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UPDATE: ALL LINKS ARE DEAD
Last week, Hilton announced that starting January 1st 2018, American Express would be the exclusive issuer of Hilton’s co-branded credit cards. So, what happens with Citibank’s two Hilton cards? Can we still sign up for those cards for the sign-up bonuses until the end of December? It’s unclear, but my guess is no.
At some point today, Citi’s Hilton application links have stopped working on some browsers. For example, the current link for the Hilton Reserve card doesn’t work for me in Chrome, but it does work (at the time of this writing) in Firefox Private Mode. On Reddit people have reported that links work through mobile browsers too.
This could all be a temporary glitch. Similar issues have happened before. But, my guess is that today, or maybe the next few days will be our last chance to sign up for these cards.
I’m still thinking about it, but my wife and I will probably try to sign up for the Reserve card before it’s too late. The 2 free weekend night offer is excellent if you can find a good use for those weekend nights.
Here are the links that currently work (we will update these as things change)
UPDATE: ALL LINKS ARE DEAD
Citi® Hilton Honors™ Reserve Card
Offer: 2 Free Nights: 2 Weekend Nights after 2.5K spend in 4 months. $95 annual fee is not waived.
Working application link: https://www.citi.com/credit-cards/credit-card-details/citi.action?ID=hilton-honors-reserve-card
You may have to try different browsers, phone browsers, etc. to get the link to work.
Note the 24 month language: Weekend Night Certificates offer associated with a new card opening is not available if you have opened or closed any Citi Hilton Honors cards in the past 24 months.
Citi® Hilton Honors™ Visa Signature® Card
Offer: Earn 40,000 Hilton Honors Bonus Points after making $1,000 in purchases within 4 months of account opening
Working application link: https://www.citicards.com/cards/credit/application/flow.action?app=UNSOL&sc=FPSP4HE6&m=23X3111111W&B=S&ID=3004&uc
Note that this link does not have the 24 month language.
However, if you have not opened or closed any Citi Hilton card in the past 24 months, you can get a better offer:
Citi® Hilton Honors™ Visa Signature® Card
Offer: Earn 50,000 Hilton Honors Bonus Points after making $1,000 in purchases within 4 months of account opening
Working application linkhttps://www.citicards.com/cards/credit/application/flow.action?app=UNSOL&ProspectID=F599FD22B84B47E188E0F968BC3877C7&sc=FPHZ17L6&m=13WC111111W&B=S&ID=3004&uc:
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Applied 13th, letter arrived today saying
“Unfortunately, we can’t approve your application … because … We are no longer offering this product”.
I have a screen shot of the offer and the resulting wait a week for response page … but I guess I’ll let this one go.
I recommend that everyone who was approved before the Hilton links went dead to send a secure message to Citi to confirm the bonus.
My approval letter did not mention anything about the 2 free nights, and neither did the welcome kit that came with the card.
I sent a message to Citi to confirm the bonus and they responded that I was not eligible. After much back and forth, they informed me that I had recently closed a card that used to be a Hilton card. The card had not been a Hilton card for several years so it should not have been a factor and I argued as such. Eventually they agreed to manually honor the bonus once I hit the spend requirement.
Good point.
Great suggestion. My wife and I just checked and both of our accounts were verified for the signup bonus, but it’s good to be certain.
Applied on 13th, email came saying to wait … still waiting.
Strangely, FireFox standard mode worked just fine.
Hi Alex, USB shut down my Altitude account for “excessive purchases of cash equivalents” (i.e. gift cards), which I didn’t think was excessive at all, in relative terms. Lost $700 in points which include 50k signup bonus. Is this something worth legally pursuing in your opinion?
Probably not. The terms & conditions of the Card Member Agreement prohibit the purchase of GCs or cash equivalents.
Was the shutdown letter from Keith or Kristi?
Applied and was instantly approved for the reserve card on 6th, got the approval letter with no mention of the 2 night offer, any other data point for the approval letter with/without the offer mentioned??
Yes, this is normal. You can simply online chat or call Citi to get them to confirm your signup bonus details.
instant approval for me and wife using firefox private window (Chrome did not work) – thanks Greg!
Similar datapoint to @Joeheg. Had to call in for approval (move credit). Received the approval letter via UPS Next Day Air on Thursday. Received a call today (Friday). Didn’t answer it because I didn’t recognize the number. They left a voicemail saying they were calling from Citi Fraud Prevention and were calling about unusual activity on my Citi Hilton Reserve. I called the number they requested only to have an automated system repeatedly ask for my card number (which I do not have yet!). Finally reached a live person who then asked me many questions including my address a couple of times, my social, if I applied for the card, did I apply online or in a branch, what was my security word, what other Citi cards I had, and then they called me back on my work number. Kind of crazy!
OK, just a strange DP. As I wrote above, my wife I applied for the Hilton Citi Reserve and was approved instantly. Today she received a UPS letter saying that she was approved her card would arrive shortly.
Today, she also received a call from Citi Fraud department about her card (that she hasn’t received yet). They confirmed her personal info and then asked her if she was the one who “personally applied” for the card. After she said that she was, they thanked her for that information and that was the end of the call.
Anyone else have this happen? We did apply using the link for the reserve in the post using Incognito mode with Chrome browser (but that just looks like a direct link to the page for the Hilton Citi Reserve).
It just seemed to be a strange question to ask.
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I have the Citi Hilton Reserve and am working on the 10,000 spend to earn the free night by the one year anniversary mark in September, wondering if I should continue..will it be honored? I will have to pay the 95$ renewal, wouldnt mind if I get a pro-rated refund 1/1 2018 and the free night. Any thoughts?
I’m sure the free night from spend will be honored since it is a written benefit of the card.
Applied and approved instantly. Screenshot taken just in case. This is as of 6/7 at 12:15 pm EST.
I just applied and got the 1 week message. Called the reconsideration line from one of the comments above – gave them application ID and she couldn’t find it. Gave her my SSN and she still couldn’t find it. She said they’ve been having issues with this particular card and that they’ll need to look into it further can call me in a couple days. Not a good sign.
How long after meeting MinSpend do they send the certs?