The highest Hilton Honors status is Diamond. Diamond status will afford you benefits including space-available room upgrades, 100% points earning bonus on stays, elite status gifting and more.
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Hilton elite status is typically valid for the year that you've earned it and the year afterward. For example, if you earn Diamond status in March 2023, you'll hold it through the rest of 2023 and all of 2024.
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 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.
To qualify, you'll have to stay at least seven nights within a 90-day window to keep Gold status. If you stay at least 12 nights, you'll climb all the way up to Diamond status.
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.
Number of Diamonds out thereIn 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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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.
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.
If you have Hilton Honors Gold or Diamond elite status, you'll usually get complimentary continental breakfast at hotels abroad and a daily food and beverage credit at hotels within the U.S. The food and beverage credit at many U.S. properties and Motto by Hilton worldwide often isn't enough to cover breakfast.
Another key difference between Diamond and Gold status is that Diamond members are guaranteed Executive Lounge access at applicable properties, even when you aren't upgraded to an Executive Level room.