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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.

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 ….

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.

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 2025)

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

There are two dedicated Hilton Honors debit cards. These are especially attractive when spending abroad due to the 0% or 0.5% FX fee, depending on card.

You also receive FREE Hilton Honors status for as long as you hold the debit cards – Gold status with the Plus card and Silver status with the basic card. This is a great reason to apply even if you rarely use it.

We reviewed the Hilton Honors Plus Debit Card here and the Hilton Honors Debit Card here.

You can apply for either card here.

NEW: Hilton Honors Plus Debit

10,000 bonus points, Hilton Gold status and NO FX fees Read our full review

NEW: Hilton Honors Debit

2,500 bonus points, Hilton Silver status and 0.5% FX fees Read our full review

There is another way of getting Hilton Honors status, and earning Hilton Honors points, from a payment card.

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

80,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large fee Read our full review

You can also earn Hilton Honors points indirectly with:

and for small business owners:

The conversion rate from American Express to Hilton Honors 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.

Comments (117)

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  • Nick says:

    I have the offer showing on my diamond account as an ‘Active Offer’, but no email yet.

    The T&C say you need to “register to participate using the same e-mail address associated with the promotional invitation…”, so do I assume I’m registered, even if I don’t receive the email?

    I guess I’ll just wait for now and see what develops and decide later.

    • Nick G says:

      Me neither, but the t and c say

      Eligible members must register for promotion within the Promotion Period January 1, 2023 to March 31, 2023.

      Which you have if it’s in your offers?

  • Nick G says:

    I’ve got the offer for competing one stay to retain gold. I slightly disagree with Rob on this one. I’m going to do a mattress run for £76 for one night to trigger it. I think free breakfast at some Hilton’s I’ve stayed at over the past year (x2 adults and x1 child) is worth it. Never mind free upgrades and one trip to London free access to the lounge for having to wait at check in. Some of the hotels, albeit the prices are fairly steep are about £20/breakfast. For our family I’ve nearly saved that in one mattress run.

    Plus if we do a Waldorf for example or Middle East hotel in October which is the current plan free breakfast will do very nicely.

  • Michael C says:

    Mine just said “good news – gold extended”.
    Btw never clicked on benefits before – every one by default was for b/fast except HGI?!

  • Will says:

    Autoenrolled in gold 1 stay required

  • Joe says:

    I have 3 stays required but my account is still homed in US from when I lived there – also have 1-2 reward stays booked between now and 31st March.

  • Crafty says:

    Do we know if it’s one stay from when the email was sent, or in practice, will a stay earlier in 2023 have “pre-triggered” anyway?

    If anyone manages to find out how we know when the offer is fulfilled, do please share.

  • BrianS says:

    Booked a paid stay on 11th Jan and during that stay on my app it said it was dropping to gold in March.

    Did not receive an e mail about this offer and completed one further stay last week (reward) and now on my account page it says good news – diamond extended for 2023. So in conclusion did not have to register for this and hard to say if my paid stay or reward stay triggered it.

    Very generous and surprising offer.

  • Frank says:

    Very annoying for those who did stays to actually earn the status. Ah well win some you lose some.

    • The Streets says:

      Exactly – I’m with you Frank. Would be nice for those who did earn it to be awarded an extension to March 2025 with one stay

    • BrianS says:

      Personally think HH loyalty scheme is too diluted and I’ll confess I don’t make enough stays for Diamond but always seem to end up with it via an offer like this. On top of that US residents can easily obtain it via credit cards.

      A tier for those who actually complete the required stays would be beneficial – similar to Bonvoy Ambassador.

    • Paul says:

      I semi agree with you here. As a 8 year diamond, who has retained it via paid stays it would annoy me too. However, things have changed in the last few years due to travel restrictions and also the hassle that goes with travel from the UK side (ie strikes and airport chaos in the UK). I wouldnt have made it to diamond and was about to drop out. I now see this offer and I will reconsider my 2023 plans, as I was thinking of ditching hilton altogether.

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