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Best Hyatt hotels for your Category 1-7 Free Night

Updated Jun 4, 2026

Ranked from live Hyatt award rates. A Category 1-7 free-night certificate books any standard room at a Category 1-7 hotel (or an all-inclusive Category A-D resort), with no points cap — so it’s worth the most on the priciest night, up to ~55k 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 1-7-eligible hotel by its peak standard-award points — the most a single free night is worth there across our ~1-year scan. Category 8 (and all-inclusive E-F) hotels are excluded: no free-night certificate covers them, so they’re points-only.

Top 100 for a Category 1-7 free night (4 at Category 7)

#1🏆 Cat 7
Alila Kothaifaru Maldives
Kothaifaru
peak night Jan 10 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
55k pts
Category
7
Rating
4.9
#2🏆 Cat 7
Hotel Palais de la Mediterranee
Nice French Riviera Cote d Azur Provence Alpes Cote d
peak night Aug 7 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
55k pts
Category
7
Rating
4.5
#3
The Standard Maldives
peak night Jan 10 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
40k pts
Category
6
Rating
4.9
#4
Andaz Bali
peak night Dec 31 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
40k pts
Category
6
Rating
4.8
#5
Hyatt House Tokyo Shibuya
peak night Apr 10 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
40k pts
Category
6
Rating
4.7
#6
Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi Hotel and Villas
peak night Dec 6 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
40k pts
Category
6
Rating
4.7
#7
Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa
peak night Oct 17 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
40k pts
Category
6
Rating
4.3
#8
Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa
peak night Sep 13 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
40k pts
Category
6
Rating
4.2
#9
Hyatt Regency Times Square
peak night Dec 8 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
40k pts
Category
6
Rating
4.2
#10
Dream Midtown
peak night Dec 8 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
40k pts
Category
6
Rating
4.1
#11
The Barai Hua Hin
Pran Buri Prachuap Khiri Khan Province
peak night Dec 30 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
35k pts
Category
5
Rating
5.0
#12
Grand Hyatt at Sfo
peak night Oct 12 · burn the cert here
Free night worth
35k pts
Category
6
Rating
4.8

More Category 1-7-eligible hotels

#HotelCatFree night worthRating
13Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht
735k pts4.7
14Jabal Omar Hyatt Regency Makkah
535k pts4.7
15Park Hyatt Chicago
635k pts4.7
16Hyatt Vacation Club at High Sierra Lodge
735k pts4.6
17Park Hyatt Bangkok
635k pts4.6
18The Carolina Inn
535k pts4.6
19Grand Hyatt Singapore
635k pts4.4
20Bahia Principe Explore Esmeralda
C35k pts4.3
21Grand Hyatt Nashville
635k pts4.3
22Hyatt Place Dewey Beach
Dewey Beach Delaware
635k pts4.3
23Mar Monte Hotel
Gudauri Mtskheta Mtianeti Region
635k pts4.3
24Hyatt Centric Milan Centrale
535k pts4.2
25Hyatt Place San Francisco Downtown
535k pts4.2
26Grand Hyatt Kuwait
Al Zahra
630k pts4.9
27Hyatt Centric Las Olas Fort Lauderdale
530k pts4.8
28Grand Hyatt Hong Kong
630k pts4.7
29Alila Seminyak
630k pts4.6
30Holston House Nashville
530k pts4.6
31Hyatt Centric Waikiki Beach
530k pts4.5
32Hyatt Regency London Blackfriars
630k pts4.5
33Sarena de Muro Resort Mallorca
630k pts4.5
34Hyatt Place Nashville Downtown
530k pts4.4
35Park Hyatt Changbaishan
630k pts4.4
36Sunscape Cancun Resort Spa
C30k pts4.4
37Thompson Denver
530k pts4.4
38Bahia Principe Escape Aquamarine
B30k pts4.3
39Hyatt Place State College
530k pts4.3
40Hyatt Regency Boston Cambridge
530k pts4.3
41Hyatt Regency Madrid Residences
630k pts4.3
42Park Hyatt Jeddah Marina Club and Spa
630k pts4.3
43Bahia Principe Escape Bouganville
El Soco San Pedro de Macoris San Pedro de Macoris
B30k pts4.2
44Hyatt Centric Midtown 5th Ave Ny
630k pts4.2
45Hyatt Place Ocean City Oceanfront
630k pts4.2
46Hyatt Regency Grand Reserve Puerto Rico
530k pts4.2
47Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson
530k pts4.2
48Hyatt Centric South Beach Miami
530k pts4.1
49Hyatt House Jersey City
530k pts4.1
50Grand Hyatt Kuwait Residences
525k pts5.0
51The Livingston
525k pts5.0
52Park Hyatt Johannesburg
625k pts4.9
53Grand Hyatt Hangzhou
425k pts4.8
54Hyatt Regency Zadar
525k pts4.8
55Park Hyatt Saigon
525k pts4.7
56Hyatt Regency Changbaishan
525k pts4.6
57Hyatt Regency Phuket Resort
425k pts4.6
58Hyatt Regency Seattle
525k pts4.6
59Park Hyatt Kuala Lumpur
525k pts4.6
60Hyatt at Olive 8
525k pts4.5
61Hyatt Centric Chicago Mag Mile
425k pts4.5
62Hyatt Regency Danang Resort and Spa
425k pts4.5
63Hyatt Regency Kotor Bay Resort
Donji Stoliv Tivat Municipality
525k pts4.5
64Hyatt Regency Zurich Airport the Circle
525k pts4.5
65Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort
525k pts4.4
66Hyatt Regency Hesperia Madrid
525k pts4.4
67Hyatt Regency Hong Kong Tsim Sha Tsui
525k pts4.4
68Hyatt Regency Vancouver
525k pts4.4
69Park Hyatt Guangzhou
525k pts4.4
70Hyatt House Augusta Downtown
525k pts4.3
71Hyatt Place Portland Downtown Old Port Square
525k pts4.2
72Hyatt Place Santa Cruz
525k pts4.2
73Hyatt Place Washington Dc National Mall
425k pts4.2
74Hyatt Regency Mccormick Place Chicago
425k pts4.2
75Hyatt Place Washington Dc White House
425k pts4.1
76Hyatt Regency San Francisco
525k pts4.1
77Hyatt Place Knoxville Downtown
422.5k pts4.7
78Hotel Reisen
422.5k pts4.6
79Hyatt House San Jose Cupertino
422.5k pts4.6
80Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
422.5k pts4.5
81The Anndore House
422.5k pts4.5
82Hyatt Centric Rittenhouse Square Philadelphia
422.5k pts4.4
83Hyatt Regency Orlando
422.5k pts4.4
84Hyatt Centric the Pike Long Beach
422.5k pts4.3
85Hyatt Place South Bend Mishawaka
422.5k pts4.3
86Grand Hyatt Fukuoka
Hakata Fukuoka Fukuoka Prefecture Kyushu
422.5k pts4.2
87Hyatt House Charleston Historic District
422.5k pts4.2
88Hyatt Place Garden City
422.5k pts4.2
89Hyatt Place Pasadena
422.5k pts4.2
90Hyatt Regency Long Beach
422.5k pts4.2
91Andaz Macau
420k pts5.0
92Hyatt Centric Malta
320k pts4.7
93Hyatt House Tampa Airport Westshore
320k pts4.7
94Hyatt Regency Bangkok Sukhumvit
320k pts4.7
95Hyatt Regency Taghazout
320k pts4.7
96Taoxichuan Hotel
320k pts4.7
97The Standardx Melbourne
320k pts4.7
98Alila Ubud
420k pts4.6
99Grand Hyatt Abu Dhabi Hotel and Residences Emirates Pearl
420k pts4.6
100Hotel Genevieve
420k pts4.6

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 1-7 cert tops out at Category 7 (and all-inclusive Category A-D). 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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