Hilton HHonors - European Hiltons put NA Hiltons to shame

Writing this from the wonderful Copenhagen Hilton. Absolutely fantastic. Good rooms, great service, good recognition of even Gold status. This has been very consistent so far (bar a few London Hiltons) in Europe.

North American Hiltons (perhaps with a few exceptions) are overpriced, with lousy service and trying to get out of HHonors guarantees as much as they can.

If there is a separate VP for quality control at Hilton for NA and Europe, the latter should be congratulated and the former fired immediately.

The European Hiltons are the only ones keeping me in the HH program.

Hilton US and Hilton international are actually separate companies, joined by a marketing agreement.

Not all E h are better than NA. I stayed several times in the Innsbuck H and it is not even close to the top ten of NA H hotels, even Hampton (Vancouver, BC is fantastic) or several Homewoods.

I've stayed in a lot of poor Hiltons around Europe, you must be on a lucky streak or something.

I've stayed in Hiltons in Kensington, Brussels, Barcelona, Athens and next week will be Paris. On the whole, I'm impressed with the recognition of elite status in European Hiltons. Maybe it's the complimentary Godiva Chocolates, wine, champagne and European beers that have spoiled me. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

LLMom is right. Hilton NA is not Hilton International. The Hilton NA equivalent is the Conrad Chain.

Hiltons outside the USA are owned or operated by a separate company, HILTON INTERNATIONAL [a subsidiary of the UK gaming company, LADBROOKE] and are not affiliated other than by using the brand name, central res service and HHonors program, to the Hilton US company. These have always maintained higher standards, and are more consistent with Westins. [Sheraton has the same rep, lower standards in the US than overseas.] Hilton USA was permitted to operate a few luxury hotels outside that country, but only under the brand CONRAD. Canadian Hiltons are a part of the Hilton International group, and not the Hilton US group, by the way, and have maintained higher standards than most small city US Hiltons.

I had to go and post this to jinx my luck. Clearly Hilton Slussen in Stockholm doesn't deserve to be a Hilton. A separate review later.

Before anyone is allowed to write a complaint about a Hilton, he/she should be required to spend 1 night at the Hilton Arlington (VA) Towers. Calling that place a dump would be thoroughly disrespectful to your neighborhood Motel 6. My non-smoking room basically smelled like one big ashtray. I had to bring a large, full-bodied cigar back to my room just to clear out the smell of stale Marlboros.

(Is this the new thread to rip your least favorite HHonors property?)

Nope, this is a thread to claim how good the European Hiltons in general are compared to the ones in NA and posts like yours prove the point. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif