July 19 Update: World of Hyatt adds 20 more Small Luxury Hotels of the World locations, earn 5x points on some fancy cookies in YYC & two new Amex Offers

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Hyatt''s World of Hyatt program added 20 more Small Luxury Hotels locations to the program last week. The 20 locations are spread out around the world and actually range in award night categories from 3 to 8 so some of these luxurious locations won't actually cost an arm and leg in terms of points! Learn more about the Hyatt-SLH partnership here.

February 20 Update: Nova Scotia's Trout Point Lodge now part of World of Hyatt, throwback to Cathay Pacific's 2007 Roadshow & more!

Over the past year or so we have been giving you updates on the World of Hyatt and Small Luxury Hotels of the World partnership. Most of those updates have been when more SLH Hotels were added to the World of Hyatt program. One thing we always kept an eye out for was the one Canadian SLH Hotel location and up until recently it was never included in the updates. Well good news is that it is now participating in the World of Hyatt program! That hotel is Trout Point Lodge in East Kemptville Nova Scotia. The hotel clocks in as a Category 6 hotel in the World of Hyatt program which means the standard award night rate is 25,000 points per night. As of March 22 there will also be Peak and Off Peak pricing which means the hotel could go low as 21,000 points per night or as high as 29,000 points per night. Suites are more - from 36,000 to 44,000 points per night and since Trout Point consists primarily of Suites and Cottages chances are most redemptions will be in this latter points range. Learn more here!

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Here's a Throwback Thursday from the Rewards Canada archives! This one goes back to October 2007 and covers the Cathay Pacific Roadshow. This article details the time Cathay Pacific drove an 18 wheeler to various cities including Calgary to reveal their new cabin interiors from Economy Class to First Class. In Calgary the had the truck and display on Stephen Avenue during the day to reveal the cabin interiors to all the business people who walk the street during the lunch hour! Let us know in the comments if you happened to visit the roadshow and remember it! You can read the old article here!

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November 29 Update: World of Hyatt officially adds Small Luxury Hotels of the World to the program and earn Double Elite Qualifying Miles on Emirates flights

As we reported back at the start of August, Hyatt Hotels announced a partnership with Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) for their World of Hyatt program. That partnership officially went live today! World of Hyatt members who stay at SLH hotels (booking must be made via a Hyatt booking channel) will earn 5 points per US$1 spent plus a tier qualifying night for every night stay. In addition to the earning members will enjoy the following benefits at participating SLH hotels:

• Complimentary continental breakfast
• Complimentary Wi-Fi
• Early check-in 12:00pm (based on availability at check-in)
• Late check-out 2:00pm (based on availability at check-in)
• One category room upgrade (based on availability at check-in)

There are currently only 50+ hotels participating out of the 500+ that SLH lists on their site. The majority of those participating are in Europe and a handful in Asia. SLH has only one hotel in Canada, the Trout Point Lodge Nova Scotia in Kemptville and at this point it isn't participating. Hyatt does state more hotels will be added in the future! Stays from December 6th and beyond will count towards the World of Hyatt earning and benefits receipt. On the redemption side participating SLH hotels will use the same World of Hyatt free night categories which includes the new Category 8 that is coming soon and for the time being will only consist of SLH hotels.

Learn all about the partnership here

Added to our bonus offers section today a great bonus offer from Emirates Skywards. If you book any flights with Emirates by December 3 for travel until the end of March you'll earn double elite qualifying tier miles! Find out more here.
 

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