tl;dr – Platinum Rotana Discovery status is not a bad take for a few minutes of clicking around.
Several months ago, I wrote about this low-hanging fruit opportunity to potentially gain meaningful GHA Discovery status – the loyalty program for the Global Hotel Alliance portfolio. GHA includes luxury brands like Anantara, Avani, Corinthia, Kempinski, The Doyle Collection, and Viceroy Hotels & Resorts (and many more).
The long of it is as follows: Rotana Hotels, a United Arab Emirates-based luxury hotel chain with properties across the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe, was matching status from Marriott Bonvoy, IHG® One Rewards, ALL, Accor Live Limitless, and Hilton. Though holding elite status with Rotana wasn’t the biggest draw in and of itself, the hope was that Rotana Rewards status would transfer over to GHA Discovery, as it was announced that Rotana would be joining the GHA Discovery loyalty program later in the year.
Well, later is now, and I recently received an email detailing the new Rotana Discovery loyalty program, which should be live next month.
Essentially, Rotana Discovery is just GHA Discovery branded for Rotana members. The benefit tiers of the loyalty program are the same, and Rotana members will enjoy these benefits at any participating GHA property. In my case, I initially matched to the Platinum tier, which comes with some decent (but not free breakfast) benefits:
For anyone who matched to Titanium, you’ll now enjoy Double Upgrades, an extra hour of late checkout, and, notably, complimentary breakfast at all participating GHA properties:
Again, not bad.
