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Hilton rolling out ‘keep your Diamond status with 1 stay’ – check ‘My Offers’ online

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Hilton is rolling out its ‘keep your 2022 status’ promotion to more people – including me.

You may have received an email about this yesterday.

If you didn’t, you may still be targeted. I saw the offer under ‘My Offers’ on the Hilton website last week, and indeed had completed a stay – although it hasn’t posted yet – before the email arrived.

You can check ‘My Offers’ here. Our full review of Hilton Honors is here.

Click here for a complete guide to getting hotel elite status from UK credit cards.

Hilton keep Diamand

What’s the deal?

As you can see from the image above, if you had Diamond Elite status in Hilton Honors last year but did not retain it, Hilton is basically giving it back to you for minimal effort.

You need to do just one stay before 31st March 2023 and your status will be rolled over. It will run until 31st March 2024.

This is a complete no-brainer if you are impacted. Even if you end up doing a mattress run at your nearest Hampton for £75 or so, you’d get your money back on one stay later in the year if it got you executive lounge access and a decent upgrade.

In theory there are variants of this offer which require two or three stays, although I don’t know anyone who received one.

If you had Gold Elite status and lost it, I believe there is a similar offer with three variants, requiring either one, two or three stays. I wouldn’t necessary do a mattress run to achieve this, since free breakfast – the key benefit of Gold – isn’t likely to save you as much as the cost of pointless hotel nights. Of course, if you need a hotel stay anyway ….

What’s the small print?

Here are the rules, which you can see under ‘My Offers’.

HIlton Diamond one stay

The only question is over whether a reward night would count or not. I am inclined to believe it would but it isn’t specifically stated.

If you didn’t get an email, you may still be targeted

Hilton seems to be rolling out these emails slowly, possibly to test the results and possibly to control any rush to book its cheapest hotels!

If you click here and log in it will bring up the ‘My Offers’ page of hilton.com.

You are looking for this:

Conclusion

If you thought that your Hilton Honors Diamond status was gone for good, you may have a chance to retain it for minimal cost. It is well worth doing so.

For comparison:

  • Radisson, Hyatt and IHG are not (yet?) offering any deals to people who lost their status
How to earn Hilton Honors points and status from UK credit cards

How to earn Hilton Honors points and status from UK credit cards (April 2024)

There are various ways of earning Hilton Honors points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses.

Do you know that holders of The Platinum Card from American Express receive FREE Hilton Honors Gold status for as long as they hold the card?  It also comes with Marriott Bonvoy Gold, Radisson Rewards Premium and MeliaRewards Gold status.  We reviewed American Express Platinum in detail here and you can apply here.

The Platinum Card from American Express

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Did you know that the Virgin Atlantic credit cards are a great way of earning Hilton Honors points? Two Virgin Points can be converted into three Hilton Honors points. The Virgin Atlantic cards are the only Visa or Mastercard products in the UK which can indirectly earn Hilton Honors points. You can apply here.

You can also earn Hilton Honors points indirectly with:

and for small business owners:

The conversion rate from American Express to Hilton points is 1:2.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which can be used to earn Hilton Honors points. 

(Want to earn more hotel points?  Click here to see our complete list of promotions from the major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.)

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Comments (118)

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  • Mikee says:
    27 Jan27 January 04:37

    I dropped from Diamond to Silver earlier this month and checked my Offers page but no fast track offer back to Diamond. Checked my account page and I’m back to Diamond…..bizarre….but not complaining. Haven’t had any stays since I dropped either.

  • Dominic says:
    27 Jan27 January 05:12

    Insane offer – probably won’t motivate me to do 60 nights (just too easy to get Platinum with Marriott if you have the Bonvoy card), but will mean I do stays with Hilton this year that I would not have otherwise done.

  • Ian says:
    27 Jan27 January 05:17

    Too many Diamonds already. This is given away like confetti these days. Most US credit cards have it free.

    This scheme has needed a level above for a long time.

    Whilst it is nice for those who gain it via these methods, it devalues the scheme for those who earn it via stays. How does a hotel pick between multiple Diamonds for an upgrade?

    I am now considering switching to Marriott even though I will have to pay for breakfast as a lowly Gold.

    I will probably be able to retain Diamond for next year as I carried over 39 nights.

    Just my thoughts, although similar I think to Rob given his comments on the Marriott article. He lost out there, but benefits here.

    • Ian M says:
      27 Jan27 January 06:05

      Agreed. Surprised Hilton doesn’t have a status level similar to Marriott’s Ambassador, which you can only earn by actually staying in their hotels and spending a decent wedge of money

      • meta says:
        27 Jan27 January 07:49

        You get Platinum Status just by holding US Marriott card, so it’s not just hilton.

        Some Marriott hotels have now started displaying at check in how many elite guests they have. There won’t be any upgrades for Platinum for a while unless you use SNAs

        • BJ says:
          27 Jan27 January 09:09

          Last year I had a long chat with the manager of a London DT, he told me on an average night more than half his guests are ether Gold or Diamond and went on to discuss the challenges that presents. I doubr he and other managers will be happy at all with this latest development. Something will have to give, my guess is that next year free breakfast will be ditched chain-wide and upgrades further restricted, or a new tier introduced. Lifetime members and those earning status the hard way deserve better than this.

  • Olly says:
    27 Jan27 January 05:34

    It’s showing as active for me even though the ts and cs state one must have accepted the email invite prior to Dec 31st, which I most definitely did not

    • Robm says:
      27 Jan27 January 14:17

      Same here – not sure I understand what has gone on.

      • Rob says:
        27 Jan27 January 14:38

        The email specifically states that you don’t need to activate the offer as Hilton has already activated it for you.

  • Olly says:
    27 Jan27 January 05:39

    Will be most interested to hear if a reward night triggers it

    • Swiss Jim says:
      27 Jan27 January 07:56

      Who knows? HfPers insights aside. Why would anyone risk it? Offer is crazy – I move back from Silver to Diamond.

      Terms say status runs for calendar year in which gain status and all of following calendar year. That I doubt. Let’s see – 31 March 2024 more likely.

    • Alan says:
      28 Jan28 January 10:41

      @Olly – yep my reward stay last week did the trick!

  • strickers says:
    27 Jan27 January 05:44

    Showing as active for me, I’ve had one stay but there’s no information on how to actually achieve it?

    • strickers says:
      27 Jan27 January 05:47

      That’s weird, just opened the app and it had a splash screen saying I’m keeping diamond in 2023. For the record I’ve done one stay this year and it was using points.

  • Chris says:
    27 Jan27 January 05:47

    Same here. No email received but able to activate the offer. Just no reference to how many stays are needed to keep gold.

    • Will says:
      27 Jan27 January 07:03

      Number of stays required is in the email title only afaik. Hope the email comes.

  • Jon says:
    27 Jan27 January 06:01

    I didn’t get the email, but I logged into my account just now to see if the offer was there (it wasn’t) and much to my surprise saw “Great news! You’re keeping your Diamond status in 2023.” This was on the web site – nothing in the app, although a week or two ago the app (I think – I very rarely log in to the web site, so I don’t think it was there) showed a message that I was dropping down to Gold (soft landing, presumably – didn’t do enough last year to qualify for it). I’ve done 1 night / 1 stay this year, on new year’s eve, checking out on Jan 1st – maybe that triggered it without me needing to register 🤷‍♂️. It was a reward stay, FWIW.

    The small print shown in the article would appear to suggest that status earned through this offer will stick for the whole of 2024 also, by my reading… (unless they’re treating ‘maintain’ as different to ‘earn’, but then the entire clause would be unnecessary, surely). Guess we’ll find out this time next year 😉

    • Olly says:
      27 Jan27 January 10:44

      “Once a member maintains Elite status, the member may keep such status until March 31, 2024.”

      • Jon says:
        27 Jan27 January 13:03

        The small print shown in the graphic in the article says that once a member maintains status they keep it for “the year in which the Elite tier was earned and the subsequent calendar year.” Possibly ambiguous, as status could have been earned last year or even the year before, but assuming they mean you earn it in 2023 by doing the one stay, then the subsequent calendar year is the whole of 2024…

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