Hilton Honors has updated the Terms & Conditions governing its guest loyalty program (yet again) effective February 1, 2019.
The two changes or clarifications are dealing with rollover nights that weren’t thought or communicated clearly enough back in 2018 when they were launched.
Richard Branson purchased with partners Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas back in March 2018 and are currently in a process of converting it to a Virgin Hotels (expect the conversion to be complete sometime in 2020).
Hilton made an announce yesterday that this hotel would become part of its Curio Collection and Honors loyalty program once open.
Hilton Honors launched back in December their Asia-Pacific up to 35% off sale for stays through September 30, 2019 that is ending on Saturday this week (February 2).
The sale offers rates that are anywhere 5% to 25% off of Best Available Rates (BAR) and Hilton Honors members are eligible for an additional 10% off (excluding Greater China).
Hilton Honors made several changes to its program in early 2018 (read more here) and one of the enhancements was the ability of certain Diamond members to gift Gold or Diamond status.
Members that reach 60 nights during their membership year can gift Gold status and once they hit 100 nights Diamond (if they gifted God previously this status will be upgraded). The deadline to gift the status based on the 2018 membership is on thursday this week (January 31).
Hilton Honors launched back in November up to 25% off Winter Weekends sale for stays in Europe, Middle East and Africa through May 29, 2019 that ends on Thursday (January 31).
Hilton Honors members can save up to 25% off while the non-member discount is capped at 15%. Although this is a weekend sale, some hotels may offer midweek availability as well.
Hampton Inn hotels in China were non-Hilton Honors participating likely due to franchise agreement with the local developer.
We reported on January 3 (read more here) that these hotels had become participating per update on program Terms and conditions the day before. Now, Hilton Honors sent out an email above to select program members on Friday.
Hilton Honors is following Hyatt that introduced confirmed suite upgrades at the time of booking and Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) that introduced Suite Night Awards (confirmable within five days of arrival).
Hilton Honors launched a pilot on January 21st and invited small number of qualified Diamond members (first leaked on FT post here) and TPG got confirmation of the program on Friday (read more here).
Hilton Honors launched on Monday 20% off Flash Sale for stays in select cities in the North East through April 29, 2019 that must be booked by Friday (January 25).
The sale includes cities such as Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston and New York.
It is already more than three weeks past the January 1st and February is around the corner. Hilton Honors, however, appears to be still counting our stays and nights from last year to determine status for 2019.
Hilton has some time to get the tracker updated before the 2018 status is downgraded for those that didn’t have enough stays/nights.
Hilton Honors has launched new 20% off Flash Sale for stays in select cities in the North East through April 29, 2019 that must be booked by January 25.
The sale includes cities such as Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston and New York.
We (Rafflecopter widget) randomly chose the winner of the 100,000 Hilton Honors Points points giveaway that ended on Friday night.
The person whose name is displayed below will receive an email from us on Monday with instructions how to redeem the prize.
Hilton Honors has launched yet another Gold fast offer and this time for members that “book” through travel advisors (not really required). You need to consume the usual 4 stays within 90 days to successfully complete the challenge.
Member that sign up for this offer and complete it will have the status through early 2021 per the T&Cs.
To celebrate the Points Unlimited-promotion (read more here) year-long Hilton Honors 60% bonus for buying points (read more here) + 100% bonus sale (read more here), Winter Weekends sale for stays in Europe, Middle East & Africa (read more here) and Asia-Pacific Sale (read more here) we launched on Monday a giveaway for 100,000 points!
The giveaway is about to close and you must enter by 11:59PM EST on Friday (January 18, 2019). We will announce the winner on Sunday.
