Leading Hotels Leaders Club

Leading Hotels of the World publishes no award category chart. Reward night pricing is dynamic and tracks each member hotel's published room rate for your dates.

• Entry point: reward nights start at around 4,000 points per night.
• How to price a stay: use "View with Points" on LHW.com, or LHW reservations, to see the exact points needed for each eligible room on your dates.
• Earning rate: 1 point per USD 1 of room rate spend (Sterling members add a 5% bonus); maximum 3 rooms per booking. No points are earned on on-property spend.
• Buying points: sold in 1,000 point increments with periodic buy bonuses, and an annual purchase limit that LHW raises during some sales.
• Transfer in: Amex Membership Rewards at 1,000 to 250 (US only). Citi ThankYou at 1,000 to 200 from premium cards and 1,000 to 140 from other ThankYou cards.

There are no peak or off-peak bands or published per-property point prices. The cash rate is effectively the chart.

• Reaching independent icons. Leaders Club points book hotels that sit outside the big chain programs, like Le Sirenuse in Positano, Violino d'Oro in Venice, and The Okura Tokyo. The catch: reward nights track each hotel's published room rate, so there is no cheap chart outlier to exploit. You are paying for access, not a discount, so price your dates with "View with Points" on LHW.com first.
• Transfer in from Amex or Citi, with a stay already picked. Amex Membership Rewards moves at 1,000 to 250 Leaders Club points (US only). Citi ThankYou moves at 1,000 to 200 from premium cards and 1,000 to 140 from other ThankYou cards, and Citi has run a 25% bonus on this route. The catch: both ratios are steep, so transfer only the points you need for a specific reward night you have already priced.
• Buy points only during a bonus. Leaders Club sells points in 1,000 point increments and runs periodic buy bonuses. The catch: buying at list price rarely makes sense, so only top up during a bonus and only for a stay you have already priced in points.
• Pre-arrival upgrades at marquee hotels. Your annual pre-arrival upgrade is confirmed before you travel, not a check-in gamble, and at a property where a one category bump means a sea view or a substantially nicer room, that is real money.

Leaders Club has no program-wide lounge or club-lounge benefit. Leading Hotels of the World is a collection of independent properties, not a chain with a shared executive-lounge standard. Any club or executive lounge access depends entirely on the individual hotel and the room category you book; it is not conferred by Leaders Club membership or status. The closest thing to a portable status perk is the SIXT car-rental status match (Gold for Club, Platinum for Sterling), which has nothing to do with airport or hotel lounges. If lounge access matters for a specific stay, confirm it directly with the property.

• Reward nights (the main event): Redeem points for nights at any participating Leading Hotel. Pricing is dynamic, with no fixed category chart, starting around 4,000 points per night and scaling with the hotel's published room rate. Use the "View with Points" tool on LHW.com to see the exact points cost for your dates.
• Multi-room and multi-night redemptions: If you have the points, you can book as many rooms as you like on a single reward stay. Reward nights are fully cancellable for a points refund as long as you cancel before check-in.
• Mix paid and award nights: Book some nights on cash and others on points in the same stay, but note the hotel may move you between room categories if the paid and award rooms differ.
• Gift points: You can buy and gift points in 1,000-point increments to another member's account.
• Reward stays still deliver your on-property member benefits (breakfast, WiFi), but they do not earn points.