Originally Posted by
cordelli
To me the only reason to achieve elite status is to actually use the benefits. Otherwise it's just a waste. It would make no sense to get to diamond (or any other status) to then switch to some other program and start all over again at the bottom.
One does enjoy the status/benefits the following year when qualifying again@:-), that is the way I've always done it.
By my response to
cordelli, I'm sure most can glean that after making Diamond at Hilton, I'm off to another program to retain status unless Hilton has a killer promo, which is now not as rare as it used to be but there are not enough great promos to make me hang around with Hilton exclusively.