Register for a new Hilton ‘£50 back on £250 spend’ hotel cashback deal with American Express

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A new Hilton cashback offer has appeared on a lot of American Express accounts. To see if you are targetted, visit the Amex website and take a look under the ‘Offers’ tab on the online statement page for each of your cards.

You will receive £50 cashback when you spend £250 or more at selected UK and European Hilton, DoubleTree, Waldorf Astoria, Hampton, Curio and Conrad hotels before 31st December. Hilton Paris Opera is pictured below and reviewed here. The Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol which I reviewed earlier this week is also on.

Not all hotels are participating. Make sure that you check the list of hotels on the Amex website before booking – it is only UK and European hotels, and not all of them. In theory you also need to book ‘pay at checkout’ rates to get this deal. In reality, pre-paid rates will probably also trigger it.

In the past, these offers have been triggered by cumulative spend. There is no mention of this – so you are not guaranteed to receive it if the £250 is not hit in one transaction – but I suspect you will.

Remember that you still have 11 days to benefit from Hilton’s excellent ‘2500 Miles & More miles on every stay’ promo (click) as well as the current global ‘double or triple points’ offer which runs until 3rd January.

How to earn Hilton Honors points and status from UK credit cards (December 2021)

There are various ways of earning Hilton Honors points from UK credit cards. Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses.

Do you know that holders of The Platinum Card from American Express receive FREE Hilton Honors Gold status for as long as they hold the card? It also comes with Marriott Bonvoy Gold, Radisson Rewards Gold and MeliaRewards Gold status. We reviewed American Express Platinum in detail here and you can apply here.

The Platinum Card from American Express

30,000 points and an unbeatable set of travel benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Did you know that the Virgin Atlantic credit cards are a great way of earning Hilton Honors points? Two Virgin Points can be converted into three Hilton Honors points. The Virgin Atlantic cards are the only Visa or Mastercard products in the UK which can indirectly earn Hilton Honors points. You can apply here.

You can also earn Hilton Honors points indirectly with American Express Gold (20,000 bonus points), the American Express Rewards Credit Card (5,000 bonus points) and – for small business owners – American Express Business Gold (20,000 bonus points) and Business Platinum (40,000 bonus points).

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which can be used to earn Hilton Honors points.

(Want to earn more hotel points? Click here to see our complete list of promotions from the major hotel chains or use the ‘Hotel Offers’ link in the menu bar at the top of the page.)

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Cuchlainn says:

20 Oct20 October 05:09

Yesterday I saved £5 statement credit on £20 Amazon Amex offer online on both BAPP cards.

Excellent use for Kindle books on holibobs and B**king.com have link to free 3 month Kindle Unlimited deal, if you are a Genius customer and book 1+ nights with them – happy days.
- Tim says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 09:58
  
  ‘holibobs’… No!
  Please don’t ever use that word again!! 🙂
Rob says:

20 Oct20 October 05:30

Regarding the Hilton stay would it still count if the £250 was purely F&B and spa treatments I have a prepaid room booked but reckon with 2 lots of spa treatments and dinner etc might just sneak over £250 will obviously get it all billed to the room.
- Spurs Debs says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 07:02
  
  I’m hoping that’s the case. I’ve got three paid room stays coming up. If it does great if it doesn’t nothing really lost.
- The Jetset Boyz says:
  
  21 Oct21 October 07:27
  
  Yes it will. When you check in your stay folio will be activated – the first line item will be your pre-payment followed by the nightly room charge (as each day passes if you’re staying for more than one night) and any items that you sign for (like dinner, spa, etc) during your stay. Your folio will close when you settle the outstanding amount.
- Alan says:
  
  21 Oct21 October 15:30
  
  Won’t be an issue at all as long as you charge all that to your main hotel folio and pay at check-out (risk of paying spa directly and it going through as something else)
a270 says:

20 Oct20 October 06:35

OT: Has anyone tried converting Tesco voucher to Virgin recently and if yes, any 20% bonus?
- Jerry says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 06:51
  
  OT signed up and accepted using HFP link to amazon business last Friday week. Not received an email voucher for £50 off first £100 spend. Have checked spam. Have I misunderstood any part of the offer?
  - Rob says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 09:14
    
    You misunderstood the bit where I said you should email me with any issues and I would pass it to my Amazon contact to fix 🙂
- Peter K says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 08:54
  
  Only a 20% bonus sometimes. It is not a permanent thing. Not had for a while.
SG says:

20 Oct20 October 07:08

Morning all
Anyone else experiencing delays on having their MR Amex referral points posted?(referral from Platinum)
Applicant received card 2 days ago,no sign of my referral points!
Although Rob confirmed that Amex can see this,Amex agents unable to confirm after several phone calls!
Managers never available,has anyone got a contact number where a I can get someone from Amex able to see confirm points delay?(Need to reassure applicant that will get their bonus points for being referred)
Many thanks
- Nicky says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 08:09
  
  I did a referral a couple of months ago, it was about 5 days after my dad received his card that the MR points eventually hit my account
  - SG says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 08:27
    
    Thanks Nicky,I read that lately has been even longer delays
    - Mark says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 08:53
      
      Did a self referral last night and was surprised to see the MR points had hit my account before even activating the card!
    - Matt says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 09:23
      
      I did a referral from my Plat on Sunday 14th, and they hit my account on Thursday 18th.
      
      You’re surely not in a position to chase/complain though because the terms do say they can take up to 10 weeks to post (off the top of my head)?
- Anon says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 09:21
  
  I don’t think it’s a good idea to draw attention to this. In any case, I would wait a bit longer and double check that you met all the eligibility criteria for the referral (e.g. 5 referrals per 12 months etc).
  - rams1981 says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 11:00
    
    I made a rookie mistake and did a proper referral forgetting I’d already done 5, so no points
    - pablo says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 15:11
      
      If I upgraded gold to platinum halfway through the year, do the referrals done under gold count towards the annual 5? Or do I get another 5 from when the account changes from gold to plat?
    - Genghis says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 15:41
      
      90k per calendar year per MR acct
    - BJ says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 16:09
      
      Genghis, are you sure it is per MR account and not per card account? That is, do gold and platinum get combined into 90k max? I thought I still had 18k to go but I did a couple on gold prior to upgrade meaning I have none left if you are correct?
      - Rob says:
        
        20 Oct20 October 18:30
        
        Per MR account.
    - BJ says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 19:02
      
      Thanks Rob, I will just wait until January then as opposed to halving bonuses via BAPP.
- Simon says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 10:43
  
  In the same boat. Referred a friend from Plat 2 weeks ago. Friend called Amex on Thurs this week to follow up and they said he’d been approved, so if his card has now arrived and I’ve not received the 18k, I will be a little bemused. Saying that, 2 x other successful referrals from my Gold card still haven’t posted and that’s from perhaps a month ago, so I’m not sure what the issue might be still, though I noted the delay chatter on HFP from a few weeks back (though, as already mentioned, the I was also under the impression that this had been remedied).
s879 says:

20 Oct20 October 07:17

OT: I have the Amex Platinum and will be cancelling soon. Do I have to wait for 6 months before I take out the Gold Amex or is it fine to open one now and get sign up bonus? Same goes for my husband who has the Gold and want to know if he can open the Platinum and get sign up bonus.
- Ian M says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 07:44
  
  You have to close and then wait 6 months to be eligible for the sign up bonus.
  - s879 says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 08:29
    
    Thanks. So you can either have a Gold card or a Platinum every 6 months? If I cancel my Platinum now, I can’t open a Gold or Platinum for 6 months if I want a sign up bonus?
    - AndyW says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 08:35
      
      Correct. Can’t hold anything of the same reward currency in the last 6 months
    - Rob says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 09:10
      
      Correct.
- Lyn says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 09:03
  
  I’m afraid I don’t know the details but others here will be able to offer advice. Have you already thought about whether you could earn a referral bonus before closing? It also sounds as if there are different ways of staggering your husband’s card applications and your own to maximise sign-up bonuses and referral bonuses.
John says:

20 Oct20 October 07:30

Re Hilton / M&M:

I opened a new M&M account for this promo and now have 40K miles, but whenever I try to search for award flights it just gives me an error similar to {“code”:400,”message”:”An error occurred servicing your request. “}

Same on all browsers, app, different devices and IP addresses, so maybe it’s my account. Any ideas what is going on?
- SG says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 08:30
  
  Hi
  I also opened a new account with this promotion
  Not enough miles for a redemption,but all was fine when trying one,more miles required,I think I got the option of buying some more
  - BJ says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 11:05
    
    Don’t do LH miles and cash whatever you do. If you need more miles tgere are a lot of offers at the moment…hotels, car hire, economist.
- Jonathan says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 10:24
  
  Try redeeming on the Lufthansa website instead
- BJ says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 11:06
  
  Had difficulties two days ago, I thought it was just temporary.
Trystan Griffiths says:

20 Oct20 October 07:56

If I book and prepay for a stay at a participating hotel before Dec 31 but the reservation would be after 31 Dec, would I get the statement credit?
- Trystan Griffiths says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 08:02
  
  Sorry guys, just saw that the offer excludes on line payments. Bit gutted as I have many prepaid rooms from now until end of year and not likely to need anymore reservations. I guess it doesn’t always pay to be so organised!!!
  - John says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 08:34
    
    That’s what the terms say, but in practice Hiltons in Europe charge prepaid payments at their front desk in the more or less same way as you would pay on checkout. So if your stay is charged before 31 Dec Amex should not be able to know whether you actually stayed then or are going to stay later. (but of course if you don’t get the credit you can’t complain)
  - Crafty says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 08:45
    
    Go for it and see what happens. Historically I’ve always been able to trigger these offers on prepaid UK rates.
- Rob says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 09:11
  
  Yes as long as the hotel charges immediately.
Paul Walsh says:

20 Oct20 October 08:05

Hilton’s in Bucharest excluded once again…sigh…