Reply To: Hotels.com loyalty transfer going to OneKey

[louie]

Should anyone be wondering about their status moving over from hotels.com to OneKey, I found this on their FAQs:

” We will make sure that any eligible activity¹ across your accounts count towards your tier status. (*Note: the email address across your accounts must match for your activity to count.)

Existing Hotels.com Rewards and Expedia Rewards members will have their eligible activity counted towards their One Key tier status. To calculate this, we will either take your calendar year 2023 activity OR your activity from 1 January 2024 to the date you join One Key, whichever is higher.

If you are already a member of One Key elsewhere, any eligible trip elements from that region will be added into your account, which can get you even closer to reaching the next tier.

For 2025, any trip elements collected in 2024 will count towards your 2025 status. This includes any trip elements collected in 2024 before the date you become a One Key member from eligible activity on Expedia and Hotels.com.

Tier status will be earned on a calendar year basis, from 1 Jan to 31 Dec. Your status for the upcoming year will be determined according to the number of trip elements you have collected by 31 Dec and your progress will reset as of 1 Jan.

1‘Eligible activity’ means: a booking made from an Expedia Rewards UK and Hotels.com Rewards UK, while signed in, account that: a) For Expedia Rewards, a booking that would have qualified for a trip element in accordance with the Expedia Rewards UK terms in place before the launch of One Key, and b) For Hotels.com Rewards , an eligible activity is a completed stay at a property of more than £20 (excluding taxes and fees and any discounts or reward nights applied) per night stayed.” and

“The more trip elements you book, the more status you earn. Trip elements are the different parts of a trip—One Key takes every trip element (worth £20 or more, excluding taxes and fees) into account and rewards you for it. Trip elements include:

Trip elements include:

1 air ticket (one-way or return flights)

1 hotel room night (each night counts as an element)

1 night in a holiday rental

1-day car hire

1 return-trip ground transportation ticket (airport shuttles, transfers, etc.)

1 activity ticket (a private tour, a theme park ticket, etc.)

Here’s what you need to book to qualify for each tier:

Blue – just sign up, it’s free!

Silver – 5 trip elements within a year

Gold – 15 trip elements within a year

Platinum – 30 trip elements within a year

So, for example, if you booked 2 nights in a hotel and a 3-day car hire, you’d earn 5 trip elements—enough to reach Silver tier status in one trip”

I’ve been demoted from Gold to Silver….