Over the last year, Hilton Honors has been adding additional lodging “partners;” hotels that are bookable with cash or points through Hilton Honors but that aren’t actually one of Hilton’s brands.
Undoubtedly the most exciting of Hilton’s new partners is Small Luxury Hotels of World, whose integration into Hilton has done wonders to add appeal to the program. The company also added Autocamp over the Summer, providing the ability to book “glamping” Airstreams trailers at desirable locations throughout the US through its platform.
Now Hilton has added a third partner that’s just a single property: the Evermore Resort in Orlando.
This is an interesting addition to Hilton Honors, as it’s effectively a massive vacation rental complex, with apartments, multi-bedroom condos and full houses. It has its own manmade lagoon and activities like kayaking, paddleboarding and fireside smores. The complex as a whole has over 2,000 rooms and includes Hilton’s own property, the brand-new Conrad Orlando.
Hilton already has a page set up for the resort, but at the time of writing I couldn’t find any available rooms on the calendar, either with cash or points.
I’ll be interested to see what the standard availability looks like. When booking direct, the nightly cost seems to begin at around $600. Most of Hilton’s own-branded vacation rental properties tend to be extremely expensive when compared with cash rates, primarily due to the lack of “standard” awards, causing most rooms to book into premium awards. I’d imagine that this would fall into the same category, it’s hard to image a house or a 4-bedroom flat being considered standard.
Regardless, I continue to be impressed with the way that Hilton has been broadening, and to my mind improving, its program over the last year. It will be fun to see what else is on tap for 2025.
(h/t: Loyalty Lobby)
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It’s being listed as a Curio Collection hotel so I think it will fit into their regular points pricing model. Could be an exciting redemption if it plays out that way
Yep, typically the premium only properties seem to be Hilton Vacations or Hilton Grand Vacations branding for timeshares.
I was playing around with this today and it looks like they are making the two bedroom villas the standard rooms. They sleep 4 (ADA villa sleeps 6), and were going for 135k per night (minimum two night booking). Could not click through to actually book.