{"id":15576,"date":"2023-04-29T18:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=15576"},"modified":"2023-04-29T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T17:03:51","slug":"hyatt-acquires-mr-mrs-smith-and-remember-to-claim-the-free-gold-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/04\/29\/hyatt-acquires-mr-mrs-smith-and-remember-to-claim-the-free-gold-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyatt acquires Mr & Mrs Smith, and remember to claim the free Gold membership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hyatt made a surprising move yesterday by announcing the acquisition of Mr and Mrs Smith<\/a>, a hotel booking platform based in London.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I don’t want to get into the very details of the news, and there are already numerous reports on many blogs covering it. Basically more than 1,500 hotels from Mr & Mrs Smith’s global portfolio are to be added to World of Hyatt in Q2, and similar to the SLH hotels they will fit into the existing redemption categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is bad news to IHG and its members though, as once the acquisition is complete the existing tie between IHG and Smith is going to be cut, without a question. That’s a big loss in terms of spending IHG points.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For now however, there is one thing you need to do – we covered a fast track route to claim free GoldSmith membership<\/a> (usually \u00a3400) a couple of years ago, and it still works as of today. GoldSmith <\/mark><\/strong>isn’t hugely useful, but there’s a chance that Hyatt will offer status match or trial at least to Smith members soon, and it costs nothing to be ready!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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