Since Hilton’s award chart changes in 2013, there haven’t been huge additional changes.
Hilton decided to alter the way they made changes to how they re-assign hotels to award categories. Instead of an annual change to tons of hotels (a schedule they really weren’t wedded to in the past anyway) they decided they would make rolling changes throughout the year. And instead of informing all members proactively of these changes, they would just post them on a web page in the name of transparency.
Conrad Bangkok
At least they are announcing the changes. And savvy members can create a change detection for the page (like I do).
Hilton HHonors is making category adjustments to several hotels effective July 13.
20 go up in category and 13 go down. Overall a sliver of the overall HHonors portfolio, however:
- When you make these changes several times a year it’s easy to make any given cohort of changes seem small. In the last 5 quarters of announcements we’ve seen 113 hotels go up in category and 47 go down (that’s 2.5-1 increases over decreases).
- More important Hilton no longer has to raise hotels a category to increase their price since they now have a range of prices within several categories. And there are no announcements when hotels get more expensive within a category thus we really can’t say whether there have been big increases or not.
Waldorf Hilton London
Here are the changes:
HOTELS WITH CATEGORY DECREASE |
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Hotel Name
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City
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State
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Country
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Previous Reward Category
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New Reward Category
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Effective Date
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| Hilton Kuching | Kuching | Malaysia | Category 4 | Category 2 | July 13, 2016 | |
| Hilton Blackpool | Blackpool | United Kingdom | Category 6 | Category 4 | July 13, 2016 | |
| Hampton by Hilton Exeter Airport | Exeter | United Kingdom | Category 4 | Category 3 | July 13, 2016 | |
| Hilton at the Ageas Bowl Southampton | Southampton | United Kingdom | Category 6 | Category 5 | July 13, 2016 | |
| Hampton Inn Shreveport | Shreveport | LA | United States | Category 4 | Category 3 | July 13, 2016 |
| Homewood Suites Houma | Houma | LA | United States | Category 5 | Category 4 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton St Robert/Ft Leonardwood | St Robert | MO | United States | Category 4 | Category 3 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Havelock NC | Havelock | NC | United States | Category 4 | Category 3 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Butler | Butler | PA | United States | Category 5 | Category 4 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Kenedy | Kenedy | TX | United States | Category 6 | Category 5 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hilton Garden Inn San Antonio at The Rim | San Antonio | TX | United States | Category 6 | Category 5 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hilton Garden Inn Woodbridge | Woodbridge | VA | United States | Category 5 | Category 4 | July 13, 2016 |
| Homewood Suites Woodbridge | Woodbridge | VA | United States | Category 5 | Category 4 | July 13, 2016 |
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Hotel Name
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City
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State
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Country
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Previous Reward Category
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New Reward Category
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Effective Date
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| Hilton Garden Inn Trabzon | Trabzon | Turkey | Category 1 | Category 2 | July 13, 2016 | |
| Hampton Inn Los Angeles / Carson / Torrance | Carson | CA | United States | Category 3 | Category 4 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hilton Los Angeles Airport | Los Angeles | CA | United States | Category 4 | Category 5 | July 13, 2016 |
| Embassy Suites Los Angeles – International Airport/South | El Segundo | CA | United States | Category 5 | Category 6 | July 13, 2016 |
| Embassy Los Angeles Intl Airport North | Los Angeles | CA | United States | Category 5 | Category 6 | July 13, 2016 |
| DoubleTree by Hilton Marina del Rey | Marina Del Rey | CA | United States | Category 6 | Category 7 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn & Suites San Francisco International Airport | Burlingame | CA | United States | Category 6 | Category 7 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hilton Garden Inn Los Angeles Marina Del Rey | Marina Del Rey | CA | United States | Category 6 | Category 7 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Port Charlotte / Punta Gorda | Port Charlotte | FL | United States | Category 3 | Category 4 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn & Suites Port St. Lucie / West | Port St Lucie | FL | United States | Category 4 | Category 5 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Titusville | Titusville | FL | United States | Category 4 | Category 5 | July 13, 2016 |
| Homewood Suites by Hilton Miami Airport / Blue Lagoon | Miami | FL | United States | Category 5 | Category 6 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Atlanta / Peachtree Corners / Norcross | Norcross | GA | United States | Category 2 | Category 3 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Kinston | Kinston | NC | United States | Category 2 | Category 3 | July 13, 2016 |
| DoubleTree by Hilton Las Vegas Airport | Las Vegas | NV | United States | Category 3 | Category 4 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Kingston | Kingston | NY | United States | Category 5 | Category 6 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Spearfish | Spearfish | SD | United States | Category 5 | Category 6 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hilton Garden Inn Nashville Airport | Nashville | TN | United States | Category 4 | Category 5 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Houston / Baytown | Baytown | TX | United States | Category 2 | Category 3 | July 13, 2016 |
| Hampton Inn Petersburg / Hopewell | Hopewell | VA | United States | Category 2 | Category 3 | July 13, 2016 |
Has Hilton ever did a rebate on recent stays? From category 4 to 2?
All the categories will suddenly decrease on the next recession, which is starting now. lol
The Waldorf Hilton has been renovated since your photo was taken.