Having completed my challenge back in November (with the deadline of 30th November) I see that my Gold status has been recognized for 2019, offering me to renew Gold status for 16 more stays (or 35 nights). I expected to have to complete 20 more stays, or 40 nights. But this figure must take into account the 4 stays I already made which were required for my Gold status challenge. Now, I would have thought the requalification started at the beginning of January. Which is annoying, as I could have diverted a couple of stays in December to Hilton, which would have meant even less stays now! Oddly, I had a slight funny feel this might happen, but I really don't know the program all that well.