Hilton is, again, running a promotion targeting select corporate partners that offers their employees a chance for instant elite status upgrade plus a challenge.
There are a few variations:
- Instant Silver, and stay 8 nights by August 31st to upgrade to Gold
- Instant Gold, and stay 6 nights by August 31st to maintain Gold, or 12 nights to upgrade to Diamond
- Stay 6 nights by August 31st to earn Gold
- Instant Diamond, and stay 12 nights by August 31st to maintain Diamond, or 6 nights to maintain Gold
To sign up. you must verify with an eligible corporate email address. If you manage to complete the challenge, your status will be valid through March 2026, which is just short of two years from now.
There was a glitch last time where the status upgrade was honoured even though you didn’t click the verification email. Most people (although not all) who took advantage of this loophole got their status downgraded, and I assume they’ve fixed the bug this time.
There’s a way to check whether your company is eligible. The following URL leads to the promo page for Deloitte: https://www.hilton.com/en/preferred-rates/deloitte/
… where you’ll see a blue banner promoting the Diamond offer. Likewise if you replace the “deloitte” bit in the URL with your company’s name you may see a landing page that shows the same or another offer.
In contrast with the offer that just ended on April 30th, this time round it seems that much fewer companies are eligible, or maybe they are just in the process of renewing the contract.
Here are some companies that can enrol in the Diamond fast track:
Gold only:
Gold + Diamond:
It is a good offer especially if you can get the Diamond one. If you aren’t a Hilton member yet, there’s another offer which allows you to earn 3,000 bonus points after staying within six months.
Cool. Alternatively, I could just get the AMEX Hilton Aspire…
Which has got $100 more expensive today! The referral link was still $450 briefly but I was too slow 😞
wow..you’re right! i didn’t see any pre-annoucement about this on any credit card or travel blog.
After reviewing the changes, the Surpass is much more appealing now for anyone who travels a lot internationally (gold = real breakfast benefit)
Yeah might get the card when they have a big sign on bonus, if I don’t get pop-up’ed of course