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Hyatt – Guest of Honor Booking

Every year for Christmas I like to go somewhere even if it is just a nice little stay-cation! This year I talked to a friend of mine who has Globalist status about a Guest of Honor booking. I had read about these before but never knew the details. I asked him if he would be willing to do it for me for Christmas.

We talked about the details. I needed to give him my full name, Hyatt number, booking dates and room type. Globalist members can make a booking even if they do not have the points in their account to cover the room. Once he called Hyatt to make the booking I got an email and it was added to my Hyatt app.

Upon check in I asked if there was a room upgrade available due to my friends gifted status for the stay. I actually said … “My friend told me to ask if there is an upgrade available.” I was upgraded to a corner suite with a living room and bar area.

NYC – 2023

Hi yall! I just finished my first trip of 2023 and it was a huge success. I went with a co worker who is also a friend. I was talking to her last week and said … darn we should have booked those tickets we saw last week to take a work related trip with my companion pass that expired on January 31 2023. Everything I looked at wasn’t available.

Maybe we should go somewhere else … Ohhhh yea this is a great idea. 20 minutes later we are booked for some fun in NYC for the weekend!!! We found a nice little hotel right in the middle of it all called Distrikt. I am Diamond member with Hilton so I knew we would get a few perks.
All I wanted for breakfast was a lox bagel and we found a delicious one! Up next was shopping at Saks to use my $50 credit from my American Express Platinum card. Then we decided to walk over to where the Plaza is for even more food and drinks. During covid they only allowed people who were staying at the hotel to enter the lobby. I had some of the best french onion soup!
Then we did a little shopping at Bergdorf Goodman. I found some of the coolest Valentino shoes at a clearance price I couldn’t pass up!

Maldives with Points and Miles!

Yep you are reading that right. I went all the way to the Maldives with points and miles.

For the hotels I paid 150k points per night for the Waldorf Astoria and 120k points per night for the new Hilton Amingiri. You also have to pay for a boat transfer to each location. The Waldorf was $899 and the Hilton was $300. I did have a Hilton credit from the Aspire card that took $250 off the Waldorf cost.

What did I spend on this trip:

$770 at the Waldorf
$700 at the Hilton

Both of those totals include all of my boat transfers, food, drinks and activities during my stay. At the Hilton they have a resident artist and activities that you can make your own souvenir with sea shells and sand. I also did a snorkeling trip that was the highlight of the whole trip. It was $75 plus the taxes and fees (22%) that brought it to $92 and then I tipped the crew because they were fantastic.

I was a mermaid on a much needed break and you could too!