Just thought it might be of interest to some in this forum ... There is an ongoing discussion in the SPG forum about the Westin Diplomat recently being purchased, and announcing that they are changing flags to Hilton HHonors at the end of October.

The SPG thread is continuing from here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/23451148-post725.html

To those who are not familiar with this property, this is a wonderful resort that was well loved to many from SPG -- they have a very nice multi-level pool, and were well known to treat their SPG Platinums very well [liberal upgrades, good lounge, etc].

Per news stories, the new owners look to be investing a lot of money into the property, so this will probably be a very nice addition to Hilton.

Also interesting that this will be under the Curio Collection.

You can see the old website for this property here: http://www.diplomatresort.com