Hilton Honors has just launched its newest bonus on purchased points, which is in line with the best offers we see from the program. This could represent a great value for hotel redemptions, especially with an immediate use in mind.
Continue reading: Buy Hilton Honors Points With 100% Bonus, 0.5 Cents Each: Worth It?
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Yesterday, I got an e-mail from TPG with a link to flash sale of Hilton Honors points at 125% bonus. The offer was valid for just 4 hours between 12:00 and 4:00 PM.
I'm not sure the 0.05/point valuation is still there (don't know if Lucky/Ben has re-evaluated recently). Frequent Miler just did another data analysis (like in the last 2 weeks) that pulled data from a huge amount of actual redemptions and the median value is somewhere closer to $0.04/point or slightly less.
As always YMMV (ie: special "high-end" redemptions IF coupled with the 5th night free, etc.)
Yeah, Hilton points values have become like IHG... not great.
Best value around with Hilton is still the uncapped FNC via Aspire card.
(Ugh, but then you'd be directly/indirectly supporting those corporate shills over at TPG...)
Hi lucky;
Love your blog- but how can you keep the points valuation the same across multiple devaluations? That does your readers a disservice.
Frequent miler has done a great job calculating the value by looking at almost all available redemptions. The 90th percentile value of redemptions is noticeably less than .5 cents. Sure there are exceptions but not if you don’t have tremendous flecibilty. Also the value is highest in aspirational properties, not many can afford that.
https://frequentmiler.com/what-are-hilton-points-worth/
Keep it real please!
YMMV, but to me buying points only makes sense if you need to top up your account ahead of booking a stay, especially if you are booking 5 nights and can get the 5th night free