Glamping Stays You Can Book Through World of Hyatt

If visiting a National Park is on your summer wish list, you can book a “glamping” (bougie camping) stay with your Hyatt points. Your family can hike in gorgeous natural settings by day and sleep under the beautiful night sky in a luxury tent. Going glamping with Hyatt points can be a great idea if you’re looking for a unique travel experience that blends nature with comfort and want to maximize your World of Hyatt loyalty rewards.

The bad news? These stays are generally not the best value for your Hyatt points. So you may want to consider paying cash for this experience and using it as an opportunity to earn Hyatt points for a more valuable stay in the future (like a hotel with walls)!

In this post, we’ll discuss some of the options to book these stays and consider whether it makes sense to book using points or cash. Ultimately, it’s up to you. That’s the beauty of points and miles—you do you! 

 

What is Under Canvas? 

Under Canvas is a safari-inspired glamping company that operates camps in 13 locations, as well as a luxury outdoor resort called ULUM. Under Canvas describes itself as “the leader in upscale, outdoor hospitality.” 

In addition to high-end tents with luxury bedding, Under Canvas locations offer communal spaces to enjoy meals and spend time with friends and family (ideal if you want to travel with friends or family but stay in separate tents). They also offer activities like live music, yoga classes, and evening s’mores by the campfire. 

Current locations include: 

• Acadia National Park (Maine)
• Bryce Canyon National Park (Utah)
• Columbia River Gorge (Washington)
• Glacier National Park (Montana) 
• Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona) 
• Great Smoky Mountains (Tennessee) 
• Lake Powell-Grand Staircase (Utah)
• Moab (Utah)
• Mount Rushmore National Monument (South Dakota) 
• North Yellowstone-Paradise Valley (Montana) 
• West Yellowstone (Montana) 
• Yosemite National Park (California)
• Zion National Park (Utah) 

These properties operate seasonally, so be sure to check the website for the dates you’re interested in before booking flights or transferring points. 

 

Under Canvas-Hyatt Partnership 

Under Canvas properties are bookable with Hyatt points thanks to Hyatt’s partnership with Mr and Mrs Smith Hotels, a group of more than 1,000 boutique hotels worldwide. Unfortunately, these properties do not fit into the World of Hyatt award chart that gives us such outsized value for our points. Instead, the points cost for stays is dynamic and related to the cash price. So many Mr and Mrs Smith hotels, including Under Canvas glamping sites, offer less than the two cents per point value we typically like to get by using Hyatt points. 

If you’re booking as a World of Hyatt member, you’ll get the standard benefits for Mr and Mrs Smith properties, including 5 base points per dollar spent on room rates, 4 bonus points per dollar on room rates if you pay with your World of Hyatt credit card, elite-night credits, Brand Explorer (“Hyatt bingo”) credit, and more. 

 

Limited-Time Offer for Under Canvas

Under Canvas properties can be expensive, both in points and cash, but there is a way to make these stays a bit more rewarding. This summer, Hyatt has two special offers: 

• Earn 1 American Airlines mile per dollar spent on Under Canvas stays, for stays between June 15 and Sept. 15, 2025. (You must register by Sept. 14.) 
• Earn 20 points per dollar spent on your World of Hyatt credit card on Under Canvas bookings, for stays between June 1 and Sept. 7, 2025. (You must register by June 10.) 

If you stack both promotions, that’s quite a bit of return on your spend for a future Hyatt stay, and something to help earn more American Airlines flights. 

 

Sample Booking: Family Trip to Acadia National Park 

You can take the family to visit beautiful Acadia National Park this summer by visiting Under Canvas Acadia, where you’ll sleep next to the ocean and under the stars. This resort has 100 acres of waterfront property and is close to Acadia’s Cadillac Mountain, among other New England attractions. Amenities include on-site dining, fire pits with s’mores, daily camp programming and more. 

But this peak stay in a beautiful part of the country will cost you—either in cash or points.

The Under Canvas Acadia Suite Tent can sleep a family of four and includes your own bathroom (and not all Under Canvas tents do). This tent costs $896 per night for a weekend in July. With taxes and fees, it would cost a whopping $1,952 for a two-night stay. 

Booking this same tent for two nights with Hyatt points would cost 158,250 points. [Editor’s note: Yiiiiikes!] That’s about 1.23 cents per point, which is well under the 1.7 cents to 2 cents per point that you can get at many traditional Hyatt hotels. 

I can’t imagine parting with that many of my Hyatt points for a tent (even a very fancy one)—especially when you could book at least three nights at the fanciest Park Hyatts anywhere in the world for fewer points. But if you really want to take a summer glamping trip to this gorgeous area and have tons of Hyatt points to spare, earning 21 plus points per dollar on a cash price may make sense for you! 

 

 

 

Sample Booking: Romantic Getaway to the Grand Canyon 

Less than 30 minutes from the South Rim entrance to the Grand Canyon National Park, this resort can help you experience the wonders of the Grand Canyon in style. The property offers lots of adventure options, dining, and activities like live music. For stargazers, you’ll love that this area has very dark and clear skies that will allow you spot lots of constellations. 

If you wanted to travel here with your partner, you could stay in the beautiful Stargazer Tent. This tent comes with a king-size bed, private bathroom, your own deck with outdoor lounge chairs, a wood-burning stove with firewood, and a night-sky viewing window above your bed. 

A two-night stay in this tent costs $820. On points, this same stay would cost 56,500 points. This is a slightly better value than the Acadia example above, at 1.45 cents per point. 

 

 

 

Sample Booking: Group Trip to Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee 

Under Canvas Great Smoky Mountains allows you to experience luxe glamping among hiking trails, wildflower meadows, and more. This property is only about ten miles from Gatlinburg if you’re looking to stay near a town to have dining options.  

If you’re traveling with an adventurous, outdoorsy group and don’t mind togetherness, you could book the Suite with Kids’ Tent. Despite the name, this tent can sleep four adults or two adults and two kids. The tent has a king bed and an adjacent tent with two twin beds. The living room also has a queen sofa bed. The tent has a private bathroom. 

With taxes and fees, this stay would cost $1,361 for 2 nights in July. That’s not too bad if you’re splitting with friends. 

This deluxe tent would cost 100,000 Hyatt points for two nights. That’s 1.36 cents per point. If you’re traveling with points-and-miles pals, you could combine Hyatt points and make this a little less costly. 

 

 

 

Bottom Line

If spending time in nature is on your summer travel list, you can burn some points—or earn them—on your stay. Glamping with Hyatt points is another, nontraditional way to use Hyatt points. Happy glamping!

 

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