Worth pushing for Diamond or is Gold enough?
Sep 26, 2018, 11:03 pm
#18
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However it is a useful reminder that anybody in the US can be Diamond if they care to be, which leads to "if everybody's elite then nobody is"
Sep 28, 2018, 3:10 am
#20
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: bne
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Sep 28, 2018, 11:06 pm
#21
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Hilton, Hyatt House, Del Taco
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For me, guaranteed lounge access is >80% of the reason why I need Diamond vs Gold.
Lounge is important for me, since probably >50% of my stays occur in properties with EL.
If most of my stays were in properties without EL, then the net benefit would be marginal. Some extra points would be about it. As it is, I hardly ever get upgraded as a Diamond.
Lounge is important for me, since probably >50% of my stays occur in properties with EL.
If most of my stays were in properties without EL, then the net benefit would be marginal. Some extra points would be about it. As it is, I hardly ever get upgraded as a Diamond.
Sep 30, 2018, 4:25 pm
#23
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: PHX
Programs: HHonors Lifetime Diamond, UA Million Miler Gold, Marriott Platinum
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I personally would not push too hard. Even as a Diamond, room grades domestically are not available often and when they are they aren't great
Oct 1, 2018, 4:49 pm
#24
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For me, guaranteed lounge access is >80% of the reason why I need Diamond vs Gold.
Lounge is important for me, since probably >50% of my stays occur in properties with EL.
If most of my stays were in properties without EL, then the net benefit would be marginal. Some extra points would be about it. As it is, I hardly ever get upgraded as a Diamond.
Lounge is important for me, since probably >50% of my stays occur in properties with EL.
If most of my stays were in properties without EL, then the net benefit would be marginal. Some extra points would be about it. As it is, I hardly ever get upgraded as a Diamond.
I'm definitely in the "I stay at Hamptons/HGI/Homewood Suites enough that dropping four digits on a mattress run sounds like complete madness- anything more than fairly small amounts of cash for status is silly to me- I'd rather keep my cash and spend it on a nicer room if I need it" group (plus unless the EL is super super nice I'd just as soon go get food elsewhere), but I grant that someone who needs an EL might have different standards...