Best Hyatt hotels for your Category 1-4 Free Night
Updated Nov 13, 2026
Ranked from live Hyatt award rates. A Category 1-4 free-night certificate books any standard room at a Category 1-4 hotel, with no points cap — so it’s worth the most where nights run priciest, up to ~18k points.
A Hyatt Category 1-4 free night covers up to18k pointsa night
That’s a standard room worth up to $860 a night — free. 23 trophy picks where it clears the bar. Best right now: Me and All Hotel Dusseldorf — a $860/night room for a free cert.
See where to use it ↓Top 85 for a Category 1-4 free night (23 trophy picks)
More Category 1-4-eligible hotels
| # | Hotel | Cat | Free night worth | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | The Lowline Hotel Map Charleston, United States | 4 | $549 | 5.0 |
| 14 | Hyatt Regency Jaipur Mansarovar Map Jaipur, India | 2 | $527 | 4.6 |
| 15 | Hyatt Regency Sacramento Map Sacramento, United States | 3 | $527 | 4.2 |
| 16 | Alila Diwa Goa Map Majorda, India | 3 | $522 | 4.5 |
| 17 | Hyatt Vacation Club at Piñon Pointe Map Sedona, United States | 4 | $522 | 4.2 |
| 18 | Hyatt House Charleston/Historic District Map Charleston, United States | 4 | $520 | 4.2 |
| 19 | Hyatt Place Chicago/Downtown-The Loop Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $508 | 4.3 |
| 20 | Hyatt Place West Palm Beach/Downtown Map West Palm Beach, United States | 4 | $508 | 4.1 |
| 21 | Hyatt House Anchorage Map Anchorage, United States | 4 | $506 | 4.4 |
| 22 | Hyatt Place Pittsburgh-North Shore Map Pittsburgh, United States | 4 | $504 | 4.1 |
| 23 | Hyatt Regency Long Beach Map Long Beach, United States | 4 | $497 | 4.2 |
| 24 | Hyatt Regency JFK Airport at Resorts World New York Map Jamaica, United States | 4 | $466 | 4.2 |
| 25 | Hyatt House Tampa Downtown Map Tampa, United States | 3 | $465 | 4.6 |
| 26 | Hyatt Place Delray Beach Map Delray Beach, United States | 4 | $464 | 4.7 |
| 27 | Hyatt Regency Chicago Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $459 | 4.1 |
| 28 | Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro Map Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 3 | $458 | 4.4 |
| 29 | Hyatt Regency Cologne Map Cologne, Germany | 4 | $457 | 4.4 |
| 30 | Hyatt Place Washington DC/National Mall Map Washington, United States | 4 | $455 | 4.2 |
| 31 | Grand Hyatt São Paulo Map Sao Paulo, Brazil | 3 | $450 | 4.6 |
| 32 | Hyatt Regency Toronto Map Toronto, Canada | 4 | $450 | 4.1 |
| 33 | Hyatt House Chicago / West Loop-Fulton Market Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $437 | 4.5 |
| 34 | Hyatt Regency Kochi Malayattoor Map Kochi, India | 1 | $435 | 5.0 |
| 35 | Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $427 | 4.5 |
| 36 | Hyatt House San Jose / Cupertino Map Cupertino, United States | 4 | $424 | 4.6 |
| 37 | Hyatt Place Chicago / Wicker Park Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $420 | 4.5 |
| 38 | Hyatt Regency Dehradun Resort and Spa Map Dehradun, India | 3 | $418 | 4.5 |
| 39 | Hyatt Place Boca Raton/Downtown Map Boca Raton, United States | 4 | $417 | 4.2 |
| 40 | Andaz Macau Map Macau, Macau SAR | 4 | $416 | 5.0 |
| 41 | Hyatt Place Fort Worth / TCU Map Fort Worth, United States | 3 | $416 | 4.6 |
| 42 | Hyatt House Chicago - Medical / University District Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $416 | 4.4 |
| 43 | Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor Map Boston, United States | 4 | $416 | 4.2 |
| 44 | Hyatt Place Tampa Downtown Map Tampa, United States | 3 | $415 | 4.6 |
| 45 | The Forester Hotel Map Lake Forest, United States | 3 | $415 | 4.6 |
| 46 | Hyatt Regency Greenville Map Greenville, United States | 3 | $415 | 4.1 |
| 47 | Hyatt Place Chicago – Medical / University District Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $412 | 4.3 |
| 48 | Hyatt Centric The Loop Chicago Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $412 | 4.2 |
| 49 | Hyatt House Tempe / Phoenix / University Map Tempe, United States | 3 | $412 | 4.2 |
| 50 | Hyatt Regency Sanya Tianli Bay Map Sanya, China | 2 | $411 | 5.0 |
| 51 | Andaz Mexico City Condesa Map Mexico City, Mexico | 4 | $411 | 4.2 |
| 52 | Hyatt House Raleigh North Hills Map Raleigh, United States | 3 | $409 | 4.5 |
| 53 | Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center Map Denver, United States | 4 | $408 | 4.5 |
| 54 | Hyatt Place Columbia/Downtown/The Vista Map Columbia, United States | 3 | $408 | 4.4 |
| 55 | Hyatt House Colorado Springs Airport Map Colorado Springs, United States | 2 | $408 | 4.3 |
| 56 | Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine Map San Diego, United States | 4 | $407 | 4.1 |
| 57 | Hyatt House Santa Clara Map Santa Clara, United States | 4 | $406 | 4.3 |
| 58 | Hyatt Place Anchorage-Midtown Map Anchorage, United States | 4 | $400 | 4.3 |
| 59 | Hyatt Place Fort Lauderdale Cruise Port & Convention Center Map Fort Lauderdale, United States | 3 | $399 | 4.2 |
| 60 | Hyatt Place Washington DC/White House Map Washington, United States | 4 | $399 | 4.1 |
| 61 | Hyatt Place Indianapolis / Downtown Map Indianapolis, United States | 3 | $397 | 4.4 |
| 62 | Hyatt Place Whitehorse Map Whitehorse, Canada | 3 | $395 | 4.3 |
| 63 | Hyatt Regency Sydney Map Sydney, Australia | 4 | $394 | 4.0 |
| 64 | Hyatt Place Long Island City / New York City Map Long Island City, United States | 4 | $393 | 4.4 |
| 65 | Hyatt Regency Phuket Resort Map Phuket, Thailand | 4 | $392 | 4.6 |
| 66 | Hyatt House Manchester Map Manchester, United Kingdom | 2 | $391 | 4.8 |
| 67 | Lindner Hotel Mallorca Portals Nous Map Portals Nous, Spain | 4 | $389 | 4.5 |
| 68 | Hyatt Centric The Pike Long Beach Map Long Beach, United States | 4 | $389 | 4.3 |
| 69 | Hyatt Regency Orlando Map Orlando, United States | 4 | $384 | 4.4 |
| 70 | Hyatt Regency Manchester Map Manchester, United Kingdom | 2 | $381 | 4.6 |
| 71 | Andaz Savannah Map Savannah, United States | 4 | $380 | 4.5 |
| 72 | Grand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk Map San Antonio, United States | 3 | $378 | 4.3 |
| 73 | Dream South Beach Map Miami Beach, United States | 4 | $376 | 4.3 |
| 74 | Hyatt Place St. Petersburg / Downtown Map St. Petersburg, United States | 4 | $374 | 4.4 |
| 75 | Hyatt Place Long Island/East End Map Riverhead, United States | 4 | $373 | 4.5 |
| 76 | Hyatt House San Jose/Silicon Valley Map San Jose, United States | 4 | $373 | 4.4 |
| 77 | Beldersoy Resort & Spa Map Beldersoy, Uzbekistan | 3 | $372 | 5.0 |
| 78 | Hyatt House Washington DC / Downtown / Convention Center Map Washington, United States | 4 | $370 | 4.2 |
| 79 | The Pell Map Middletown, United States | 4 | $370 | 4.0 |
| 80 | Grand Hyatt Fukuoka Map Fukuoka, Japan | 4 | $368 | 4.2 |
| 81 | Hyatt Regency Belgrade Map Belgrade, Serbia | 2 | $366 | 4.5 |
| 82 | Hyatt Regency Barcelona Tower Map Barcelona, Spain | 4 | $365 | 4.4 |
| 83 | Hyatt House London Stratford Map London, United Kingdom | 3 | $364 | 4.5 |
| 84 | Hyatt Centric Arlington Map Arlington, United States | 3 | $363 | 4.3 |
| 85 | Hyatt Regency Indianapolis Map Indianapolis, United States | 3 | $362 | 4.2 |
How we score it
A Hyatt free night is a card-perk certificate with no top-off — it covers one standard-room award night outright, capped only by the hotel’s award category. The cert is flat — peak or off-peak, same cert — so it’s worth the most where rooms run priciest. But even a lazy burn returns something: a typical Category 1-4 redemption gets you about $250 of room, so a hotel only counts as worthy when it clears that bar.
We rank every Category 1-4-eligible hotel by its 90th-percentile award-available night’s cash across our ~1-year scan — a rate it reaches regularly, not a single spike date.Category 5-8 hotels are excluded — this cert tops out at Category 4 (a Cat 1-7 cert covers 5-7; nothing covers 8).
Good to know
- A Hyatt free-night cert covers a standard room on any date with standard award availability — peak or off-peak, same cert. So burning it in peak season extracts the most value; we rank by what a night there reliably costs.
- The Category 1-4 cert tops out at Category 4. Category 5-7 needs the Cat 1-7 cert (a World of Hyatt 60-night milestone); Category 8 isn’t cert-eligible at all — points only.
- Worth figures are each hotel’s 90th-percentile standard-award night’s cash in our ~1-year scan — your dates may differ. Confirm on hyatt.com before booking.
- No affiliate kickbacks — click out and book directly.