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Point Me To First Class · Monday, July 13, 2026

Michelle's Award Booking Strategy for Alila Maya Koba

Michelle details her booking approach for the Alila Maya Koba, leveraging her Hyatt Globalist status and a category one through seven free night certificate for one night. The remaining three nights were booked with points, and she applied a suite upgrade award for additional space.

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So in December, I hit my 60 nights for Hyatt Globalist, and I earned my category one through seven free night certificate. So what I did was I booked one night at the Alila Maya Koba with that category one through seven free night certificate. And then I booked the remaining three nights just with points. And that was 79,000 points per night.
Michelle
But I also wanted to do a suite since it was going to be the three of us, we would have more space. So I applied a suite upgrade award to the three-night portion.
Michelle
Heard on Point Me To First Class — “176. Two Points Experts, Two Takes on Park Hyatt Cabo and Alila Mayakoba, published Monday, July 13, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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