Hyatt: 10 Percent Off Hyatt Gift Cards, Check Certificates and Stay Certificates

Hyatt is offering 10% off Hyatt Gift Cards, Gift Checks and Stay Certificates with the code GPGIFT, up to $2000 total. Use your SPG AMEX Business card to pay, and you'll earn an effective 16.5% discount, if you value your SPG points at 2.2 cents each, and this doesn't even include the Hyatt points you earn for stays when paying with the Hyatt gift card or Hyatt check certificate.

You earn additional Hyatt points earned for Hyatt spend: 5 points per $1 for regular Gold Passport, 5.75 points per $1 for Platinum, and 6.5 points per $1 for Diamond spend. If, say, you value Hyatt points at 1.5 cents each, that would give you anywhere from an addtional 7.5% as a regular member to 9.8% as a Diamond

I view this as a better deal than the 10% discount from Milepoint, which only allowed purchases of Hyatt Gift Cards (which can only be used in the U.S., Canada and Caribbean) and you don't have to pay $49.95 for a Milepoint premium membership. In contrast, Hyatt Check Certificates can be used at any Hyatt worldwide to pay for room rates, food and incidental costs that you incur on your guest folio. 

Here are the details:

• Eligible on Hyatt gift cards, Hyatt check certificates and Hyatt stay certificates bought at https://certificates.hyatt.com/
• Use code GPGIFT (you will need to enter your Hyatt Gold Passport number to apply the code)
• Maximum amount that may be purchased is $2000 per Hyatt Gold Passport account
• Purchase by end of 2013
• $6 shipping and handling per order