Update 1/1/25: Just a quick reminder that this status match opportunity is now live for today only.
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Bilt is kicking off 2025 with a somewhat niche but potentially valuable status match opportunity with Accor Live Limitless (ALL). The best opportunity will be for those with Bilt Platinum status, although it’ll be worth registering for this promotion if you have any stays planned at Accor brands in 2025 seeing as the status match lasts for an entire year.
The Deal
- Bilt members can match to Accor Live Limitless status:
- Bilt Platinum
- Match to ALL Silver status
- Redeem 2,000 Bilt points for ALL Gold status
- Redeem 5,000 Bilt points for ALL Platinum status
- Bilt Gold
- Match to ALL Silver status
- Redeem 2,000 Bilt points for ALL Gold status
- Bilt Silver
- Match to ALL Silver status
- Redeem 5,000 Bilt points for ALL Gold status
- Bilt Blue
- Match to ALL Silver status
- Bilt Platinum
Key Terms
- Status match opt-in available January 1, 2025 at 12am ET through January 2, 2025 at 2:59am ET in the Bilt Rewards app and website.
- Allow 24-48 hours for ALL status to be updated.
- ALL status valid through December 31, 2025.
Quick Thoughts
In case you’re not familiar with Accor Live Limitless (ALL), it’s the loyalty program for Accor hotels. Here’s a list of their worldwide brands:
Accor currently has 47 properties in the US, 27 in Canada and 44 in Mexico. Worldwide though, Accor has more than 5,000 properties and so there’s plenty of chance to put your newfound status to good use if you’ll be traveling internationally in the new year.
This is potentially a decent opportunity seeing as the status you’ll receive with ALL will be valid through the end of 2025. Here’s what each status level offers in that program:
Bilt members who opt in to this status match will receive Silver status by default. The list of benefits for that status level are limited rather than Limitless, but getting a welcome drink, priority welcome and late check-out, as well as 24% bonus points on spend during stays, could still be worthwhile seeing as you won’t have to have stayed 10 nights or spent €800 in order to earn those benefits.
For those of us who only have Bilt Blue status, that’s the extent of the status match. However, those with Bilt Silver, Gold or Platinum status have the option to redeem Bilt Rewards points to get an upgrade to ALL Gold status – 5,000 points for Silver members and 2,000 points for Gold and Platinum members. That brings with it the benefits from Silver status, as well as guaranteed room availability, eligibility for room upgrades and early check-in or late check-out (that ‘or’ phrasing makes it sound like you’re not eligible for both during the same stay), as well as 48% bonus points on spend during stays. If you currently have zero plans to stay at ALL properties in 2025, I’m not sure it’s worth redeeming 2,000 Bilt points for this benefit, but if you do then personally I’d definitely be considering that redemption in the hope that I’d get a decent room upgrade or if I wanted to get early check-in.
If you have Platinum status with Bilt, you’ll also have the opportunity to redeem 5,000 Bilt Rewards points for Platinum status with ALL. That’s a status level that becomes much more interesting thanks to the inclusion of suite night upgrades, lounge access and premium Wi-Fi, as well as 76% bonus points on spend during stays. With regards to the suite night upgrades, you only get two of those, each of which is only valid for a night. That benefit is therefore somewhat limited, but it could be great for a weekend stay, perhaps when staying at an Accor property booked using $200 Amex Fine Hotels + Resorts credits.
Note that ALL Platinum status doesn’t include complimentary breakfast unless the hotel you book has a lounge. In fact, even top tier Diamond status with ALL doesn’t receive complimentary breakfast in the restaurant other than at weekends. Update: Chris has shared in the comments that both Platinum and Diamond members receive complimentary breakfast on stays in the APAC (Asia-Pacific) region.
Redeeming 5,000 Bilt Rewards points for ALL Platinum status could be a questionable decision if you’re not currently planning on staying at Accor properties in 2025, but if you are then you could definitely get outsized value from that redemption.
Bilt members who take advantage of this status match offer will then get to participate in a status challenge to extend their status or get a soft landing. For anyone who activates ALL Silver status, if you stay three qualifying nights in 2025 you’ll retain the status through the end of 2026. For anyone who activates ALL Gold status, staying eight qualifying nights in 2025 will ensure you retain the status in 2026. Meanwhile, Bilt Platinum members who match to ALL Platinum status won’t be able to maintain ALL Platinum status unless they stay the requisite 60 nights you’d normally need. However, you will automatically get Gold status through the end of 2026 which is a nice deal seeing as there are no stay requirements for that soft landing.
MedianTraveler has also commented below to advise that they received 333 bonus points for activating Platinum status which effectively offsets the cost of the Bilt points you redeem for the status.
As a reminder, ALL is a transfer partner of Bilt on a 3:2 basis and of Citi and Capital One on a 1,000:500 basis. Unlike most hotel programs, ALL points have a fixed value. Rather than redeeming points for a certain category level of hotel, every 1,000 points is worth €20 Euros towards your stay. That means each point is worth €0.02 which, at current exchange rates, works out to be ~$0.0208 (i.e. 2.08 cents per point). That means that transferring Bilt points gets you 1.39cpp (cents per point) of value, while transfers from Citi and Capital One get 1.04cpp of value.
It can occasionally be possible to get better value than that with Citi ThankYou points and Capital One miles courtesy of transfer bonuses. Capital One ran a solitary transfer bonus of 20% back in November 2022, while Citi offered a 50% bonus in November 2023 and again in May 2024. At current exchange rates, if Citi runs another 50% transfer bonus in 2025 then you’d be getting 1.56cpp of value on that 1,000:750 basis.
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