{"id":23773,"date":"2025-05-24T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=23773"},"modified":"2025-05-24T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T07:01:41","slug":"hilton-launches-partnership-with-didi-in-china-status-match-lounge-access-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/05\/24\/hilton-launches-partnership-with-didi-in-china-status-match-lounge-access-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilton launches partnership with Didi in China &#8211; status match, lounge access and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an unexpected move, Hilton has just <a href=\"https:\/\/stories.hilton.com\/apac\/releases\/hilton-honors-and-didi-chuxing-announce-strategic-partnership-to-innovate-and-expand-membership-benefits-in-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">announced<\/a> a strategic partnership with Didi in China. Didi is China&#8217;s local ride-hailing company who also operates in some international locations in Asia Pacific and South America. You can think of them as an Uber equivalent &#8211; in fact they bought Uber&#8217;s business in China a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not rare that hotels work with ride hailing companies &#8211; we have Marriott &amp; Uber plus Hilton &amp; Lyft already. What surprised me is how deep the collaboration is, extending to even reciprocal membership benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>For Didi Members<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>V6 members receive Hilton Silver status and can apply for a 90-day Gold challenge, requiring 6 nights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>V7 members receive Hilton Silver status and can apply for a 120-day Gold trial &amp; challenge, requiring 8 nights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>V8 members receive Hilton Gold status and can apply for a 120-day Diamond trial &amp; challenge, requiring 12 nights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For Hilton Members<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Silver members receive eight V5 upgrades<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gold members receive two V7 and six V6 upgrades<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diamond members receive eight V7 upgrades<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>An upgrade is valid until the end of the next calendar month. I&#8217;m currently Hilton Gold and claiming the V7 upgrade was very easy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi-match-v7.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"645\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi-match-v7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi-match-v7.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi-match-v7-186x300.jpg 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>V7 members are eligible for a bunch of money-off voucher and higher in priority when requesting a trip. In addition they receive one complimentary airport lounge access (China only, powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/04\/07\/priority-pass-new-joint-venture-with-chinas-joyful-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joyful Journey<\/a>)  per calendar year.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi-dragonpass.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi-dragonpass.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi-dragonpass.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/hilton-didi-dragonpass-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you live in China or are going to visit the country, you&#8217;ll very likely need to use Didi and those coupons plus benefits are nice to have. You must log in to Hilton&#8217;s Wechat mini-program (search \u5e0c\u5c14\u987f) in order to link your accounts, but annoyingly it appears to enforce mobile phone verification but accepts Chinese number only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unexpected move, Hilton has just announced a strategic partnership with Didi in China. Didi is China&#8217;s local ride-hailing company who also operates in some&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-23773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-hilton-honors","tag-status-match"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23777,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23773\/revisions\/23777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}