Earn bonus Hilton HHonors points with the IHG Rewards Club Visa credit card

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• What's the Point says:

  30 Apr30 April 05:30

  I will be testing this theory out today – just checked into a Hilton and used my IHG Visa card as I am trying to get to 75,000 IHG qualifying points before the 1st of July.

  • Dave R says:

    30 Apr30 April 07:56

    Why 1st July? I thought we had until the end of the year to hit 75k points to qualify for the new top status. If its 1st July I have no chance.

    • Rob says:

      30 Apr30 April 08:13

      1st July is the deadline if you want the new status on the first day. It doesn’t matter if you hit it later.

      • Thunderbirds says:

        30 Apr30 April 09:09

        Presumably the new status should be triggered by Rollover Nights from 2014.

• Stu says:

  30 Apr30 April 06:45

  Anyone know if the 2500 bonus triggers for incidental expenses on top of an award stay?

  • Rob says:

    30 Apr30 April 08:16

    When I first had the card three years ago I did manage to get it to do this. No guarantee of course.

    • DG says:

      30 Apr30 April 19:42

      It did work for me. I used the Hilton weekend voucher in March and pay incidentals with the Visa card.

      • Stu says:

        1 May1 May 08:24

        Yep, I just checked and it’s worked for me too – received the 2.5k bonus for incidentals on a Doubletree Kuala Lumpur award from Monday. Wonder if it would work for purchases as a non-resident e.g. packet of nuts from the bar!?

• Tariq says:

  30 Apr30 April 06:50

  Also of note, and it isn’t worth doing just for the points, but it’s a nice bonus – I did a balance transfer to the Hilton card on one of the frequent offers that they send me for 0%, and I was awarded 2 HH pts per £ of balance transferred.

  • Rob says:

    30 Apr30 April 08:15

    I assume there was a balance transfer fee which is why you said it wasn’t worth doing just for the points? Otherwise, it clearly is!

    • Tariq says:

      30 Apr30 April 19:14

      Yes indeed, 3% fee I think it was – the cost of my screw up because I made a late payment to the card that the balance was on and they took away my previous 0% that had 6 months left to run!

• James67 says:

  30 Apr30 April 07:12

  It probably also works with points and cash stays too. Also on subject of hilton; London Metropole now see s to be a vacation club property. Yesterday I received an email offering two nights with breakfast plus 5000 bonus points vor £229 if I agreed to their 2hr sales pitch.

  • Rob says:

    30 Apr30 April 08:14

    Not the greatest deal ever! £99, yes …

    • James67 says:

      30 Apr30 April 08:37

      My thoughts exactly. I think at other properties doing this they usually throw in mea.s and more points. At the marfiott ersions I have seen car hire included too. Zpart from anythi g else it was a horrible stay at Metropo,e fo.lowed by Edinburgh Grosvenor that really put me off Hi,ton somes years back. Since then I have only used Hampton i UK.

  • Lady London says:

    30 Apr30 April 13:51

    that one is heavily discounted. their rates can be excellent with a bit of negotiation for an event. But a more unlikely holiday location would be hard to think of.

• Rich Spencer says:

  30 Apr30 April 07:55

  Out of interest, how do they know your Hilton acc number I can’t imagine they take it when you open the card?

  • John G says:

    30 Apr30 April 08:03

    I assume Hilton give out the bonus directly and they know your HH number.

• Jonathan says:

  30 Apr30 April 08:49

  I bet that reader at some point had a HHonors barclaycard.

  I did, and for the first stay got my 2500 points by paying with it. I cancelled the hhonors card so could churn in the future. But each time I go and stay at Hilton (about 1/year) I got the 2500 bonus, even when paying with a different visa. Even after 2-3 years.

  The system works by putting a promotion on the hhonors account when you first get the hhonors visa, and then get a 2500 credit on the hhonors account whenever you stay and pay by visa. This does not expire with the hhonors Visa card, or after one year apparently.

  • Carlo says:

    30 Apr30 April 18:14

    It’s me. I’ve never had a Hhonors Barclaycard, however, I did have one about two years ago on the old platform (can’t remember at all what that was now).

• Brian says:

  30 Apr30 April 09:09

  Regarding the 2,500 points, is this only received if you pay with the HHonors Visa card? If so, then damn I’ve misunderstood some of the other articles/info etc as I thought it was just for booking a hotel, regardless of payment type. Thanks

• ComeFlyWithMe123 says:

  30 Apr30 April 09:40

  Slightly OT but anyone know once you have earned Gold via the Hilton VISA (£10K spend in calendar year) and cancel when your status has updated, do they take the status away?

  I’m trying to find more detailed T & C’s but the benefits are summarised as follows:

  Enjoy HHonors Silver status for as long as you are a cardmember. Earn an upgrade to HHonors Gold status any time your total spending reaches £10,000 in a calendar year.

  It suggests you must be a card member to keep the status but we all know it doesn’t always work like this 🙂

  • opal says:

    30 Apr30 April 10:44

    You can cancel it and keep Gold status for the rest of 2015 and whole 2016. Mine was cancelled in September 2014 and my Gold status expires on 31/12/2015.

    • ComeFlyWithMe123 says:

      30 Apr30 April 11:12

      Thanks Opal. I think I’ll take the risk and cancel as soon as I get upgraded to Gold.

      Do you remember how long it took to upgrade your status once you had spent the £10K?

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