Hilton Diamond through Velocity Platinum status

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Is that a VA1 to VA2 thing with some turbulence along the way? Or just lucky?

Neither. I followed the lead from another member on this thread a couple of months (see upthread a few pages ago) ago by reaching out and simply asking for Velocity to reinstate the once-off instant Hotel status benefit. It probably helped that I'd been Platinum with Velocity for the prior 12 years. But its definitely a matter of YMMV and don't ask don't get.

 

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Won't that change on 1st April as that is the first day of the Hilton year when you drop a level?

I don't believe so because from Hilton's perspective, I just attained Diamond having temporarily dropped to Silver for a couple of days. Whether it was after a week (and 0 nights) or 11 months (and 60 nights) in the calendar year is irrelevant.