Most beginners to the miles and points hobby focus on earning miles for reward flights. Earning enough miles to fly for free certainly helps you save money in your travel budget.
Hotel stays, though, can also be quite costly which makes earning points for reward stays an important piece to any travel hacking strategy. To get started, it’s helpful to have a beginners guide to hotel reward programs for an overview of popular hotel loyalty programs.
Once you finally earn enough points to book your travel, you’ll need to know how use travel transfer partners. They will help you get the maximum value from your hard earned points.
In this post, let’s focus on Chase’s travel partner, Hyatt. Best of all, once you know how to transfer points to Hyatt, just repeat the process to transfer points to any of Chase’s other airline or hotel partners!
How to Transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards for a Hyatt Stay
Chase Ultimate Rewards points are my favorite points currency because of their strong value and fantastic transfer partners. Hyatt has gorgeous properties around the world that would give an excellent return in value on your Ulitmate Rewards points.
Before we continue, make sure you have completed the following.
1. You must know how to log in to your Chase Ultimate Rewards credit card account on Chase’s website. If you haven’t set up your online access yet, simply choose the “not enrolled” option and follow each step to set up your username and password.
2. You must also have a Hyatt Gold Passport member number. If you don’t, you can sign up here for free.
Once this is set, you’re ready to transfer your Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Hyatt.
There are two ways to access the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal.
1. From your Chase online account page, click on the blue “Go to Ultimate Rewards” link in the top right corner. The link is inside a small gray box that shows your total points available.
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2. Go directly to the Chase Ultimate Rewards Portal and use your Chase username and password to log in.
Once you log in, and if you have more than one Ultimate Rewards credit card, you’ll be prompted to choose which Chase credit card points balance you want to access. If you have only one Chase credit card that earns Ultimate Rewards points, you’ll be taken directly to the main screen.
Click the drop down arrow next to “Use Points” and select the “Transfer to Travel Partners” option from the menu.
The next page on your screen will list all of Chase’s airline and hotel travel partners. Scroll down to the list of hotels. Chase’s hotel transfer partners are Hyatt, IHG, Marriott, and Ritz-Carlton.
By clicking on the arrow next to the “Transfer Points” button, the Hyatt row in the chart will drop down and show additional information. The Hyatt brands and their logos are shown. Importantly, though, in the bottom left corner is the time it will take for the points to transfer. Chase Ultimate Rewards points will transfer to your Hyatt account instantly.
Now, click the “Transfer Points” button in the Hyatt row on the chart. At this point, you’ll be prompted to enter in your Hyatt Gold Passport number.
Chase allows Ultimate Rewards points to be transferred to a loyalty account belonging to the primary card holder and one authorized user who lives in the same household. For business cards, like the Chase Ink Plus, points may be transferred to the primary card holder and one authorized user who is also an owner of the business.
Select the recipient or type in the name of the person who is to receive the points transfer. Enter the Hyatt Gold Passport number twice to confirm. Then, click “Continue.”
On the next screen, type in the number of points you’d like to transfer from your Chase account to Hyatt. Points can be transferred in increments of 1,000. It’s best to transfer only the amount of points you need to Hyatt (or any of Chase’s transfer partners). Your points will retain their value as Chase points. However, should a loyalty program devalue, your points will lose value if they’re sitting in the account of that devalued program.
Not sure how many points you need? Check out the Hyatt Award Chart. Remember, Chase Ultimate Rewards points transfer to Hyatt (and all of their travel transfer partners) at a 1:1 ratio.
Continue onto the next screen. You’ll have the opportunity to review your transaction once more before completing it.
On this final page, review everything carefully. Make sure your Hyatt Gold Passport member number is correct. Make sure you have typed in the correct amount of points to transfer. All transfer transactions are final and cannot be reversed.
If everything appears as it should, click the green “Confirm & Submit” button. After a few seconds, you will see a “Congrats!” page confirming the transfer was a success.
Head over to your Hyatt account to see the points registered in your account. (If you had your Hyatt account open beforehand, you may need to refresh the page to show your new points balance.)
Enjoy your Hyatt award stay!
Have you transferred Ultimate Rewards Points to Hyatt or another Chase transfer partner? Which Hyatt award stay was your biggest success?
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You have some really good tips. Glad I found your page it will help a lot in future bookings with my Chase card.
Great, Nancy! 🙂 So glad the post and the blog will be helpful for you.
This is just plain AWESOME. I am thinking of getting a new travel credit card soon, and it looks like Chase might just be the answer!
Thanks, Jessica. I’m so happy it will be useful for you. 🙂 I would take a look at the Chase Sapphire Preferred as a starter card for earning Chase Ultimate Rewards Points. There’s an increased sign-up bonus right now of 50k points.
Great guide! I find the whole points and travel thing pretty confusing so don’t really bother…but I should really learn how to do it!
Thanks, Gemma. I totally understand how the miles and points system is confusing, but with even a little time and effort, you can gain some pretty nice travel rewards. 🙂 If you’re interested, check out some of my travel hacking posts for beginners.
Awesome – I never thought to do this before, definitely going to save it for later 🙂
There’s a lot of value to be had by transferring Chase UR points to one of their airline or hotel partners, Madi. 🙂
Chase just keeps upping its service. I like how the company keeps offering value for its clients.
So true, Elaine. Chase continues to offer great value with its travel rewards program.
Thanks for the detailed overview on the process. I generally look for where I want to stay and go from there, hence I’m not loyal to one hotel brand and end up with loads of cards with a few points on all and have never really figured out how to maximise the benefit. Will have to look into this further.
I think a lot of people are in a similar boat, Toni. That’s why I love flexible rewards points like Chase’s. I have multiple options for how I can use them.
I am one of those newcomers to the game and it’s articles like this that make me realize what I’m missing. I really have to get started!
There are such great travel rewards to be had with even just a small bit of effort, Sarah.?
Fantastic tips and tricks of the trade :-)! Is the Chase Ultimate Rewards card only from where you are from? I am Australian and have never heard of it. Would love to know if us Aussies can get on board! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Lauren. Unfortunately, many offers are US based, but I would suggest looking at AFF, Australian Frequent Flyer forums for travel rewards there.
I normally transfer my Chase points to get free flights to all the destinations I travel to. However, I should start looking into the stays as well. Thank you for the thorough explanation on how to transfer my points for Hyatt stays.
Great, Brenda! I think many people, myself included, tend to focus on flights. Hyatt offers great value though and can be a great use of UR points.
I use my reward miles for flights, and that is how much work I am willing to put in it. I normally pick small hotels, hostels and family run guest houses that don’t allow me to earn miles. I should probably look into my frequent fliers programs to see the many other ways I can accumulate miles but… it’s just another thing to add to the list of things to do!
It does take some organization and effort, but hotel rewards can cut costs. Also remember, Claudia, Chase Points transfer to airline partners as well.
What a nice and informative post for using my chase points. I am running out of time to use them on my sapphire as our annual fee is almost due. Thanks for this!
Thanks, Natasha. I would actually make the argument that the Chase Sapphire Preferred should be the one card you keep for the long haul. It’s a great long-term card.
I never heard of Chase before as rewardplans are not very common in Europe, or at least in The Netherlands, however I will definitely look into it for the future!
Travel rewards are very lucrative in the US, but there are other perks available to UK and EU residents.
Unfortunately we can’t get a Chase Awards card here in Belgium. I do have an AMEX card that I use for miles, perhaps I need to take a look and see if I could get points for hotel stays also. Thx for the tip.
Hilton is an Amex partner that could give a good value on your membership rewards points. Starwood is too, but the transfer ratio is not favorable.
This is interesting. I am a rewards member, but with Capital One. It’s also flexible and I’ve used it to get flights and also just to get a credit back on my account. I’m so glad programs like this exist! It’s a shame more people don’t use them.
I agree, Vicky! More people should take advantage of the travel rewards system! Having flexible points that can transfer to a variety of airline and hotel partners offer a great return value, oftentimes more than 1 cent per point. Cash back rewards like Capital One a fixed value of 1 cent per point. I like to use cash back rewards for things like car rentals or Homeaway/Airbnb stays because I can’t use airline or hotel points for these travel expenses.
I am not subscribed to any points system in the travel industry but it’s good to know things like these exist! Thanks for sharing!
Travel rewards help many people travel for less. More travel is always a good thing, right Trisha? 😉
Great article! Not many people know that you can exchange points with the Chase Ultimate Rewards program. The Sapphire is one of my favorite cards!
Excellent, Joe! The Sapphire Preferred is a great long-term travel rewards card. It’s my favorite, too. Anyone starting out with travel rewards should look to get this card first! 🙂