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Click here for our article on Hilton’s ‘Points Plus’ promotion which runs from 1st January to 1st May 2024. You can register for the offer by clicking here.

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The main Hilton Honors promotion this Autumn, ‘Double Points’ (click here to register), offers you double Hilton Honors points on every stay you make before 31st December.

I wrote about ‘Double Points’ in detail here.

To give credit to Hilton, it is very straightforward.  All hotels are taking part and there is no minimum stay requirement.

If you are not totally focused on Hilton Honors points, British Airways Executive Club and Hilton Honors have launched a new mileage deal for the Autumn which offers an alternative deal.

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The BA / Hilton promotion details can be found here – you need to register.  You will receive triple Avios on every stay until the 30th January 2018.

As a reminder, this is how Hilton Honors works:

If you choose ‘points and points’ from your stays, you earn 10 base points and 5 Hilton Honors bonus points per $1 spent

If you choose ‘points and miles’, you earn 10 base points and 1 British Airways Avios per $1 spent

Under this promotion you would earn 3 Avios per $1 spent instead of 1 per $1.

There is an extra bonus on top ….

Based on the last few times this offer has run, anyone who selects ‘points and miles’ and who registers for BOTH ‘Double Points’ and ‘triple Avios’ will receive both.

This means that you should get 20 base points and 3 Avios per $1 spent on stays between now and the end of the year.

Arguably, if you value an Avios point at a conservative 0.75p and a Hilton point at 0.3p, ‘Triple Avios’ is the way to go.

Under ‘Double Up’, you receive 25 Hilton points per $1 worth 7.5p

Under ‘Triple Avios’, you will receive 20 Hilton points per $1 plus 3 Avios worth 8.25p

This does assume that you get double base points with ‘Points and Miles’ by registering for both offers.

Two more things to note …..

The registration page for triple Avios refers to a list of non-participating hotels. The link is not a link, however, so it isn’t clear if such a list actually exists or not.

Secondly, the rules say “Offer available for new bookings made between 15 October ….”.  Existing bookings may not count and, for safety, you may want to stick with ‘points and points’.  (The comments suggest that Hilton is not actually applying this rule.)

Remember that you MUST register for these offers.

You can register for the new triple Avios promotion here.

If you haven’t already registered for it, the registration link for the main ‘Double Points’ promotion is here.

PS.  The picture above is the new Hilton Paris Opera we reviewed here.

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

Get 25,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £10,000 Read our full review

Barclaycard Avios card

Barclaycard Avios Mastercard

5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 12th May 2024, the Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa card is offering a bonus of 30,000 points, convertible into 30,000 Avios. You must have a Limited Company to apply. Click here to learn more and click here to apply.

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You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

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Comments (55)

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  • TripRep says:
    19 Oct19 October 06:10

    Interesting that existing bookings may not count, never seen that on previous promos. Will see what the chatter is on FT about that, unless someone has a booking and wants to report back here over the coming days..

    • Stu N says:
      19 Oct19 October 07:03

      I have an existing Hilton booking on Saturday. I have signed up for both offers and I take points and miles anyway.

      Will report back….

      • TripRep says:
        19 Oct19 October 07:23

        Cool, ta v much! I have an existing booking in next couple of weeks, so keen to know, I normally do Points & Points

        As an aside, its worth clarifying at checkin that the hotel has your earning preferences set as you’d like for that partiucular stay, some places seem to store/default what your preferences were when you first made the booking regardless of any recent changes you make.

        • Alan says:
          19 Oct19 October 10:39

          Yes for airline pref it only matters what you had at time of booking – change of pref only applies to p+p vs p+m settings for existing bookings, not for airline partner (I know I’m a stuck record and say the same thing every time, but it does come up recurrently)

        • RussellH says:
          19 Oct19 October 10:50

          When I stayed at the Dresden Hilton in June, staff on reception were unable to find any info as to which preferences were registerd for the stay. To do them credit, they did spend some considerable time trying to answer my question, even though check-in was very busy. As it turned out, they did have me on points and miles and I did get my 2 000 bonus Avios under the scheme operating at the time.

          • Alan says:
            19 Oct19 October 10:53

            Yes, I also had issues at Hilton Tallinn and Hilton Helsinki Airport – both did eventually sort but clearly wasn’t something they were used to looking up. It’s definitely do-able on the system though and in the USA (where I think they’re more used to doing it), they can sort it in a few seconds.

            I find best plan is to confirm at check-in, that way you will see if the details are correct on the information bill that you receive before check-out.

        • Stu N says:
          19 Oct19 October 18:16

          I have never had my prefs set to anything other than “points and miles” with BA as partner. I know I can definitely use Avios for high value redemptions so worth a lot more to me than Hilton points.

      • Sididdly says:
        19 Oct19 October 15:56

        I was on an existing stay when this promo posted. I changed my status to points and miles and also changed my mileage earning partner to BA. I went to hotel reception last night and got them to change my earning preference on my profile to BA Avios (I helped her do it!). From previous experience I am fairly confident that this will all post ok.

    • Alan says:
      19 Oct19 October 10:37

      Very much doubt they’ll enforce that, only Accor & IHG ever seem to do so.

  • Bryan says:
    19 Oct19 October 07:27

    Have one in Monday so will also report back.

  • DS says:
    19 Oct19 October 07:27

    There’s also an Iberia Plus triple Avios offer mentioned on iberia.com, but no registration link.

    • Alex W says:
      19 Oct19 October 07:55

      Ah good, will wait to see if the Iberia offer materialises. For me the difference between 5 honors and 3 Avios is marginal, but if Iberia offer 4.5 Avios per $ it’s a no brainer.

    • Alex W says:
      19 Oct19 October 18:32

      Fantastic! Thanks.

  • John says:
    19 Oct19 October 08:24

    There’s no need to involve “double up” in the comparison, it is simply a choice between 5 HH or 3 avios per US$ regardless of anything else.

    If you value an avios more than 1.67x a hilton point then triple avios wins – the only problem being that you risk only getting 1 avios on bookings made before registering.

    However the additional rebate of the triple avios isn’t anything exciting that would make me choose Hilton where I wasn’t already planning to stay with them.

  • Chris Cannon says:
    19 Oct19 October 08:26

    Just checked out of Hilton Northampton – a booking I made ages ago. The triple Avios has been applied as has double Hilton points

  • Cal says:
    19 Oct19 October 08:56

    Currently staying at the Doubletree in Kuala Lumpur on a reward booking, booked it a long before the 15th and registered for this offer after we checked in. Haven’t spent anything yet but it seems like I should stick to points and points.

    Has anyone stayed at a Malaysian Hilton recently? I thought the all taxes were included in reward bookings but it seems the tourist tax here is excluded from that?

  • Chris says:
    19 Oct19 October 10:18

    OT I know a couple who want to book flights with Iberia. They currently have their avios in their respective BA accounts but would like to transfer them to Iberia first. Is there a way for them to get all their avios into ONE Iberia account? As one half of the couple will not be able to transfer avios to his own IB account for another 90 days. So if they could get all their avios into the girl’s IB account they could book straight away. Thanks

    • Genghis says:
      19 Oct19 October 10:26

      Depending how much of a hurry they are in – create an avios.com HHA and then break it up and elect for one person to get the points, then move to IB+?

      • Chris says:
        19 Oct19 October 10:32

        Ok thanks Genghis! Any minimum time required after opening a HHA before breaking it up is allowed?

    • Rob says:
      19 Oct19 October 11:13

      No, unless you can create and break up an Avios.com HHA quickly which may or may not be possible.

  • Scott says:
    19 Oct19 October 12:40

    Does using points to reduce the cash component of a booking mean you earn nothing?

    Got a stay coming up in NY and used some points to knock the price down a load as prices were $$$$.
    The app mentions a 750 point welcome bonus at the hotel.

    Not sure if this is treated as reward night or what.

    • Genghis says:
      19 Oct19 October 13:24

      Under the new structure you get points for the cash element of a points and cash booking.

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