October 22 Update: Hilton adds automatic upgrades for Gold & Diamond Elites, WorldHotels Rewards offering instant Gold Elite status & more!

Here's your Rewards Canada Daily update! Your daily dose (or near daily dose) of loyalty program, credit card and travel news, bonuses, deals and more. This update is brought to you by the HSBC World Elite Mastercard which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 100,000 bonus points worth $500, has no foreign transaction fees and no annual fee in the first year! 

 Hilton Hotels announced some minor changes this week that include automatic upgrades for elite members and digital key sharing. Here are the details Hilton provided to us:

Summary of global hotel systemwide bonus points promotions – November Edition

Here is your monthly update of all the global hotel bonus points promotions that are available! One of the easiest ways to rack up lots of hotel points is to take advantage of these systemwide bonuses that come from many of the big chain programs and also from the lesser known programs. In fact, right now it should be rare for you NOT to earn a bonus. Unless you are staying at a boutique hotel or perhaps an independent hotel most other hotels out there have a bonus. So take advantage of it! These systemwide bonuses simply require you to register beforehand and they do not affect hotel pricing as long as you book a point eligible rate which are most rates out there. Of course booking through a third party site like Expedia or Rocketmiles does not count as most chains only award points on bookings that are made directly with them. Without further ado here are all the current promotions that are available to everyone:

Provider	Offer	Validity Date
Best Western Rewards	No Offers at this time	--
	For a complete listing of all Best Western Rewards bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Best Western page
Choice Hotels Privileges	No Offers at this time	--
	For a complete listing of all Choice Privileges bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Choice page
GHA Discovery	Earn Double Tier Night Credits on all qualified stays at GHA Hotels Worldwide. Register online (Registration is required)	Until Dec 31, 19
	For a complete listing of all GHA Discovery bonus offers please visit Rewards Canada's GHA page
Hilton	Double Honors points on every stay at participating Hilton Hotels Worldwide.  If you have a Hilton Honors co-brand credit card (U.S., U.K., Japan or Germany) you will earn triple points on each stay.  Full details, online registration and booking (Registration is required)	Until Jan 5, 20
	For a complete listing of all Hilton HHonors bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Hilton page
Hyatt	Earn up to Triple World of Hyatt Points starting with your second qualifying stay at over 900 participating hotels and resorts worldwide. Registratoin is closed but this offers runs until Dec 15 for those who have registered Earn Triple Points at nearly 350 Hyatt Place hotels in cities like New York, London, Tokyo and more. Earn Double Points at over 550 other Hyatt hotels worldwide and participating M life Rewards destinations and Small Luxury Hotels of the World hotels.	Register by Oct 31 for stays Sep 15 - Dec 15, 19
	2,000 Bonus World of Hyatt Points for your first stay at each of Hyatt's new brands of Thompson Hotels (starting March 28), Joie de Vivre (starting May 15), Alila and Destination Hotels (both coming soon) Maximum bonus of 8,000 points. Plus earn a free night if you stay at all four brands. Full details and online booking	Until Dec 31, 19
	For a complete listing of all Hyatt Gold Passport bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Hyatt page
InterContinental Hotels Group	Earn up to 4x IHG Rewards Club Points for stays at all IHG Hotels Worldwide. Full details, online registration and booking  (Registration is required) – Earn 1,000 Bonus Points on your 1st stay – Double Points on your 2nd stay – Triple Points on your 3rd stay – Quadruple Points on your 4th stay and beyond	Register by Dec 15 for stays until Jan 31, 20
	For a complete listing of all IHG Priority Club bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's IHG page
Le Club AccorHotels	No offers at this time	--
	For a complete listing of all Le Club AccorHotels bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Le Club AccorHotels page
Marriott	Earn 2,000 Bonus Bonvoy Points on your second stay at any participating Marriott Hotel Worldwide. Once complete you will unlock additional bonus offers for your stay(s) made after that second stay. Additional offers will be appear in your account and also be emailed to you by Marriott. Full details, online registration & booking. (Registration is required)	Register by Dec 31 for stays between Oct 29 & Jan 14, 20
	For a complete listing of all Marriott Rewards bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Marriott page
Millennium Hotels My Millennium	Earn up to Triple My Millennium Points for stays of 2 or more night at participating Millennium Hotels Worldwide. You'll earn 2x points for stays of 2 nights or 3x points for stays of 3+ nights. Full details & online booking.	Book by Dec 31 for stays until Mar 31, 20
	For a complete listing of all Millennium Hotels My Millennium bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's My Millennium page
Preferred Hotel Group iPrefer	No Offers at this time	--
	For a complete listing of all Preferred Hotel Group iPrefer bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's iPrefer page
Radisson Rewards	No offers at this time	--
	For a complete listing of all Radisson Rewards bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Radisson Rewards page
Red Roof Inns RediRewards	Earn 7,000 Bonus RediPoints when you complete 2 separate stays at any Red Roof location, including The Red Collection and Hometowne Studios by Red Roof in the U.S., Japan, Brazil and Canada (if the Canadian location opens soon as it seems to be continually delayed) Full details, online registration and booking. (Registration is required)	Until Feb 29, 20
	For a complete listing of all Red Roof bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's RediRewards page
Shangri-La Golden Circle	No Offers at this time	--
	For a complete listing of all Shangria-La bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Golden Circle page
Sonesta Hotels Travel Pass	No Offers at this time	--
	For a complete listing of all Sonesta Hotels bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Travel Pass page
Voila Hotel Rewards	Double Elite Status Credit for every stay of 3+ nights completed at a participating VOILÀ hotel Worldwide. Full details & online registration (Registration is required)	Until Nov 30, 19
	For a complete listing of all Voila Hotel Rewards bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's VHR page
WorldHotels Rewards	Quadruple Rewards Points for stays at all participating WorldHotels locations Worldwide. Full details & online booking	Until Dec 31, 19
	For a complete listing of all Wyndham Rewards bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's WorldHotels page
Wyndham Rewards	Earn 15,000 Bonus Wyndham Rewards  points when you stay twice at participating hotels in Canada. That’s enough points for up to two free nights at thousands of By Wyndham hotels. Be sure to register before you complete your first qualifying stay.  Full details, online registration and online booking	Register & book by Feb 17 for stays until Feb 18, 20
	For a complete listing of all Wyndham Rewards bonus point offers please visit Rewards Canada's Wyndham page

Introducing WorldHotels Rewards - 4x points to celebrate the launch of the program (very similar to Best Western Rewards)

Earlier in the year we let you know that Best Western Hotels had bought WorldHotels - a chain of about 300 hotels around the World. Up until now we didn't know how the chain would be, if at all, integrated into Best Western and Best Western Rewards. We have the answer now and it looks like WorldHotels will be run separately with their own program called WorldRewards. This essentially replaces their long defunct World Hotel Peakpoints program.

What is WorldHotels Rewards?
That's an easy question to answer. It's almost an exact copy of Best Western Rewards. The program earns points at the same rate as Best Western Rewards for stays at all participating WorldHotels locations and offers up the same elite levels. Their are slight differences in the levels from the base level being named Red instead of Blue as seen in BWR and the benefits are slightly different like late check out only being available to higher elite levels in WHR.

Elite Levels & Benefits
Here are the WHR levels and benefits:

Compare this to BWR:

As you can see the earn and qualification rates are exactly the same. The benefits are less with WHR as there are no thank you gifts or points, late check out is only available to the top two levels and free night redemptions don't count towards status. 

Also, just like Best Western Rewards, WorldHotels Rewards is offering the famous Status Match No Catch promotion. This means they will match your status from another hotel program, I'm guessing even Best Western Rewards is included. Learn more about the Status Match offer here. I'll have to update our feature  How to maximize the elite status benefits from The Platinum Card from American Express to 10 hotel chain elite statuses now thanks to this status match offer!

Earning Points or Airline Miles
Reading the terms and conditions of the program it does appear that not only do WHR members earn points for stays at select WorldHotels they also receive points for stays at all Best Western Hotels.

Members may earn Points at participating Licensed Hotels on stays that are eligible to earn points (“Eligible Stays”). Not all Licensed Hotels participate in the Program.  Please view the list of participating Licensed Hotels. Members may also earn Points on Eligible Stays at all Best Western branded properties worldwide.

As you can see it states 'Not all licensed hotels participate" and it is a big number. Right now it appears that only 61 of WorldHotels 300 or so locations are participating in the program. None of the hotels are in Canada.

You can also choose to earn airline miles with WHR, they have seventeen airlines to choose from, some of which are not partners with Best Western Rewards (and vice versa).

Learn more about earning WorldHotels Rewards Points here and more about earning Airline Miles here.

Redeeming Points
This is where the big difference lies between the two programs. At this time it appears that you cannot redeem your WorldHotels Rewards points for actual free night stays. That would explain why you don't earn elite status on free nights..... At this point you can only redeem WHR points for gift cards or certificates. Here's an example:

Learn more about redeeming WorldHotels Rewards Points here.

Program Launch Bonus Offer
To celebrate the launch of WorldHotels Rewards you can earn 4x Points on all stays at all the participating WorldHotels locations around the World. This means you'll earn 40 points per US$ spent on those stays. Learn more about the promotion here. The 4x points offer runs until December 31, 2019.

Thoughts
That's about all we know so far about the program! In general you'll want to join this program if you know you may have stays at any of the ~60 hotels and earn the bonus points. It would be nice to know if you could earn Best Western Rewards points for those stays instead however since you would be earning points for future free nights and not just gift cards. Still a reward is a reward and the fact that you can status match right away it should make stays at any of those WorldHotels a little bit better if you can score a room upgrade!

Visit WorldHotels Rewards today to learn more and to join the program