Originally Posted by
craigthemif
With HHonors you can earn Points & Points or Points & Miles. The base points is 10 per $. The alternative is either 5 more points or 1 mile. In most cases, 5 additional points is "worth" more than 1 mile.
As far as getting into the points/miles game with HHonors and Delta Skymiles, you couldn't choose two worse programmes for getting free nights or free flights. I would suggest IHG (easiest to earn free nights) and Alaska Mileage Plan (lots of varied partners) But you've found Flyertalk so you can do your own research and make up your own mind...
Thats what Ive always heard, which is why I never got the card before. But her brother seems to do ok with traveling on it, so Im going to give it a shot since she already has one and we will both have enough to at least get to LA if we want anytime. But I am definitely going to check into IHG next.
Originally Posted by
sdsearch
Welcome to FlyerTalk,
wernerd46.
I would suggest keeping them as points for now. As long as you have some activity at least once per year, your HHonors points won't expire, and you can make the decision of whether to transfer them somewhere at any time, it doesn't have to be now.
Also, be sure to register for every points promo. For example, the one starting right now, you can find out about through this FlyerTalk thread:
but it's not yet prominent on the Hilton HHonors website.
And read the details in the thread, not just the headline: There's strong rumors that it may be triple points for mobile booking come October.
You'll get a better idea of the value of the HH points
for you when you try to see what you can redeem them for, that fits
your travel needs.
Take with a grain of salt posts which declare that something is universally "the best" or universally "the worst". (That's the flaw I find in the post above mine.) You can get value out of each program if you know how to get value out of it. You can fail to get value in each program if you don't have realistic expectations. Even though maybe not as often as in some other programs, I've gotten good redemptions here and there from Delta and good redemptions here and there from Hilton HHonors.
And it'll take time before you earn enough points to redeem, so you have some time to learn the ins and outs of the Hilton HHonors program.
Yeah, I know all come with a grain of salt, and while some "opinions" may be fact based, they are just that, opinions. Its just what you make of the program and like you mentioned, I have some time anyways, and with the wedding on the horizon of next year, we have some time to earn and learn.