Apr 29, 2015, 10:07 am
Last edit by: scottpenderson
Hotel programs with Lifetime status:
Best Western
Lifetime status offered once, as a promo
Choice
How to earn points?
Earn 10 points per dollar at: Ascend, Cambria, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Sleep Inn, Quality, and Clarion.
Earn 5 points per dollar at: MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay, EconoLodge, and Rodeway Inn.
Choice membership levels and benefits
Join Choice Privileges Rewards
Fairmont
Offered once, due to mistake LivingSocial deal
Hilton
Hilton membership levels and benefits
Join Hilton HHonors
Hyatt
10 years of Gold Passport membership AND 1,000,000 base points (no bonus miles)
Base points are earned at a rate of 5 points per dollar.
Hyatt membership levels and benefits
Join Hyatt Gold Passport
IHG
Does not offer lifetime status
Marriott
Elite Lifetime Status: Elite Lifetime Status is determined by your total qualified nights stayed and points earned throughout the course of your membership including your paid nights, Elite rollover nights, meeting nights and the nights and points earned on your Marriott Rewards Credit Card. (From Marriott website)
Lifetime Silver Elite .........250 nights 1.2 million points
Lifetime Gold Elite ...........500 nights 1.6 million points
Lifetime Platinum Elite .....750 nights 2 million points
How to earn points?
Marriott membership levels and benefits
Join Marriott Rewards
SPG
Lifetime Gold (Scroll to bottom of page)
Go Gold for life. Achieve 250 eligible nights total and five years of elite status, and youll earn SPG Lifetime Gold status.
Lifetime Platinum (Scroll to bottom of page)
Go Platinum. Stay Platinum. Achieve 500 eligible nights total and 10 years of Platinum status to earn SPG Lifetime Platinum status.
SPG membership levels and benefits
Join Starwood Preferred Guest
Swissotel
NOTE: Inizia is the lowest of the 3 Swissotel membership tiers. They do not offer lifetime membership in the higher tiers.
Swissotel membership levels and benefits
Join Swissotel Circle
Anyone with at least 90 points and 90 days may edit, otherwise post in thread and information can be updated by someone who has access
Best Western
Lifetime status offered once, as a promo
Main forum: Best Western | Best Western Rewards
Specific thread: Only once as a promo Lifetime Diamond status BW Gold Club - US/Canada/Caribbean
Choice
Main forum: Choice | Choice Privileges
Lifetime Elite Status: Choice Privileges members who earn 1 million points through stays will be awarded Lifetime Elite Gold status! So if in a future year you dont earn Elite status, Lifetime Elite Gold status will always be there for you, offering you all the Elite Gold benefits. (From Choice Hotels website)How to earn points?
Earn 10 points per dollar at: Ascend, Cambria, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Sleep Inn, Quality, and Clarion.
Earn 5 points per dollar at: MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay, EconoLodge, and Rodeway Inn.
Choice membership levels and benefits
Join Choice Privileges Rewards
Fairmont
Offered once, due to mistake LivingSocial deal
Main fourm: Fairmont | Fairmont President's Club
Specific thread: Mistake LivingSocial deal Lifetime Status, see also Permanent FPC Platinum for $2000
Hilton
Main forum: Hilton | Hilton HHonors
Specific thread: Lifetime Diamond Status Arrives at Hilton HHonors With Required Qualifications [FT Hilton HHonors forum]
Lifetime Diamond Status: Lifetime Diamond Status will be awarded to select HHonors members, who as of December 31st, 2014 have earned Diamond Status for at least 10 years (non-consecutive) and who have completed stays totaling at least 1,000 paid nights pursuant to the standard HHonors Terms & Conditions. (From Hilton website)Hilton membership levels and benefits
Join Hilton HHonors
Hyatt
Main forum: Hyatt | Gold Passport
Specific thread: Hyatt Lifetime Diamond - MERGED THREAD
Lifetime Hyatt Diamond: Lifetime Hyatt Diamond membership is earned by:10 years of Gold Passport membership AND 1,000,000 base points (no bonus miles)
Base points are earned at a rate of 5 points per dollar.
Hyatt membership levels and benefits
Join Hyatt Gold Passport
IHG
Does not offer lifetime status
Specific thread: No lifetime status membership Discussion of Lifetime Status for IHG
Marriott
Main forum: Marriott and Ritz-Carlton | Rewards
Specific thread: Lifetime Marriott Rewards elite status
Elite Lifetime Status: Elite Lifetime Status is determined by your total qualified nights stayed and points earned throughout the course of your membership including your paid nights, Elite rollover nights, meeting nights and the nights and points earned on your Marriott Rewards Credit Card. (From Marriott website)
Lifetime Silver Elite .........250 nights 1.2 million points
Lifetime Gold Elite ...........500 nights 1.6 million points
Lifetime Platinum Elite .....750 nights 2 million points
How to earn points?
Marriott membership levels and benefits
Join Marriott Rewards
SPG
Main forum: Starwood | Starwood Preferred Guest
Specific thread: Discussion: SPG Lifetime Gold and SPG Lifetime Platinum status
Elite Lifetime Status:Lifetime Gold (Scroll to bottom of page)
Go Gold for life. Achieve 250 eligible nights total and five years of elite status, and youll earn SPG Lifetime Gold status.
Lifetime Platinum (Scroll to bottom of page)
Go Platinum. Stay Platinum. Achieve 500 eligible nights total and 10 years of Platinum status to earn SPG Lifetime Platinum status.
SPG membership levels and benefits
Join Starwood Preferred Guest
Swissotel
Main forum: Other Hotel Chains
Specific thread: No FT thread regarding Swissotel lifetime status
Lifetime Status: Swissotel Circle Inizia Lifetime membership will be awarded to members who complete 5 room nights within a 12-month rolling calendar period, at which time a plastic membership card will be sent at the address in the members profile. Members qualify for Inizia Lifetime membership upon meeting 5 room nights during a 12-month rolling calendar period. NOTE: Inizia is the lowest of the 3 Swissotel membership tiers. They do not offer lifetime membership in the higher tiers.
Swissotel membership levels and benefits
Join Swissotel Circle
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Lifetime status @ hotel chains Master thread
Apr 29, 2015 | 9:59 am
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Lifetime status @ hotel chains Master thread
Doing a lot of hotel stays that might end....
Want to start Lifetime status @ hotel chains Master thread:
Please edit Wiki or cut/past
Hilton:
SPG:
Marriott:
Hyatt:
Want to start Lifetime status @ hotel chains Master thread:
Please edit Wiki or cut/past
Hilton:
SPG:
Marriott:
Hyatt:
Last edited by vickh; Apr 29, 2015 at 10:06 am
Apr 29, 2015 | 11:43 am
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I'm not sure what exact format you wanted, since you didn't give an example entry. I added thread links for Marriott and Choice, but since the thread links didn't display the thread title in the wiki, I added some comments afterwards). Feel free to reformat if you prefer a different format.
Apr 29, 2015 | 2:05 pm
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I added links to the relevant FT forums as well as information form the website of each hotel chain.
sdsearch, I added the thread titles to the links you provided.
Hyatt Lifetime Diamond seems a bit murky, but I think that you need to have Diamond for 10 years and earn 1,000,000 base points. However, they don't advertise this perk on their website so I didn't add any more info other than the link to the FT discussion.
sdsearch, I added the thread titles to the links you provided.
Hyatt Lifetime Diamond seems a bit murky, but I think that you need to have Diamond for 10 years and earn 1,000,000 base points. However, they don't advertise this perk on their website so I didn't add any more info other than the link to the FT discussion.
Apr 29, 2015 | 8:54 pm
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Added swissotel and completed info on Hyatt.
Also added links to each programs tiers and benefits. But if this additional link makes it too cluttered, it can be removed. Same with the "Join <hotel name>" link. I included that since this is the Information Desk and beginners may not be members of the programs. If the goal of the wiki is to be focused to more advanced users, the join links can be removed as well.
Also added links to each programs tiers and benefits. But if this additional link makes it too cluttered, it can be removed. Same with the "Join <hotel name>" link. I included that since this is the Information Desk and beginners may not be members of the programs. If the goal of the wiki is to be focused to more advanced users, the join links can be removed as well.
Apr 30, 2015 | 12:10 pm
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Members qualify for Inizia Lifetime membership upon meeting 5 room nights during a 12-month rolling calendar period.
EDIT: Reading futher - can this even really be called a Lifetime status? It appears the status level is the lowest one - you just get an actual card after 5 stays. Before that, you can just print out a card.
If that's Lifetime, then is Emirates base status a Lifetime one after two flights, as they don't send you a card until you actually fly?