Do I get status credit and points if booked via BA flight and hotel bundle?

[gupster]

Hi

If I book a flight and bundle a hotel via the BA website, will this be an eligible stay for status and points with Hilton, please?

Thanks,

[Royback]

No. From my experience last week. The LAX AIRPORT HILTON hotel would not recognise my gold status at all. No points. No benefits. No credits.

[cats_are_best]

The rules say ‘no’, but it does no harm to try, worst that can happen is the rules are applied, but it can be much better…

I’d made a Virgin Holidays booking for the Hilton RAK beach resort, VS were significantly cheaper than a direct booking.

On the off-chance, showed my HH Diamond card at check-in, they apologised(!) for not knowing we were coming and after a flurry of activity upgraded us from the normal king room I’d booked to one of the beach villas, essentially a suite directly on the beach and away from the hubbub of the main building.

Better access to the nicer/quieter places at the end of the beach for breakfast/dinner, ordered a bottle of Veuve Clicquot, they didn’t have any and in apology gave us a bottle of Dom Pérignon, so even the bubbly was upgraded.

Sometime after return I received a rather curt email from HH saying they were taking back the points for the stay as it wasn’t an eligible booking 🙂