Reply To: Amex Platinum – how long for hotel status to be processed?

[Rob]

To make it go quickly, you should join Hilton Honors first and give Amex that account number to upgrade. If you tell Amex to open a fresh account for you because you don’t have one, it takes longer and – more importantly – good luck getting Amex or Hilton to give you the log-in details and password for the account created for you.

Same rule for the other hotel schemes too.