To gift status, the members has to share the Gold or Diamond claim code with a friend and family member. The friend must login to the elite status gifting landing page using their Honors account credentials and then enter the claim code. Once verified, the member will have elite status for the next 365 days.
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Once you reach 60 nights we email you a claim code to share with a friend or family member. Didn't receive an email with a code to share? Just call 1-800-4HONORS with your name and Hilton Honors number to claim your gift of Gold status for another lucky traveler.
Hilton Honors accounts are available for individuals only. The only exception is for spouses who jointly own a timeshare through the Hilton Grand Vacations Club.
To qualify, you must complete 30 stays, stay 60 nights or earn 120,000 base points in a calendar year. However, primary cardholders of the Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card (see rates and fees) enjoy complimentary Diamond status as a perk of their card.
If you missed out on extending your Hilton Honors elite status for this year, you could still have a chance to do so with just one stay. Hilton has a “Tier Last Call 2023 Promotion”, giving select members the option to enjoy their elite status for one more year.
With these transfer ratios, you're not getting great value from your Hilton Honors points. For example, frequent flyer website The Points Guy values Hilton points at 0.6 cents each, which means the 180,000 points earned from the welcome bonus offer on the Hilton Amex Aspire Card is worth $1,080.
You can book a hotel room for someone else using your credit card as long as you list that person as the guest on the reservation. The person whose hotel room you book with your credit card will need to provide a photo ID when checking in, along with a credit card that has their name on it for incidentals.
Yes, you can book a room for someone else using your Hilton Honors account. You can also pool points with others or gift points to someone else to book their own room or use in other ways.
If you have the Hilton Surpass card or the Hilton Business Amex card, you can spend $40,000 in a calendar year to get Diamond status. You can also book 60 nights, 30 stays, or earn 120,000 base points (in 2022, the requirements are either 42 nights, 21 stays, or 84,000 base points).
Once you have reached a certain elite tier, you may keep your status for the calendar year in which the elite tier was earned and the subsequent calendar year. To make it easier to keep your elite tier status, reward stays count toward elite tier qualification.
If you don't plan on staying at Hilton properties at least once per year, it's not worth obtaining Gold or Diamond status, even if you're just getting it through a credit card. It may also not be worth it if you typically stay at limited-service properties where upgrades are unlikely and breakfast is free to all.