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Gooooooooooood morning and welcome back to Daily Drop, the newsletter that’s about to teach you how to get thousands of dollars of free hotel stays.

Let’s jump in:

• ✈️ The points program fueling my U.S. trip

• 🍽️ Plan travel, not dinner

• 🤣 Meme

✈️ The points program fueling my U.S. trip

As you know, I’m spending the next couple of months on the road, and at some point I realized that nearly every single night of it is happening inside a Hyatt.

And that includes almost all of my time right here in the U.S. and Canada.

That wasn't a deliberate move; it just happened naturally because Hyatt almost always offers the best value.

Hyatt is basically my landlord this month

It started with the Qsuites trip I walked you through in Monday’s newsletter, which included an overnight layover in Doha.

My go-to there is the Hyatt Regency Oryx downtown, and it costs just 3,000 points per night during this time of year.

Even with a low cash rate of $75, I still got close to 2.5 cents per point out of a hotel that's 10 minutes from the airport, has a really good breakfast spread, and gives Globalists lounge access in the evening.

From there, I continued to Montreal and spent two nights at the Hyatt Centric, which is a five-minute walk from Old Montreal and ran me 12,000 points per night.

Cash rates were $216, so those two nights would have cost me over $430. Not the best value for Hyatt points, but wayyyyy better than any other program.

Next up is Toronto, where I used to live and where I now have to book hotels like a tourist, which feels… wrong.

I already told you about the free night certificates I'm using at one hotel there, but I'm also burning 20,000 points for a night at Hotel X.

Cash rates in Toronto are brutal right now, and this one is $426 USD.

Oh, and remember the Brand Explorer promo I told you about yesterday?

This stay also pushes me further along toward my next free night, which adds some extra value.

After Toronto, I'm heading to Pittsburgh to visit my sister, and I'm staying at the Hyatt House a few minutes' walk from her apartment.

I almost rebooked the entire trip when I saw what Pittsburgh is charging for hotels right now (almost $600 a night?? Really??). 😬

Anyway, Hyatt points actually saved my butt on that one, and it might be the best cent-per-point value I’ve ever gotten out of Hyatt.

Then it's on to New York for a few nights, where I'm hopping between a few brands I haven't stayed with yet (again for Brand Explorer reasons).

One of those nights is at the Hyatt Herald Square for 20,000 points.

$454 is a depressingly normal New York number in August, but 20,000 points is pretty reasonable – especially with a newly renovated property in a solid location.

The last stop is Boston, where I'm spending one night at the Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor after visiting friends in New Hampshire, right before I fly off to Europe.

That one is 15,000 points, and the cash rate is $311. So, again, I’m getting more than 2 cents per point in value.

So yeah. Hyatt is my home for the next month.

I’m spending well over 100,000 points on all of these hotels, which I was able to get by simply transferring UR points to Hyatt instantly.

Which brings me to the reason I’m telling you about my Hyatt adventures…

Earn 100,000 UR points for $0

Right now, there are THREE different business cards currently offering 100,000 UR points, and they might have slid under your radar.

Each one of these cards is offering enough points to book ALL of the hotels I just showed you.

This one and this one each have no annual fee at all, and this one has an annual fee of under $100, all of which are no-brainer offers.

The two no-annual-fee cards technically earn cash back rather than points. But if you also hold a card that earns UR points, that cash back can be converted into UR points.

The one with an annual fee earns points directly with no conversion step, and it earns 3x on all travel, which has recently become my favorite tool in my whole wallet.

I know a lot of you signed up for this personal card recently due to its 100k offer… and if you did, any one of these three cards is the logical next step.

And if you see the word “business” in the card names and assume this isn’t for you, think again. 😏

You probably do have a business

There's a very good chance you're eligible for a business card and simply don't know it. It doesn't require an LLC, an office, or employees, and the bar is much lower than most people assume.

We've got a whole article walking through exactly how to get business cards, and I recommend you check it out here. (Some of you have written in to ask: Is a food truck a real business? How about a landscaping company? Yes, and yes. Business cards aren’t just for office expenses.)

Once you do it a single time, a whole new world of points and miles opportunities opens up.

About half of the cards in my own wallet are business cards, and I wouldn't have anywhere near the points balance I have without them.

The bottom line

Three cards, 300,000 points, and only $95 in annual fees across all of them.

I have all three of those cards, each of which serves a different purpose in my wallet. If you want to rack up UR points to use toward expensive Hyatt stays like me (or any other travel), I’d jump on one of the offers sooner rather than later. 👇

🤣 Meme

That’s all for today, friends! I hope you enjoyed this quick look at my favorite hotel program and some of my favorite cards for earning lots of points.

Ta ta for now,

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With contributions by Katie Begnoche and April Wilson.