Hilton business card new offer with free night certificate component

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The Hilton Honors American Express Business Card is out with a new offer today that I find pretty intriguing as it includes the chance to spend toward a free night certificate — while potentially also spending toward an additional free night certificate. For those who maximize Hilton certificates, this is an interesting offer.

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The Offer & Key Card Details

Card Offer and Details
175K Points ⓘ Affiliate
175K after $8K spend in first 6 months. Terms apply.
(Offer Expires 1/8/2025)
$195 Annual Fee
Recent better offer: None
FM Mini Review: Easy way to secure Hilton Gold status (which offers free breakfast among other perks). Amex business cards do not count towards 5/24 status so will not hurt chances of applying for Chase cards.
Earning rate: ✦ 12X Hilton spend ✦ 5X on other eligible purchases (on the first $100K in purchases per calendar year, 3X thereafter).
Base: 3X (1.44%)
Brand: 12X (5.76%)
Other: 5X (2.4%)
Card Info: Amex Credit Card issued by Amex. This card has no foreign currency conversion fees.
Big spend bonus: Diamond elite status with $40K calendar year spend
Noteworthy perks: ✦ Complimentary Hilton Honors Gold status. Diamond status w/ $40K spend. ✦ Up to $240 in annual credits for Hilton purchases (Up to $60 per quarter) ✦ Complimentary National Car Rental(R) Emerald Club Executive(R) status (enroll through the link on your American Express online account) ✦ Terms Apply. (Rates & Fees)

Quick Thoughts

This isn’t quite the best offer we’ve ever seen on this card — in addition to the points earned at $3K spend in the first 3 months, this offer includes a free night award if you spend $10K in the first six months. We have previously seen a similar offer that came with the same number of points and the free night award after just the $3K spend (long ago expired). This new offer requires a lot more spend for the free night certificate.

However, since this card offers a free night annually with $15K in calendar-year spend, I imagine that most who get this card will likely want to spend $15K in a calendar year. If you’re able to meet $10K in the first 6 months and en route to $15K within a single calendar year, you would end up with the full welcome bonus points, the welcome bonus free night certificate, and the annual free night certificate from spend. That’s a pretty solid deal.

This is made all the more appealing by the fact that Hilton has permanently changed free night certificates to make them valid any night of the week. That makes the certificates significantly more valuable since they can now be used any night of the week and at nearly any Hilton property in the world.

Overall, I think this offer is pretty interesting if you value the Hilton free night certificates. On the other hand, if you’d rather have more points to spread out over more nights rather than maximizing free night certificates at a top-tier property, this deal may be less appealing.

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David

can we self refer? ie P2 refer to P1 via Amex referral program?

Grant

Hey Nick, can you remind me how much value the Hilton Free Night Certificate is worth in terms of calculating the first year value? Is the Hilton Free Night Certificate worth like 50k-70k Hilton points x the RRV of a Hilton point?

Grant

Good to know, I never knew about hovering over the “1st Yr Value Estimate” text to see the breakdown. I learned something new today 🙂

Richard

I didn’t know about that 1st year value “hover feature” either. Cool!

Points Adventure

Another coefficient would be how much you want to stay at a near-top tier hotel in the next year. I maximized my last ~6 certs at $1000/night hotels, the wow factor is fading, and I haven’t found a use for the cert next year, so my coefficient would probably be something like 0.5 x $408 = $204.