Best Hyatt hotels for your Category 1-4 Free Night
Updated Jul 18, 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 $872 a night — free. 28 trophy picks where it clears the bar. Best right now: Hyatt House at Anaheim Resort/Convention Center — a $872/night room for a free cert.
See where to use it ↓Top 80 for a Category 1-4 free night (28 trophy picks)
More Category 1-4-eligible hotels
| # | Hotel | Cat | Free night worth | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Grand Hyatt Denver Map Denver, United States | 4 | $511 | 4.5 |
| 14 | Hyatt Place West Palm Beach/Downtown Map West Palm Beach, United States | 4 | $509 | 4.1 |
| 15 | Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center Map Denver, United States | 4 | $500 | 4.5 |
| 16 | Hyatt Regency Indianapolis Map Indianapolis, United States | 3 | $478 | 4.2 |
| 17 | Hyatt Place Chicago/Downtown-The Loop Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $469 | 4.3 |
| 18 | Hyatt House Tampa Downtown Map Tampa, United States | 3 | $467 | 4.6 |
| 19 | Hyatt Place Tampa Downtown Map Tampa, United States | 3 | $464 | 4.6 |
| 20 | Alila Diwa Goa Map Majorda, India | 3 | $463 | 4.5 |
| 21 | Hyatt Place Indianapolis / Downtown Map Indianapolis, United States | 3 | $461 | 4.4 |
| 22 | Hyatt Place Delray Beach Map Delray Beach, United States | 4 | $451 | 4.7 |
| 23 | The Anndore House Map Toronto, Canada | 4 | $449 | 4.5 |
| 24 | Hyatt Regency JFK Airport at Resorts World New York Map Jamaica, United States | 4 | $449 | 4.2 |
| 25 | Hyatt Centric The Loop Chicago Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $445 | 4.2 |
| 26 | Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro Map Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 3 | $441 | 4.4 |
| 27 | Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine Map San Diego, United States | 4 | $432 | 4.1 |
| 28 | Hyatt Place Chicago / Wicker Park Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $426 | 4.5 |
| 29 | Hyatt House Chicago / West Loop-Fulton Market Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $424 | 4.5 |
| 30 | Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City Map Salt Lake City, United States | 4 | $423 | 4.4 |
| 31 | Hyatt House Raleigh North Hills Map Raleigh, United States | 3 | $422 | 4.5 |
| 32 | Hyatt Place Long Island City / New York City Map Long Island City, United States | 4 | $418 | 4.4 |
| 33 | Hyatt Place Washington DC/White House Map Washington, United States | 4 | $417 | 4.1 |
| 34 | Hyatt Regency Bellevue on Seattle's Eastside Map Bellevue, United States | 4 | $416 | 4.5 |
| 35 | Hyatt Place Chicago/River North Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $416 | 4.4 |
| 36 | Andaz Savannah Map Savannah, United States | 4 | $410 | 4.5 |
| 37 | Grand Hyatt Fukuoka Map Fukuoka, Japan | 4 | $409 | 4.2 |
| 38 | Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor Map Boston, United States | 4 | $408 | 4.2 |
| 39 | Hyatt Regency Dehradun Resort and Spa Map Dehradun, India | 3 | $407 | 4.5 |
| 40 | Hyatt House Santa Clara Map Santa Clara, United States | 4 | $404 | 4.3 |
| 41 | Hyatt Place Anchorage-Midtown Map Anchorage, United States | 4 | $400 | 4.3 |
| 42 | Hyatt House Indianapolis / Downtown Map Indianapolis, United States | 3 | $397 | 4.4 |
| 43 | Hyatt Regency Chicago Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $396 | 4.1 |
| 44 | Hyatt Regency Phuket Resort Map Phuket, Thailand | 4 | $394 | 4.6 |
| 45 | The Forester Hotel Map Lake Forest, United States | 3 | $393 | 4.6 |
| 46 | Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay Map Tampa, United States | 4 | $392 | 4.3 |
| 47 | Hyatt Place Boca Raton/Downtown Map Boca Raton, United States | 4 | $392 | 4.2 |
| 48 | Hyatt Regency Greenville Map Greenville, United States | 3 | $392 | 4.1 |
| 49 | Hyatt Regency Sydney Map Sydney, Australia | 4 | $390 | 4.0 |
| 50 | Dream South Beach Map Miami Beach, United States | 4 | $387 | 4.3 |
| 51 | Hyatt Regency Orlando Map Orlando, United States | 4 | $385 | 4.4 |
| 52 | Hyatt Place St. Petersburg / Downtown Map St. Petersburg, United States | 4 | $384 | 4.4 |
| 53 | Hyatt Place Long Island/East End Map Riverhead, United States | 4 | $381 | 4.5 |
| 54 | Hyatt Place Fort Lauderdale Cruise Port & Convention Center Map Fort Lauderdale, United States | 3 | $380 | 4.2 |
| 55 | Grand Hyatt Berlin Map Berlin, Germany | 4 | $379 | 4.6 |
| 56 | Hyatt Regency Belgrade Map Belgrade, Serbia | 2 | $378 | 4.5 |
| 57 | Hyatt House San Jose / Cupertino Map Cupertino, United States | 4 | $375 | 4.6 |
| 58 | Andaz Mexico City Condesa Map Mexico City, Mexico | 4 | $374 | 4.2 |
| 59 | Grand Hyatt Bogotá Map Bogotá, Colombia | 3 | $373 | 4.7 |
| 60 | Hyatt Vacation Club at Piñon Pointe Map Sedona, United States | 4 | $371 | 4.2 |
| 61 | Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $370 | 4.5 |
| 62 | Hyatt House Washington DC / Downtown / Convention Center Map Washington, United States | 4 | $369 | 4.2 |
| 63 | Hyatt Place San Carlos Map San Carlos, United States | 3 | $367 | 4.6 |
| 64 | Hotel Avante Map Mountain View, United States | 3 | $366 | 4.3 |
| 65 | Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Chicago Map Chicago, United States | 4 | $366 | 4.2 |
| 66 | Hyatt Centric Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco Map San Francisco, United States | 4 | $364 | 4.0 |
| 67 | Hyatt Centric Murano Venice Map Venice, Italy | 4 | $363 | 4.6 |
| 68 | Hyatt Regency Savannah Map Savannah, United States | 4 | $363 | 4.0 |
| 69 | Hyatt Regency Tashkent Map Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 3 | $362 | 5.0 |
| 70 | Hôtel Reisen Map Stockholm, Sweden | 4 | $361 | 4.6 |
| 71 | Hyatt House San Jose/Silicon Valley Map San Jose, United States | 4 | $361 | 4.4 |
| 72 | Hyatt Place Kent Narrows & Marina Map Grasonville, United States | 4 | $360 | 4.6 |
| 73 | Hyatt House Chicago/Evanston Map Evanston, United States | 4 | $359 | 4.5 |
| 74 | Hyatt Regency Reston Map Reston, United States | 3 | $358 | 4.3 |
| 75 | Hyatt Place Phoenix / Downtown Map Phoenix, United States | 3 | $355 | 4.4 |
| 76 | Hyatt Place Bloomington Map Bloomington, United States | 4 | $354 | 4.4 |
| 77 | Hyatt Centric French Quarter New Orleans Map New Orleans, United States | 4 | $353 | 4.2 |
| 78 | Hyatt Place at Anaheim Resort/Convention Center Map Anaheim, United States | 4 | $352 | 4.4 |
| 79 | The Barnett Map New Orleans, United States | 4 | $352 | 4.4 |
| 80 | Dream Nashville Map Nashville, United States | 4 | $350 | 4.5 |
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.
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