Hyatt Award Alerts: Get an Email When Points Availability Opens

The award you want is gone, or the cash rate is still too high. You could rerun the same Hyatt search every few hours for the next three weeks. Or set one alert and let HotelXray watch the dates.

A Hyatt award alert from HotelXray, a Chrome extension, watches a World of Hyatt hotel for your dates and emails you when a points stay opens up, a cash rate drops under your limit, or a Suite Upgrade Award becomes available. The check log shows every result along the way. Award & rate alerts live in the HotelXray side panel, next to your rate comparisons.

Step 1: Open the alert form

Start with a hotel you are already looking at. There are two bells that open the form.

On a search result, the Set alert bell sits under the hotel name.

A HotelXray search result for Hyatt Grand Central New York with Cat 5 and Club badges, a Set alert bell under the hotel name, and a week of points, cash and cents-per-point values from December 6 to 12; the Set alert bell is ringed — The bell on a search result, for a hotel you are still comparing.

In a hotel’s calendar, select a night. The bell sits in the header of that night’s room list.

The room list for Thursday December 31 at Hyatt Grand Central New York with a Set alert bell in its header; the only award is a Standard Suite Free Night on the Corner Suite at 42,000 points, or 21,000 points plus $620; the Set alert bell is ringed — New Year's Eve: the standard room award is gone and only the suite is bookable with points.

Both bells open the same form. If you aren’t signed in, the form asks for your email address and sends you a code; enter it in the form and the alert is saved. HotelXray never asks for your World of Hyatt credentials.

Step 2: Set up the alert

The example below watches Hyatt Grand Central New York for New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2026, for a standard room at 25,000 points or less. That is the hotel’s Moderate price in Category 5.

The form opens with the hotel’s award chart. The rows follow the room types you check, and with a points limit set, the prices a stay can’t fit under it fade out. The chart’s prices are per night.

Dates

Pick the check-in and check-out dates, then one of four choices:

Exact watches only those dates.
±1 day and ±2 days also watch stays that start a day or two earlier or later, with the same number of nights.
Any night watches every single night between the two dates, up to 7 nights. Use it when one night at a hard-to-book hotel is enough and the date can move.

A stay can be up to 30 nights.

The Dates section of the alert form with December 29, 2026 to January 2, 2027, 4 nights, and Any night selected — Any night watches each of the four nights from December 29 on its own.

Guests

Set the adults and any children with their ages, and HotelXray checks prices for the people actually traveling. See rates for your guest count for why that changes the price.

Notify me about

Choose one thing to watch:

Points emails you when a stay paid entirely with points opens up in the room types you check: Room, Std Suite, Prem Suite, or any mix. Add Max points for stay to wait for a price you’re happy with. On Any night, the limit is per night. A World of Hyatt point is worth about 1.8 cents, so the 25,000 points in this example are about $450 of points (what a good Hyatt redemption looks like).
Cash emails you when the hotel can be booked with cash, or when the nightly rate drops below the Max nightly rate you set. The rate includes fees and is before taxes, in the currency you choose. You can also limit it to rates you can cancel for free.
SUA emails you when a Suite Upgrade Award is available on a points stay, a cash stay, or both.

Cash and SUA alerts can also watch your company’s corporate rate alongside the public one.

Notify me about set to Cash, with a Max nightly rate of 350 USD including fees and before taxes, Cancellation terms set to Any, and an empty Corp code field — Cash with a nightly limit of $350.

Notify me about set to SUA, with both Points and Cash checked and an empty Corp code field — SUA can watch points stays, cash stays, or both.

Each alert has one trigger. To watch both the points price and the cash rate for the same stay, set two alerts.

After the first email

With Keep watching off, the alert emails you once and stops. Switch it on to keep getting emails when the price or availability changes after the first match, which helps when the price is still moving and you want to hear about the next drop.

Select Set alert to save. HotelXray sends a short confirmation email, and the panel opens your Award & rate alerts.

Step 3: HotelXray checks the dates and logs every check

You can close the tab. HotelXray keeps checking your dates every few hours in the background, even with the browser closed, and emails you when a check finds a match.

Every alert keeps an Alert check log, in the side panel and on your Award & rate alerts page. It records when each check ran, what it found, and which results met your conditions. A green check marks a match. No award stay available means the check found no award for those dates.

The Award and rate alerts tab of Monitoring and alerts in the HotelXray panel, with the Hyatt Grand Central New York alert under Notified and its check log open: three checks on October 10 found no award stay, and the 2:10 pm check found 25,000 points with a green check; that row is ringed — Three checks with no standard room award, then 25,000 points at 2:10 pm.

The log shows the price before it reaches your target, too, so you can see how the dates are moving and decide whether to keep waiting or change your limit.

Step 4: The email tells you what matched

When a check matches, you get an email with the stay and what was found:

The subject names the hotel and the dates, such as Hyatt Grand Central New York is available — Dec 31, 2026 – Jan 1, 2027.
The email shows what you were watching for and the points it found.
Book with points (or Book with cash on a cash alert) opens the stay on hyatt.com.

A HotelXray email headed Your alert found a match for Hyatt Grand Central New York, December 31, 2026 to January 1, 2027, watching for a standard room up to 25,000 points for 2 adults, with a 25,000-point standard room result, a Book with points button and the status Stopped after this match — The 25,000-point award from the log, ready to book on hyatt.com.

If several of your alerts match in the same run, they arrive in one email.

What happens after an alert fires

An alert without Keep watching moves to Notified and stops checking. With Keep watching on, it stays Active and keeps reporting changes.

An alert moves to Dates passed when none of its dates can be booked anymore. A flexible alert keeps going after the original check-in while a later start date is still possible.

Edit or delete alerts under Monitoring & alerts, the bell at the top of the side panel, or on your Award & rate alerts page. Each alert watches one room at one hotel, for the party you set under Guests; set one alert per hotel to compare a shortlist on the same dates. If you’ve already booked, reservation monitoring is the better fit: it watches your booking’s exact room and rate until free cancellation ends and emails you if it gets cheaper.

Explore calendars, suite comparisons and lounges in the Hyatt product overview. The same extension also has rate and award alerts for Marriott, Hilton and IHG.