Hyatt Hotels Travel Agent Rate & Benefits
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For decades travel agents have been taking the guesswork out of researching, booking, and saving time for thousands of travelers around the world.
Not only do they assist in all aspects of planning a trip – they can get you exclusive benefits as well.
While there are many reasons you should continue to use a travel agent – booking a luxury hotel through an agent still provides some of the best benefits in travel.
In addition to Hyatt, most luxury brands such as Rosewood, Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, and more offer exclusive benefits to travel agents and their clients for making their bookings through a special loyalty program. Best of all they will never charge a higher rate than booking directly.
Why?
Travel Agencies have long standing relationships with many properties and they offer exclusive benefits to those that go through them then booking directly.
We’ll break down everything you need to know about Hyatt Hotels travel agent rates and benefits.
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Hyatt Travel Agent Programs
Hyatt Prive is a special travel agent program with the potential to add huge value for frequent Hyatt guests. The benefits can be applied at over 200 Hyatt hotels around the world.
Hyatt Prive benefits can vary by drastically by brand so we’ve separated the benefits by property type.
The benefits you can expect at the following properties: Park Hyatt, Andaz, Miraval, Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Centric, Hyatt Regency, The Unbound Collection, Thompson, Alila, and Joie de Vivre include:
- A $100 property credit per room per stay
- A one category room upgrade confirmed within 24 hours of booking (room-to-room or suite-to-suite) — based on availability at the time of booking
- Daily full breakfast for two in the hotel’s restaurant
- Early check-in (as early as 9AM) and late check-out (as late as 4PM), subject to availability
- A welcome gift and letter
Additional benefits for stays at select Andaz, Grand Hyatt, Hyatt Centric, Hyatt Regency, Alila, Joie de Vivre, Thompson, and The Unbound Collection hotels, include:
- A $50 or $100 property credit per room per stay (it varies by a hotel)
- A one category room upgrade confirmed within 24 hours of booking (room-to-room or suite-to-suite) — based on availability at the time of booking
- Daily full breakfast for two in the hotel’s restaurant
- Early check-in (as early as 9AM), subject to availability
- A welcome gift and letter
Hyatt still relies on travel agents to do many of the bookings of their rooms especially the top tier properties. With these added benefits its a great way to enhance your stay especially at the higher end Park Hyatt or Andaz locations.
Hyatt Travel Agent Rates
As with most travel agent benefits, the rate you pay for a room is the may be the “Standard Rate” a hotel displays online, barring any special promotions, advanced paid rates, or points rates. However, Hyatt does offer a 10% discount on select properties.
To find the travel agent rate at Hyatt, you can search any property on Hyatt’s website and locate the “Standard Rate” as well as input code HY and you will see how much a night will cost you.
You can then confirm with your agent and expect to be quoted the same price.
So why would you book with the agent if you pay the same rate? As mentioned in the section above, while you pay the same rate there are a number of additional benefits a travel agent can unlock for you at Hyatt hotels.
Hyatt Rates Just For Travel Agents
When it comes to a travel agent’s personal stays, Hyatt offer some of the best perks available.
To access these benefits exclusively for Travel Agents, you can visit the dedicated Hyatt Travel Agent Portal.
As a guaranteed benefit, Hyatt offers up to 50% off of the standard available rate for travel agents personal travel. In addition to the discount, you can expect a few more perks depending on the property and the scale of your business.
In order to find the Travel Agent rate use the code 4469 in Hyatt Search.
Once you input this you will see rates up to 50% off as seen in the example of Park Hyatt Paris- Vendôme below.
You’ll see the travel agent discount is significantly lower than the member rate.
Most popular hotels offer these travel agent rates hoping that if a travel agent likes the property, they would send a lot more customers their way.
In addition to discounts on personal stays, Travel Agents will receive a 10% commission on every eligible client rate booked by an agent. You can book the commissionable rates by using the chain code HY in your GDS.
In order to qualify for The Travel Agent Rate, you must be an accredited travel agents with a valid IATA, IATAN, CLIA, ARC or TIDS number.
Note, for travel agents personal travel you will not get stay and nights credit or points for the payment of a travel industry/agent rate.
Using A Travel Agent With Hyatt Status
The benefits you get from booking a hotel either through Marriott Stars or Marriott Luminous can be in addition to what your status already provides you.
Hyatt Status, especially Explorist and above, qualify for room upgrades, welcome gifts, and other specialities at certain properties.
If you are booking with a travel agent then you should still add your Hyatt number to each reservation to still obtain the perks you have qualified for.
Obtaining Elite Nights and Points
Another major benefit to booking a Hyatt with a travel agent is you will still receive qualifying nights, points, and spend towards Status.
This provides another reason as to why you should be using an agent, since there is no compromise for you as a traveler, even if you are chasing status.
How To Book With A Travel Agent
How to actually book is a pretty simple process and the travel agent will typically handle everything for you.
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Once you have located a travel agent you will simply provide them your trip date, details, budget, and anything else you may want them to know about your upcoming travels. If you already have a hotel picked out then great but a travel agent can also help guide you to one that works best for you.
Most of the communication will be done over email / call but generally we found the process to move pretty quickly.
The travel agent will also take some time to learn your preferences – do you like sweet or savory snacks? do you like booking activities or enjoy relaxing?
All of this will be covered in your profile and from there you will have a confirmed booking in no time.
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Summary & Takeaways
Hyatt already has one of the largest loyalty programs in the world, offering a number of benefits to frequent travelers.
Whether you have Hyatt status or not, booking with a travel agent can provide additional perks you cannot receive on your own.
When you are looking to book properties via Hyatt Prive, the program offer enough benefits to travelers that make the booking worth it with a certified agent.
