What is hotel status match and which hotels offer it?

Status match is a tool hotel loyalty programs use in order to snag frequent travelers from competing hotels

If you frequently stay with one hotel brand and you have elite status to show for it, you’re probably busy enjoying hotel benefits like room upgrades, early check-in, late checkout and lounge access. But what happens if you want to change your preferred hotel brand?

Key takeaways

• Status match is a tool hotel loyalty programs use in order to snag frequent travelers from competing hotels;
• Essentially, these programs let elite members from another brand qualify for top-tier perks that they would normally have to earn through paid hotel stays or having a co-branded hotel credit card;
• Whereas some status matches are offered automatically to those who sign up, others are offered in the form of a status challenge - customers need to complete a number of paid stays or reach a spending threshold with the new hotel brand in order to qualify.

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