Hyatt reshuffles award categories, Grand Hyatt Mumbai gets cheaper

Hyatt Gold Passport just re-sorted its award chart: 50 hotels move up a category, 56 move down, effective for stays booked from August 1, 2016. Hyatt didn’t raise point costs outright — it just shuffled properties between tiers. The sleight of hand still lands as roughly a 4% average hike across the portfolio.

There’s one genuine bright spot for Indian points hoarders: Grand Hyatt Mumbai actually got cheaper to redeem. Some India properties had been overpriced on the old static chart, so the reshuffle works in your favour here even as trophy properties elsewhere got pricier.

Call this what it is — category inflation. Move enough hotels up a tier and you’ve devalued the currency without ever touching the headline chart. It’s a preview of the playbook every hotel program will lean on for the next decade.

Our take: a 4% nerf dressed up as housekeeping — but book Grand Hyatt Mumbai on points now, because rare wins like this don’t survive the next reshuffle.