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Hilton Honors

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, Spark, Tapestry Collection, Tru and Waldorf Astoria.

Our main 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.

Hilton Honors launched two new UK debit cards in September 2024.  You can find full details in this article.  One card (£60 fee) comes with Silver Elite status whilst the other (£150 fee) comes with Gold Elite status.  You can apply here.

More information on how you can also get Hilton Gold Elite status for free with The Platinum Card by American Express is here.

When should you transfer hotel loyalty points to frequent flyer miles?

All of the major hotel points currencies allow you to transfer your points into airline miles.  You will often find the airlines encouraging it – every 9-10 months, British Airways offers a .....

All of the major hotel points currencies allow you to transfer your points into airline miles.  You will .....

by Rob Burgess29 comments

How to redeem your Virgin Flying Club miles for hotel rooms via Kaligo

Just under two years ago, Virgin Flying Club teamed up with hotel booking site Kaligo.com to offer a new way of redeeming your Virgin miles.  You can now use them to pay for hotels .....

Just under two years ago, Virgin Flying Club teamed up with hotel booking site Kaligo.com to offer a new way .....

by Rob Burgess8 comments

How to earn 10,000 Avios with your next five Hilton stays

Hilton has launched an aggressive promotion with Avios to encourage you to move your stays across to them this Summer. You can earn 10,000 Avios from your next five Hilton stays.  Importantly, there .....

Hilton has launched an aggressive promotion with Avios to encourage you to move your stays across to them .....

by Rob Burgess114 comments

Two generous Hilton competition prizes just for UK residents

Hilton Honors has launched a generous competition which is only for UK residents and is not being widely promoted. When they ran one of these last year, a Head for Points reader was the winner – .....

Hilton Honors has launched a generous competition which is only for UK residents and is not being widely .....

by Anika Burnett34 comments

What are the best hotel promos for May 2017?

Welcome to our monthly round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running.  All of the information in this article can also be found on our ‘Hotel Offers’ page which contains details .....

Welcome to our monthly round-up of the best hotel promotions currently running.  All of the information in .....

by Rob Burgess31 comments

Review: the Waldorf Astoria Beijing hotel

This is my review of the Waldorf Astoria Beijing hotel. This is the final hotel review from our recent Asia trip – apologies for the slight delay in getting to this one.  These are not as .....

This is my review of the Waldorf Astoria Beijing hotel. This is the final hotel review from our recent Asia .....

by Rob Burgess14 comments

What are the best credit card deals for May 2017?

With a new bonus on the Virgin Atlantic credit cards launched over the weekend, I thought it was time for our monthly round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and hotel .....

With a new bonus on the Virgin Atlantic credit cards launched over the weekend, I thought it was time for our .....

by Rob Burgess48 comments

I check out new hotels walkable to London City Airport and Excel

If your travels take you to London City Airport or the Excel exhibition centre, you will be interested in a new rash of hotels which has sprung up in the area.  I popped down earlier in the week to .....

If your travels take you to London City Airport or the Excel exhibition centre, you will be interested in a .....

by Rob Burgess27 comments

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