Unlocked: Hilton Honors 2025 Gold, Diamond status match
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Want to enjoy perks such as free breakfast, room upgrades and access to executive lounges at hotels like Hilton, Conrad and DoubleTree by Hilton?
Then get onto the fast track to Hilton Honors Gold or Diamond status with the Hilton Honors 2025 status match promotion.
This is a fantastic opportunity to kick off the 2025 travel year.
With just a litle bit of planning ahead, the Hilton Honors 2025 status match deal will unlock elite Gold or Diamond status all the way through to March 2027 – yes, that’s almost two years of gratis status and all the benefits which come with it.
Hilton Honors 2025 status match: what you need to know
- To qualify for the Hilton Honors 2025 status match you’ll need to already hold equivalent status to Hilton Honors Gold or Diamond with another hotel loyalty program (see our list below)
- If your application to the Hilton Honors 2025 status match is successful, you’ll be given an instant 90 days of Hilton Honors Gold status so you can immediately begin to enjoy the benefits of that status
- Within that 90-day period, stay just eight nights at any Hilton property and your Hilton Honors Gold status will be locked in until March 31, 2027
- Even better: if you stay 14 nights at any Hilton property within that same 90-day period, you’ll be elevated to Hilton Honors Diamond status through to March 31, 2027
Hilton Honors 2024 status match: who is eligible?
First up, Hilton says it will offer a status match only to people who haven’t been granted a Hilton Honors status match before.
You’ll also need to hold equivalent status with a competing hotel group.
Hilton lists the following competing loyalty programs and tiers as being eligible for the Hilton Honors 2025 status match:
- Marriott Bonvoy: Gold, Platinum, Titanium, Ambassador
- World of Hyatt: Explorist, Globalist, Lifetime Globalist
- IHG One Rewards: Gold, Platinum, Diamond (note that the Hilton website still lists this option under the old tier names of IHG Rewards Gold, Spire and Platinum)
- Best Western Rewards: Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Diamond Select
- Choice Privileges: Gold, Platinum, Diamond
However, the drop-down menu on the Hilton Honors 2025 status match regsitration page allows you to specify other hotel loyalty programs – and Accor ALL Gold and Platinum are obvious contenders.
(Of course, you’ll also need to belong to the Hilton Honors program – click here to join for free).
Even if you already hold Hilton Honors Silver status, a higher level of membership in a competing hotel loyalty program will get your Hilton Honors status match underway.
But if you already hold Hilton Honors Gold status, you can’t take part in this status match to easily catapult your way to Diamond.
Hilton Honors 2025 status match: how can I apply?
If you’re already a member of Hilton Honors, click to the Hilton Honors 2025 status match page and be ready to upload proof of your status with the nominated competing loyalty program and “proof of a recent stay” with that competitor.
Here’s a top tip: if you use the HSBC Star Alliance Gold credit card to obtain complimentary United Airlines Premier Gold status, that in turn unlocks complimentary Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite status.
Then with just one stay at any property in the vast Marriott portfolio, you’ll qualify for the Hilton Honors Gold status match.
Applicants for Hilton’s 2025 status match should allow for anywhere from 7-24 business days to have their status match granted – and once that happens, the clock starts ticking on your 90 day trial period.
This means the optimal time to apply for the status match is around 3-4 weeks before your next trip and potential Hilton stay.
Importantly, those Hilton stays must be booked directly through Hilton or the hotel, or with a travel agent with a physical ‘real world’ presence, including company travel managers – stays reserved through online booking sites don’t count for this status match.
The top perks of Hilton Honors Gold status
Your 90-day Hilton Honors 2024 status challenge period kicks off with instant Hilton Honors Gold status, and that’s a pretty appealing place to start.
Some of those gilded Hilton Gold benefits you’ll enjoy include:
- room upgrades, subject to availability
- US$25 daily food and beverage credit (at properties inside the US)
- complimentary continental breakfast (at properties outside the US)
- earn 18 Hilton Honors points per US$1 spent (at most Hilton group properties)
We should also note that you can automatically receive Hilton Honors Gold status if you hold Virgin Australia Velocity Gold status (while Velocity Platinums automatically qualify for Hilton Honors Diamond), as well as through an American Express Platinum Card.
The top perks of Hilton Honors Diamond status
If you set your sights on Hilton Honors Diamond status by clocking up 14 nights during the 90-day Hilton Honors 2024 status challenge period, you’ll be in line for additional benefits such as:
- room upgrades, subject to availability (and you’ll be at the very front of the queue for those upgrades)
- complimentary breakfast
- access to the executive lounge (at any Hilton with a lounge)
- earn 20 Hilton Honors points per US$1 spent (at most Hilton group properties)
- free higher-speed WiFi
- the ability to gift Gold status to any other Hilton Honors member
Given that it usually takes 28 nights to reach Hilton Honors Gold and 42 nights for Diamond, the Hilton Honors 2025 status match promotion represents a true fast track to obtaining Hilton Honors status.
11 Oct 2023
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Hilton doesn't have a match for IHG Diamond Elite - just the old tiers that were discontinued.
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