Originally Posted by
Nagasaki Joe
Further upthread this is discussed, but it requires a hotel stay with F&B charges made to the room to use the resort credit.
If you read the language it says
Incidental charges (including charges made at restaurants, spas, and other establishments within the hotel property) must be charged to your room and paid for with your Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card at checkout in order for them to be recognized as Hilton Resort purchases. But key are the words "for them to be recognized." They are not actually saying a stay is required. What they are saying is the charge will need to come through the hotel's primary merchant account for the credit.
As this thread shows the easiest way to ensure that happens is a room charge. In some cases the deposit works if the hotel does it themselves with the primary merchant account. As for charging at the restaurants/shops directly, while all of these located on a resort hotel site should have the ability to direct charge a room, most will run a credit card through their own merchant account - which means the credit would not post/the charge would be eligible. The way around this is that most of these resort properties also do a fair amount of meeting and wedding business, which means that in their system they have the ability to create house accounts that function similar to room accounts. And the various on-site services (restaurants, spa, stores) should be able to charge a house account just as they do the room -- and then when you close the house account the charge would be run through the hotel's primary merchant account.
Now whether a hotel will set you up with a house account for just $250 of spend is very much YMMV. But if they do it will work for drinks, food, or whatever you charge to the house account while there. And the credit will post just fine within a few days.