American Express Membership Rewards - Amex Hilton Card - any special bonuses offered?

I found that the above card only offers 7500 HHonors points for initial purchase. I find this to be somewhat less lucrative than the Amex Starwood card. Also, the 5 HHonors points per $1 spent is also nothing to write home about. The only real positive I see in this card is the no annual fee.

With all the other promotions out there with the other Amex products, Im wondering if anyone has received a better offer than the above mentioned 7500 HHonors points for applying. Thanks.


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Gaucho100K

Months ago I applied for the card for 7,500 bonus points, and 2,500 HHonors points if I spent $2,500 within 12 months of membership.

Unfortunately I haven't used this card enough, only for HHonors stays. Like you said, this card is not lucrative as the Starwood card and the only benefit is the no annual fee. I have it just to add more HHonors points to my account from Hilton stays.

Discovered the hard way that a 5-7% exchange rate disparity exists (at least between USD conversion from CDN$) with the Hilton card. 5 points per hotel dollar does NOT make up for this gouging. I guess if the card is free, they expect enough foreign travel conversion to pay the fee that might normally be charged. I will continue to use the card in the U.S. for Costco purchases and U.S. Hilton stays, but never again out of the U.S.!!

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[This message has been edited by opushomes (edited 07-27-2002).]

That's strange. I've used it numerous times in Europe and Asia (when I stay at Hiltons overseas) and have found the rate is the same as with Starwood AMEX which, I believe, is 2%. Perhaps opushomes case was an anomoly? Or have they changed the rules recently (my last overseas use was Dec 2001)?

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by eperaltaotero:

Months ago I applied for the card for 7,500 bonus points, and 2,500 HHonors points if I spent $2,500 within 12 months of membership.

Unfortunately I haven't used this card enough, only for HHonors stays. Like you said, this card is not lucrative as the Starwood card and the only benefit is the no annual fee. I have it just to add more HHonors points to my account from Hilton stays. </font>

Now on Hilton's Web site it only offers 7,500 points but the brochures they have at Hiltons still say up to 10,000 (7,500 + 2,500). I kept a copy and mailed entire brochure to them so that they found out it's actually 10,000. They said it was only 7,500 at the beginning.

I too just keep it for Hilton Stays and dig it's no annual fee reason.

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