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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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  • S says:

    I was due to lose gold at the end of March, but checked the URL this morning to see I had the offer to retain it. But it doesn’t actually say how many nights are required to trigger it in the T&Cs or the main offer page. Is this normal? If it helps I’m using the mobile site on my phone but I wouldn’t have thought that ought to make a difference – the number of days should be fairly obvious in the text!

    • Steven says:

      You should get an email specifying the number of nights required – check your junk inbox.

      • S says:

        Nope, nothing yet. I registered on the page before I posted my comment earlier, so will see if something turns up. I have need of a night or two in a hotel between now and 31/3 anyhow, which I’ve not yet booked, so it would be good to know!

        • Joseph says:

          I am gold, didn’t get an email but offer already seems to be saved. URL in the fine print seems to imply two stays to retain?

  • secretsquirrell says:

    Not worth a mattress run one night for gold? What, have you seen the price of breakfast at the Conrad Maldives?

  • mkcol says:

    My email saying I needed to do 1 night to retain Diamond (instead of plummeting to Silver) stated I was auto-enrolled.

    • Nick says:

      Thanks mkcol! That helps a lot, if that’s the case. I’ll probably then just make a stay even if I don’t get the email (I have the offer showing already).

  • Safety Card says:

    I got this for my Diamond Status. No email, but available on the above link.

    I did a stay on Tuesday night in a Hilton, but assuming this won’t trigger the bonus? Will it be triggered by bookings that have already been made or will I need to make a new booking?

  • Safety Card says:

    I just checked my account and it shows

    “Congratulations on reaching Diamond! You’ve stayed 1 night this year.”

    So it seems my stay on Tuesday night has triggered this bonus in retrospect.

  • Dirtyneedlebluesky says:

    Nice – thanks for pointing this out. I see an email dropped last night (auto-registered as well). This has made my day!!! At this rate if they have lifetime status we’ll all soon be qualified for that!

  • Paul says:

    Once everyone is elite, no one is elite

    • rob keane says:

      It’s not about a title “elite”, its about free breakfast and lounge access, and they can’t easily change diamond benefits mid-stream without seriously upsetting those that earned diamond the hard way.

      And for the price of 1 reward night stay…what is there to lose ?

  • patrick says:

    A most pleasing start to the day. One stay at the beginning of the year and my account shows this:

    great news!
    You’re keeping your Diamond status in 2023.Enjoy another year of perks including 100% Bonus Points on every stay.

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