GHA Discovery is the loyalty program across 40 hotel brands and over 800 properties such as Viceroy, Pan Pacific, Outrigger, Kempinski, NH Hotels, Marco Polo, Anantara and Capella.

They’re just wrapping up one of the boldest earning promotions I’ve ever seen offering up to a 94% rebate on stays (excluding taxes and fees). They’ve been adding elite benefits like breakfast at several brands since the program’s relaunch three years ago. And they now have an exceptionally broad status match campaign.

Kempinski Cancun

Here’s how status is normally earned:

• Silver: Base level
  
• Gold: 2 stays or $1000 spend
  
• Platinum: 10 nights or $5000 spend or stays at 2 brands
  
• Titanium: 30 nights or $15,000 spend or 3 brands

Here are their key elite benefits:

• Bonus points-earning: Discovery Dollars earning is 4% / 5% / 6% / 7% based on status level.
  
• Late checkout/Early check-in: Titaniums get 11 a.m. early check-in. Platinums get 3 p.m. checkout and Titaniums get 4 p.m. checkout. This is subject to availability.
  
• Upgrades: Platinums get a single category upgrade and Titaniums get a double upgrade (subject to availability).
  
• Amenity: Platinums and Titaniums receive a welcome amenity
  
• Brand-specific benefits: Titaniums also receive additional benefits that vary by brand such as breakfast, airport transfer, or complimentary laundry
  
• Breakfast: is a benefit rolling out across brands (not available at all brands) for Titanium members.

Through December 16 they are offering to match airline, hotel, and cruise status – as well as simply a premium credit card. And they’re matching up to their top published Titanium tier. Status will last through the end of 2025. It’s a paid offer through StatusMatch.com, but you get half the fee back in GHA’s rewards currency to spend at their hotels (these ‘Discovery Dollars’ expire if unused after 12 months).

• Platinum matches: cost $100, rebate D$50
  
• Titanium matches: cost $150, rebate D$75

This is a program that has regularly honored status match requests, but that’s been limited to matching from other hotel programs and also required you to have had at least one stay with the program in the prior 24 months. So this is available much more broadly. The offer says it may be once in a lifetime.

There’s an extensive list of airlines and hotels being matched against, even Marriott and Hilton Silver matches to GHA Platinum, and Marriott Platinum to GHA Titanium. A few examples of status matching to GHA Titanium, the program’s top published tier:

• Airlines: Air Canada 75K and above; American Platinum Pro and above; British Airways Gold and above; United Platinum and above. Oddly, neither Delta nor Southwest are on this list.

• Hotels: Choice Diamond; Hilton Diamond; Hyatt Globalist; IHG Platinum and above; Marriott Platinum and above

They’ll even match against cruise status and mere credit card possession. Any Visa Platinum or Signature issued in the US, Canada or Europe gets GHA Platinum while any Visa Infinite issued in these regions qualifies for Titanium.

That means, for instance, GHA Titanium is available to anyone with: Chase Sapphire Reserve; Chase United Club Infinite; Bank of America Premium Rewards Elite; US Bank Altitude Reserve; Capital One Venture X; Chase Ritz Carlton; CNB Crystal Visa Infinite and more. (They validate you actually have this card by requiring you to pay the application fee with it.)

My GHA stays are limited. Their U.S. footprint is small. But my last one, at Kempinski Cancun back in June, was fabulous. I always want to stay with GHA Discovery more often.