Hilton Honors has announced its upcoming global offer that will start immediately after the current one ends.
Key points to note
- Earn 2X base points on paid stays (no min. nights) completed between 6 September and 31 December 2022
- Earn 2,000 bonus points per paid/award stay (no min. nights) if you check out on a weekday
- Registration is required
- There is no limit to the number of points that you can earn with this offer
- Bonus points take 6-8 weeks to be credited to your account
Click here to read about the offer’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and how the bonus points will be calculated.
How many points will you get with the 2X bonus?
Hilton Honors members earn points for qualifying spend excluding taxes/fees.
For paid stays, every member will receive 10 additional points per US Dollar. Here’s the total amount of points that members will receive with each status.
| Status | Usual Points | With 2X Points (value) |
|---|---|---|
| Member | 10 | 20 (8%) |
| Silver | 12 | 22 (8.8%) |
| Gold | 18 | 28 (11.2%) |
| Diamond | 20 | 30 (12%) |
Earn even more points with 2-Player Mode
Read about 2-Player Mode in the Travel Hacking World if you haven’t already.
With this offer, you and your partner can take turns to do daily check-ins at hotels to keep the costs of your award stays way down.
Unfortunately, this only works best in hotels with really cheap award rates.
Let’s take a look at an example of how this can be achieved at Hilton Garden Inn Bali.
- Book alternating 1-night stays with your partner. This hotel has a very consistent award rate of 5,000 points per night.
- Take turns to do daily check-in and out. In my experience, you do not have to physically move out of the room. You can usually just walk to the front desk daily to update the key cards. Some hotels were even able to extend our key cards for the whole stay and automatically process the check-ins and outs every day!
- During this promotion, you will have 2,000 points returned to your account after every weekday checkout. This means that members without status can stay in the hotel for just 3,000 points per night with 2-Player Mode.
- Diamond members receive 500 welcome points every stay. This will bring your nett nightly rate to just 2,500 points per night (worth US$10). If you have Hilton Gold status, you can choose to receive complimentary breakfast or 500 welcome points per stay.
- Hilton members receive 10,000 additional points upon reaching 30 nights and for every 10 additional nights after that. If you can accumulate that number of nights in the offer period, this can bring your nett nightly rate to just 1,500 points (worth US$6) per night!
If you do not currently have enough Hilton points for a redemption, you may also buy Hilton points for 0.5 cents (USD) each, to stay in the hotel for just US$15 a night!
Is this a good offer?
Hilton Honors usually rotates fairly between spend-based and fixed-points promotions. However, it is nice that we have both this time round!
Unlike other hotel loyalty programs like World of Hyatt and Marriott Bonvoy, they run their global promotions back-to-back. 💯
However, award rates are Hilton Honors properties are continuing to increasing at an alarming rate and there are not many good redemption opportunities at good value. This makes the 2X offer for paid stays an awful one, giving you only up to 12% value.
Here are some examples of good award redemptions:
- Hilton Garden Inn Bali: 5k points
- Conrad Koh Samui: 89k points
- Conrad Bora Bora: 89k points
- Conrad Maldives: 95k points
- Waldorf Astoria Maldives: 120k points
Bottom line
Hilton Honors is running both spend-based and fixed-points promotions this time round. Because of ever-increasing award rates, the 2X offer is an awful one and will not lead me to spending more paid nights in Hilton hotels.
However, this offer period presents a great opportunity to visit Bali and stay in Hilton Garden Inn Bali at a bargain!
