Originally Posted by Always Flyin

I've been a Starwood Platinum for the past three years and have gotten a bit tired of some of the antics Starwood pulls. I have been a Hilton Gold for a couple of years, but never really noticed much in the way of benefits. I contacted Hilton and asked for a status challenge to Diamond, figuring I could then get tired of the antics Hilton pulls.

I hate to sound ungrateful, but the status challenge I was offered is a bit much.

If I do 10 eligible stays or 20 eligible nights in the next 90 days, they will give me Diamond until April 30, 2006.

The normal path to Diamond requires 28 stays or 60 nights in a 12-month period. So Hilton is requiring me to do a third of a years stays at the average accrual rate in a quarter of the year. Even then, the status will only be good for five months. To keep the status, I would then have to do 8 months worth of stays in 5 months.

This doesn't exactly endear me to Hilton, particularly since I know that Starwood will just hand a Platinum card to a Hilton Diamond to get their business.

I could easily meet this challenge. The real question is, "Why would I want to?" This does not seem like the beginning of beautiful friendship.