Originally Posted by
pinniped
Questions:
- Is it $250 credit on any airline expense, as with the Citi Thank You card, or is Amex using a tighter definition of "incidental"? If so, what is that definition? (e.g. Kiosk upgrades, baggage fees, paid upgrades to Economy Plus type seats, ticket change fees, etc.)
- Honors hasn't typically called out "resorts" in the past like Marriott has. Is the $250 Hilton credit only at some subset of the properties in the portfolio? Hilton brand only, with "resort" in the title? It's a rather loose term that some brands slap on all sorts of hotels that the naked eye wouldn't really think of as a "resort".
My best guesses:
* The $250 airline incidentals credit will work the same was it does for the AMEX Platinum or Gold. You'll have a to pick an airline each year and can only get reimbursed for non-airfare-ticket expenses like: baggage fees, in-flight dining, ticket change fees club/lounge memberships. Upgrades would be excluded; gifts cards, too (at least by the T&Cs, even if there are workarounds).
* I imagine resorts would be these properties:
http://www3.hilton.com/en/resorts/index.html. And it's a beach-heavy/hot-weather-heavy collection