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Hilton has opened its Q4 2019 promotion for registration and it has the potential to be extra rewarding for Hilton Amex cardholders. That’s because although the promotion offers double points as standard, Hilton Honors members who pay with a Hilton Amex credit card will earn triple points. Depending on which Hilton card you have, you’ll be able to earn up to 54 points per dollar.
The Deal
- Register for Hilton’s Q4 2019 promotion which is set up as follows:
- Earn 2x points on all stays.
- Earn 3x points on all stays paid for with a Hilton Amex card.
- Direct link to registration.
Key Terms
- Offer valid for stays completed September 9, 2019, through January 5, 2020 at any hotel or resort within the Hilton Portfolio.
- Hilton Honors members must first register at HiltonHonors.com/PowerUp prior to completing a stay within the Promotion Period.
- You must check out on or prior to January 5, 2020 to be eligible for this offer.
- Registered Hilton Honors members checking in before September 9, 2019 will receive credit for their stay if the stay is completed on or after September 9, 2019 and prior to or on January 5, 2020.
- Registered Hilton Honors members will earn Double Hilton Honors Bonus Points per stay during the Promotion Period or Triple Hilton Honors Bonus Points per stay during the Promotion Period for using a Hilton Honors Credit Card. “Double Points” means you will receive a bonus equal to the number of Base Points earned during a stay. “Triple Points” means for each dollar spent using your Hilton Honors Credit Card on stays at a property within the Hilton portfolio during the Promotion Period, you will receive a bonus equal to twice the number of Base Points earned during a stay.
- Hilton Honors Credit Cards include: Hilton Honors American Express Card, Hilton Honors American Express Surpass Card, Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card, Hilton Honors American Express Business Card, Hilton Honors Visa Classic Sumitomo Card, Hilton Honors Visa Gold Sumitomo Card, Hilton Honors Visa Platinum Sumitomo Card, Barclaycard Hilton Honors credit card and DKB German. For examples and further details, please see the FAQ page.
- There is no limit to the total amount of Bonus Points that may be earned during the Promotion Period with this offer. However, there are restrictions on the amount of Base Points that can be earned on a single stay at certain brands.
Quick Thoughts
Hilton runs double and/or triple points promotions fairly frequently and Q4 of 2019 is no exception. If you’re only eligible to earn double points, you’ll earn 20 points per dollar at all their brands (other than Home2 Suites and Homewood Suites which will earn 10x) – that’s before taking into account any bonus points you earn from having Hilton status.
Paying with a Hilton Amex card is where the points you earn can get much more juiced up. Triple points means you’ll earn 30x at most of their brands which is before bonus points from status and paying with one of their cards. Hilton cards offer 7x, 12x or 14x when paying for Hilton stays, depending on which card you have.
The best return will come from paying with an Amex Hilton Aspire card. That earns 14x when using it to pay for Hilton stays and comes with Diamond status which also offers double base points. As a result, you’ll earn 54 points per dollar when paying for Hilton stays with the Aspire card – an excellent return, especially if you’re able to stack it with any Hilton Amex Offers that come out during the promotion period.
One downside to paid Hilton stays is that they’re not particularly rewarding when it comes to shopping portals. Portals can offer headline rates of up to 7%, but that’s usually only available for members with Silver status or lower. I’d guess that a significant number of us have Gold or Diamond status – usually from an Amex card – so that means we’re usually only able to earn 1% cashback.
If you have Gold status though, it’s worth checking out Kiindly as they offer 4% for paid Hilton stays even with Gold status; that’s the best cashback rate available for Gold members as far as I’m aware. We had a couple of paid Hilton stays in May and June and used Kiindly seeing as we both have Gold status. Both transactions have tracked correctly, so I’m just waiting for the transactions to become payable. That process takes four months from the date of the original reservation, so they’re due to become payable on September 30. It’s therefore not the quickest process, but I’m happy to wait if it means earning 4% rather than 1%.
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I’m assuming if you do an award stay but do room service and anything else that would qualify, you’d get the bonus on those items. Or would it only be on the room rate?
Provided you charge those items to your room, I think that you’ll earn double/triple points on them. The terms don’t specifically state that bonus points are only earned on the room rate, so you should be good.
I just stayed at the Hilton Conrad NYC a couple of weeks ago on my Aspire free weekend night. I spend $43.64 at the bar.
This is what posted….
2019 Power Up Promotion 1036
DIAMOND MYWAY BONUS 1000
DIAMOND ELITE 100% BONUS 1036
2019 Power Up Promotion – Hilton Honors Credit Card 1036
Base Points 1036
Total 5144 Hilton pts
I charged the $43.64 bar tab to the room
I booked a special rate for a wedding in FL directly through Hilton website and the Hilton Twitter team said that reservation would not qualify for this promotion. Idk if it’s true, but the total was about $425 – that’s a lot of Hilton points. Hopefully they were wrong …
Maybe I am incorrect here, but if you have a HH CC, and you earn 3x points, with the Aspire wouldn’t you earn 74 points per dollar? 20 pts (Diamond Base) * 3 (Promo) + 14 (CC Spend w/ Aspire) = 74 points per dollar?
Diamond members earn 20 points per dollar, but that’s 2x base, rather than 20 points per dollar being the base. It’s therefore broken down as follows:
* 10x – Base
* 10x – Diamond bonus
* 20x – From triple base points for this promo
* 14x – From Aspire card
Stephen,
I commented earlier about booking a special rate:
“I booked a special rate for a wedding in FL directly through Hilton website and the Hilton Twitter team said that reservation would not qualify for this promotion. Idk if it’s true, but the total was about $425 – that’s a lot of Hilton points. Hopefully they were wrong …”
Do you think this rate would really not qualify? Thanks!
It’s hard to know. Some rates don’t qualify for points, but I’ve had conference rates earn points before, so I think it’s just going to be a case of waiting and seeing if anything is awarded.
Yeah, I’m taking a chance and not much to loose
Successfully signed up via the link 2pm EST
Thanks! Updated the post accordingly
Just tried and received a “Sorry, this promotion is over…” message; different from the earlier 404 error. What is going on?
Sorry everyone. I’ve updated the post to indicate that registration is not currently working. Stephen specifically held off publishing this post until registration was live so I’m not sure what happened here.
No prob. Your info is still very helpful. Keep up the good work.
Tried to register several times and always received (after providing my login credentials) the error message, that the ‘promotion expired’ page was missing.
Now I tried again and the ‘promotion expired’ page is no longer missing. So while the promotion does not start before September 9, 2019, I get the message, that this promotion is already over and hence I cannot register.
The link is not working as of 8/26/19 at 9:18am EST……
I have the same problem
+1 Getting some sort of Apache server-side error
It didn’t work yesterday or today… Why not state the link is broken?
The registration procedure does not work on Hilton’s website. It was not working yesterday, and it’s not working today. You have to know this. Why are you not mentioning it in your post?