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If you're a Best Western Rewards member, there's good news. For 2025, Best Western will continue to offer an easy pathway to elite status. And the brand is maintaining the straightforward qualification requirements that make it attainable to achieve higher tiers.
Here's what you need to know about how to qualify for elite status in 2025 and what benefits you can enjoy.
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Best Western Elite Status Requirements for 2025
Best Western Rewards offers multiple tiers of elite status, and the thresholds are nothing short of straightforward. Here are the qualification criteria for 2025:
- Gold: 5 nights
- Platinum: 7 nights
- Diamond: 15 nights
- Diamond Select: 25 nights
For those looking to maximize their stays or achieve status with minimal nights or spending, Best Western has also extended its hotel status match through 2025. This is a worthwhile offer if you have hotel elite status with another brand but want to pick up some Best Western perks.
Alternatively, you can apply for a Best Western credit card. Depending on the card you get, you can unlock Platinum or Gold status — for an $89 annual fee or less.
Benefits of Best Western Elite Status
Best Western Rewards elite tiers provide additional perks for members, which scale with your status level. While the program may not offer as many luxury-focused benefits as some competitors, the rewards can add value to frequent guests. Here's what you can expect through 2026 if you qualify in 2025:
- Gold: 10% bonus points
- Platinum: 15% bonus points
- Diamond: 30% bonus points
- Diamond Select: 50% bonus points
In addition to bonus points, elite members are often given complimentary bottled water at check-in, but some locations may offer small additional amenities.
Plus, Best Western Rewards points never expire, which is a helpful aspect of the program, as you don't have to worry about your hard-earned points disappearing.
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Leveraging Best Western Elite Status
One of the overlooked advantages of Best Western elite status is the ability to leverage it for status with other hotel loyalty programs. Given the relatively attainable qualifications, this can be a strategic way to unlock benefits across different brands.
In other words, travelers can potentially match their Best Western status to programs like Hilton Honors or Marriott Bonvoy, which could mean more lucrative benefits.
For more details on matching, it's worth referring to our guide on the current hotel status match opportunities or checking StatusMatcher for unpublished opportunities.
Related: How to Get Hotel Elite Status for Free (or Almost Free)
Final Thoughts
While Best Western Rewards may not offer the most extensive elite benefits, it provides consistent value, especially for travelers who frequently stay at the brand's properties. If you are a Best Western Rewards member, 2025 presents another opportunity to enjoy reasonable benefits and re-up through 2026.
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I’m not getten proper rewards points if I don’t get them I will start stayen somewhere else
Thanks God, I will be able to mantain my Best Western Elite Status
About 4-5 years ago my wife and I participated in an offer for Diamond Elite status. We both received it but I can’t remember if it was a status match ( we were both diamonds) or if was because of owning a business (currently offering Diamond status for the owner and Gold for employees). Our status has stayed the same ever since, never expiring. We have stayed at a few properties over the years and have never had a bad experience. A couple of properties have given us room upgrades which was appreciated.
I wish I could remember exactly why we were upgraded to Diamond Select but I’m getting old and don’t remember things like I used to. 🙂
Best Western Gold status isn’t much compared to Hilton Gold, but as an FYI, veterans can get it for free. I’m an Army combat veteran, so I simply called up BW’s customer service, told them about my veteran status, and they enrolled me in Best Western Service Rewards. You get automatically upgraded to Gold, and only have to show proof of current/prior military service at check-in. Some status is better than none at all, especially when so little effort is required to obtain it.
The BW Service Rewards page is somewhat buried, and I’d found it using search engine shortkeys. https://www.bestwestern.com/en_US/offers/hotel-discounts/military-discounts.html
I never knew about that. Thanks for sharing!
Good info. Never knew that either. May not mean much, but that’s nice of them.
Thought not very significant benefits as BW elite status holder, still good to see that they are making an effort. Either way, Best Western is still one of my favourite hotel chains!
Best Western Rewards is not very good like other programs. But the possibility of using it as a springboard for status matches in other programs is extraordinary.
I have had Best Western diamond status for many years. I once used it to get a match from Hilton for their diamond status. Wait until April if you want to get a status match from Hilton as their year goes from April 1 to March 31.
Great tip!
I used my other hotel statuses to match the best western diamond. As the article points out, there’s no particular benefit but you may as well earn more points. In some of the places I work, best Western is the only hotel chain and they are often very cute and comfortable hotels. The idea that you cannot receive bottled water due to Covid isCounterintuitive and ridiculous. But many places are using Covid as an excuse to lower offerings.
I agree that best western really is not something that I aspire to for their elite programs.
I recall Best Western status being given away pretty easily through a status match. (but worthless at the hotel level)
But always potentially useful for status matches back to a decent chain. Hilton comes to mind, since you can’t challenge if you are already Gold or better.
So match to BW, let your Hilton status drop, then challenge later on using that BW status…
Several comments here offer up valuable advice, yours included. Hope to execute this move at some point in the future when travel picks back up. Thanks!
A small programme that gets little attention, I personally have always been a big fan of BW rewards
Always great when companies are rewarding loyalty and making it easier to earn status during the pandemic. Good move by best western!
Capitalizing on the Best Western status for status match in other programs is sure a fascinating idea.
Too bad that there is still not alot of value in even the top BW tier. Program has always been a underdog.