Hyatt offers gift checks/certificates and gift cards to redeem at any property all over the world. The biggest difference is gift cards are mostly limited to North American properties and the Caribbean.
Their gift checks are nearly redeemable everywhere in the world. According to their terms and conditions, “The Hyatt Check Certificate may only be accepted in increments equivalent to or in excess of the face value toward eligible purchases equivalent to or in excess of the face value at participating Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. Multiple Hyatt Check Certificates will be accepted individually only in such increments in excess of their face value…. Outside of the United States and Puerto Rico, the total charges will be reduced by converting the USD value of the Hyatt Check Certificate into local currency according to the daily exchange rate at the hotel.“
I added the bolded emphasis and took an excerpt from the terms and conditions of the gift check. Full T&C can be found here.
Here’s a sample look from the participating locations:
Not a single Hyatt in Japan would accept the gift card, but only gift checks.
The link to buy gift cards and checks from Hyatt
Now that you see the limits of the gift cards, in the next post, I will show you how to earn gift checks fairly easily.
