December 9, 2024 • 21 mins
In this episode, we’re breaking down exactly how we earned Hyatt Globalist status without staying 60 nights in a hotel. Hyatt Globalist is the top-tier status that comes with incredible perks like free breakfast, room upgrades, late checkouts, and waived resort fees. We’ll walk you through the steps we took, including how we used credit card spend, milestone rewards, and strategic stays to make it happen.
We’ll also talk about why Hyatt Globalist status has been a game-changer for our family and how it can save you thousands of dollars if it fits your travel plans. Plus, we’re sharing an honest review of the Chase Sapphire Reserve Lounge in Phoenix and how it stacks up against other airport lounges.
If you’re looking to travel more with your family and want to maximize points and perks, this episode is packed with practical advice to get you started. Whether you’re dreaming of earning Hyatt Globalist status or just want to stretch your travel budget further, we’ve got you covered.
Thanks for listening—we’re excited to help you plan your next trip!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In today's episode, we're going to share our exact
strategy for earning HyattGlobalist status and opening up
a ton of perks and benefits whenwe travel, without having to
spend 60 nights in a hotel.
So listen in.
Hi, I'm Raya and I'm Dwayne,and we are your hosts of the
(00:31):
Travel Party of Five podcast,where we share how we travel as
a family of five around theworld.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We will also share how we use points and miles to
travel as affordably as possibleand sometimes even completely
free.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So if you're wanting to travel more with your family
but you're not sure how, we'dlove for you to listen in.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So welcome to our podcast, where we hope you learn
a thing or two to get youcloser to your next trip.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Hello friends, welcome back, welcome back.
Thanks for tuning in.
We hope you're having a greatDecember.
So far, as a reminder, ifyou're doing your Christmas
shopping, make sure you're goingthrough either a shopping
portal or Rakuten or somethinglike that, so you can earn some
additional money, money you'realready going to spend.
It's a little PSA.
(01:28):
Also, last week we did anepisode on the Ondas in San
Diego, but the one thing that wedidn't talk about was the Chase
Lounge Totally forgot.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We did forget.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So we're going to talk about that, and then we're
going to share how we hitglobalist status this year
without having to spend 60nights in a hotel.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And don't forget about our giveaway.
We're doing.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yes.
So we're doing a giveaway forreviews.
So if you leave us a review oniTunes or Spotify or wherever
you listen, and send us ascreenshot of the review to our
email, we will enter you in araffle to win a $50 gift card to
an online or whatever store ofyour choosing.
As long as it's legal, dwayne'sabout to say Goodness, I'm
(02:13):
never going to live that onedown, huh, yeah.
So we would greatly appreciateyour thoughts and reviews.
We appreciate you taking thetime, we appreciate that you
listen, and the more reviews wehave, the easier it is for our
podcast to be found when peopleare searching for points and
miles stuff.
(02:34):
So, thank you, thank you, thankyou.
Let's talk about the ChaseLounge.
So, first of all, the ChaseSapphire Reserve Lounge opened
in Phoenix about two weeks ago.
This lounge has been eagerlyawaited for like two years.
There's a whole Reddit threadabout this lounge for the last
(02:56):
two plus years where people justkeep commenting, nope, not open
yet, nope, not open yet, likeliterally for two plus years.
And finally it opened a coupleof weeks ago.
And so the other reason for ourtrip to San Diego last weekend
or two weekends ago was not onlycould we go to San Diego, which
is better than Scottsdale, butwe also would be able to check
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out the Chase Lounge, becausewhen I tell you I considered
buying a flight on Southwest toget into the lounge and then
canceling the flight like I'mnot kidding I did consider doing
that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
She definitely did consider that.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But then I was like, oh well, we'll just go to San
Diego and we'll use it then.
So here's our experience andspoiler alert, I will say the
lounge is a little bitdisappointing for a couple of
reasons and we'll get into it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
First reason being that it's small.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's incredibly small .
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I mean we had to wait probably 20 minutes to get in.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Which isn't bad.
I've heard of people having towait like hours and we wouldn't
have had time to do that.
So we walked up.
We were there Again, it wasmaybe like nine something and
our flight was boarding at 1030.
So we were there around nine.
We purposely went early to tryto go to the lounge and we were
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put on a waitlist.
They told us maybe 30 minutesand it was about 15.
I think it really wasn't thatlong.
They called us in we I have awhole Instagram reel that I made
about it.
If you want to go like visually, see it, it's on our Instagram
at travel party five.
But you walk in.
They have self-serve food, kindof to the right, um, you know,
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coffee juice, the whole thing.
Cause we were there forbreakfast, I can't speak to
their lunch dinner options andthen they have a bar and then
they have like a little moreseating, a foosball table and
they have like an, an airstreamthat also makes ready to made I
mean ready to order snacks likelike when we were there, it was
(05:04):
breakfast tacos.
Yeah, I don't know what it isfor dinner.
The tacos were fine yeah, theyweren't bad and then they have a
little more seating and, Ithink, two private bathrooms and
that's about it.
There's not a ton of seating.
I feel like they could havemade better use of the space.
The other thing I really didn'tlike is the where the foosball
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table and the airstream is.
It's open to the terminal,meaning there's no glass to
block it off, which means it'spretty noisy.
And part of what I like about alounge is you go in and it just
feels like like.
My brain is like.
It's like when you turn off thevent fan on your stove after
it's been on for a while andyour brain is just like, ah,
(05:49):
it's quiet.
That's how I feel about theairport noise versus going into
a lounge.
The airport is like the ventbeing on, and going into a
lounge is like turning off thevent.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Great analogy.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Dwayne thinks I'm insane.
That's fine, maybe I am.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But I mean, it's true , it is open to the airport and
you hear the hustle and bustleof the airport.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, so those are kind of the two disappointing
things.
I think here's the good news wesat at the bar and you have a
really nice view of the tarmacand it's like right near the
southwest gates and so it's inTerminal 4 at the Phoenix
Airport and so really nice viewand the service was very good.
(06:35):
We talked to a couple of thebartenders and they really
enjoyed working there.
It sounds like they had comefrom other places, like one of
them moved from new mexico andso I found that interesting.
But they had good things to sayabout their employers and all
(06:56):
that, and so I think that'salways a good sign yeah, I so
overall small open, but still anice lounge to get some food and
some drinks before your flight.
Yeah, it was just us.
So I had a glass of Prosecco,Dwayne had some whiskey.
(07:16):
I would rank the food somewherebetween a Priority Pass lounge
and a Capital One lounge,between a Priority Pass lounge
and a Capital One lounge.
It was better than thatPriority Pass escape lounge in
Oakland, but it was not as goodas a Capital One lounge.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
The one in Oakland is bad, bad.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Would I take our whole family in there if there
was time?
Yes, I would.
I guess the bright side aboutit being open to the terminal is
I don't really have to worryabout the volume of my children
so much.
So there's that, Um, and I meanagain, will this save you money
on a trip?
(07:55):
Yes, If you can get in.
Yes, I have heard of of youknow the wait being really long.
So I think you just have toplan that you might not be able
to get in if there's not enoughtime, and if there is, then it's
like a bonus.
So yeah yep, they're alsoopening up a Chase Sapphire
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Reserve Lounge in San Diego,like literally this week, and,
um, I was a little disappointedthat we were.
We were missing it by like aweek or two, so we'll have to
see how that, how that one,looks, um, next time we go.
But that is our review of theChase Sapphire Reserve Lounge in
(08:38):
Phoenix.
Oh, and the way that you canget access to that lounge is you
either need to hold the ChaseSapphire Reserve card, which I
do and that allows me to bringin a guest or two, or you need
to have a priority pass thatallows access and if you have
the priority pass, you get onevisit per calendar year, the
Chase.
If you have the Chase SapphireReserve card, it's unlimited.
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So that's how you can getaccess to this lounge.
Okay, let's skip over to Hyattglobalist status.
So we hit globalist statusabout a month ago and I'm going
to tell you exactly how we didit.
Even though we did not stay 60nights in Hyatt hotels, which is
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a lot, it's a lot, yeah.
So our strategy for earningglobalist status, first of all,
is because next year we haveover 30 nights booked at various
hyatts around the world, and sowe are.
It was a really strategicdecision decision to leverage
the status to save us money onboth food and also get us more
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space through the you knowpotential upgrades that we will
receive.
So I'm going to do a quickrundown of what globalist status
gets you and then we'll talkabout how we how we got there
for 2024.
Number one you get lounge access.
So if there's a club lounge inthe hotel, you get free access
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to that and normally that willbe like breakfast snacks during
the day and light bites atdinner.
You also get free breakfast, socomplimentary full breakfast at
properties that do not have aclub lounge.
If they do have a club lounge,that's generally where your
breakfast will be.
If they do have a club lounge,that's generally where your
breakfast will be.
Potential room upgrades,including standard suites, is
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typically what you'd be upgradedto.
Late checkout subject toavailability, but you can get
late checkout up to 4 pm, whichcan be really helpful if you
have kids and a late flight.
Complimentary parking on awardsdays.
So no parking.
If you're booking on points, ifyou're paying cash, you also
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get waived resort or destinationfees.
Those are always waived whenyou book on points, even without
status, but if you're payingcash, they're waived on cash
bookings.
If you're a globalist and Ithink that's roughly it you also
get a globalist concierge,which ours emailed me the other
(11:11):
day to introduce herself heather, kathy, kathy, yep, close, yeah
, close, sure.
So the way that you can earnglobalist status is you either
stay 60 qualifying nights inHyatt or you can earn 100,000
base points, which is I don'treally know how to explain a
(11:32):
base point, but or you use yourbusiness credit card or, sorry,
your World of Hyatt credit cards, and they have a business and a
personal.
The business earns fivequalifying nights for every
$10,000 in spend and thepersonal card comes with five
qualifying nights automaticallyand then also earns you two
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qualifying nights for every$5,000 you put on the card.
So the way that we earned it isa combination of nights in
Hyatt or nights at a Hyatt andcredit card spend for the most
part.
So we earned 20 qualifyingnights from the World of Hyatt
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business card and that meansthat we put $40,000 worth of
spend this year on our World ofHyatt business card.
So in the beginning of the yearI was using that card for
everything, and then we stayed.
Let me calculate this out.
We stayed 35 nights in Hyatthotels this year.
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Five of those were what we'regoing to call a mattress run,
which means we checked into thehotel but didn't actually stay
there.
And I'm going to be fullytransparent that this is against
world of Hyatt terms andconditions.
Okay, so proceed at your ownrisk.
(13:06):
But there we were.
We knew we were going to be afew nights shy, and so we did
that and used points to book ata category one hotel, which is
the lowest category andtherefore the lowest number of
points.
So we specifically did these onnights that were 3,500 points,
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and so basically, the way to dothis is you go to the hotel to
check in, you just don't staythere, and that's that.
We only had to do that a fewtimes and it worked out fine for
us.
Um, and then in september, Iopened up the world of hyatt
personal card and I I earnedfive qualifying nights just for
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holding that card.
So every year you hold thatcard, you earn five qualifying
nights towards status, and justfrom having the card, yeah, just
from having the card, yeah, sowe'll keep that's a card that we
will keep.
A lot of them we close afterthe one year mark, but we will
not close that one.
Same with the world of hyattbusiness card, and I mean that's
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essentially it.
We did a combination of creditcard spend and nights in Hyatt's
.
Now I'm going to tell you, asyou hit a certain number of
nights, you earn what are calledmilestone rewards.
So we'll talk about that in asecond.
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But I want to add first if youdon't have a lot of stays at a
Hyatt next year, it probablydoesn't make sense for you to
get globalist status.
So I think a lot of people havelike FOMO, right.
They think, oh yeah, I wantthat like looks nice and shiny
and I want that.
But if you don't have a lot ofnights in a Hyatt booked, it
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really probably doesn't makesense Because you're not going
to save that much money.
You know, but for us, we havefive people and we're staying in
literally like over 30 nightsin Hyatt's next year.
It's going to save us thousandsof dollars when it comes down
to it.
So I think you just have tofigure out, like you know, yes,
(15:20):
it's nice to have, but does itreally make financial sense to
spend so much on the card?
And I mean $40,000 is a goodamount of money, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, so you just need to keep that in mind as
you're listening to this.
So let's talk about themilestone rewards, because they
definitely can help you, kind ofbuffer you, to get you to the
status.
So at 20 nights you get what'scalled a 2k next day award or
two club access awards and youcan choose whichever one you get
(15:56):
.
We opted for the two clubaccess awards and I'll kind of
talk through why I chose theseas we go through.
At 30 nights you get a categoryone to four free night award
and your choice of a 2k next day, which means 2000 points off
your next day, or two more clubaccess awards.
(16:20):
Or you also can choose a $25find experience credit, which I
think is not not like.
I would never choose that.
Um, that category one to fourfree night is the one we earned
that.
We went to stay at the HyattRegency to Maya in Albuquerque
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and the reason we did that isbecause it has a six month
expiration date.
So that was a little bit of asurprise.
I was expecting 12 months.
And then, at 40 nights, you getone guest of honor award and
then you can also choose either5000 bonus points or a suite
upgrade award or another findexperience credit.
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We chose the suite upgradeaward or another find experience
credit.
We chose the suite upgradeaward.
At 50 nights, you can eitherchoose 5,000 points or two suite
upgrade awards and at 60 nightsyou get two guest of honor
awards and a category one toseven free night award and two
suite upgrade awards and accessto the my Hyatt concierge.
So for all, go ahead access tothe my Hyatt.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Concierge.
So for all, go ahead.
I was going to say the Guest ofHonor Awards.
That's where you can givesomeone access.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, you gift someone else globalist access,
yep, and so we predominantlychose the Club Access Awards,
the Suite Upgrades, and, yeah,are all the choices.
Those are the ones we chose allthe time, and the reason being
next year we have two roomsbooked, one in my name and one
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in your name, at a lot ofproperties, and so what I will
do is I will either gift you aclub access award or I will gift
you a suite upgrade award or aguest of honor, just depending
on the property.
For example, if the propertyhas a club lounge, I'm going to
gift you the club access award,and if they don't, then
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obviously it doesn't make sensebecause you have to use it at a
property that does.
If they don't, then I will giftyou a guest of honor award, and
that will ensure that we allfive of us can have globalist
benefits everywhere we stay.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
So that would be great yeah, so that's my plan.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Um, I'm gonna work that out with Kathy the
concierge.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Or Heather.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And yeah.
So I think next year we'lleasily hit globalist status
again because of how many nightswe already have booked at
Hyatt's.
I'm questionable about 2026because, like, we'll have it for
2026, but I'm questionable ifwe'll have it for 2026, but I'm
questionable if we'll earn it in2026, because I think we're
going to be spending some, somecash to stay in a couple of of
places that are on my top of mylist for 2026 travel, like
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belize there is no hyatt, so wecan't stay at a hyatt there, and
that's where I want to go forspring break 2026, and then
yellowstone I thought there waslike a nondaz or something there
.
No, no, there's a marriott and ahilton.
Um yep, and we also want to doyellowstone, which there's no
hyatts there, so we'll see, butwe don't need to think that far
(19:40):
ahead at this point.
So that's in a nutshell how youcan earn globalist status
without having to stay the 60nights, if it makes sense for
you and your family.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, I mean globalist status is the way to
be.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I will say it's nice to go into the property and have
them recognize it.
It makes me feel special.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, I mean the guy had breakfast at the Andaz in
San Diego he was shouting it.
He shouted it like three times.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, and we were like, oh okay, Like that's weird
, Like I don't need that kind ofrecognition, but okay, so
anyways, there we have it.
We are getting pretty close toChristmas.
I think we only have a couplemore episodes left before we
take a break for the Christmasholiday.
I think we only have a couplemore episodes left before we
take a break for the Christmasholiday.
So just another reminder toenter our giveaway raffle for a
(20:32):
$50 gift card.
Leave us a review, Email us ascreenshot of your review and we
will enter you into the raffleto win a $50 gift card of your
choosing.
Our email is travelpartyof5 atgmailcom, and we appreciate you
so much and we will catch you onthe next one.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yes, thank you so much for listening and good luck
with the raffle.
Bye, have a good one.
In today's episode, we're going to share our exact
strategy for earning HyattGlobalist status and opening up
a ton of perks and benefits whenwe travel, without having to
spend 60 nights in a hotel.
So listen in.
Hi, I'm Raya and I'm Dwayne,and we are your hosts of the
(00:31):
Travel Party of Five podcast,where we share how we travel as
a family of five around theworld.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We will also share how we use points and miles to
travel as affordably as possibleand sometimes even completely
free.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So if you're wanting to travel more with your family
but you're not sure how, we'dlove for you to listen in.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So welcome to our podcast, where we hope you learn
a thing or two to get youcloser to your next trip.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Hello friends, welcome back, welcome back.
Thanks for tuning in.
We hope you're having a greatDecember.
So far, as a reminder, ifyou're doing your Christmas
shopping, make sure you're goingthrough either a shopping
portal or Rakuten or somethinglike that, so you can earn some
additional money, money you'realready going to spend.
It's a little PSA.
(01:28):
Also, last week we did anepisode on the Ondas in San
Diego, but the one thing that wedidn't talk about was the Chase
Lounge Totally forgot.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
We did forget.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So we're going to talk about that, and then we're
going to share how we hitglobalist status this year
without having to spend 60nights in a hotel.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And don't forget about our giveaway.
We're doing.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Yes.
So we're doing a giveaway forreviews.
So if you leave us a review oniTunes or Spotify or wherever
you listen, and send us ascreenshot of the review to our
email, we will enter you in araffle to win a $50 gift card to
an online or whatever store ofyour choosing.
As long as it's legal, dwayne'sabout to say Goodness, I'm
(02:13):
never going to live that onedown, huh, yeah.
So we would greatly appreciateyour thoughts and reviews.
We appreciate you taking thetime, we appreciate that you
listen, and the more reviews wehave, the easier it is for our
podcast to be found when peopleare searching for points and
miles stuff.
(02:34):
So, thank you, thank you, thankyou.
Let's talk about the ChaseLounge.
So, first of all, the ChaseSapphire Reserve Lounge opened
in Phoenix about two weeks ago.
This lounge has been eagerlyawaited for like two years.
There's a whole Reddit threadabout this lounge for the last
(02:56):
two plus years where people justkeep commenting, nope, not open
yet, nope, not open yet, likeliterally for two plus years.
And finally it opened a coupleof weeks ago.
And so the other reason for ourtrip to San Diego last weekend
or two weekends ago was not onlycould we go to San Diego, which
is better than Scottsdale, butwe also would be able to check
(03:18):
out the Chase Lounge, becausewhen I tell you I considered
buying a flight on Southwest toget into the lounge and then
canceling the flight like I'mnot kidding I did consider doing
that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
She definitely did consider that.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
But then I was like, oh well, we'll just go to San
Diego and we'll use it then.
So here's our experience andspoiler alert, I will say the
lounge is a little bitdisappointing for a couple of
reasons and we'll get into it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
First reason being that it's small.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's incredibly small .
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I mean we had to wait probably 20 minutes to get in.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Which isn't bad.
I've heard of people having towait like hours and we wouldn't
have had time to do that.
So we walked up.
We were there Again, it wasmaybe like nine something and
our flight was boarding at 1030.
So we were there around nine.
We purposely went early to tryto go to the lounge and we were
(04:18):
put on a waitlist.
They told us maybe 30 minutesand it was about 15.
I think it really wasn't thatlong.
They called us in we I have awhole Instagram reel that I made
about it.
If you want to go like visually, see it, it's on our Instagram
at travel party five.
But you walk in.
They have self-serve food, kindof to the right, um, you know,
(04:42):
coffee juice, the whole thing.
Cause we were there forbreakfast, I can't speak to
their lunch dinner options andthen they have a bar and then
they have like a little moreseating, a foosball table and
they have like an, an airstreamthat also makes ready to made I
mean ready to order snacks likelike when we were there, it was
(05:04):
breakfast tacos.
Yeah, I don't know what it isfor dinner.
The tacos were fine yeah, theyweren't bad and then they have a
little more seating and, Ithink, two private bathrooms and
that's about it.
There's not a ton of seating.
I feel like they could havemade better use of the space.
The other thing I really didn'tlike is the where the foosball
(05:29):
table and the airstream is.
It's open to the terminal,meaning there's no glass to
block it off, which means it'spretty noisy.
And part of what I like about alounge is you go in and it just
feels like like.
My brain is like.
It's like when you turn off thevent fan on your stove after
it's been on for a while andyour brain is just like, ah,
(05:49):
it's quiet.
That's how I feel about theairport noise versus going into
a lounge.
The airport is like the ventbeing on, and going into a
lounge is like turning off thevent.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Great analogy.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Dwayne thinks I'm insane.
That's fine, maybe I am.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But I mean, it's true , it is open to the airport and
you hear the hustle and bustleof the airport.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, so those are kind of the two disappointing
things.
I think here's the good news wesat at the bar and you have a
really nice view of the tarmacand it's like right near the
southwest gates and so it's inTerminal 4 at the Phoenix
Airport and so really nice viewand the service was very good.
(06:35):
We talked to a couple of thebartenders and they really
enjoyed working there.
It sounds like they had comefrom other places, like one of
them moved from new mexico andso I found that interesting.
But they had good things to sayabout their employers and all
(06:56):
that, and so I think that'salways a good sign yeah, I so
overall small open, but still anice lounge to get some food and
some drinks before your flight.
Yeah, it was just us.
So I had a glass of Prosecco,Dwayne had some whiskey.
(07:16):
I would rank the food somewherebetween a Priority Pass lounge
and a Capital One lounge,between a Priority Pass lounge
and a Capital One lounge.
It was better than thatPriority Pass escape lounge in
Oakland, but it was not as goodas a Capital One lounge.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
The one in Oakland is bad, bad.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Would I take our whole family in there if there
was time?
Yes, I would.
I guess the bright side aboutit being open to the terminal is
I don't really have to worryabout the volume of my children
so much.
So there's that, Um, and I meanagain, will this save you money
on a trip?
(07:55):
Yes, If you can get in.
Yes, I have heard of of youknow the wait being really long.
So I think you just have toplan that you might not be able
to get in if there's not enoughtime, and if there is, then it's
like a bonus.
So yeah yep, they're alsoopening up a Chase Sapphire
(08:16):
Reserve Lounge in San Diego,like literally this week, and,
um, I was a little disappointedthat we were.
We were missing it by like aweek or two, so we'll have to
see how that, how that one,looks, um, next time we go.
But that is our review of theChase Sapphire Reserve Lounge in
(08:38):
Phoenix.
Oh, and the way that you canget access to that lounge is you
either need to hold the ChaseSapphire Reserve card, which I
do and that allows me to bringin a guest or two, or you need
to have a priority pass thatallows access and if you have
the priority pass, you get onevisit per calendar year, the
Chase.
If you have the Chase SapphireReserve card, it's unlimited.
(09:00):
So that's how you can getaccess to this lounge.
Okay, let's skip over to Hyattglobalist status.
So we hit globalist statusabout a month ago and I'm going
to tell you exactly how we didit.
Even though we did not stay 60nights in Hyatt hotels, which is
(09:21):
a lot, it's a lot, yeah.
So our strategy for earningglobalist status, first of all,
is because next year we haveover 30 nights booked at various
hyatts around the world, and sowe are.
It was a really strategicdecision decision to leverage
the status to save us money onboth food and also get us more
(09:44):
space through the you knowpotential upgrades that we will
receive.
So I'm going to do a quickrundown of what globalist status
gets you and then we'll talkabout how we how we got there
for 2024.
Number one you get lounge access.
So if there's a club lounge inthe hotel, you get free access
(10:06):
to that and normally that willbe like breakfast snacks during
the day and light bites atdinner.
You also get free breakfast, socomplimentary full breakfast at
properties that do not have aclub lounge.
If they do have a club lounge,that's generally where your
breakfast will be.
If they do have a club lounge,that's generally where your
breakfast will be.
Potential room upgrades,including standard suites, is
(10:28):
typically what you'd be upgradedto.
Late checkout subject toavailability, but you can get
late checkout up to 4 pm, whichcan be really helpful if you
have kids and a late flight.
Complimentary parking on awardsdays.
So no parking.
If you're booking on points, ifyou're paying cash, you also
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get waived resort or destinationfees.
Those are always waived whenyou book on points, even without
status, but if you're payingcash, they're waived on cash
bookings.
If you're a globalist and Ithink that's roughly it you also
get a globalist concierge,which ours emailed me the other
(11:11):
day to introduce herself heather, kathy, kathy, yep, close, yeah
, close, sure.
So the way that you can earnglobalist status is you either
stay 60 qualifying nights inHyatt or you can earn 100,000
base points, which is I don'treally know how to explain a
(11:32):
base point, but or you use yourbusiness credit card or, sorry,
your World of Hyatt credit cards, and they have a business and a
personal.
The business earns fivequalifying nights for every
$10,000 in spend and thepersonal card comes with five
qualifying nights automaticallyand then also earns you two
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qualifying nights for every$5,000 you put on the card.
So the way that we earned it isa combination of nights in
Hyatt or nights at a Hyatt andcredit card spend for the most
part.
So we earned 20 qualifyingnights from the World of Hyatt
(12:17):
business card and that meansthat we put $40,000 worth of
spend this year on our World ofHyatt business card.
So in the beginning of the yearI was using that card for
everything, and then we stayed.
Let me calculate this out.
We stayed 35 nights in Hyatthotels this year.
(12:45):
Five of those were what we'regoing to call a mattress run,
which means we checked into thehotel but didn't actually stay
there.
And I'm going to be fullytransparent that this is against
world of Hyatt terms andconditions.
Okay, so proceed at your ownrisk.
(13:06):
But there we were.
We knew we were going to be afew nights shy, and so we did
that and used points to book ata category one hotel, which is
the lowest category andtherefore the lowest number of
points.
So we specifically did these onnights that were 3,500 points,
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and so basically, the way to dothis is you go to the hotel to
check in, you just don't staythere, and that's that.
We only had to do that a fewtimes and it worked out fine for
us.
Um, and then in september, Iopened up the world of hyatt
personal card and I I earnedfive qualifying nights just for
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holding that card.
So every year you hold thatcard, you earn five qualifying
nights towards status, and justfrom having the card, yeah, just
from having the card, yeah, sowe'll keep that's a card that we
will keep.
A lot of them we close afterthe one year mark, but we will
not close that one.
Same with the world of hyattbusiness card, and I mean that's
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essentially it.
We did a combination of creditcard spend and nights in Hyatt's
.
Now I'm going to tell you, asyou hit a certain number of
nights, you earn what are calledmilestone rewards.
So we'll talk about that in asecond.
(14:39):
But I want to add first if youdon't have a lot of stays at a
Hyatt next year, it probablydoesn't make sense for you to
get globalist status.
So I think a lot of people havelike FOMO, right.
They think, oh yeah, I wantthat like looks nice and shiny
and I want that.
But if you don't have a lot ofnights in a Hyatt booked, it
(14:59):
really probably doesn't makesense Because you're not going
to save that much money.
You know, but for us, we havefive people and we're staying in
literally like over 30 nightsin Hyatt's next year.
It's going to save us thousandsof dollars when it comes down
to it.
So I think you just have tofigure out, like you know, yes,
(15:20):
it's nice to have, but does itreally make financial sense to
spend so much on the card?
And I mean $40,000 is a goodamount of money, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, so you just need to keep that in mind as
you're listening to this.
So let's talk about themilestone rewards, because they
definitely can help you, kind ofbuffer you, to get you to the
status.
So at 20 nights you get what'scalled a 2k next day award or
two club access awards and youcan choose whichever one you get
(15:56):
.
We opted for the two clubaccess awards and I'll kind of
talk through why I chose theseas we go through.
At 30 nights you get a categoryone to four free night award
and your choice of a 2k next day, which means 2000 points off
your next day, or two more clubaccess awards.
(16:20):
Or you also can choose a $25find experience credit, which I
think is not not like.
I would never choose that.
Um, that category one to fourfree night is the one we earned
that.
We went to stay at the HyattRegency to Maya in Albuquerque
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and the reason we did that isbecause it has a six month
expiration date.
So that was a little bit of asurprise.
I was expecting 12 months.
And then, at 40 nights, you getone guest of honor award and
then you can also choose either5000 bonus points or a suite
upgrade award or another findexperience credit.
(17:03):
We chose the suite upgradeaward or another find experience
credit.
We chose the suite upgradeaward.
At 50 nights, you can eitherchoose 5,000 points or two suite
upgrade awards and at 60 nightsyou get two guest of honor
awards and a category one toseven free night award and two
suite upgrade awards and accessto the my Hyatt concierge.
So for all, go ahead access tothe my Hyatt.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Concierge.
So for all, go ahead.
I was going to say the Guest ofHonor Awards.
That's where you can givesomeone access.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, you gift someone else globalist access,
yep, and so we predominantlychose the Club Access Awards,
the Suite Upgrades, and, yeah,are all the choices.
Those are the ones we chose allthe time, and the reason being
next year we have two roomsbooked, one in my name and one
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in your name, at a lot ofproperties, and so what I will
do is I will either gift you aclub access award or I will gift
you a suite upgrade award or aguest of honor, just depending
on the property.
For example, if the propertyhas a club lounge, I'm going to
gift you the club access award,and if they don't, then
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obviously it doesn't make sensebecause you have to use it at a
property that does.
If they don't, then I will giftyou a guest of honor award, and
that will ensure that we allfive of us can have globalist
benefits everywhere we stay.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
So that would be great yeah, so that's my plan.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Um, I'm gonna work that out with Kathy the
concierge.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Or Heather.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
And yeah.
So I think next year we'lleasily hit globalist status
again because of how many nightswe already have booked at
Hyatt's.
I'm questionable about 2026because, like, we'll have it for
2026, but I'm questionable ifwe'll have it for 2026, but I'm
questionable if we'll earn it in2026, because I think we're
going to be spending some, somecash to stay in a couple of of
places that are on my top of mylist for 2026 travel, like
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belize there is no hyatt, so wecan't stay at a hyatt there, and
that's where I want to go forspring break 2026, and then
yellowstone I thought there waslike a nondaz or something there
.
No, no, there's a marriott and ahilton.
Um yep, and we also want to doyellowstone, which there's no
hyatts there, so we'll see, butwe don't need to think that far
(19:40):
ahead at this point.
So that's in a nutshell how youcan earn globalist status
without having to stay the 60nights, if it makes sense for
you and your family.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, I mean globalist status is the way to
be.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I will say it's nice to go into the property and have
them recognize it.
It makes me feel special.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, I mean the guy had breakfast at the Andaz in
San Diego he was shouting it.
He shouted it like three times.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, and we were like, oh okay, Like that's weird
, Like I don't need that kind ofrecognition, but okay, so
anyways, there we have it.
We are getting pretty close toChristmas.
I think we only have a couplemore episodes left before we
take a break for the Christmasholiday.
I think we only have a couplemore episodes left before we
take a break for the Christmasholiday.
So just another reminder toenter our giveaway raffle for a
(20:32):
$50 gift card.
Leave us a review, Email us ascreenshot of your review and we
will enter you into the raffleto win a $50 gift card of your
choosing.
Our email is travelpartyof5 atgmailcom, and we appreciate you
so much and we will catch you onthe next one.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yes, thank you so much for listening and good luck
with the raffle.
Bye, have a good one.
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