Just FYI for ALL
Two years ago plus a few months now I signed up at the Hyatt Hotel Courtyard Kiosk in Key West to attend the Portfolio Program presentation and was promised $200.00 in Visa Cards. ( The Kiosk Rep gave me a little extra that day I think, because the day before he had offered my $150 and I said no thanks, but I came back the next day and he upped the deal to $200. (I also think others over at Winword Point were being offered only $150 that week. )
On the scheduled day they sent a van to pick me up at the Hyatt Beach House and take me to the Hyatt sales office in Old Town Key west.
I listened to the really "Canned " presentation and said no Thanks to the HPP Club. One reason or no, was that I just did not get enough understanding of the program from the sales guys "Formula Presentation". The sales office in Key West was business like in the presentation, but I could see the salesman and the Manager were not happy with me when I declined .. It was about $12,000 for 660 PP POINTS . But the guy taking the survey about "how you were treated, etc." and then handing out the Visa cards was very pleasant. I then was also given a free taxi ride (voucher) back to the Beach House. So I stayed in town for a few hours after the presentation without having to pay for parking.
Then the next year I attended a better explained presentation on the HPP at Sedona HRC Pinion Point. I also said no thank you, but later that night I almost decided maybe to go for it, I even went back over to the sales center the next day looking for the original salesman. I could not find him. I went back to my every nice ground and swimming pool level 1 bedroom at the the resort and closely studied the list of fees and rules involved in using the HPP program that I insisted on seeing the day before, which the salesman did give me , and I cooled off quickly , and realized how close I was to making a mistake. That's my key advice in retelling my story: Read the list of the Fees and Rules of the HPP program before you make any final commitment to buy in ! All the fees and details were just not very acceptable, especially the fees, to me, a deeded owner of three and a half Hyatt Residence Club deeded resorts.
I Received 10,000 World of Hyatt points for seriously considering the Program. My goal was to really try to dig deep into the HPP program details and consider if it was of interest to me. Glad I did dig in, and the answer was NO THANK YOU. My goal was NOT to just get 10,000 World of Hyatt POINTS out of them. And yes they knew I had attended a presentation in Key West, and declined the prior year or so before, it was on the print out they had of my HRC ownership account.
My Regards to all.