Since you might not be traveling right now for work, Hyatt is offering a fast tracked way to earn World of Hyatt Explorist and Globalist status without having to step into a hotel room. Unfortunately though, similar to last year, this offer is only for individuals who work for select corporations. There is no set list of companies included, so you’ll have to enter your work email address to see if you are eligible.
Originally this Hyatt status match promotion was announced back in March — right as the pandemic hit — you have until Nov. 16, 2020 to register. That means only a few more days to register, if you qualify.
Hyatt Status Match and Hyatt Status Challenge
After registering for the promotion, you’ll receive automatic Hyatt Explorist status for the next 90 days. You’ll then have the opportunity to maintain that status or even move up to Hyatt Globalist status, depending on the number of stays you complete.
- Hyatt Explorist challenge: Stay 10 nights within 90 days
- Hyatt Globalist challenge: Stay 20 nights within 90 days
If you are able to complete the World of Hyatt status challenge, your earned status will be valid through February 2022. This will give you over a year of this awesome status.
Additionally, if you aren’t going to be able to complete the challenge, it is still worth while to enroll for the status part, just so you can have Explorist status during one or two stays during the 90 day period.
Related: Fast-track status challenge with American Airlines and Hyatt
Enrolling in the World of Hyatt Status Match and World of Hyatt Status Challenge Will Not Earn Milestone Benefits
When you receive status through the World of Hyatt status match or challenge promotion, you unfortunately do not earn all of the benefits that actually come with the status. With these milestone benefits you actually have to stay the required number of nights to earn the status. For example, when you stay 20 nights and 30 nights you’ll earn 2 club lounge awards (4 total). Earning Explorist status through the challenge also means you will not receive those awards to use on an upcoming stay. Same holds true for the suite night upgrades — you earn 2 when you stay 50 and 60 nights (4 total), and not by just having Globalist status.
Of course, having the status will still get you many benefits such as:
- Explorist benefits: 20% bonus on points earned, 2pm late checkout, upgrade to the best available room (excluding suites and based on availability), etc.
- Globalist benefits:Â 30% bonus on points earned, 4pm late checkout, upgrade to the best available room (including suites and based on availability, club lounge access, resort fees waived on paid rooms, 4pm late checkout, club lounge access, complimentary parking on a free night award, guest of honor access, etc.
Hyatt is by far my favorite hotel chain at the moment, despite having Marriott Titanium status for life. The benefits give my family real value and make us want to pick Hyatt every single time for our family vacations.
Overall…
Over the past few years, we plan for my husband to earn Hyatt Globalist status yearly. Due to COVID-19, we haven’t stepped foot into a Hyatt hotel since early March. Fortunately, Hyatt was very generous to extend Hyatt Globalist status for everyone, so if you already had status, there is probably no reason to go for this particular challenge promotion.
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Didn’t let me register…
If I enter my corporate email but my Hyatt account is under my personal email, will that work? Does the membership have to be the one with corporate email? I want to use existing points and reward night from credit card to fulfill the challenge. I didn’t want to try at the offer page for fear it will start the 90 period immediately.
I enrolled with my corporate e-mail (Aetna) and received an e-mail on my work e-mail to click the link to complete my World of Hyatt offer registration. I did that and went to my Hyatt account to see if I could tell anywhere on my account that I had completed registration and check my progress. There wasn’t anywhere on the page where I could tell (and I have a 3 day stay this weekend I wanted to count towards this promotion), so I called the Hyatt Explorist customer service number. The very unfriendly customer service agent told me they have no information regarding this promotion as it is run through a different division that cannot answer customer questions. She referred me to my corporate travel manager and said that’s what they tell everyone who has questions. So I guess I’ll just cross my fingers and hope it works.
hello, i just want to get a follow up regarding your shared past experience. Did it end up working? Were you able to achieve Explorist ?
@norman – Yes this promotion definitely works, but eligible members. There is no defined list which corporations are included, but assume if you work for a major company you should be able to register.
I actually already had Explorist status and was hoping to get Globalist through this promotion. It allowed me to enroll for the program, but the terms and conditions were different from the sign-up versus when I was actually accepted for the promotion (I took screenshots of the both the terms and conditions I received). I received a confirmation e-mail at my corporate e-mail address with terms and conditions that were different from when I enrolled. It appears that you have to be with McKinsey to be eligible for this promotion. When I tried to call Hyatt to ask some questions about this, they refused to answer anything about it. They said this promotion is through some other department, and they refused to transfer me to that department to have my questions answered. They just kept saying I needed to talk to my corporate travel manager. It sounded to me like they just weren’t actually offering it to anyone but McKinsey because they were the only company listed in the terms and conditions sent to my corporate e-mail address. Let me know if your experience if different.
@Holly – I know this was extended to more than McKinsey employees. I know Google and Deloitte employees are eligible as well.
Do points stays count toward the 10/20? I’ve heard both yes and no. I did the match and have completed 12 so far. Have another 5 night stay and was going to use points but will pay if point stays don’t count for sure.
@RobR – Let me find out from my contact, but typically in these types of situations it is paid stays.
Any update on this?
I signed up last month for this promotion.
I also applied for the World of Hyatt card yesterday and was approved. I hope the 5 nights credit counts towards the promotion too, that way Globalist status would not be too much of a stretch.
Any data points on point redemption nights and credit card nights (both the initial 5 nights for the CC and the 2 nights for every $5k spend) would be awesome! Thanks 🙂
@Joe – I suggest reaching out to Hyatt directly and getting it in writing from them. They have not been able to give me a clear answer. This is not a promotion, unfortunately, that came from my PR contact at Hyatt directly, but instead a sales associate at a particular hotel (who doesn’t know the in’s and out’s of the promo).
However, the 5 night credit and the 2 nights for every $2k spend with the credit card absolutely does not count towards the challenge.
Hi please let me know if the points or points plus cash stays count toward the status challenge . I will start my challenge this week but I do have a 5 days stays with points booked for next month I will change that to cash if points stays don’t count toward the challenge. Is confusing because the rules of the challenge state that eligible stays will count and when you search the world of Hyatt terms and conditions eligible stays are also points and points and cash . Confusing. Thanks
@Cheo – Unfortunately, I still have not been able to get a clear answer.
Hi,
I have a similar situation with a points stay during the status challenge. Will it count towards the challenge?
Thanks!
Noticed that you mentioned that you’re a lifetime elite titanium at Bonvoy. I thought the maximum lifetime tier is only at elite platinum.
@Dseow – Lifetime Elite Titanium status was a one-time thing if earned last year. https://dealswelike.boardingarea.com/marriott-lifetime-platinum-premier-elite-status-now-posting/
Neither mine nor my wife’s work emails were accepted “please enter your valid corporate email address” in red.
I also tried a dummy @ Citibank.com email address. Same thing.
So it seems it is only for employees of certain companies
@Bob – Unfortunately that is the case and they will not provide a list.
Thanks for posting but how it will be almost two years when it will be almost one year until February 28th of 2021?
@NWE – When this offer initially came out in April, it was almost two years, but now that we are in November we are looking at just a year and a few months. I have updated the article accordingly. Thank you!
Points stays do count towards this challenge. I completed the challenge with a mixture of points stays, cash stays, points + cash stays and free nights earned from the credit card. You will find nowhere to track your status for the challenge, and they won’t give you any information if you call them about it. You’ll just get an e-mail once you complete the challenge letting you know about your new globalist or explorist status.
Hi @Holly, thanks for your data point! When you say ‘free nights earned from the credit card’, you mean stays with Chase FN certificate right? That’s great information. How soon do you get the email after you meet the number of nights requirement? Did any of the elite nights from your Chase credit card either annual credits or via spending count? Thanks again
Thanks for the reminder, I finally registered even though it is highly unlikely I can complete the 10 night or 20 night challenge since no travel in site. However, I was quite disappointed that the trial Explorist status does not give lounge access, which really means that trial status is pretty useless if I stay there.