While perks for preferred customers on airlines — especially upgrades — are getting harder to come by, hotel elites have a whole world of enticing benefits at their fingertips, including bonus points and those coveted suite upgrades.
Qualifying for elite status requires a full year of planning and concentration, and the minute you qualify, its likely already time to start thinking about next year.
Similar to airline elite status , there are two sets of dates to keep in mind when thinking about hotel elite status. For the major hotel chains, this is simply the calendar year, meaning you have from January 1 to December 31 to complete the requirements for a given level.
This is your membership term, and each hotel chain has its own policy along these lines. As you can see, it breaks down pretty evenly into two groups. Marriott and Hyatt take the more generous approach, giving you status for a full 14 months after the year in which you earn it, while Hilton and IHG only give you one full year in addition to the year in which you qualify. Hilton does make up for this by offering the ability to roll over elite-qualifying nights to the following year , effectively giving you a fast track to requalify.
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Please enter a valid email address Please check mailing preferences. All qualifying nights are eligible to roll over. Any elite qualifying nights earned through a promotional offer i. To achieve the annual Milestone Bonuses the member will need to have stayed at least 20 nights within the calendar year and elite rollover nights will not count toward that total. For the 30, Hilton Honors Bonus Points milestone at 60 nights, a member will need to have stayed at least 60 nights within that calendar year.
These elite rollover nights will also not count toward any other type of stay bonuses or status offers e. Do the elite rollover nights count toward achieving the gifting Gold or Diamond status benefit? The elite rollover nights will only count toward a member achieving the next tier status.
To achieve the gifting status benefit the member will need to have stayed at least 30 nights for gifting Gold or at least 60 nights for gifting Diamond within the calendar year and elite rollover nights will not count toward that total. Will Diamond Members still be able to give the gift of status to a friend or family member in ? Yes — gifting status will remain a Diamond benefit, but it now requires less nights!
Once reaching 30 nights in , a Member will be able to gift Gold status; upgrading that status to Diamond will be achieved once they stay 60 nights in the year. How many gifts of Gold or Diamond status can I earn and provide within one calendar year? A member can only earn one gift of Gold or one gift of Diamond within one calendar year. If a member is gifting Diamond status, the gift must be given to the same member who received the gift of Gold status per calendar year.
If the member did not elect to gift Gold status after they hit 30 nights and before they reached 60 nights, then the member can simply gift Diamond status to any member of their choice once they achieve 60 nights. Example: Once you reach 30 nights in , then you can gift Gold status to one other member. If no gift of Gold status was provided in , then you can simply gift Diamond status to any member of your choice after hitting 60 nights. For one stay, how many rooms will count toward achieving eligible nights to unlock the ability to gift elite status?
Earning nights toward gifting status will follow the same rules as earning nights toward elite tier status — i. Example: If you book two rooms at the same hotel for a one night stay — you will earn Hilton Honors Points on both of the rooms, but you will only receive one night credit total toward achieving the ability to gift elite status.
Yes, if members qualify to gift status the following year then they can give it to the same member each year. Members will have to re-elect that specific member who is receiving the status each year, as the gift will not automatically carry over. No, customers can only have one Hilton Honors account, so you can only gift status to another Hilton Honors Member.
Does the member who received gifted Diamond status automatically get the ability to gift status to another member? No, members with gifted Diamond status are not automatically eligible to gift status. The qualification to gift status is to reach 30 or 60 elite qualifying nights within the calendar year and only those who achieve that many nights are eligible.
Once members achieve the gifting status qualifications, they are immediately able to elect which member will receive the gifted status by visiting this page and completing the gifting status form. If the status was successfully gifted, a confirmation email will be sent to the recipient and the gifting member within 5 business days.
If a member has already gifted Gold status and achieves 60 nights, they should not complete an additional submission — the gifted status will automatically be upgraded to Diamond within 5 business days of hitting 60 nights. Gifting members and recipients will receive an email once the recipient has been upgraded to Diamond status. Members must receive consent from the recipient to provide their information to receive gifted elite status.
The receiving member must be a Hilton Honors Member. After earning a gift of Gold or Diamond status, members will have until January 31st of the following calendar year to use that gift of elite status. Members will be able to use the gift of status as soon as they reach the required amount of qualified nights in a calendar year.
Example: If you reach 30 nights in July , then you will have until January 31, to elect which Member receives Gold status. Once a status has been gifted to another member, no change can be made during the same year to remove or change that status.
If a member completes the gifting status submission form multiple times, the first submission processed will determine who receives the gifted status - so each member will need to consider who to upgrade prior to submitting the form. The gifted status will last days from the date the gift was applied to the recipient's account. If a member receives Gold status and then is upgraded to Diamond status, the day expiration period resets to the date the Diamond status was applied to the member's account.
Example: If a member receives a gift of Gold status on June 1st, , then the Gold status would expire on June 1st, If that same member was automatically upgraded to Diamond status on August 1st, , then the Diamond status would expire on August 1st, Status can be gifted to a current Gold or Diamond Member.
If a member did not qualify to maintain their current Gold or Diamond status for the next calendar year, the gifted status will extend beyond the requalification period in April.
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