Hilton Honors updated late last week the elite benefits grid that you can find on their website clarifying resort fees, breakfast that applies to stays at ALL hotels and Diamond member upgrades.
Seems that Hilton Honors here is sending a message to Marriott Rewards that is struggling with its program at the moment and whose members are furious with the failing merger (especially SPG ones) that continuous to have never ending “technical issues”.
You can access Hilton Honors updated grid here.
READ MORE: Hilton Honors Rate & Bonus Points And Miles Promotions
Here’s the old benefits grid:
Here the new benefits grid:
Here Hilton Honors clarifies that there are no resort fees on award stays period (Marriott Rewards charges them and can be up to $50 or more per night).
Gold and Diamond members are eligible for breakfast for two at all Hilton Honors affiliated hotels (where it is a complete and utter mess at Marriott hotels where you need to have PhD to understand all the rules and even then carry a cheat sheet – read more here).
The Gold and Diamond member upgrades are also better spelled out here. Diamond members are eligible for suite upgrades while Gold members can be upgraded up to executive rooms.
Just a reminder that Marriott Rewards ended their Rollover Nights while Hilton Honors launched them.
Conclusion
There are no additional benefits here but easier to understand for new program members to what they are eligible for.
You have to keep in mind, however, that Hilton Honors doesn’t have well defined late check out like Marriott and Hyatt have for their top tier members (4PM). Hilton’s is based on availability and not guaranteed that I don’t like.
I know that breakfast is very important for many (I tend to skip it on most morning like today) and you can be guaranteed to get it at all Hilton Honors affiliated brands as Gold or Diamond.
it’d better check if this new rule applies for Hilton Village Waikiki too. Last month they wanted charge me continental breakfast $30-40/day/person even as I am hilton diamond, they tryed to push a $10/day/person for a starbuck row or breakfast kit(served on the table) in one specific restaurant. The checkin desk didnt allowed me talk to a manager to claim, then I asked for some channel to claim and desk answered no. Then I found one desk manager in the checkin saloon (so big, so crowded) and talked a lot about the bad behavior and that the charge for breakfast wasnt in the Hilton page when I booked. Then “as an exception” they honored the continental breakfast.
Same kind of thing happened to me at Hilton Doubletree Resort in Key West. I was “given” breakfast in lieu of an upgrade. Diamond status here.
For me, Hilton honors is a garbage program, any decent redemption’s (in US at least) start from a minimum of 30000 points/night. I have 110K collected over last 5 years, I continue to find any good property to stay of max 3 nights – not to mention the “premium rooms” cost 50% extra…Ridiculous !
No Thank you, I’ll stick to Marriott and IHG
That is because the corporate tax rate is so high in the USA as well as legal liability. Lawyers on every street corner in the USA. More expensive to do business here for the hotels Marriott plan in the USA is the same too by the way, I have both.
Effective corporate tax rate is less than 20% in the US.
Sounds like you need to take advantage of all the Hilton points programs. I can easily earn 100k points in 10 stays plus it’s definitely easier to reach status levels than every other program. Maybe you’re stuck on brand loyalty, I guess?
You raise a good point. Unfortunately, the US based redemption for hilton has severity curtailed after devaluations. Marriott on the other hands continues to have lots of sweet spots for redemption. For instance, We used 40K Marriott points in Montana last year for a 4 night stay, when the ongoing room rate/night was $220. IHG is even more generous, we had 2 cheap stays and racked up 75K with multiple stacking promos, worth for at least 3 nights in a decent hotel.
For me, the brand loyalty is only as good as a cheap redemption.
Funny thing, that, I was just looking at going to Montana and wondering where Marriott was getting off with minimum 25k points a night in the town I wanted to visit. IHG was 25k minimum as well.
It was kalispell, MT. Springhill suites close to glacier national park
Wow, didn’t expect a hotel close to a national park to be cheaper than one farther from it. Missoula is where I was looking at for 25k.
Windbag Miles posted a couple of days ago about getting an $18 credit toward breakfast at the Conrad Chicago. Apparently the breakfast rule is not universally enforced.