Loyalty programmes

If you book through a Preferred Partner, you keep your membership. Your membership number becomes part of the reservation, the hotel knows your status tier before you arrive, and on eligible rates points and nights are credited as though you had booked with the hotel directly.

What is new is what comes on top: the privileges of the Preferred Partner programme. They supplement your status; they do not double it. Where the two cover the same ground, at breakfast or with an upgrade for instance, you receive whichever benefit is the more generous.