Does Hilton Diamond status expire?

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.



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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).

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Number of Diamonds out there In the Oct. 18 edition of Business Travel News, Adam Burke is quoted as saying of 6.5 million active Hilton HHonors members, 9 percent are gold, while 2.5 percent are diamond.

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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.

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Hilton Diamond status is the highest elite status level you can achieve and offers additional perks like up to Suite-level space-available room upgrades, a 100% point bonus on stays, premium Wi-Fi access, a 48-hour room guarantee and even the ability to give Gold elite status to another Hilton Honors member.

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If you are an Hilton Honors guest with Diamond status, you and up to one additional registered guest in the same room will always enjoy complimentary access to the Executive Floor Lounge, even if your stay is not booked on or upgraded to the Executive Floor.

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To earn Hilton Diamond status, you'd normally need to book 42 nights or 21 stays, or earn 84,000 bonus points. With the Hilton Honors Aspire Card from American Express, however, you'll automatically earn Diamond status — the highest loyalty tier of the Hilton Honors program — once you've enrolled.

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You can earn Diamond status by staying at a Hilton property for either a total of 60 nights in a calendar year or 30 stays. Or, you could reach status by earning 120,000 Base Points, which might be the case if you stay fewer nights but at pricier hotels.

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On paper, TPG values 1 million Hilton Honors points at $6,000, which is much lower than some other programs we've looked at in this series. However, as you're going to see, there are some tricks you can use to squeeze more value out of these points.

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There are plenty of ways to keep your Hilton points from expiring. Examples of eligible activity include spending on the Hilton credit card, transferring points from another program to Hilton or shopping through the Hilton shopping portal.

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However, unlike Marriott, which offers lifetime status for each of its elite tiers, Hilton only offers lifetime status for Diamond, its highest level.

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Gold status will remain in effect until Dec. 31 of the subsequent year in which you earned it. So if you achieve Hilton Honors status in the summer of 2023, it would be good through Dec. 31, 2024.

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Hilton has a massive portfolio of hotel brands that stretch across several tiers: luxury, upper upscale, upscale, upper midscale, midscale, and timeshare.

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