Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
Hilton Honors is the loyalty scheme for Hilton hotels, which includes these brands: Canopy, Conrad, Curio, DoubleTree, Embassy Suites, Hampton, Hilton, Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, LXR, Motto, Tapestry Collection, Tru and Waldorf Astoria.
Our main two-part introduction to the Hilton Honors programme is here and you can learn more about the program on hilton.com here.
Check out our ‘Hotel Offers’ page here to see what bonus point offers are currently running.
If you need to top-up your account, you can buy points here.
More information on how you can get Hilton Gold Elite status for free with The Platinum Card by American Express is here.
Hilton Honors does not have its own UK credit card but you can transfer points earned from American Express Platinum (high fee, high bonus), American Express Preferred Rewards Gold (free for a year, good bonus) and Amex Rewards Credit Card (no fee, small bonus!).
Etihad Guest has brought back its offer of a 25% bonus on points you transfer into their scheme. It is 14 months since we last saw this offer. You can find full details of this offer on the Etihad .....
Etihad Guest has brought back its offer of a 25% bonus on points you transfer into their scheme. It is 14 .....
3 Jul 20163 July 2016 • 29 comments
A reader mentioned this offer in an email to me last week and, as some people may have never seen it before, I thought it was worth another outing. Hilton has a very attractive discount code for .....
A reader mentioned this offer in an email to me last week and, as some people may have never seen it .....
2 Jul 20162 July 2016 • 57 comments
Hilton HHonors underwent a major devaluation in 2013 which severely impacted the ‘aspirational’ elements of the programme. A top-end property in London or New York will now cost you up .....
Hilton HHonors underwent a major devaluation in 2013 which severely impacted the ‘aspirational’ .....
29 Jun 201629 June 2016 • 45 comments
Until 5th July, British Airways is offering a 35% bonus if you transfer hotel points from seven major loyalty schemes into Avios – click for my article from yesterday. Since most of the hotel .....
Until 5th July, British Airways is offering a 35% bonus if you transfer hotel points from seven major loyalty .....
22 Jun 201622 June 2016 • 78 comments
News in brief: Confusing Conrad and Waldorf Astoria promotion launched In 2014 and 2015, Hilton HHonors was giving bonus points for stays at Conrad and Waldorf Astoria hotels. As long as you .....
News in brief: Confusing Conrad and Waldorf Astoria promotion launched In 2014 and 2015, Hilton HHonors was .....
22 Jun 201622 June 2016 • 23 comments
It was due a return and now it is back. I’m talking about the ‘bonus when you transfer your hotel loyalty points to British Airways Avios‘ promotion. The ba.com page for the .....
It was due a return and now it is back. I’m talking about the ‘bonus when you transfer your .....
21 Jun 201621 June 2016 • 83 comments
News in brief: Luxury Travel Diary auctions The Luxury Travel Diary site dropped me a line about another wave of its luxury auctions closing this week. These are often worth a look as there are .....
News in brief: Luxury Travel Diary auctions The Luxury Travel Diary site dropped me a line about another .....
20 Jun 201620 June 2016 • 20 comments
News in brief: 2,400 Avios or 2,500 Virgin miles with a £30 Singer ‘Handy Chest’ Tesco Direct has been offering 1,000 Clubcard points on a variety of Singer sewing machines for a few .....
News in brief: 2,400 Avios or 2,500 Virgin miles with a £30 Singer ‘Handy Chest’ Tesco Direct has .....
11 Jun 201611 June 2016 • 9 comments
TODAY, 10th June, is the last day to take advantage of the current 100% bonus when you buy Hilton HHonors points – see this page and click through. Even with a 100% bonus, it is .....
TODAY, 10th June, is the last day to take advantage of the current 100% bonus when you buy Hilton HHonors .....
10 Jun 201610 June 2016 • 35 comments
Hilton has two ‘quadruple Avios’ promotions running at the moment. I wrote about the British Airways version here and the Iberia version here. Each version offers double Avios on your .....
Hilton has two ‘quadruple Avios’ promotions running at the moment. I wrote about the British .....
4 Jun 20164 June 2016 • 24 comments
I covered the two recent Iberia and British Airways Hilton promotions in recent days. The best one is the Iberia Plus version (compare with the BA Hilton promo here) which gets you: double Avios on .....
I covered the two recent Iberia and British Airways Hilton promotions in recent days. The best one is the .....
30 May 201630 May 2016 • 15 comments
News in brief: Hilton cutting Diamond benefits in UK hotels? A couple of years ago I wrote about Hilton allowing UK hotels to downgrade the offerings in their executive lounges. It seems that the .....
News in brief: Hilton cutting Diamond benefits in UK hotels? A couple of years ago I wrote about Hilton .....
26 May 201626 May 2016 • 59 comments
Last week I wrote about the ‘quadruple Avios’ promotion which Iberia has launched in association with Hilton. British Airways has now launched its own version of the offer as you can see .....
Last week I wrote about the ‘quadruple Avios’ promotion which Iberia has launched in association .....
21 May 201621 May 2016 • 45 comments
Hilton HHonors has, very quietly, brought back its official status match programme. This is a fantastic opportunity to leverage your existing status in another hotel scheme to get Gold or Diamond .....
Hilton HHonors has, very quietly, brought back its official status match programme. This is a fantastic .....
20 May 201620 May 2016 • 89 comments
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