<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by hhonorman:
Another reason you may want to consider owning the Hilton cards.... every few months or so, they offer double point promotions and you can really rack up some points. You can't take advantage of those promos if you don't have the card(s).
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Are you sure?
There certainly wasn't any such promo for the couple years that I had my HHonors Visa (which I ended up never using after getting the 10000 bonus points for signup). All the Visa promotions have been if you use ANY Visa. (I already had a Visa that earned me miles of much greater value much faster than the points that the HHonors Visa would have earned me, and thus I used that other Visa for all those HHonors Visa promotions.)
And all the Amex promotions I remember have been for using any Amex, but as I didn't try to particpate in them (as I didn't have an Amex until very recently) I can't swear to that one.