Hilton Honors

[2025.11.18 Update] The official annoucement page is now live: https://www.hilton.com/en/p/hilton-honors/tier-updates/ The new tier Diamond Reserve will have the following benefits: Confirmable Upgrade Reward: allows a Member to lock in an upgrade for a premium room or a suite at the time booking. A single CUR is valid for a stay up to 7-nights. Applicable to any upgradeable room up to…
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All other hotel chains let you easily manage free night certificates online or in app; however, Hilton is always different about this issue. Previously, you not only can not book with a free night certificate online, but you also can not see how many of the certificates you have left and what their expiration dates are! You have to call…
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Introduction Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc. is one of the largest multinational hotel conglomerates in the world, comprised of 5,200 properties across 14 hotel brands. Brands owned by Hilton include Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Canopy, Curio, Hilton, DoubleTree, Embassy suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Hilton Grand Vacations, Waldorf Astoria, Tru, and Tapestry. In 2017, Hilton’s guest loyalty…
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[Update 2017.5] – This post has been edited from the original version as reader Kan noted a math error in the original post. Upon review, Hilton actually awarded points based on an award stay immediately prior to the cash stay, in addition to the cash stay described below. This is not standard and the post has been rewritten to reflect solely…
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On Mar 1st, 2017, Hilton made some big changes to its point system. But for now, all the posts on blogs are based on personal experiences, not on concrete data. This post will show you how the Hilton point system changed exactly, using big data. The following two plots are the distribution of point value for the old system and the…
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