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 a 1-bedroom Suite. Up to two Confirmable Upgrade Rewards can be earned in a calendar year; one upon achieving Diamond Reserve status with the option to earn a second at 120-nights
- Highest-priority for space-available room upgrade: more bad news for current diamonds who barely get upgrades anyway.
- 120% Bonus Pts
- Premium Club Access: Hilton will now have a new collection of premium clubs exclusive to Diamond Reserve. Diamond members are only allowed access to executive lounges instead.
- Exclusive Customer Service 24/7
- Guaranteed 4pm Late Checkout: Finally!
Meanwhile 2026 will be the last year for elite nights rollover. No more rollover begining 2027.
And you guessed it right: the Diamond Reserved cannot be “bought” with a credit card, you have to pay cash to earn it.
An internal memo has been sent by Hilton with some information about the upcoming “Diamond Reserve” tier.
Two major enhancements:
- Diamond Reserve will receive “Confirmable Upgrade Reward” which can be applied at time of booking. From the previous source code leak, we already know that the CUR will be a milestone choice at 120 nights. It remains unknown how many CUR you can get at 120 nights milestone, but from the source code leak, it looke like the diamond reserve only get a single CUR when they requalify and the CUR does not guarantee suite upgrade – which is kinda disappointing.
- Guaranteed 4pm late checkout. This is similar to what Hyatt and Marriott offers for their top tier members
The new tier system starts from Jan 1st, 2026, as a part of the Hilton Honors refresh, the qualification for the other tiers have been reduced:
- Silver: same. 4 stays/10 nights
- Gold: from 20 stays/40 nights to 15 stays/25 nights
- Diamond: from 30 stays/60 nights to 25 stays/50 nights
- [New] Diamond Reserve: 40 stays/80 nights AND $18000 in spend
Note that previously you can qualify by base points, this criteria has been changed to $ in spend instead. Along with this refresh, Hilton has also reduced the base points you can earn for two brands: Homewood and Spark. They now only earn 5 pts per dollar spend instead of 10, joining the Tru, Home2 brands which always earn 5 pts per dollar spend.
We hope to see more details being released soon!
The information leaked below is now confirmed by Hilton on its official Instagram account.
[2025.11.6 Original Post]
User @倍多分 from our forum found this in Hilton’s source code
Then user @haruka from our forum digged out this page:
By playing some tricks, we can also find the UI below. It looks like all the current tier will keep the status quo benefits, Diamond Reserve will have additional benefits on top of that.
What we know about so far:
- Requires 80 nights per year AND $18,000 in qualifying spend (somewhat 80% of what Marriott requires for Ambassador)
- Name: Diamond Reserve
- Theme color: Black (in comparison to Diamond Purple)
- Points accural at 22x (10x base + 12x Diamond Reserve)
- To prepare for the new tier, all tier requirements are cut down 30% for 2026 (e.g. you only need 42+ nights to get Diamond)
- There will be a new milestone reward at 120 nights: choose from [Confirmable Upgrade Reward] or [30,000 pts], plus the 10,000 pts you already get for each 10 nights
- No known info on other tier benefits yet, but we would imagine similar to what Marriott offers for Ambassador or Hyatt offers for Globalist
At present, Hilton Honors tiers include: Member (base), Silver, Gold, Diamond, and Lifetime Diamond. Among these, Diamond is the highest non-lifetime tier and can be easily obtained simply by holding the Amex Aspire card. As a result, in North America, Hilton has perhaps the most diluted elite ranks among major hotel chains. The direct consequence has been benefit devaluation — many hotels receive dozens or even hundreds of Diamond members in a single day, making it hard to deliver meaningful recognition or upgrades.
By contrast, Marriott’s highest card-based status only grants Platinum, above which are Titanium and Ambassador.
It seems Hilton has finally realized the over-saturation of Diamonds from Aspire card in the U.S. The new tier’s benefits are still unknown, and it remains to be seen whether it will rival Marriott Ambassador.
There also appears to be a new hidden tier called “Honor Society”, possibly reserved for hotel owners or invitation-only members.