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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JohnT says:

20 Oct20 October 09:47

O/t Marriott. Just got a second 50 points on their 29 ways draw!
- Craig says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 09:59
  
  Me, 50, Prize Draw, PD, 50, PD
  Mrs S 50, PD, PD, 500
Michael says:

20 Oct20 October 09:48

Is there still any sign-up bonus for new Groupon.es accounts?

Prior HfP articles mentioned a 20% first purchase discount up to 20 euro, but I cannot find anything when searching for a current one.
- marcw says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 09:58
  
  That’s gone… Groupon Spain managed that NO discount coupon can be used on the Avios offer.
MD says:

20 Oct20 October 10:20

One thing I keep meaning to ask when this Spanish GroupOn deal comes up – does buying Avios like this count for the purposes of activating your Iberia Plus account, to enable Avios transfer to BA, AC etc?

I’m aware the account also needs to have been open a while, but so far all I’ve used it for is GroupOn offers! Bought something on Spanish eBay as a kind HfP reader suggested, but the miles never turned up…TIA.
Matthew says:

20 Oct20 October 10:22

What’s the rate code please for the Park Plaza deal as can’t get it to price.

Thanks 🙂
- Rob says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 10:31
  
  Try this link – https://www.parkplaza.com/waterloo-london-offer
  - Matthew says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 10:59
    
    Thank you!
Nick G says:

20 Oct20 October 10:51

Just received my wife’s new gold card and lounge club card and it says additional visits £20 am I right in think it used to be £15?!
- BJ says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 10:56
  
  Yes, it has gone up, not just for UK customers but others too.
  - Nick G says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 11:12
    
    Really not worth it then considering the coverage of lounges the card is accepted in I’ve found….£60 for three of us (usually get charged for our 5 year old) is pushing it now ????!
    - BJ says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 11:25
      
      Platinum could really work for you if you travel often. Card for you and supp for your wife cover the lounge and insurance needs. Car hire insurance too if needed. Stay Hilton’s and you can throw in free breakfasts via gold status. Operate a churn strategy to recoup some of the fees as MR points. Card and supp also ‘doubles’ the amex offers available. Laying out £450 on a card fee seems a lot but it really can work, even before factoring in 5 or 10 18k referral bonuses.
    - Lady London says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 12:50
      
      @BJ this works better as a couple. One of you can always have a card active. So the benefits for you as a couple continue. Sadly doesn;t work as well for a single person. As the gap in having the card really is a gap then.
    - BJ says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 13:03
      
      …they are a couple, witn a little one already 🙂
    - Alan says:
      
      21 Oct21 October 15:37
      
      Agree, BJ – even with just holding the card solo I think it’s worth it if you make sure you clear the 90k MR referral a year.
Arkadiusz says:

20 Oct20 October 11:02

I would recommend going to Spanish Groupon website via IberiaPlusStore for those with Iberia account. Each purchase is additionally awarded. For purchase of 2,000 Avios, I usually receive 114 Avios extra. Buying 8,000 Avios is rewarded with 324 additional Avios.
- MD says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 11:33
  
  Thanks for the tip. Every little helps.
- Chris says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 14:13
  
  I bought one these 8000 packages when I was a bit short for a redemption.. imagine my delight when I logged into IB plus for the first time in a while to discover they had credited an extra 8000 that I definitely didn’t pay for!
- Martin says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 18:46
  
  how do you actually do that? As I can’t seem to find groupon via IberiaPlusStore?
  - Shoestring says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 19:02
    
    Always used to be there, check again
    - Frank De Jongh Swemer says:
      
      21 Oct21 October 06:47
      
      To see the IBPLUS STORE you have to be logged into the Spanish version of the IB Plus site. Just change the country to Spain after log in with English as the language.
  - The Jetset Boyz says:
    
    21 Oct21 October 06:52
    
    On the IberiaPlus Store you need to set your region & language to Spain & Spanish, if you don’t Groupon won’t get displayed as one of their shopping partners.
Tracy says:

20 Oct20 October 11:06

For 15th December, Park Plaza pricing up at £175. Member price via app is £176 but doesn’t include breakfast…not much of a saving really.
Andy says:

20 Oct20 October 11:18

If anyone can use 40,000 IB Avios before 1st December I can let them go for £280 (0.7p) Got them through the crazy IB Avios deal but not having much look finding flights so will probs use them on hotels if no one can make better use of them
- Anna says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 11:42
  
  Just out of interest, how would you transfer them to someone else’s account?
  - Andy says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 18:06
    
    Id just book a flight with them in that person’s name.
- Delbert says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 11:56
  
  Not much luck finding flights? Have you tried BA?
  - Andy says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 18:08
    
    Yeah but don’t want to risk them being reclaimed if I transferred them over
    - Shoestring says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 18:30
      
      I think Delbert meant strange you can’t find BA award flights via the IB portal – that’s how I’m using our 180K Avios. All on BA flights in Europe. But with IB redemption.
      
      Seems to be same award availability as if I were going direct thru BA.
    - Shoestring says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 18:31
      
      And you can use any OneWorld airline as well.
- Lady London says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 12:54
  
  You know they have become transferable? not sure what will happen to your IB account if they are spent out of your BA account after transferring. But reports are they can now be pulled out.
  - Michael says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 13:06
    
    Do you mean that any Avios transferred to BAEC as part of the recent Iberia promotion would be pulled out of BAEC if not spent?
    Where are the reports of these being ‘pulled out’?
    - marcw says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 13:12
      
      From the T&Cs: “Once Avios have been transferred to a Programme they are subject to the terms and conditions of that Programme as applicable at the date of transfer. In the event of any dispute as to the entitlement to the Avios points originally issued to a Member, the terms and conditions of the Programme under which Avios points were issued shall apply.” I´m not sure whether IbPlus are going to claim those Avios issued during the promo and transferred to BAEC, but if that´s the case… interesting times ahead!
    - Lady London says:
      
      20 Oct20 October 15:03
      
      Havent seen that wording in the t’s and c’s before. I wonder if it was introduced to cover just this IB messup errrrr … situation.
      
      Other posters may have a different view but it seems taxes and many times the amount of avios required to book an award ticket is much less on Iberia than on British Airways. However it seems to me there are a number of things you can do booking from British Airways (upgrades, partner airlines that BA has that IB cannot book seats on, etc) that you can;t do or cost more on IB.
      
      Others may know more about this than me though
- Shoestring says:
  
  20 Oct20 October 16:43
  
  Fair price. If no takers, transfer them to BAEC then close your IB a/c.
  - Andy says:
    
    20 Oct20 October 18:15
    
    Might have to just risk it and do just that. Suppose I can always open a new IB account at a later date if needed in future.