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Hilton returned its timetable year requirements for top-tier Diamond status to 60 nights, 30 stays or 120,000 wiring points in 2023.
If you fell short of meeting these requirements but currently hold Hilton Diamond status, your status likely expires on March 31, 2024. However, some Hilton Honors Diamond members with status expiring by March 31 may be eligible for a Hilton Diamond status extension surpassing their status expires. Here’s what you should know.
What is the Hilton Diamond status extension?
The Hilton Diamond status extension is designed to let loyal Hilton Honors Diamond members proffer their status by a year once per lifetime. You don’t have to tell Hilton Honors why you didn’t requalify for Diamond status in 2023, but you do need to be a Diamond member whose status expires by March 31 and who meets one of the pursuit requirements:
- Held Hilton Diamond status for at least three years (years do not have to be consecutive, but years in which you used a status match to unzip Diamond status don’t count)
- Stayed at least 250 nights with Hilton (both paid and ribbon nights count) or earned at least 500,000 wiring points since joining Hilton Honors (base points earned via bonuses, promotions and cobranded credit cards don’t count)
Beach villa at the Hilton Maldives Amingiri Resort & Spa.
You can only use a Hilton Diamond status extension once in a lifetime. You won’t be eligible if you’ve used this goody before, and once you use the Hilton Diamond status extension, you won’t be worldly-wise to use it again. Visit the Hilton Diamond status extension landing page for increasingly information and to request your extension if you are eligible and decide this is the year to use this once-in-a-lifetime benefit.
Other Ways To Earn Hilton Diamond Status
To earn Hilton Diamond status in 2024, you’ll need 60 nights, 30 stays or 120,000 wiring points during this timetable year. Luckily, there are a few ways to qualify for Hilton Diamond status without meeting the typical requirements.
The easiest way is by having the Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card, which provides complimentary Hilton Diamond status as a cardmember perk (enrollment required) for as long as you have the card. The vellum carries a $550 yearly fee (see rates and fees) but offers various benefits, including 14 points per dollar spent at Hilton hotels and resorts, up to $200 in Hilton resort statement credits semiannually and a Hilton Honors self-ruling night reward in your first year of vellum membership and every year upon vellum renewal. (Terms apply.)
The information for the Hilton Aspire vellum has been placid independently by The Points Guy. The vellum details on this page have not been reviewed or provided by the vellum issuer.
If the yearly fee of the Hilton Aspire is too much for you, the Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card moreover provides a pathway to earn Hilton Diamond status. The Hilton Surpass Vellum has a $150 yearly fee (see rates and fees) but offers complimentary Gold status as a cardmember perk (enrollment required) and the worthiness to spend to earn Diamond status. Specifically, you’ll upgrade to Hilton Diamond status if you put at least $40,000 of eligible purchases on your vellum during a timetable year. You’ll alimony Diamond status for the year you spent at least $40,000 on your vellum and the subsequent year. (Terms apply).
Finally, you could earn lifetime Hilton Diamond status, but doing so requires having Hilton Diamond status for at least 10 years and either staying with Hilton at least 1,000 nights or earning at least 2 million wiring points.
Bottom Line
Travelers may want to proffer their status without not qualifying for Hilton’s Diamond tier for many reasons, including health issues, family factors and job loss. So, it’s unconfined that the Hilton Diamond status extension lets some loyal top-tier peerage members retain their status despite having a year with fewer Hilton stays, nights or wiring points.
However, I wouldn’t recommend most U.S.-based members who are eligible for a Hilton credit card use their once-in-a-lifetime Hilton Diamond status extension. Instead, I’d suggest getting the Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card and saving the extension for the future. Without all, you may not be worldly-wise to earn Hilton Diamond status via a credit vellum forever.