Many airline and hotel frequent flyer programs offer lifetime status, whereby you can earn status for a ”lifetime” (whether that’s your lifetime or the lifetime of the program is a different question).
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Having made Lifetime for just over a decade now, I have to say I still miss those two earlier years as a Courtesy Card holder and the unreal perks that came with it!
I put on an annual customer experience event. I book multiple conference rooms with most meals catered by the hotel. Can those charges count as eligible expenses? If so, I could do my event at a Hyatt and get lifetime status in one year!
Speaking of Marriott, in the image of the Gritti Palace, the first floor corner (second floor to Americans) is the Hemingway Presidential Suite.
You've said that your taste in hotels has evolved and you're less likely to stay at a points-based property. Same here. In the end, the benefits of lifetime status are used less and less. It makes a person reflect.
I would caution people chasing a lifetime status. Programs change the rules all the time. I remember the years when earning AA Exec Plat and would get 8 SWU and upgrade all my Europe flights ahead of time buying the most basic priced fares. Now a days I don't have the credit card so don't bother with the watered down program. Hotels remember when Hilton would give me suites and full breakfast. So I caution people from chasing lifetime status but if it happens organically Hyatt is the best. I am only 27 years Globalist and just under $50,000 spend away. So keeping my fingers crossed they won't change the goal post.
I don't understand why Hyatt doesn't introduce a few, common sense requirements for lifetime Globalist before their ranks swell (and will inevitably depreciate the benefits in the future).
I thought SPG had almost perfect standards for their Lifetime Platinum (then the highest tier):
10 years as a Platinum member (I don't think it had to be consecutive)
500 total nights
These requirements effectively meant you couldn't 'buy' the status, you truly had to earn it.
If Hyatt would at least add a few barriers like a minimum number of years as Globalist before offering lifetime, it would help keep the numbers down and hopefully maintain these great perks.
I just earned lifetime globalist a few months ago and the better treatment has been noticeable.
Nope. Internally, hotels treat revenue from sleeping rooms and events (F&B, meeting space, etc.) differently, and can't be moved between each other. And the events revenue doesn't count toward lifetime. Best you could do is book the three most expensive sleeping rooms under your personal Hyatt account and have those three rooms charged to your personal card to be reimbursed (not charged to Master Bill), then bill to your room as much of the normal restaurant charges as you can.
What you describe is basically Bonvoy Lifetime Platinum, which is substantially easier to earn than Lifetime Globalist. The super high cash cost of Lifetime Globalist keeps it exclusive, and exclusive to actual profitable customers for Hyatt.
“-The monthly account summary that World of Hyatt sends out to members lists “lifetime base points” at the top right”
Do you mean the paper bill that comes monthly, because I find nothing regarding base points.
The most important line in this article which should be highlighted is that it depends on your stay patterns. Generally most people will not be lifetime status on more than one hotel group unless the person is really mostly on the road.