{"id":9814,"date":"2021-05-19T19:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2021-05-19T19:24:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:24:56","slug":"extend-your-gha-status-by-staying-just-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2021\/05\/19\/extend-your-gha-status-by-staying-just-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Extend your GHA status by staying just once"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you currently hold GHA Black or Platinum status, there may be an unpublicised perk to easily extend its validity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was some sort of fast track campaign from GHA with a Chinese bank last year, and many people attained Black status through it which is valid through the end of 2021. Surprisingly, I&#8217;ve been informed by quite a few of them that their status is extended by another year, after just one eligible stay at a GHA hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/gha-black-2022.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/gha-black-2022-535x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9810\" width=\"401\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/gha-black-2022-535x1024.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/gha-black-2022-157x300.jpg 157w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/gha-black-2022-768x1470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/gha-black-2022.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Not all of them got the status via the bank promotion, so it appears to be working on everyone who holds status. It&#8217;s definitely non-official and I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s happening here. One thing we know though, is that GHA doesn&#8217;t have any announcement regarding status extension or lowering the requirement for this year yet, so this might just be something they are secretively doing at the backstage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you currently hold GHA status (especially Black), you should probably consider staying at one of their hotels for a potential one-year extension. There are xix hotels in the UK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Corinthia London<\/li><li>The Bloomsbury<\/li><li>The Kensington<\/li><li>The Marylebone<\/li><li>The Bristol<\/li><li>The Machrie Hotel &amp; Golf Links<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t currently hold status with them but are pondering a stay soon, you could always status match or get Platinum status by purchasing a magazine &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/06\/12\/hotel-loyalty-program-series-gha-discovery\/\" title=\"Hotel Loyalty Programme Series \u2013 GHA Discovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you currently hold GHA Black or Platinum status, there may be an unpublicised perk to easily extend its validity. There was some sort of fast&#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":[8],"tags":[117],"class_list":["post-9814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gha-discovery","tag-fast-status"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814","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=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9983,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions\/9983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}