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!).
Hilton has launched a big promotion entitled “Great Getaway”, offering discounts of up to 40% on rooms in Europe. A smaller discount of up to 25% applies elsewhere in North America, the .....
Hilton has launched a big promotion entitled “Great Getaway”, offering discounts of up to 40% on .....
22 Jun 201322 June 2013 • 6 comments
One of the first posts I wrote for this site last year was about the Hilton HHonors Visa card. And, way back in 1989 or so, the very first travel deal I snagged was with Hilton. They had just launched .....
One of the first posts I wrote for this site last year was about the Hilton HHonors Visa card. And, way back .....
16 Jun 201316 June 2013 • 27 comments
I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for June. Sadly, the American Airlines 35,000 miles sign-up bonus finished on May 31st. However, we have had another .....
I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for June. Sadly, the American .....
3 Jun 20133 June 2013 • 26 comments
Yesterday, I did my best to respond to an email I received asking ‘What is the best credit card for earning Avios points?’. Because you can earn Avios points both directly and .....
Yesterday, I did my best to respond to an email I received asking ‘What is the best credit card for .....
24 May 201324 May 2013 • 4 comments
Hilton has launched a new promotion for its European hotels. It is not valid for UK properties, but does cover hotels in Spain, France, Netherlands, Italy, Greece etc. You need to book by May 20th but .....
Hilton has launched a new promotion for its European hotels. It is not valid for UK properties, but does cover .....
12 May 201312 May 2013 • 7 comments
British Airways has launched a special promotion in conjunction with Hilton‘s two luxury brands – Conrad and Waldorf-Astoria. On the face of it, it is not a bad deal: Free bottle of .....
British Airways has launched a special promotion in conjunction with Hilton‘s two luxury brands – .....
9 May 20139 May 2013 • 2 comments
I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for May. We have had a couple of great months in terms of new offers being launched. In March, we got the new promotion .....
I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for May. We have had a couple .....
3 May 20133 May 2013 • 17 comments
I had an email from a reader recently who asked me about how easy it was to ‘churn’ various credit cards, ie cancel them and then reapply, picking up another sign-up bonus. He suggested .....
I had an email from a reader recently who asked me about how easy it was to ‘churn’ various credit .....
29 Apr 201329 April 2013 • 29 comments
Back in August, I wrote this article about the three different types of credit cards you can hold. To summarise, these are: Cards you get just for the sign-up bonus, and will cancel soon afterwards .....
Back in August, I wrote this article about the three different types of credit cards you can hold. To .....
24 Apr 201324 April 2013 • 26 comments
I have written a few articles recently, mainly here, about the massive Hilton HHonors devaluation. This saw some of the most valuable redemptions almost double in price (ie Conrad Maldives up from .....
I have written a few articles recently, mainly here, about the massive Hilton HHonors devaluation. This saw .....
21 Apr 201321 April 2013 • 7 comments
If you have been reading Head for Points for a while, you will realise that I am very keen on the Hilton HHonors Platinum Visa credit card. It is not the greatest card in the world for long-term .....
If you have been reading Head for Points for a while, you will realise that I am very keen on the Hilton .....
20 Apr 201320 April 2013 • 23 comments
Hilton HHonors has started to drip feed a number of promotions into the market which offer bonus miles for people who choose the ‘Hilton HHonors points and airline miles’ collection option .....
Hilton HHonors has started to drip feed a number of promotions into the market which offer bonus miles for .....
12 Apr 201312 April 2013 • 5 comments
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this .....
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If .....
6 Apr 20136 April 2013 • 8 comments
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this .....
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If .....
30 Mar 201330 March 2013 • 3 comments
