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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.

Hilton American Express cashback offer

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

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.

American Express Platinum card Amex

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.)

Comments (155)

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  • Matt says:

    OT – Curve…can anyone confirm if uk cash withdrawals to IHG card are still free up to £200 pm? Thanks.

  • JP says:

    Quick question regarding the Iberia Groupon deal – do you specifically require a Groupon Spain account or should this work with existing UK accounts?

    • s879 says:

      I asked this last week and was told you have to open a Groupon Spain account. I had to use Google translate to get by as my Spanish is next to nil.

    • Gavin says:

      You can login via Facebook or Google if you don’t want to fill in the sign-up form

  • Nick G says:

    I’ve got one night booked at the Syon park on a pre paid rate and one booked on a pay on checkout rate for £178 next wekend. I assume if I add to the total bill in terms of f and b or spa etc taking it over £250 I qualify? I’ve registered for the offer!

    • John says:

      Well if you need to pay over £250 at checkout it will definitely qualify.

      If not you’d only get it if the prepaid night was charged after you registered, otherwise you need to spend at another Hilton.

  • Nick G says:

    Sorry just thinking. I prepaid one night for £126 and have a pay on checkout rate of £178 in the next week.

    So it worth risking the total is £304? Or increase the pay on checkout rate to £250 on my second stay to make sure I hit the spend?

    • Rob says:

      I should trigger the previous version of this deal on prepay spend (or not) this week – will let you know. I did the same as you, 1 prepaid and 1 on checkout.

      • Nick G says:

        My bad just realised I used a visa debit card for the first prepay stay as I was in the process of cancelling and awaiting new gold cards????‍♂️…and they promotion wasn’t on my wife and I existing BA Amex cards….however last night did find both BA Amex now have this offer so if I hit £250 next week should trigger it!

        Rob

        Out if interest were having a 2 night stay the Hilton Syon Park room only. I’ve read your review but as a family was the breakfast any good? Might trigger my spend that way!

  • The streets says:

    OT – SPG Amex Card – I’m about to give up waiting for my sign up points to multiply. Basically if you took out the card before 01 August but hit your target spend after the merger then you lose out by 22,000 new spg points as no one wants to take responsibility in tripling them. You get 11,000 old points unconverted and so devalued by 66%. I’ve done very well out of Amex and so prepared to lose out this time!

    • Matt says:

      On the contrary I’m about to go on the warpath but could use a reminder as it’s been so long now… could someone please remind me what the old referral bonus was? And any advice whether I need Amex to credit 3x this number or are points being trebled when swept across? Many thanks for any help.

      • The streets says:

        It was a third of what it is today so spend £1,000 in 3 month and receive 10,000 Starpoints (11,000) if referred.

        As of 1 August newly earned points are now being tripled.

        • Jay says:

          In the same position and Amex opened a case to look into it but still refused to triple. Waiting to see if any correction made in next month or so otherwise will raise a formal complaint and see how that fares.

        • pablo says:

          I also only got 11k but I’ve given up on chasing the remaining 22k. Managed to get £50 compensation out of them and cancelled the card.

        • JPa says:

          I just chatted with them and it is the official list of issues that they are working on fixing that has been given to CS. I will believe it when I see it, but just with the people complaining here on this bit of the forum they must be well aware of it now.

    • Kipto says:

      I had this problem. Marriott were useless. SPG via twitter responded very quickly but after a week or so of communication put the blame firmly on Amex. I rang Amex back again this week and was put through to a manager who admitted they (Amex) were to blame for not sending the SPG points over to SPG already multiplied by three. The manager said that all SPG Amex points should have been multiplied by three after 1st August before being transferred to SPG. He will be sending the missing SPG points over to SPG on 8th November which was my statement date on the SPG Amex card which I cancelled two months. It appears points can’t be transferred over on an ad hoc basis. After a little persuasion he also transferred an additional 5000 points as a gesture of goodwill. I suggest speaking to a manager as the customer service assistants do not have the authority to transfer over points.hope this helps.

    • Richard says:

      I’ve been lucky and have had a better result. Spoke to an amex agent this week and after 5 mins in hold they said they’d post the 20,000 points to my Amex account and they’ll go over in the next sweep to SPG. Still not showing in Amex but the said they’ll go on next week.

      • Matt says:

        Thanks Kipto and others… useful info. I was the referrer rather than being referred… i think the old bonus was 9k (so I’m chasing 27k). Can anyone confirm, please? Have spoken to amex twice in the last month. Last time they spuriously tried to claim the person applied without using the link which has spurred me on to getting a positive result or raising a formal complaint by the end of this month. Let’s see…

  • Gavin says:

    You can click through to Groupon via the Iberia shopping portal for an extra 13 Avios per € spent at the moment

  • Peter K says:

    I know about statistics and how they work but I’m slightly suspicious on the Marriott game how my account (with stays this year) has won 500, 500, 3000 but my wife’s identical account, apart from no stays, had only won 50, 50, 50.

    Anyone else noticed this trend?

  • xcalx says:

    OT. Heathrow rewards

    How long do transfers to BA take, thanks

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