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Generous £75 off £250 Hilton hotels spend cashback deal launched by American Express

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One of the most popular American Express cashback deals has returned.  And this one is surprisingly generous.

If you have a look at the ‘Offers’ section on ALL of your Amex online statement pages, you might see a new Hilton offer available for registration.

You will get £75 cashback on your next American Express statement when you spend – cumulatively – £250 with Hilton in the UK and Europe before 15th May.

There is potentially one problem:

“Offer excludes online payments and is only valid on checkout spend.”

This means that you can’t use the offer to book an Advanced Purchase room rate.  You would either:

need to pay more for a ‘pay on departure’ room or

spend £250 in the hotel on food or other services billed at check-out

If you normally book ‘pay on departure’ rates then, of course, you are getting the full benefit of the £75 credit.  If you normally pay in advance then you will lose out.

However ….. I get a funny feeling that Amex may not be able to differentiate between payment at check-out and a hotel processing your ‘pay in advance’ booking.  Definitely register just in case.

The small print does NOT say that cumulative spend counts.  Versions of this offer have run a few times in recent years, however, and all have paid out on cumulative spend without the rules specifically saying it would.

Not all UK and European hotels are taking part.

As it happens, we have a 3-night Hilton stay at a participating hotel planned for April.  We have already pre-paid the room, but I reckon we can get to £250 via two evening meals and possibly a spa treatment.  Another way of padding out your bill would be to arrange an airport transfer via the hotel and have it charged to your room.

If you want a ski hotel, the Grand Tirolia in Kitzbuhel, Austria is on the list:

Grand Tirolia Kitzbuhel Hilton Curio

Don’t forget to register for Hilton’s current promotion

Hilton is currently running a decent bonus points offer called ‘Points Unlimited’.  You can register here.

You will earn 2,000 bonus Hilton Honors points for every stay until 5th May.  This will stack with the American Express cashback deal.

Even better,you will earn an additional 10,000 bonus Hilton Honors points for every FIVE stays OR TEN nights you complete, whichever comes first.

Given that I value a Hilton Honors point at around 0.33p, you are getting a good return on your spending here.  Someone who only ever spends one night at a time in a hotel would be earning – when you include the 10,000 bonus points per five stays – 4,000 bonus points per stay.  I would value that at £13 which is a VERY good return especially as it doesn’t include your base points or any status bonus.

There is no small print except that you need to register in advance via the Hilton website here.  Existing bookings count, there is no minimum stay rule and all Hilton Honors hotels are taking part.

Hilton is still status matching too.  If you have status with another hotel programme, Hilton will match you to Gold or Diamond for 90 days – I explain how to do it in this article.

The Hilton booking page is here.

Hilton Park Lane cashback deal

What other Amex travel cashback deals are running? 

Other deals currently circulating include:

£100 off £500 Marriott spend (expires 31st March)

£20 off £150 Avis spend (expires 30th April)

£100 off £400 Melia spend (expires 27th May)

£75 off £300 spend at Claridge’s, The Connaught & The Berkeley (expires 31st March)

£25 off £75 spend at restaurants and bars of Firmdale Hotels in London (expires 27th March)

£100 off £800 Emirates spend (expires 31st March)

10% back on bookings made via The Good Hotel Guide (expires 14th April)

£50 off £250 spend at Red Carnation Hotels (expires 24th May, some good London hotels and Ashford Castle in Ireland)

£100 off £500 Cheval Residences spend (short term apartments, expires 31st March)

£20 off £100 Eurowings spend (expires 19th March)

Check the small print before you book anything.  Some offers are restricted to certain hotels or certain countries.  Remember that you need to pay with your Amex to get the deal which means, outside the UK, incurring a 3% FX fee which eats into the saving if you have a 0% FX fee card in your wallet or purse.

How to earn Hilton Honors points and status from UK credit cards

How to earn Hilton Honors points and status from UK credit cards (April 2024)

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 Premium and MeliaRewards Gold status.  We reviewed American Express Platinum in detail here and you can apply here.

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable 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:

and for small business owners:

The conversion rate from American Express to Hilton points is 1:2.

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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Comments (84)

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  • Max says:
    20 Feb20 February 06:19

    Not on any of our cards.

  • PaulW says:
    20 Feb20 February 06:26

    One one of mine. Never had a problem with this offer working for advance payments in past as processed by hotel not centrally. It also stacked across a couple of bookings. Suspect this will too. Beware Hilton belfry Cambridge not on list. Caught me out once!

  • Stewart Lee says:
    20 Feb20 February 06:31

    Not on my card.

    Has anyone had any luck contacting amex and asking for the offer to be added or is it purely targeted?

    I got the last £50 off £250 offer before Christmas.

    • Shoestring says:
      20 Feb20 February 08:53

      Forget it, Amex customer services used to be helpful in that respect – but got told to computer sez no nowadays

      • Dev says:
        20 Feb20 February 11:50

        Haven’t had an offer for 6+ months now, other than the shop small campaign last December. CS said that it is targeted based on spend. When I said that I had spent £10,000+ on Amex Platinum Travel bookings in 2018, I was told that I had opted out of marketing offers, so that could be the reason for it. Ridiculous. Had opted out more than 10 years ago and yet had offers in the first half of last year!

        • Jonathan says:
          20 Feb20 February 13:13

          You probably had offers until GDPR implementation was looming which may have prompted AmEx to have a traul for people who had previously opted out of marketing activity.

        • Alex Sm says:
          20 Feb20 February 22:18

          I think it’s a retribution for my multiple complaints about various things… now I only have two useless offers on Jewellery and Designer gabardines

      • Alex Sm says:
        20 Feb20 February 22:17

        Their systems are just very slow today…

  • Mr. AC says:
    20 Feb20 February 06:48

    On both my and Mrs. AC’s BAPPs. Not on my Gold nor SPG Amex.

  • Crafty says:
    20 Feb20 February 07:09

    We don’t actually need or benefit from reports on whose cards the offers have or have not appeared on.

    • Doug M says:
      20 Feb20 February 07:36

      Can’t say if it’s on mine, haven’t checked yet. I’ll be sure to update you later.

    • John says:
      20 Feb20 February 08:02

      I don’t know if it’s on mine or not, but if you subscribe to my mailing list I’ll send out an update when I’ve checked.

    • Brian says:
      20 Feb20 February 09:58

      Is it on yours?

    • Gordon says:
      20 Feb20 February 10:25

      I think it’s useful to gauge how wide the offer has been applied. So while you might not find it useful, others do.

      I didn’t get this offer, neither did my wife (both BA Amex)

      • Russ says:
        20 Feb20 February 12:04

        +1

      • Andrew says:
        20 Feb20 February 12:09

        But why is it useful to gauge? If it’s on your card, that’s good for you, if it’s not better luck next time. Nothing you can do about it if you haven’t got it. Yawn comments about if it’s on their card, their dog walker’s SPG card.

    • Qwerty Bertie says:
      20 Feb20 February 17:31

      Sorry I didn’t reply sooner; been busy at work all day. Just wanted to let you know that we haven’t got the offer on any of our cards, and we’re sad about it. Thanks for compiling these reports, and I look forward to seeing the percentage of readers who did receive it.

    • Stewart says:
      20 Feb20 February 17:35

      Had a bad day? 😂 😂

    • Jonah says:
      21 Feb21 February 07:08

      Amen.

  • Victor says:
    20 Feb20 February 07:32

    I’m struggling to find good use of the £200 off a £600 spend and I’m running out of time. Have it across 3 cards as well.

    It’s been a challenge to find a suitable trip I can split costs across a family of four.

    • Dale says:
      20 Feb20 February 08:13

      I agree – every time I check flights with BA or Flybe they are more expensive to the extent that it cancels the offer.

      • Mark1980 says:
        20 Feb20 February 09:19

        Can you not just use it for hotel spend instead of flights?

        • Pierre says:
          20 Feb20 February 09:49

          Hotel spend is more expensive actually.
          For instance was looking at St Regis Mallorca: Amex is £341 per night, whereas hotel website listed at £200 with same cancellation conditions and extra packages included

      • bsuije says:
        20 Feb20 February 09:26

        Had an interesting experience with that last night. BA flight was pricing up more expensive than when booked on ba.com when I was selecting the flights. But when I clicked through to passenger details and payments, the price went down to the exact one on the BA website. Might be worth trying to see if that works for you.

        • Shoestring says:
          20 Feb20 February 09:31

          Always been exactly the same price on ‘our’ route to place in the sun (European SH)

        • Kai says:
          20 Feb20 February 09:43

          I get different prices using different accounts, from office or from home etc. Had to use the supplementary card so eventually booked at a higher price, but was then billed the cheaper!

    • Kai says:
      20 Feb20 February 09:16

      I may be lucky to have bought three BA tickets and all prices are the same with BA website. QR is selling 1000 ish J tickets BEG/SOF-PVG if you fancy a TP run

    • Jay says:
      20 Feb20 February 09:42

      If you might not make use of the offer might you be willing to help me out? Need to book tickets for my in-laws to come from the Caribbean this summer and would be big help with saving on BA flights for 1 or 2 additional family members 🙂

  • Andy says:
    20 Feb20 February 07:32

    If not on your card I would give it a couple of days. Sometimes not all offers load to cards on the same date I’ve found.

  • Nick says:
    20 Feb20 February 07:44

    Re the Marriott offer – temps and conditions state that it has to be booked by 31 Jan. Is that correct or have they missed updating this?

    • Alan says:
      20 Feb20 February 07:49

      I think it was originally 31st Jan and they’ve extended it? Can’t see myself using that one.

    • Andrew says:
      20 Feb20 February 08:41

      There’s a note in the terms:-

      “Receive £100 statement credit when you spend £500 or more in participating hotels at Marriott properties in Europe between 3 December 2018 and 31 March 2019 (previously 31/01/19).”

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