and decide to go for a Hyatt Diamond Challenge requiring 12 nights in 60 days. The Diamond Challenge will match you to Diamond status immediately and if you complete the 12 nights in 60 days your status will continue through February 2013. Read last week’s Loyalty Traveler post to learn more about combining this promotion with a Hyatt Gold passport Diamond Challenge.

Diamonds may want to go for the points

I do not recommend frequent guests of any hotel chain stay 16 nights in a cheap Hyatt hotel just to earn the 44,000 points bonus. Instead the numbers show me a Diamond member staying 8 or more nights anyway during the February 1-April 30 promotion period should consider buying extra Hyatt hotel nights if you have proximity to a cheap Hyatt and you want to earn cheap points and even a little padding for your elite membership requalification in 2012.

The analysis I provide here is a more detailed look at the numbers for actual hotel stays showing 16 nights is possible at the Hyatt Place Fremont for $1,250 all-in where weekend rates are $64 to $71 per night. There are some other places in the USA with hotels under $75 per night and even full-service Hyatt regency hotels at under $85 per night.

Hyatt Gold Passport is a program with two distinct property tiers. Hyatt Place and HYATT House (extended-stay) are limited service hotels. The main benefits of Hyatt Diamond are complimentary full restaurant breakfast and room upgrade potential (without using upgrade certificate) and 2,500 bonus points for Regency Club closure which happens on weekends at many business hotel locations. These are not benefits that typically apply to Hyatt Place and Hyatt House properties.

While Hyatt Place and HYATT House are likely to be the lowest rate hotels, these are not the kind of hotels that will get you thrilled about being a Hyatt Gold Passport Diamond member. Elite status does not offer much at these two Hyatt brands.

Diamond Challenge and 16 Nights Bonus by the numbers

– 8 Friday-Saturday stays

My regional go to cheap Hyatt stay is Hyatt Place Fremont, California.

Hotel rates over the next 8 weekends in this Silicon Valley hotel nestled up against Interstate 880 has weekend rates from $64 to $71. The AAA rate is $71 and may be canceled up to 4pm day of arrival.

Assume Diamond elite membership already or starting a Diamond Challenge.

Weekend stay = $71 Friday and $71 Saturday. 10% tax rate.

Two night weekend = $142 + $14.20 = $156.20.

Points earned per weekend 2-night weekend stay at Hyatt Place Fremont:

• 710 base points = $142 x 5 base points/$1.
• 213 bonus points = Diamond elite 30% bonus points.
• 500 bonus points = Diamond welcome gift per Hyatt Place stay.
• Total Points = 1,423 per $156.20 2-night weekend stay.

Project this data with a hotel rate of $71/night over 16 nights with the 4 night bonuses of the Hyatt Gold passport promotion.

Hyatt Promotion Bonus

First Round of 4 nights

4 nights  = $312.40 total hotel rate.

• 4,000 points = 4 nights Promotion bonus.
• 2,846 points = 4 nights at Hyatt Place Fremont.
• 6,846 Gold Passport total points after 4 nights.

Second Round of 4 nights

8 nights = $624.80 total hotel rate.

• 8,000 points = 8 nights Promotion bonus.
• 2,846 points = 4 nights at Hyatt Place Fremont.
• 17,692 Gold Passport total points = 10,846 (Round 2) + 6,846 (Round 1)

Third Round of 4 nights

12 nights = $937.20 total hotel rate.

• 12,000 points = 12 nights Promotion bonus.
• 2,846 points = 4 nights at Hyatt Place Fremont.
• 32,538 Gold Passport total points = 14,846 (Round 3) +17,692 (rounds 1,2)

Fourth Round of 4 nights

16 nights = $1,249.60 total hotel rate.

• 20,000 points = 16 nights Promotion bonus.
• 2,846 points = 4 nights at Hyatt Place Fremont.
• 55,384 Gold Passport total points = 22,846 (Round 4) + 32,538 (Round 1,2,3)

Spending $1,250 for 55,384 points is equivalent to buying points from Gold Passport for about $22.57 per 1,000 points. Hyatt Gold Passport normally charges $24 per 1,000 points.

My primary point being this is a cheap way to pick up Gold Passport points and earn plenty of nights for 2012 Diamond renewal or meet a Diamond challenge. One-night stays is better if you plan to qualify on hotel stays, but in the San Francisco Bay Area the hotel rates are only low on Friday and Saturday nights.

Hyatt Place Fremont is just one example of a Hyatt hotel where cheap rates make this a good value promotion.

Strategy for the Gold Passport member with only 8 nights planned during the promotion.

Using the outline above the Diamond member who has 8 nights planned can use a similar strategy to pick up the bigger bonus points earned from 12 and 16 nights during the promotion period.

Find a cheap Hyatt hotel where you can buy nights for less than $75 per night. My example with Hyatt Place Fremont is $312 for 4 nights.

A Diamond member buying 8 additional nights for $625 (and up to 8 hotel stays for elite credit)  earns an additional 37,692 points. This brings the cost of points down to $16.59 per 1,000 points.

This is a strategy you may want to consider if you have Hyatt stays planned, but you will not be staying 16 nights. This offer gets better if you need to buy fewer than 8 nights to reach the maximum bonus points.

If you just need 5 additional nights to reach 16 nights then the cost of points drops down to really low levels.

$400 for 5 additional nights earns about 36,000 points and the rate of earning points drops to $11.11 per 1,000 points. Buying points at a rate that low is a good investment in Gold Passport points.

Conclusion

This promotion is a good opportunity for trying the Hyatt Diamond Challenge. This is also a promotion value worth considering additional low-cost nights at Hyatt hotels if you are Hyatt Diamond and you need only 3 to 6 more nights to reach 16 nights during the Feb 1-April 30 promotion period. The bonus points earned for reaching 16 nights by April 30 can be considered a good discount rate for buying points.

• 1,000 – 9,000 points = 10% bonus points; reducing rate from $24/1,000 points to $21.82 per 1,000 points.
• 10,000 to 29,000 points = 20% bonus points; reducing rate to $20 per 1,000 points.
• 30,000 to 40,000 points = 30% bonus points; reducing rate to $18.46 per 1,000 points.
• Points must be purchased in increments of 1,000 points.
• Maximum annual purchase for Hyatt Gold Passport points is normally 40,000 points and this sale offer allows members to buy up to 52,000 points in 2012.

This is a good opportunity to load up on Hyatt Gold Passport points if you have specific plans for using the points in 2012. I could show you loads of hotels where this is a great deal compared to the published rate, but suffice to say this can be a route to discounted hotel rooms. DealsWeLike blog showed a couple of examples where buying points saves major cash outlay at a couple of resort hotels.

Assume you purchase 52,000 points for $960. Here is the table to showing room rate to reward rate equivalent after buying points at $18.46 per 1,000 points.

Hyatt Gold Passport Reward Nights  (Hyatt link to free night rewards)

• Category 1 hotels at 5,000 points = $92.30
• Category 2 hotels at 8,000 points = $147.68
• Category 3 hotels at 12,000 points = $221.52
• Category 4 hotels at 15,000 points = $276.90
• Category 5 hotels at 18,000 points = $332.28
• Category 6 hotels at 22,000 points = $406.12

This table shows the cost or reward nights at each hotel reward level when buying points with the 30% bonus. If the published rate after tax is more than the rate shown here, then the points option is cheaper. Keep in mind though that a Hyatt reward stay does not earn points or elite credit and for Diamond members, confirmed suite upgrades are not applicable to reward stays.

Buy and Transfer Points for Bigger Hotel Rewards is the column I wrote for InsideFlyer January 2012 issue showing the rules for buying and transferring points across the major hotel loyalty programs. The piece shares some strategies and opportunities available to members who may want to buy points for a hotel reward as a cheaper alternative to the published room rates.

One of the features of Hyatt Gold Passport is the free transfer of points between any two members to reach the level needed for a reward stay redemption. This gives a couple the opportunity to purchase and combine 104,000 points with this current Hyatt Gold Passport promotion.

You may only have as few as 6,000 points in your account today and tomorrow you could have 110,000 points after combining points with another member (spouse, parent, traveling companion). Five nights at a Category 6 Hyatt Hotel for $1,920 in points purchases can potentially be a huge discount at some Hyatt Resorts and aspirational properties.

Passports With Purpose 2011 – Libraries for Zambia

What –

Loyalty Traveler blog announces Passports with Purpose raffle prize of 110,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points, generously donated by Hyatt Hotels for this raffle fundraiser to build two libraries in Zambia with the organization Room to Read.

Purchase of $10 raffle tickets are your entry for the Hyatt Gold Passport 110,000 points prize or other prizes hosted by different travel blogs for this Passports with Purpose fundraiser.

When –

From November 30 through December 16, 2011 11:59pm PST each $10 ticket purchased at Passports with Purpose is valid for one entry to win the prize you select. Hyatt Gold Passport donated 110,000 points for Loyalty Traveler to host as a Passports with Purpose prize. Those can be some cheaply purchased Hyatt Gold Passport points if you win the raffle prize.

There are about 100 other prizes being hosted by different travel bloggers.

Winner of Hyatt Gold Passport points must be a member of Hyatt Gold Passport to receive prize. You can join Hyatt Gold passport at www.hyatt.com for free if you win and collect your prize.

Where –

Raffle ticket purchase website: http://www.passportswithpurpose.org/donate/

Why –

Passports with Purpose has a 2011 goal to raise $80,000 for building two libraries with books and literacy materials in Zambia.

Who –

About Passports with Purpose.

Passports with Purpose (PwP) is a fundraiser organized by a small group of energetic travel bloggers in Seattle. This annual raffle since 2008 for travel gear and travel getaway prizes procured by travel bloggers raises money for
an international humanitarian project. This year the PwP project is supporting the international organization Room to Read to establish two libraries in Zambia.

Pam Mandel – Nerd’s Eye View, Beth Whitman – Wanderlust and Lipstick, Debbie Dubrow – DeliciousBaby.com and Michelle Duffy – Wandermom.com coordinate travel bloggers and businesses through the travel community for a purpose to help save the world one location at a time.

Two years ago I participated in Passports with Purpose and hosted a Hyatt Gold Passport prize of 50,000 points. The goal in 2009 was $30,000 to build a school in Cambodia. Passports with Purpose must be a successful fundraiser. The goal this year is $80,000 for two libraries in Zambia.

Nice thing Hyatt Gold Passport more than doubled their points donation in 2011 since the Passports with Purpose fundraising goal also more than doubled since 2009. I have a feeling this 2011 Hyatt Gold Passport prize will get plenty of ticket entries.

Pam has a way with words and provides Room to Read links and some of her personal reading preferences in her October 19 post – Passports with Purpose 2011: It’s About Reading!

After reading Pam’s piece I decided to withhold my story for this post about reading Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings when I was 15 during an overcast summer beach camping holiday near Barcelona, Spain.

Over the next two weeks on Loyalty Traveler I’ll remind readers about $10 raffle prize tickets for the Passports with Purpose fundraiser and share some of my stories on libraries, books and my days working as an elementary school reading teacher.

Loyalty Traveler Hyatt Prize Analysis

110,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points is enough points for

• 5 hotel nights are 110,000 points at the best of the best Hyatt Hotels worldwide for 22,000 points per night. Hotels like Andaz 5th Avenue, Hyatt Regency Maui Resort, Park Hyatt Paris Vendome, Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill.
• 6 nights are 108,000 points at category 5 hotels for 18,000 points per night. Hotels like Park Hyatt Toronto, Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort, Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa, Florida.
• 7 nights are 105,000 points at category 4 hotels for 15,000 points per night. Hotels like AVIA Savannah Georgia, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, Hyatt at Olive 8 Seattle.
• 9 nights are 108,000 at category 3 hotels for 12,000 points per night. Hotels like Hyatt Regency Denver, Grand Hyatt Altlanta.
• 13 nights are 104,000 at category 2 hotels for 8,000 points per night. Hotels like Grand Hyatt Santiago, Chile; Park Hyatt Mendoza, Argentina; Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Hyatt Regency Lexington, Kentucky.
• 22 nights are 110,000 points at category 1 hotels for 5,000 points per night. Hotels like Hyatt Place Raleigh-Durham Airport North Carolina; Hyatt Regency Kathmandu, Nepal; Bali Hyatt Indonesia.

This prize will buy from 5 to 22 free hotel nights globally with Hyatt Hotels in the brands of Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Regency, Hyatt Summerfield Suites, Hyatt Place and Andaz.

Enter raffle at Passports with Purpose.

Our kitten Theron sleeping in the "For the Love of Reading" book bag.

Nine Hyatt Facebook pages:

1. Hyatt (www.facebook.com/Hyatt),
2. Hyatt Hotels (www.facebook.com/hyatthotels),
3. Park Hyatt (www.facebook.com/ParkHyatt),
4. Andaz (www.facebook.com/andaz),
5. Grand Hyatt (www.facebook.com/grandhyatt),
6. Hyatt Regency (www.facebook.com/HyattRegency),
7. Hyatt Place (www.facebook.com/HyattPlace),
8. Hyatt Summerfield Suites (www.facebook.com/HyattSummerfieldSuites),
9. Hyatt Vacation Club (www.facebook.com/hyattvacationclub)

This sweepstakes started yesterday, 2pm CT, October 27 and runs through 5:00pm CT, December 9, 2011.

• open only to legal residents of any one (1) of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, Aruba, Canada (excluding Quebec), Curacao, or Puerto Rico.
• Limit one (1) entry per person/e-mail address per Sponsor Facebook page listed above, for a total of nine (9) possible entries in the Sweepstakes.
• Hyatt Million Points Sweepstakes Terms & Conditions

Hyatt Facebook Pages for 9 Sweepstakes Entries

Loyalty Traveler Hat Tip to Vinay.

Hyatt promotion registration is required for 1,500 AAdvantage miles per stay. You can register online or by phone at 1-800-30-HYATT and request promotion code AA001.

Gold Passport members have the opportunity to earn both miles and 5,000 points every three nights at Hyatt until November 15. The current Hyatt Possibilities promotion offers 5,000 bonus points every three nights and the promotion terms include Gold Passport members earning miles on hotel stays. You can earn triple miles and promotion bonus points, but you will not receive regular Gold Passport points or elite points.

How to Request Miles from Hyatt Gold Passport

Hyatt Gold Passport does not have a way to change your earning preference to airline miles instead of Hyatt points through online account preferences. Gold Passport members need to request American Airlines AAdvantage miles (or any airline miles) at check-in and provide your frequent flyer number. Even when you request miles at the hotel there is the likelihood your account will post Gold Passport points instead of miles.

Don’t panic if you earn Hyatt points instead of AAdvantage miles when your hotel stay posts. This is common for miles earners. A call to Hyatt Gold Passport customer service can easily get the Gold Passport points changed to miles.

Loyalty Traveler Analysis

Triple miles with American Airlines AAdvantage promotion can be combined with the 5,000 Gold Passport points every three nights promotion that runs concurrently through November 15, 2011.

Hyatt Gold Passport points are typically worth $20 per 1,000 points.

The combination of 1,667 Gold Passport points per night (about $27 value) and 1,500 AAdvantage miles per stay ($20+ value) is a nice rebate on Hyatt hotel spend.

Hyatt Gold Passport offers good value hotel rebates for frequent guests this fall 2011.

Related Post: Southwest Airlines 1,800 Rapid Rewards points per Hyatt stay, up to 18,000 points October 1-January 15, 2012. Loyalty Traveler post September 23.

The value of 1,800 Rapid Rewards points has a set $30 value (60 points = $1) when redeemed for Southwest Airlines Wanna Getaway fares.

Hyatt Promotion Registration Required

Hyatt Gold Passport Triple Rapid Rewards points with Southwest Airlines registration page. You may also register by calling 1-800-30-HYATT (provide promotion code WN002).

How to Request Miles from Hyatt Gold Passport

Hyatt Gold Passport does not have a way to change your earning preference to airline miles instead of Hyatt points through online account preferences. Gold Passport members need to request Southwest Rapid Rewards points (or any airline miles) at check-in and provide your frequent flyer number rather than earn the normal 5 Gold Passport points per dollar. Even when you request miles at the hotel there is the likelihood your account will post Gold Passport points instead of miles.

Don’t panic if you earn Hyatt points instead of Southwest points (miles) when your hotel stay posts. This is common for miles earners. A call to Hyatt Gold Passport customer service can easily get the Gold Passport points changed to Southwest Rapid Rewards points.

Loyalty Traveler Analysis

Triple points with Southwest Airlines promotion can be combined with the 5,000 Gold Passport points every three nights promotion that runs concurrently through November 15, 2011. The ability to combine the 5K per 3 nights with airline promotions was confirmed by Gold Passport Representative, Hyatt’s company concierge on FlyerTalk.

Hyatt Gold Passport points are typically worth $20 per 1,000 points.

The combination of 1,667 Gold Passport points per night and 1,800 points per stay can be a rebate value around $190 after three one-night Hyatt stays between October 1 – November 15 when both of these offers are in effect.

Hyatt Gold Passport offers good value hotel rebates for frequent guests this fall 2011.

• Andaz Liverpool Street, London
• Andaz San Diego
• Andaz West Hollywood
• Andaz 5th Avenue
• Andaz Wall Street

The AZDGP rate is quite a bit higher than otherwise lowest rates for hotels I checked.

Andaz San Diego includes 1,500 bonus points, breakfast for two and a two hour harbor cruise for two at a price $53 per night more than the AAA rate for Friday, August 13. This is a decent deal if you do not have Hyatt Gold Passport complimentary breakfast as a Diamond elite.

Andaz West Hollywood includes 1,500 bonus points, cocktails for two, Sunset Strip VIP passes and a Starline Sightseeing tour for two at a nightly rate of $330. The AAA rate for the same night includes breakfast for two at a rate of $265.50. That is a $75 savings after tax with AAA if you desire breakfast more than VIP passes and sightseeing. 1,500 bonus points for $75 is not such a good deal.

Each hotel has its own special local package so check out the deals, but compare rates to avoid overpaying for package add-on items you might not use.

Up to 25,000 Aeroplan miles after 10 Hyatt stays.

A big summer bonus is 2,500 Air Canada Aeroplan miles per Hyatt stay globally from July 1 to September 30, 2011. This is 5x miles per stay since Hyatt stays normally earn 500 miles for most airline partners. A maximum of 25,000 Aeroplan miles may be earned with 10 stays.

Earning Hyatt miles requires the member to request miles at hotel check-in and provide Aeroplan frequent flyer number. You still may find points post instead of miles and a quick call to Hyatt Gold Passport customer service should rectify any errors in Aeroplan miles postings.

It is just a fact of hotel loyalty programs that many transactions do not post correctly and following up by phone or email is often necessary to correct missing promotion and hotel stay credit points. I still need to contact SPG about 4,000 missing points from two Best Rate Guarantee stays in May that never posted to my account.

Hyatt Gold Passport Aeroplan Bonus Registration

Promotion registration required for this offer using this link or by calling 1-800-228-3360 and request enrollment code AC001 for promotion.  

New members may join Hyatt Gold Passport and be automatically enrolled in Aeroplan promotion using link: www.hyatt.com/ACSUM11.

You must also be an Aeroplan member for this promotion. Join Aeroplan here.

Hawaiian Airlines is new Hyatt partner

Hyatt stays are now eligible to earn 500 Hawaiian Airline miles per stay. Here is a list of all 35 airline frequent flyer miles partners, including Amtrak.

Related posts: One Mile at a Time – 2,500 Aeroplan miles per Hyatt stay through September 30 (July 1)

The Points Guy – 2,500 Aeroplan miles per Hyatt stay (July 4)

Hyatt promotion registration required for Southwest Triple Points.

By the Numbers:

Stay 1: 1,800 points
Stay 2: 1,800 points
Stay 3: 1,800 points
Stay 4: 1,800 points
Stay 5: 1,800 points + 10,000 point bonus

Total: 19,000 Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards points 

To participate in this promotion:

• Register online or by calling 1-800-30-HYATT (provide promotion code WN001).
• Stay at any Hyatt hotel between June 1 and August 31, 2011.
• Provide your Rapid Rewards account number at time of check-in.
• Pay an Eligible Rate during each stay.

FlyerTalk Hyatt Gold Passport forum moderator Peteropny states this promotion can be combined with the current offer for 10,000 points after 5 nights and 5,000 points for each additional two nights through June 30.

Choosing Southwest miles means member does not earn 5 points/$1 for hotel stay, but the 10,000 point bonus after 5 nights with Possibilities promotion is a separate sweep which should allow earning both the Possibilities points bonus and the Southwest points bonus for the same stays through June 30.

FlyerTalk member TooManyBooks estimates 19,000 Southwest points have a value of $317.

Looks like a great double dip points & miles opportunity with Hyatt for the next few weeks. Five one-night stays before the end of June can provide an airline ticket and one or two free hotel nights.

Hyatt Regency Monterey golf course view

NYC & Company at nycgo.com compiled a New York City briefing sheet on Hotel Development in NYC distributed at International Pow Wow 2011. I do not see the paper I have online, but here is a similar briefing sheet from six months ago. The paper covers recently opened hotels in the five boroughs of New York City and a list of hotels scheduled to open in the next two years.

42% of new NYC hotels were built outside of Manhattan in the past three years from 2008 to 2011. The city has seen a 25% increase in hotel rooms in the past five years from 72,625 rooms to more than 90,000 active inventory rooms by the end of 2011.

There are 86,230 hotel rooms in New York City in active inventory as of April 30, 2011. Occupancy rates averaged 85% in 2010 and average daily rate, ADR was $263 for April 2011.

Here are some of the hotels opened since 2010 and hotels in the pipeline for opening in the next two years across major hotel loyalty programs.

2010 and 2011 Hotel Openings in New York City organized by hotel chain:

Room data shown here is mainly from NYC & Company press release. I found some discrepancies with numbers compared to hotel website room number at a couple of hotels.

Best Western Hotels – Best Western Rewards

Best Western Plus Prospect Park, Brooklyn – 99 rooms, opened December 2010. Best Western Rewards 28,000 points.

Best Western Plus Arena Hotel Brooklyn  – 56 rooms. Best Western Rewards 24,000 points.

Choice Hotels – Choice Privileges (Reward levels shown are through Sep 15, 2011)

Comfort Inn Lower East Side – 32 rooms, opened September 2010. New build hotel located Lower East Side. Choice Privileges 25,000 points.

Comfort Inn Brooklyn – 77 rooms, opened August 2010. Choice Privileges 20,000 points.

Sleep Inn Brooklyn – 72 rooms. Choice Privileges 20,000 points.

Quality Inn Woodside near Shea Stadium and JFK. – 72 rooms. Choice Privileges 20,000 points.

Comfort Inn Staten Island – 93 rooms. Choice Privileges 20,000 points.

Hilton Worldwide – Hilton HHonors

Doubletree by Hilton NYC Financial District – 399 rooms, opened December 2010. HHonors category 7 at 50,000 points.

Hilton New York Fashion District – 280 rooms, opened February 2011. HHonors category 7 at 50,000 points.

Conrad New York – 463 rooms. Scheduled for late 2011 opening. Undoubtedly this will be HHonors category 7 at 50,000 points (unless they create a category 8 before the end of year).

Hyatt Hotels – Hyatt Gold Passport

Andaz 5^th Avenue – 184 rooms, opened July 2010. Hyatt Gold passport category 6 at 22,000 points.

Andaz Wall Street – 253 rooms, opened February 2010. Hyatt Gold passport category 5 at 18,000 points.

Hyatt 48 Lex New York– 116 rooms. Opening July 2011.

Hyatt Union Square opening late 2011? No official page yet, but the link has construction updates.

InterContinental Hotels Group – Priority Club

Holiday Inn Express Staten Island West – 95 rooms, opened August 2010.

InterContinental New York Times Square – 607 rooms, opened July 2010. Priority Club 40,000 points.

Holiday Inn Express NYC Wall Street –112 rooms, opened July 2010.

Staybridge Suites Times Square – 310 rooms, opened May 2010. Priority Club 20,000 points.

Hotel Indigo Brooklyn  – 172 rooms. Scheduled for late-2011 opening as one of the premier hotels in the downtown Brooklyn area.

Loyalty Traveler Note: Priority Club’s site has been terribly dysfunctional for the past month and I find it quite difficult to look up hotel rewards at the moment. I assume the HIX hotels are 25,000 points.

Kimpton Hotels – Kimpton In Touch

Hotel Eventi –  Kimpton Hotels –287 rooms, opened June 2010.

Marriott International – Marriott Rewards

Courtyard New York Manhattan/SoHo – 120 rooms, opened December 2010. Marriott Rewards category 7 at 35,000 points.

Fairfield inn & Suites Manhattan/Chelsea – 112 rooms, opened December 2010. Marriott Rewards category 6 at 30,000 points.

Fairfield Inn & Suites New York Brooklyn – 133 rooms June 2011. Marriott Rewards Category 5 at 25,000 points.

Fairfield Inn & Suites New York Manhattan/Fifth Avenue – 92 rooms. Marriott Rewards Category 6 at 30,000 points.

SpringHill Suites by Marriott New York Queens/Corona – Opening June 2011. Marriott Rewards Category 4 at 20,000 points.

Starwood Hotels – Starwood Preferred Guest

Aloft Harlem – 128 rooms, opened December 2010. SPG category 3 at 7,000 points.

Aloft Brooklyn – 176 rooms. Opening June 9. SPG Category 4 at 10,000 points.

Element New York Times Square West – 410 rooms, opened November 2010. SPG category 5 at 12,000 or 16,000 peak-season points.

Four Points by Sheraton Long Island City – 91 rooms, opened April 2011. SPG category 3 at 7,000 points.

The Chatwal, Starwood Luxury Collection  – 88 rooms, opened August 2010. SPG category 6 at 20,000 points or 25,000 points in peak season.

Sheraton Hotel Brooklyn –321 rooms, opened June 2010. SPG category 4 at 10,000 points.

Sheraton TriBeCa New York Hotel – 360 rooms, opened October 2010. SPG category 5 at 12,000 or 16,000 peak-season points.

W New York Downtown – 217 rooms, opened August 2010. SPG category 5 at 12,000 or 16,000 peak-season points.

Wyndham Worldwide – Wyndham Rewards

Super 8 Brooklyn New York Park Slope – Wyndham Rewards Tier 4 at 16,000 points.

Dream Downtown – 315 rooms. Scheduled for summer 2011 opening. New hotel brand partner with Wyndham Worldwide.

New York City Hotels In Construction 

There are plenty of other big hotel projects with scheduled openings in late 2011 and 2012. There are not official links for most of these hotels on the hotel chain websites yet. Google searches indicate New York neighborhood papers and bloggers have interesting stories and photos on the construction development of several of these hotels.

Aloft Chelsea (Starwood Hotels) – 170 rooms. 815 Sixth Avenue. Projected opening 2013.

Best Western Staten Island – 111 rooms. 290 Wild Avenue. Projected opening late 2011.

Clarion Brooklyn – 65 rooms. 1120 36th Street, Brooklyn. Projected opening late 2011.

Hampton Inn – 150 rooms. 231 E. 43rd Street. Projected opening late 2011.

Holiday Inn – 132 rooms. 150 Delancey Street. Projected opening late 2012.

Holiday Inn Express – 175 rooms. 538 W. 48^th Street. Projected opening late 2012.

Park Hyatt – 210 rooms. 157 W. 57^th Street. Projected opening 2012.

Hyatt Place – 219 rooms. 206 E. 52^nd Street. Projected opening late 2012.

SpringHill Suies by Marriott – 173 rooms. 25 W. 37^th Street. Projected opening late 2012.

Tryp New York City by Wyndham – 173 rooms. 345 W. 35^th Street. Opening summer 2011.

Wyndham Garden Hotel – 108 rooms. 93 Bowery at Hester Street. Projected opening summer 2011.

Related Post: Travel Weekly – New York Hotel Market Booming, and not just Manhattan (May 4, 2011)