Hyatt Diamond benefit – book a future award stay w/o the points

Introduction

Since a lot of you are Hyatt Diamonds this year, I thought I’d mention this benefit.  I wasn’t aware of it until a reader mentioned it to me.  Essentially, you can book an award room on points even though you may lack the points in your account at time of booking.  This was helpful to me because I realized I had burnt over 400K Hyatt points already this year on future stays, but was lacking some points for a stay I found out about over the weekend.

I asked Hyatt over DM and this is what they had to say.

Clearly you’ll want those points in your account within 72 hours of your stay so that you don’t get hit with the nightly rate.  Enjoy.