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Hotel credit cards often come with lucrative perks, like annual free-night certificates, automatic elite status, and high bonus earning rates on hotel spend. While we encourage applying for credit cards with flexible points first, hotel credit cards are definitely part of our points/miles strategy. Here is information about one of these programs – The American Express Hilton credit cards.

 

Hilton Honors American Express Card

 
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• No Annual Fee
• Earn 7X Hilton Honors Bonus Points for each dollar of eligible purchases charged on your Card directly with a hotel or resort within the Hilton portfolio.
• Earn 5X Hilton Honors Bonus Points for each dollar of eligible purchases on your Card at U.S. restaurants, U.S. supermarkets and U.S. gas stations.
• Earn 3X Hilton Honors Bonus Points for each dollar of all other eligible purchases on your Card.
• Enjoy complimentary Hilton Honors^™ Silver status with your Card. Plus, spend $20,000 on eligible purchases on your Card in a calendar year, and you can earn an upgrade to Hilton Honors^™ Gold status through the end of the next calendar year,
• No Foreign Transactions Fees.

For rates and fees of the Hilton Honors American Express Card, see Rates and Fees; terms apply. 

 

Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card

 

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• $150 Annual Fee
• 12 points per dollar spent at Hilton properties
• 6 points per dollar spent at grocery stores, gas stations, and restaurants
• 4 points per dollar spent on online retail purchases
• 3 points per dollar spent everywhere else
• Complimentary Hilton Gold Status
• Get up to $50 in statement credits each quarter for purchases made directly with a property in the Hilton portfolio on your Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card. That’s up to $200 in statement credits annually.
• Earn a Free Night Reward from Hilton Honors after you spend $15,000 on eligible purchases on your Card in a calendar year.
• Executive status with National Car Rentals

 

For rates and fees of the Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card, see Rates and Fees; terms apply. 

 

 

The Hilton Honors American Express Business Card

 

 

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• $0 introductory annual fee for the first year, then $150
• 12 points per dollar spent at Hilton properties
• 5 points per dollar spent at on the first $100K in eligible purchases per calendar year, 3X Points thereafter.
• Complimentary Hilton Gold Status
• Get up to $240 back each year on eligible purchases made directly with a property in the Hilton portfolio on your Hilton Honors American Express Business Card, with up to $60 in statement credits per quarter.
• Spend $40,000 on eligible purchases on your Card in a calendar year and you can earn an upgrade to Hilton Honors^™ Diamond status through the end of the next calendar year.
• Complimentary National Car Rental^® Emerald Club Executive^® Status

For rates and fees of  The Hilton Honors American Express Business Card, see Rates and Fees; terms apply. 

 

American Express Hilton Honors Aspire

• $550 Annual Fee
• 14 points per dollar spent at Hilton properties
• 7 points per dollar spent at grocery stores, gas stations, and restaurants.
• 7 points per dollar spent select travel Including flights booked directly with airlines or AmexTravel.com and car rentals booked directly with select car rental companies.
• 3 points per dollar spent everywhere else
• Complimentary Hilton Diamond Status
• Enjoy an Annual Free Night Reward from Hilton Honors in your first year of Card Membership and every year upon Card renewal.
• Get up to $50 in statement credits each quarter, for a total of up to $200 back each year, on flight purchases made directly with an airline or through AmexTravel.com using your Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card.
• Enjoy up to $200 in statement credits semi-annually on eligible purchases made directly with participating Hilton Resorts using your Hilton Honors Aspire Card.
• Free night award with $30K spend and with $60K spend
• $209 CLEAR® Plus Credit
• Executive status with National Car Rentals

For rates and fees of  American Express Hilton Honors Aspire, see Rates and Fees; terms apply. 

All information about the American Express Hilton Honors Aspire has been collected independently by Travel Mom Squad. The American Express Hilton Honors Aspire is no longer available through Travel Mom Squad.

 

Hilton Stays

Hilton doesn’t have a set award chart like Hyatt. The cost of points fluctuates depending on the location, demand, and season. You can check out the Hilton Points Explorer Tool, which shows you the minimum and the maximum number of points you could expect to spend at a particular hotel.

Let’s say I want to go to Bali.  I can stay at the Bali Hilton Garden Inn Airport for 15,000 points or the Conrad Bali for 50,000 points.  It’s all up to you – spend your nights staying at economical hotels and get more stays, or go for luxury and use them at the nicer hotels.

 

 

Hotel Status

So, what’s up with hotel status?  What will it get you with Hilton Hotels?

Silver Status:

• 5th night free on award stays
• 2 complimentary bottles of water
• 20% Points earning Bonus on stays

Gold status:

• 5th night free on award stays
• 80% point bonus on paid stays
• 2 complimentary bottles of water
• Room upgrades, when available
• Daily Food & Beverage Credit (U.S. hotels only) or Continental Breakfast (non-U.S. hotels)
• Earn 10,000 Bonus Points every 10 nights after you’ve stayed 40 nights in a calendar year.

Diamond status:

• 5th night free on award stays
• 100 % point bonus on paid stays
• 2 complimentary bottles of water
• Complimentary free premium internet
• Room upgrades, including suites
• Daily Food & Beverage Credit (U.S. hotels only) or Continental Breakfast (non-U.S. hotels)
• Executive lounge access (free breakfasts there and also often hors d’oeuvres in the evening and drinks)

 

Remember that you can only get American Express welcome offers once per lifetime for each card.  You may find offers for additional cards with no lifetime language attached though. Also remember that you can refer your spouse to those same cards and have many Hilton points!!

Not everyone is willing to pay a high annual fee, but I have found that the perks often outweigh the fee. Check out what credit card benefits come with the card and make the determination if it will work for you.

 

Bottom Line

Hilton has some great offers and is another good program to use for hotel rooms. They have hotels available all over the world, which may be a great option for you. Each of us has had amazing stays in Hilton hotels so that is why we each have a Hilton card.

 

For rates and fees of the Hilton Honors American Express Card, see Rates and Fees; terms apply. 
For rates and fees of the Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card, see Rates and Fees; terms apply. 
For rates and fees of  The Hilton Honors American Express Business Card, see Rates and Fees; terms apply.
For rates and fees of  American Express Hilton Honors Aspire, see Rates and Fees; terms apply.