Can Hyatt owners book Interval Getaways at Hyatt properties?

Hyatt Residence Club owners have a variety of ways to exchange their week / points into various other properties.  As mentioned in other posts, the Hyatt Residence Club is a hybrid system so you can either use your deeded week or convert your week into points.  

When you have points, you can either exchange your points internally through the Hyatt Residence Club for other Hyatt Residence Club properties or exchange those points through its trading partner, Interval International, for other timeshares. 

The one restriction to Hyatt owners is that you cannot use Interval International to exchange into other Hyatt properties.  Interval International blocks that inventory so a Hyatt Residence Club owner wanted to use points to trade into other Hyatt properties, they must use the internal trading system.

While this isn't a huge deal, it is meaningful.  This is because the point requirements to exchange through Interval can be much less than trading through Hyatt internal system. 

For example, in Interval International, if you wanted to reserve a week in a studio during the highest demand travel season, this would require you to use 430 points.  In the Hyatt Residence Club system, if you wanted to reserve a studio unit during the highest demand season, Diamond season, this would require 750 points.  

This difference in points is almost double.  Due to this difference, it can make sense to exchange through Interval instead of internally with Hyatt but the catch is that you cannot reserve Hyatt units through this method since Interval blocks this inventory. 

As a result, I generally reserve Marriott units, Four Season Units or other high quality units through Interval using my Hyatt points instead of booking through the internal Hyatt system. 

This provides me with a better use of my points but you cannot stay at Hyatt properties. I like Hyatt properties a lot and tend to gravitate to many of their hotel properties.  I have stayed at plenty of the Hyatt Residence Club properties and they are all very luxurious and of high quality. 

The blocking of Hyatt inventory for Hyatt owners is frustrating but understandable. However, a question came up on whether I could rent Hyatt weeks through Interval Getaways. 

As I have discussed here, Interval Getaways allow you to book weeks using cash rather than points and do not have any requirements to sit through any timeshare presentations.  The pricing for these weeks are generally fantastic and almost impossible to beat when comparing these prices to standard hotel rates. 

Due to the favorable pricing, I wanted to see available inventory for Hyatt properties to rent instead of Hyatt.  I tried to search using all of the resort codes for Hyatt (HRP, HNS, HWP, HYS, HSH, HYK, HYN, HBK, HMS, HSL, HYP, HYA, HCC, HYB, HYI, HRA) and nothing came up. 

I wasn't sure whether this inventory was purposefully blocked or whether there was simply no availability.   I called Interval to check and was told that there is no block on Interval Getaways for Hyatt owners since you are paying cash instead of exchanging your points.

However, upon further research, I found out that this was not in fact the case and Interval blocks ALL inventory, regardless of if it is exchange inventory or getaway inventory for Hyatt properties for Hyatt owners. 

This is disappointing as Hyatt properties are some of the nicest but I guess the reason for blocking this inventory is that Hyatt provides the same functionality within their internal system albeit for higher points and cash requirements.

Overall, I think the Hyatt system is one of the best currently although the Hyatt Pure Points systems is on the verge of a complete roll out.  Time will tell whether the new Hyatt Pure Points system will be as advantageous but I will be sure to provide a post concerning the new system once all the details are unveiled. 

For those of you who want to book Hyatt properties through Interval, the only way to do so would be to be a non-Hyatt owner or have a second account for Interval that is not linked to your Hyatt account.

Can you see Hyatt inventory through Interval Getaways?  If so, post the availability below so that everyone can see pricing and availability.