Hilton Honors does an amazing job with its global promotions. The program constantly runs bonus offers, meaning that points earning rates are typically excellent. Hilton Honors is currently offering a promotion for stays through the end of the year, and has now announced the details of its upcoming global promotion, launching in the near year. Let’s go over the details of both offers.
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Hilton Honors Power Up Promotion details (current)
Hilton Honors’ current global promotion is called Power Up Promotion, and with this offer, members are able to earn 2,500 bonus points per stay during the promotion period.
There are some details to be aware of:
- The promotion is valid for stays between September 3 and December 31, 2024 (you must check-out by December 31 to be eligible)
- Registration is required prior to your first eligible stay, though it’s fine if you booked prior to registration
- There’s no limit to how many bonus points you can earn, you start earning rewards with the first stay, and there’s no minimum stay required
- It can take up to six to eight weeks for bonus points to post, though they’ll typically post much faster than that
- Award stays are eligible for this promotion
- You can find promotion FAQs here
Hilton Honors Double Your Stay Promotion details (future)
Hilton Honors’ upcoming global promotion will be called Power Up Promotion, and with this offer, members will be able to earn double points on all stays during the promotion period. At most brands, this means that Hilton Honors members will earn an extra 10x points per dollar spent.
There are some details to be aware of:
- The promotion is valid for stays between January 1 and April 30, 2025 (you must check-out by April 30 to be eligible)
- Registration is required prior to your first eligible stay, though it’s fine if you booked prior to registration
- There’s no limit to how many bonus points you can earn, you start earning rewards with the first stay, and there’s no minimum stay required
- It can take up to six to eight weeks for bonus points to post, though they’ll typically post much faster than that
- Award stays are eligible for this promotion, though you’d only earn double points on incidentals, since there’s no spending on room rate to double
- You can find promotion FAQs here
How generous are Hilton Honors’ promotions?
How generous are Hilton Honors’ promotions — both the current and future one? For context, personally I value Hilton Honors points at 0.5 cents each. Under normal circumstances:
- Hilton Honors members earn 10x Honors points per dollar spent at most brands
- Hilton Honors Gold members get an 80% points bonus, and Hilton Honors Diamond members get a 100% points bonus
On top of that, you can maximize your Hilton Honors points earned from hotel stays by paying with a co-branded Hilton American Express card. These cards earn points at the following rates on eligible Hilton purchases:
- Hilton Honors American Express Card (review) – 7x points per dollar
- Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card (review) – 12x points per dollar
- Hilton Honors American Express Business Card (review) – 12x points per dollar
- Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card (review) – 14x points per dollar
With the current Power Up Promotion, you can earn 2,500 bonus points per stay. By my valuation, that’s an incremental $12.50 return per stay. That’s not bad for a one night stay at an inexpensive property, but it’s much less exciting for longer and more expensive stays. I consider this to be one of Hilton Honors’ weaker promotions. The nice thing, however, is that you can be rewarded even on an award stay without spending any cash.
With the upcoming Double Your Stay promotion, you can earn 10x bonus points per dollar spent, which I value at an incremental 5% return. That’s great for longer and more extensive stays, given that there are no limits to how much you can be rewarded.
So personally I consider the current promotion to be better for cheap stays, short stays, and award stays, while I consider the upcoming promotion to be better for longer and/or more expensive stays.
The information and associated card details on this page for the Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card has been collected independently by OMAAT and has not been reviewed or provided by the card issuer.
Bottom line
Hilton Honors has a promotion through the end of the year, and has now opened registration for the promotion that’s kicking off in the new year.
Through December 31, 2024, you can earn 2,500 bonus points per stay. This is a good offer for short stays at inexpensive properties (or on award stays), but it’s much less exciting for longer stays at more expensive properties.
Then as of January 1, 2025, you can earn double points on all stays, which is an opportunity to earn 10x bonus points per dollar spent at most brands. This is better for longer and more expensive stays.
Hilton Honors continues to have great points earning rates. The consistent promotions really are a selling point of the program, as there’s not another hotel group that’s as generous as Hilton in this regard.
What do you make of Hilton Honors’ current and upcoming global promotion?
The offer link for the January promotion is incorrect, it still points to the current "Power Up" promotion.
Do promotions apply to stays at SLH properties (booked through Hilton) too?
Absolutely!
Great news for all of those who have free Diamond for Lifetime via the credit card. Such a generous program! Lifetime status without any spend requirement…what a country we live in.
Hey, we feel your pain, your envy and your frustration, given that you're struggling to earn enough WoH points just to afford a lousy stay at a Hyatt House...
For this promo, a HH Diamond paying for revenue stays with the industry-leading HH AMEX Aspire card will earn 44x. Makes you feel like eating your heart out, doesn't it?
BTW, 'Diamond for life or lifetime' isn't an elite status, while Lifetime Diamond, which cannot be...
Hey, we feel your pain, your envy and your frustration, given that you're struggling to earn enough WoH points just to afford a lousy stay at a Hyatt House...
For this promo, a HH Diamond paying for revenue stays with the industry-leading HH AMEX Aspire card will earn 44x. Makes you feel like eating your heart out, doesn't it?
BTW, 'Diamond for life or lifetime' isn't an elite status, while Lifetime Diamond, which cannot be earned through any CC and is currently only sparsely populated, is not only a bona fide elite status, but it's also Hilton Honors' de facto "most elite" status. Eat your heart out...
G'day!
So so so easy to trigger. You and Tim Dunn should have a PPV pillow fight, would be amazing.
Looking forward to free upcoming Thompson, Andaz, and Park Hyatt stays, always so many ways to earn and burn with Hyatt!
Only one who is utterly stupid, like you, can find any similarities between my erudite argumentation and Dunn's hyperventilating.
Dunn is all about DL's "superiority", just like you and everyone else, including self-anointed "travel gurus" are about WoH's "superiority". By the contrast, the record will show that all I do in this space is to debunk various bogus claims about a...
Only one who is utterly stupid, like you, can find any similarities between my erudite argumentation and Dunn's hyperventilating.
Dunn is all about DL's "superiority", just like you and everyone else, including self-anointed "travel gurus" are about WoH's "superiority". By the contrast, the record will show that all I do in this space is to debunk various bogus claims about a whole host of subjects, including HH, without ever claiming the program's superiority. Therefore, Dunn has more in common with you and self-anointed "travel gurus" their sycophants that inexplicably place WoH on pedestal than with me.
Simple logic, but I am sure it'll escape you, so just stay at FT where you are a certified village idiot, okay?
Really? Name one, unless you mean through something truly heretical like transferring hard earned UR points to WoH points, instead using them to book premium award seats on some of the world's best airlines...
@UA: if DCS wasn't here to prop Hilton up as the "de facto" supreme program, he wouldn't feel compelled to reply to your obvious trolling. But he can't help himself. Any vague insult to his beloved corporation is an insult to his self-perceived intellect.
Anyways, if he thinks that UR points are better used for airlines, he isn't playing with a full deck. Amex MR easily covers that front. I've had some fantastic redemptions this...
@UA: if DCS wasn't here to prop Hilton up as the "de facto" supreme program, he wouldn't feel compelled to reply to your obvious trolling. But he can't help himself. Any vague insult to his beloved corporation is an insult to his self-perceived intellect.
Anyways, if he thinks that UR points are better used for airlines, he isn't playing with a full deck. Amex MR easily covers that front. I've had some fantastic redemptions this past year via MR transfers. Definately a better use than Hilton transfers.
Ink churning has been my friend this year, and I'll be converting those points... like you... for redemptions at some of Hyatt's top tier properties, almost all of which are pre-CONFIRMED into suites or premium suites using either SUAs or the points upgrade rates.
All that said, Hilton did a better job wooing me this year than last. Our Diamond for life status netted us a nice upgrade to a balcony suite when we used our FNC cert at the W.A Beverly Hills. Service there also improved since our first visit during the pandemic.
SLH partnership also makes Honors farrrrrrr more compelling than just last year, with an added benefit of not having to stay at a Hilton (because WA and Conrad aside... meh).
Lordie...the 'natives' and troglodytes are coming out of the woodwork and howling at the moon. It's time to go!
Actually DCS is incorrect about the de facto most elite status according to HGV. They claim that the status above Diamond is to be a timeshare holder with Hilton.
What I meant was time share owner as the most elite status with Hilton according to HGV.
@Stanley C -- That has got to be the silliest claim ever, and the fact that you even believed it betrays such a level of gullibility that it is very likely that you actually fell for the sales pitch and purchased a timeshare!
Well, I have...
@Stanley C -- That has got to be the silliest claim ever, and the fact that you even believed it betrays such a level of gullibility that it is very likely that you actually fell for the sales pitch and purchased a timeshare!
Well, I have participated in several of those timeshare sales pitches and even have one pending as soon as I can find the time to schedule it, and guess how I get out of the pressure to purchase? By making the case that becoming a timeshare holder would be a huge step down from being a (LT) Diamond and a "free agent" -- an argument that not one salesperson has been able to rebut or refute. Are you even aware that HGV is just a "spinoff" company that only peripherally participates in the Honors program and is not bound by some of the program's rules and regulations?
Anyway, the reason we know that LT Diamond is now Hilton Honors' de facto top elite status is because newly minted LT Diamonds receive an official email that tells them that they'd just joined the program's "most elite" status. It's now the elite level that is "greater than Diamond", and they are not even subtle about it. Check out the powerful and dispositive evidence (3 images) at the following link
https://bit.ly/3BTPF11
After seeing the evidence, I am sure that you'll burst out laughing uncontrollably the next time HGV or anyone else claims that "the status above Diamond is to be a timeshare holder with Hilton". Really.
G'day!
@DCS. I know that. It was meant to be a joke. Of course, I did not believe them and I did not buy any time shares from them at all.
@Stanley C -- It's good to know, on all counts, but especially that you did not fall for the falsehoods and did not end up saddled with a useless timeshare.