At the end of 2025, Hilton announced it would launch a new top-tier elite status dubbed Hilton Diamond Reserve.
Whereas, before you could get Hilton's former top-tier Diamond status simply by holding the Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card, this new status is squarely targeted at high spenders who actually stay a good number of nights at Hilton-affiliated properties each year.
Forty stays or 80 nights and $18,000 in spend, to be exact. And there's no shortcut to this new status by holding the Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card, either.
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