When TPG learned that Hyatt was acquiring the Mr & Mrs Smith hotel portfolio, many Hyatt elite members (myself included) were happy about the potential integration with World of Hyatt. More than 700 hotels worldwide have become available to book and earn points with World of Hyatt. This is especially important since Hyatt lost the Small Luxury Hotels of the World partnership to Hilton. That loss blew a hole in Hyatt's European footprint, but now, there are lots of Mr & Mrs Smith options in Europe.
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I was eager to test out the new partnership since I have World of Hyatt Globalist status, and since I learned that World of Hyatt Credit Card members now earn up to 9 World of Hyatt points per dollar spent on Mr & Mrs Smith stays.
Would a Mr & Mrs Smith property treat me as well as a regular Hyatt would?
I booked Hotel Kompas Dubrovnik in Croatia through the Hyatt website as normal.
A regular rate for Hotel Kompas will usually be about 360 euros ($391) or 31,500 Hyatt points per night; this gives you a redemption value of about 1.24 cents per point. Unfortunately, that's not a great value for your Hyatt points, but it's what we are generally finding for points redemptions at Mr & Mrs Smith properties. They are dynamically priced, and you'll rarely get more than 1.2 cents per point in value. (For the record, TPG values Hyatt points at 1.7 cents per point as of July 2024.)
Because there is no set award chart for redemptions at Mr & Mrs Smith hotels, points costs generally reflect the cost to book the hotel in cash.
In my case, I did manage to get a slightly better paid rate of $375 per night for my stay.
Strangely, when I checked in, the hotel concierge told me I would not earn World of Hyatt points for my stay because the hotel wasn't fully integrated into Hyatt. He seemed slightly unimpressed with the Hyatt partnership, suggesting it was a very loose alliance. Fortunately, as I suspected, he turned out to be wrong. I earned Hyatt points, elite night credits and 4 bonus points per dollar by using my Hyatt credit card to pay for the room charges.
Related: World of Hyatt elite status: What it is and how to earn it
For my two-night stay, I earned a total of 4,895 World of Hyatt points. This includes a 30% points bonus on Hyatt spending since I have top-tier Globalist status, resulting in an additional 1.5 points per dollar spent.
I used my World of Hyatt Credit Card to pay for the stay.
That charge gave me an additional 4 bonus points per dollar and just over 3,714 World of Hyatt points. That's a total haul of 8,609 World of Hyatt points for the stay, which TPG values at about $146. Not
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