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Best Hyatt hotels for your Category 1-4 Free Night

Updated Jun 4, 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 on the priciest night, up to ~25k points.

How we score it

A Hyatt free night has no points value of its own and no top-off — it covers one standard-room award night outright, capped only by the hotel’s award category. So unlike paying with points (where you want the cheapest off-peak date), the best place to burn the cert is the priciest night at the highest-category hotel it reaches — that’s where a flat free night displaces the most points.

We rank every Category 1-4-eligible hotel by its peak standard-award points — the most a single free night is worth there across our ~1-year scan. Category 8, 5-8, hotels are excluded: no free-night certificate covers them, so they’re points-only.

Top 100 for a Category 1-4 free night (38 at Category 4)

#1🏆 Cat 4
Grand Hyatt Hangzhou
peak night Oct 5 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
25k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.8
#2🏆 Cat 4
Hyatt Regency Phuket Resort
peak night Dec 25 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
25k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.6
#3🏆 Cat 4
Hyatt Centric Chicago Mag Mile
peak night May 15 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
25k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.5
#4🏆 Cat 4
Hyatt Regency Danang Resort and Spa
peak night Dec 31 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
25k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.5
#5🏆 Cat 4
Hyatt Place Washington Dc National Mall
peak night Jan 17 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
25k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.2
#6🏆 Cat 4
Hyatt Regency Mccormick Place Chicago
peak night May 15 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
25k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.2
#7🏆 Cat 4
Hyatt Place Washington Dc White House
peak night Jan 17 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
25k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.1
#8🏆 Cat 4
Hyatt Place Knoxville Downtown
peak night Dec 18 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
22.5k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.7
#9🏆 Cat 4
Hotel Reisen
peak night Sep 8 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
22.5k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.6
#10🏆 Cat 4
Hyatt House San Jose Cupertino
peak night Mar 15 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
22.5k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.6
#11🏆 Cat 4
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
peak night Sep 15 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
22.5k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.5
#12🏆 Cat 4
The Anndore House
peak night Mar 1 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
22.5k pts
Category
4
Rating
4.5

More Category 1-4-eligible hotels

#HotelCatFree night worthRating
13Hyatt Centric Rittenhouse Square Philadelphia
422.5k pts4.4
14Hyatt Regency Orlando
422.5k pts4.4
15Hyatt Centric the Pike Long Beach
422.5k pts4.3
16Hyatt Place South Bend Mishawaka
422.5k pts4.3
17Grand Hyatt Fukuoka
Hakata Fukuoka Fukuoka Prefecture Kyushu
422.5k pts4.2
18Hyatt House Charleston Historic District
422.5k pts4.2
19Hyatt Place Garden City
422.5k pts4.2
20Hyatt Place Pasadena
422.5k pts4.2
21Hyatt Regency Long Beach
422.5k pts4.2
22Andaz Macau
420k pts5.0
23Hyatt Centric Malta
320k pts4.7
24Hyatt House Tampa Airport Westshore
320k pts4.7
25Hyatt Regency Bangkok Sukhumvit
320k pts4.7
26Hyatt Regency Taghazout
320k pts4.7
27Taoxichuan Hotel
320k pts4.7
28The Standardx Melbourne
320k pts4.7
29Alila Ubud
420k pts4.6
30Grand Hyatt Abu Dhabi Hotel and Residences Emirates Pearl
420k pts4.6
31Hotel Genevieve
420k pts4.6
32Hyatt Centric Murano Venice
Murano Veneto
420k pts4.6
33Hyatt Place Sandestin at Grand Boulevard
420k pts4.6
34Andaz Savannah
420k pts4.5
35Hyatt House London Stratford
320k pts4.5
36Hyatt House North Scottsdale
320k pts4.5
37Hyatt Place Kyoto
Kyoto Kyoto Prefecture Kinki
320k pts4.5
38Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa
Santa Ana Pueblo New Mexico
420k pts4.5
39Grand Hyatt Jeju
420k pts4.4
40Grand Hyatt Melbourne
420k pts4.4
41Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro
320k pts4.4
42Hyatt House at Anaheim Resort Convention Center
420k pts4.4
43Hyatt House South Melbourne
320k pts4.4
44Hyatt Place Champaign Urbana
320k pts4.4
45Hyatt Place Indianapolis Downtown
320k pts4.4
46Hyatt Place Lincoln Downtown Haymarket
320k pts4.4
47Hyatt Place Long Island City New York City
420k pts4.4
48Hyatt Place Scottsdale North
320k pts4.4
49Hyatt Regency Lake Washington at Seattles Southport
420k pts4.4
50Hyatt Regency Tokyo Bay
420k pts4.4
51Hyatt Centric Arlington
320k pts4.3
52Hyatt House Pittsburgh Bloomfield Shadyside
320k pts4.3
53Hyatt House Seattle Downtown
420k pts4.3
54Hyatt Place Austin Airport
320k pts4.3
55Hyatt Place Zurich Airport the Circle
420k pts4.3
56Hyatt House Davis
320k pts4.1
57Hyatt House Atlanta Downtown
320k pts4.0
58Hyatt Regency Morristown
420k pts4.0
59Royal Beach Hotel Punta Cana
317.5k pts4.8
60Grand Hyatt Bogota
317.5k pts4.7
61Hyatt Centric Charlotte Southpark
317.5k pts4.6
62Hyatt Place Fort Worth Tcu
317.5k pts4.6
63Hyatt Place Milwaukee Downtown
317.5k pts4.6
64Hyatt Regency Frisco Dallas
317.5k pts4.6
65Fordson Hotel
317.5k pts4.5
66Hyatt House Orlando International Drive
317.5k pts4.5
67Hyatt Regency Panama City
317.5k pts4.5
68Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead
317.5k pts4.4
69Hyatt House Denver Downtown
317.5k pts4.4
70Hyatt House Philadelphia King of Prussia
317.5k pts4.4
71Hyatt Place Albany Downtown
317.5k pts4.4
72Hyatt Place Cape Canaveral
317.5k pts4.4
73Hyatt Place Phoenix Downtown
317.5k pts4.4
74Hyatt Regency Manila City of Dreams
Paranaque Metro Manila Luzon
317.5k pts4.4
75Tempe Mission Palms
317.5k pts4.4
76Hyatt Place Biloxi
317.5k pts4.3
77Hyatt Place Denver Downtown
317.5k pts4.3
78Hyatt Place Emeryville San Francisco Bay Area
317.5k pts4.3
79Hyatt Regency Coralville Hotel and Conference Center
317.5k pts4.3
80Hyatt Regency San Antonio Riverwalk
317.5k pts4.3
81Hyatt Centric Downtown Denver
317.5k pts4.2
82Hyatt House Pleasant Hill
317.5k pts4.2
83Hyatt House Tempe Phoenix University
317.5k pts4.2
84Hyatt Place Across From Universal Orlando Resort
Orlando Florida
317.5k pts4.2
85Hyatt Regency Dallas
317.5k pts4.2
86Hyatt Regency Houston Galleria
317.5k pts4.2
87Story Hotel Stockholm Stureplan
317.5k pts4.2
88Hyatt House Pleasanton
317.5k pts4.1
89Hyatt Place Daytona Beach Oceanfront
317.5k pts4.1
90Hyatt Regency Irvine
317.5k pts4.1
91Hyatt Place Nashville Green Hills
317.5k pts4.0
92Hyatt Place Niagara Falls
317.5k pts4.0
93Hyatt Place Kunming South Railway Station
215k pts5.0
94Hyatt Place Post Falls Coeur Dalene
315k pts5.0
95Yada Xishan Hotel Yixing
315k pts5.0
96Grand Hyatt Kochi Bolgatty
215k pts4.9
97Jdv Episode Daan Taipei
Taipei, Taiwan
315k pts4.8
98Firstname Bordeaux
315k pts4.7
99Hyatt Centric Levent Istanbul
315k pts4.7
100Hyatt Centric Victoria Harbour Hong Kong
315k pts4.7

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 on a peak night (the priciest) extracts the most value; we rank by that peak.
  • The Category 1-4 cert tops out at Category 4. Category 8 and the super-premium properties aren’t cert-eligible — points only.
  • Worth figures are the peak night in our ~1-year scan — your dates may differ. Confirm on hyatt.com before booking.
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