Hello guys.

Hope you are going great.

I’ve resided in Portugal, there is no way to obtain a proper bank card and after the COVID I have a «brand new» account. Plus, I usually travel with my wife, which means that on the one hand I need only 1 star alliance gold status, and on another that flying in any direction will double the price.

The trick is, that instead of flying for status, there is an option to live in a hotel for a status. For 20 nights in shangri-la hotels, it’s possible to get a Jade status, which makes an instant status match to KrisFlyer silver (and this is a star alliance silver alias). Then, after asking for a fast track from Singapore airlines just for 3 flings I’ll be able to get gold status (there is also an option to stay 50 nights and get hotels Gold status, which will be converted to the KrisFlyer Gold with a challenge of 1 flight only, but I’m not sure that it with it). yeey.

And now there is a tricky question, which is bothering me. Is it the only option on the market with a status match on the hotel loyalty program? A spent ~15 hours in different kinds of googling trying to fetch something besides this offer but failed.

Thanks a lot in advance!