Hilton honors amex should have a nice sign up bonus and then you can use it at Hilton. Their wealth of nicer hotels include WA chain and the fancier hiltons. I only used points at Hilton Santa Barbara and it was fab. For family budget travel we like embassy suites although for our august trip I needed to get the sub for hyatt chase so I had to use my Hyatt card for that Hilton hotel lol