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Last week, I talked about how I had booked 3 different hotel reservations but gotten 0 upgrades. This is all for our upcoming trip to Peru
One of these hotels was the Grand Hyatt Washington, where I was using the free night certificate on my wife’s account. I was hopeful to add my Diamond err I mean Globalist status onto the reservation, so we could take advantage of things like room upgrades, executive lounge access, etc., so I was wondering if you can add your Globalist number on someone else’s award stay.
Try #1: Twitter
Twitter is usually a good way to get things like this done, so that was my first try
(SEE ALSO: List of airline and hotel Twitter contacts)
Unfortunately, that did not work
Don’t give up! Try #2: Emailing the hotel directly
I got the email address of the hotel (again, from Twitter) and send them a quick note to see if adding your Globalist number to someone else’s award stay was possible.
I didn’t hear anything for a few days but then BOOM! I got this email back from the hotel
Mr. Miller,
We have added your Globalist membership number on the reservation and assigned a room for you and your wife on the 12th floor. Thank you for your loyalty.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Kind Regards,
So I got that goin for me, which is nice. Perhaps the ability to add your own Globalist number to someone else’s award stay is common knowledge, but I did not know it
Did you know about this ability to add your Globalist number to someone else’s award stay?
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Why would one need to do this when the globalist can simply book a guest of honor award booking and do a points transfer?
Because this was a free night cert in his wife’s name so that would not be possible.
At the Park Hyatt Zurich, I placed my (then) diamond number in the comments field when booking my wife’s free credit card nights. At check in, I reminded them of me being a diamond and they gave us all the diamond benefits for the two night stay.
So you are trying to abuse a great program knowing it not only infringes the rules but also spoon-feeding it publicly?
YMMV of course, but I’m not sure this qualifies as “abuse”
Literally just walked in the door from doing exactly this for a stay we completed last night. My wife had a free night award, I’m a Globalist. We booked the award then called the hotel to add me to the reservation & made sure to attach my WOH number. We got all the Globalist benefits.
Follow up: no upgrade, but I think the hotel was pretty well booked with both a wedding and a conference of some kind. I also didn’t ask b/c we were with the kids arriving really late and didn’t want to mess around with a crib needing to be moved to another room, so I guess I don’t know if you’d still be eligible for upgrades. But the hotel reached out to me prior welcoming me as a Globalist, asking if they could provide anything, etc etc. We used the free breakfast & they gave us the free internet & whatnot. I wasn’t expecting anything so getting any of that was a nice surprise.