I was a guest at the Hilton Stockholm Slussen last weekend and I have to say I was very impressed with this hotel. This Hilton was once a Scandic hotel, back in the early 2000’s Hilton owned the Scandic brand and they converted many of the better Scandic hotels to the Hilton brand before selling off the other Scandic hotels. The hotel is much larger then it looks from the outside with different wings and really taking up a block of center Stockholm. The location is great, about a 8 min ...

 

Back in October I made a return visit to the Hilton Munich Park for the Oktoberfest in Munich. When big events happen and hotels are on high demand this is when you use your points for a free night. At 35,000 Hilton points per night it is not bad when room rates are well over 300 Euro per night.

One important note is that Hilton is changing the amount of points needed for a free night after March 28. Both of the Hilton hotels will jump to the ...

As of January 1, 2013, Hilton will adjust the requirements to qualify for elite status.

To qualify for Gold status: 20 stays, 40 nights, or attain 75,000 Base Points within the calendar year. (it was 16 stays, 36 nights or 60,000 HHonors Base Points)

To qualify for Diamond status:  30 stays, 60 nights, or attain 120,000 Base Points. (it was 28 stays, 60 nights or 100,000 HHonors Base Points)

All other tier level qualifications, as well as elite status received through Hilton HHonors credit cards and partners, will remain the same.

 

Starting on April 30, 2012, 330 Hilton Family hotels will move up in reward categories and 117 down. You can book at the old point rate if your hotel is going up by April 30. Here is the full list. It is a bit disappointing to see so many new category 7 hotels. At a whopping 50,000 points a night I think very few hotels are truly worth the category 7 label. One would think this would be the best of the best hotels, Conrad Hotels, High end Hiltons, or some DoubleTree hotels that outshine the ...

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I was lucky to stay at the brand new Hilton Frankfurt Airport in Germany! WOW what an amazing place! When I walked into the lobby of the Hilton, I thought to myself this looks like a Hyatt. This hotel is upscale modern for sure, and is just impressive to look at. Hilton made a major investment here! The Sheraton should be very worried, and also get working on updating the rest of that hotel.

As I was a guest still in the opening days the hotel was not very full, and it was kind of ...