Originally Posted by
aster
Getting back to travelling again but also getting tired of the usual "X nights per calendar year" tiers at many hotel chains.
Do any hotel chains base their membership tiers on overall nights stayed as opposed to nights per year? Just a long-shot I guess, in case I've missed something...
P.S. In the cruising world you also get some cruise lines requiring repeated travel, but some do offer lifetime tiers without any time constraints...
If I understand correctly, what you seem to be asking is whether there are any hotel loyalty programs that base today's "status" on overall lifetime business, rather than recent business. If that is what you are asking, it seems like a longshot. Several hotel programs have "lifetime" tiers (I can think of Hilton, Marriot Bonvoy and Hyatt off of the top of my head), but those still require achieving thresholds in the past. For Hilton, it's 1,000+ total nights *and* 10 years (not necessarily consecutive) of Diamond status.
It's important to remember that these programs aren't designed to reward you for past behavior (spend), they are to create incentives for future behavior (spend). It's a little like having a teenage child - they don't appreciate the $20 you gave them last week - that money is gone. They are only thinking about ways to get $20 out of you next week.