After 10 years of Gold I finally made GGL last year due mainly to the BAH double tier points on flights and car hire.
Given the 40,000 requirement to retain, realistically, i'd need to use BAH for hotels also to reach that ,which would impact my Hilton Diamond status (which i could keep with GGL), trouble is that i usually dot about Hilton hotels while away as i might be one night in Houston, couple nights in Woodlands, West Texas etc. How flexible is BAH with the likes of this and (presumably) they only have a few Hilton properties and not every possible one that i could get through the Hilton app (I just did a dummy booking for Dubai and the Hilton Palm is not there while the Hilton JBR is).
My gut is telling me that my fortuitous run is over and just be thankful that i still have a decent chance to retain gold with flights and car hire and that trying to pull hotels into the mix will be too much of a faff (or simply not workable) but not sure if anyone had first hand experience of how flexible BAH can be?
Given the 40,000 requirement to retain, realistically, i'd need to use BAH for hotels also to reach that ,which would impact my Hilton Diamond status (which i could keep with GGL), trouble is that i usually dot about Hilton hotels while away as i might be one night in Houston, couple nights in Woodlands, West Texas etc. How flexible is BAH with the likes of this and (presumably) they only have a few Hilton properties and not every possible one that i could get through the Hilton app (I just did a dummy booking for Dubai and the Hilton Palm is not there while the Hilton JBR is).
My gut is telling me that my fortuitous run is over and just be thankful that i still have a decent chance to retain gold with flights and car hire and that trying to pull hotels into the mix will be too much of a faff (or simply not workable) but not sure if anyone had first hand experience of how flexible BAH can be?