Hilton launches a rare Asia Pacific hotel cashback offer with American Express

Hilton and American Express have launched a new cashback deal. What is different about this one is that it isn’t for the usual European countries – it is for Asia Pacific.

You will get £50 back when you spend £200 in selected Asia Pacific hotels by 15th September. Cumulative spend counts.

Pre-paid bookings usually count despite the terms and conditions saying otherwise, but you don’t have any comeback if it doesn’t trigger.

There are participating hotels in:

• Australia
• China
• Fiji
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Malaysia
• New Zealand
• South Korea
• Singapore
• Thailand

Click here to see the surprisingly long list.

Interestingly, the list includes ‘participating bars and restaurants’ at each property. Whilst this is not made clear, it implies that you could spend £200 on food and drink without staying the night and still earn the cashback. Annoyingly the T&C could be clearer on this.

The image above is the Millennium Hilton in Bangkok which is taking part.

Two things to remember

Remember that the 2.99% FX fee charged by American Express does not count towards the £200. Because Amex does not break out this fee on your statement it is easy to get confused by how much you have spent, but any charge of – say – £205 will not be enough because £6 of this is the FX fee.

The offer will work alongside the two current Hilton Honors promotions:

• earn 1,000 bonus Hilton Honors points per stay between 1st June and 15th August – register here

• earn 5,000 bonus points (capped at 15,000 points) for every stay booked at a ‘Hilton for Business’ rate by 27th August – register here

Remember that you need to register for the deal via the ‘Offers’ tab in the Amex app or website. There is no guarantee that you are targeted and you are only likely to have it under one of your cards.