[ARCHIVE to 2020] Hilton Amex Aspire $250 Resort Credit
Dec 21, 2018, 5:46 am
#406
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Northport, NY
Posts: 1,732
5) I’m looking at an eligible hotel that charges a refundable one-night deposit for all bookings, can I get the resort credit for this?
Dec 21, 2018, 12:31 pm
#407
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: PHL/EWR
Programs: AA, US, WN, HHonors Diamond, Hyatt Plat
Posts: 1,528
Dec 23, 2018, 4:36 pm
#408
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,933
Not everyone even knows what month their original card was opened. You can upgrade a card opened a decade or more ago!
Dec 25, 2018, 7:41 pm
#409
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: NY
Programs: AA: ExPlat & 3MM; UA: 1k; KL: Plat 4 Life; Hyatt: Plat; SPG, Marriott, Hilton: Gold
Posts: 2,708
Have 2 questions for the group:
* Assume when using points, this still works if use card for resort fees and incidentals?
* Anyone know whether the Gales South Beach in Miami Beach is part? It is a Curio and looks like lots of Curio properties are part of list. Don’t see it on list but swear had seen it on list earlier...
Thanks and happy holidays!
* Assume when using points, this still works if use card for resort fees and incidentals?
* Anyone know whether the Gales South Beach in Miami Beach is part? It is a Curio and looks like lots of Curio properties are part of list. Don’t see it on list but swear had seen it on list earlier...
Thanks and happy holidays!
Dec 25, 2018, 9:02 pm
#410
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: DL PM; IHG PlatAmb; Hilton Dia; Marriott Plat; Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 7,318
Have 2 questions for the group:
* Assume when using points, this still works if use card for resort fees and incidentals?
* Anyone know whether the Gales South Beach in Miami Beach is part? It is a Curio and looks like lots of Curio properties are part of list. Don’t see it on list but swear had seen it on list earlier...
Thanks and happy holidays!
* Assume when using points, this still works if use card for resort fees and incidentals?
* Anyone know whether the Gales South Beach in Miami Beach is part? It is a Curio and looks like lots of Curio properties are part of list. Don’t see it on list but swear had seen it on list earlier...
Thanks and happy holidays!
2) If it's not on the list, it's not on the list. Many Curios are not.
Dec 26, 2018, 9:49 am
#411
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: DEN
Programs: MR PP, UA Silver, SW A-List, HH Diamond
Posts: 345
Hmm, just upgraded the card to the aspire in November and for some reason thought my annual renewal date was in January. Chatted to get my actual renewal date to plan a resort stay and found out that no it was actually dec 24. Quickly planned a local stay just for kicks, got a room at Hilton Inverness, double points promo, breakfast and a shirt charged to the room to use up my $250 credit. Stay ended on the 22nd, posted to the CC on the 23rd and $250 credit posted the 24th, same day as the annual fee. Slightly worried I was a day late and burned next year's credit.
I did get the $30 AMEX offer and 17.5k points ( not including the 14x Aspire) - not sure how that all added up with the 2x point room and 3x promo, but I'm not arguing.
Pretty lucrative offer even for a throwaway stay due to promo timing. Next time, I'll have more time to plan something that will actually be more worthwhile.
Even if I can't get out of Denver to another resort, the Inverness has a stay and play golf rate which I might try next time.
I did get the $30 AMEX offer and 17.5k points ( not including the 14x Aspire) - not sure how that all added up with the 2x point room and 3x promo, but I'm not arguing.
Pretty lucrative offer even for a throwaway stay due to promo timing. Next time, I'll have more time to plan something that will actually be more worthwhile.
Even if I can't get out of Denver to another resort, the Inverness has a stay and play golf rate which I might try next time.
Dec 26, 2018, 11:04 am
#412
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: ATL
Programs: MR/SPG Plat, HH Gold, DL PM
Posts: 413
Have 2 questions for the group:
* Assume when using points, this still works if use card for resort fees and incidentals?
* Anyone know whether the Gales South Beach in Miami Beach is part? It is a Curio and looks like lots of Curio properties are part of list. Don’t see it on list but swear had seen it on list earlier...
Thanks and happy holidays!
* Assume when using points, this still works if use card for resort fees and incidentals?
* Anyone know whether the Gales South Beach in Miami Beach is part? It is a Curio and looks like lots of Curio properties are part of list. Don’t see it on list but swear had seen it on list earlier...
Thanks and happy holidays!
Dec 26, 2018, 11:39 am
#413
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: NY
Programs: AA: ExPlat & 3MM; UA: 1k; KL: Plat 4 Life; Hyatt: Plat; SPG, Marriott, Hilton: Gold
Posts: 2,708
Hmmm, sounds like you may have previously seen the Gates Hotel on the list, which is a Doubletree. It wouldn't surprise me that the Gale (a new Curio) didn't appear because I think that one may have just recently joined the Hilton portfolio (I just saw it pop up for the first time a week or so ago, and I've been shopping around for a while), so maybe it will just take some time for it to be added.
Dec 26, 2018, 12:08 pm
#414
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: DL PM; IHG PlatAmb; Hilton Dia; Marriott Plat; Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 7,318
Hmmm, sounds like you may have previously seen the Gates Hotel on the list, which is a Doubletree. It wouldn't surprise me that the Gale (a new Curio) didn't appear because I think that one may have just recently joined the Hilton portfolio (I just saw it pop up for the first time a week or so ago, and I've been shopping around for a while), so maybe it will just take some time for it to be added.
Some properties have been posted even before they join the Hilton portfolio (i.e., the Hilton Playa del Carmen). So I would not assume this is an issue of timing. Note, there are 49 Curio properties, and only 15 are on the list. One should not assume that being a Curio means it will be on the list. Many "resort-ish" Curios, even in beach cities, are not on the list, including the Hotel La Jolla, the Madison Beach Hotel, the Fives Downtown (Playa del Carmen), Gran Hotel Montesol (Ibiza)....
Last edited by Adam1222; Dec 26, 2018 at 12:14 pm
Dec 26, 2018, 3:00 pm
#415
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Rochester, MN
Programs: UA Silver, Hilton HHonors Diamond, IHG Plat
Posts: 1,830
Regarding the reset date for the resort credit....
How particular is the Anniversary Date for the credit, vs when a stay posts to your account? My anniversary date is in March...and I am also planning a trip with stay in March of 2019. Last year, the annual fee for the card posted as of early April, but I do not think that is the actual Anniversary Date, if I am not mistaken the annual fee just posts the last day of the statement, correct? So, will I get a 2019 refresh of the $250 credit on the March statement WITH stay charges I accrue that very same month?
Or is this absolutely dependent on the exact Anniversary Date of the card?
How particular is the Anniversary Date for the credit, vs when a stay posts to your account? My anniversary date is in March...and I am also planning a trip with stay in March of 2019. Last year, the annual fee for the card posted as of early April, but I do not think that is the actual Anniversary Date, if I am not mistaken the annual fee just posts the last day of the statement, correct? So, will I get a 2019 refresh of the $250 credit on the March statement WITH stay charges I accrue that very same month?
Or is this absolutely dependent on the exact Anniversary Date of the card?
Dec 27, 2018, 3:17 am
#416
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Seattle
Programs: AS MVP100K, Hilton Diamond, IHG Gold
Posts: 3,215
Regarding the reset date for the resort credit....
How particular is the Anniversary Date for the credit, vs when a stay posts to your account? My anniversary date is in March...and I am also planning a trip with stay in March of 2019. Last year, the annual fee for the card posted as of early April, but I do not think that is the actual Anniversary Date, if I am not mistaken the annual fee just posts the last day of the statement, correct? So, will I get a 2019 refresh of the $250 credit on the March statement WITH stay charges I accrue that very same month?
Or is this absolutely dependent on the exact Anniversary Date of the card?
How particular is the Anniversary Date for the credit, vs when a stay posts to your account? My anniversary date is in March...and I am also planning a trip with stay in March of 2019. Last year, the annual fee for the card posted as of early April, but I do not think that is the actual Anniversary Date, if I am not mistaken the annual fee just posts the last day of the statement, correct? So, will I get a 2019 refresh of the $250 credit on the March statement WITH stay charges I accrue that very same month?
Or is this absolutely dependent on the exact Anniversary Date of the card?
Then again you could ask Amex and get 5 different answers from 5 different people.
Dec 27, 2018, 5:18 pm
#417
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: SFO/LAX/SAN/LAS/DFW/JFK/LGA/EWR/MIA
Posts: 1,073
Good question, and I would really like to know the answer as well. Unfortunately with the card being less than a year old, I’m not sure we’ll know for certain until later in the year when someone has an experience.
Then again you could ask Amex and get 5 different answers from 5 different people.
Dec 28, 2018, 3:35 pm
#418
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 17
Has anyone tried it and used it one night at the Tropicana in Las Vegas?
Dec 29, 2018, 2:14 am
#419
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: SFO/LAX/SAN/LAS/DFW/JFK/LGA/EWR/MIA
Posts: 1,073
It has now been over 8 weeks since we checked out of the Elara, Las Vegas. Elara is on the eligible list and I called Amex before we checked in to make sure of that. I still haven't received the $250 credit. I just got off a chat session about it and they claimed they knew nothing about this benefit! I had to go up the line to a supervisor who really took her time to find out it existed. Then she said my stay was " ineligible." I asked why and she couldn't tell me. She finally said I had to wait the full 12 weeks to inquire about it. Very unsatisfactory session with Amex chat!
Another strange thing about this is we stayed at the Tropicana Las Vegas for a couple days before we checked into Elara. We paid with Mrs Bat's Aspire card and the credit posted before the doors of the Trop bumped our butts as we left. I guess they just haven't worked out all the bugs with this new card.
Another strange thing about this is we stayed at the Tropicana Las Vegas for a couple days before we checked into Elara. We paid with Mrs Bat's Aspire card and the credit posted before the doors of the Trop bumped our butts as we left. I guess they just haven't worked out all the bugs with this new card.
Dec 29, 2018, 6:05 am
#420
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Seattle
Programs: AS MVP100K, Hilton Diamond, IHG Gold
Posts: 3,215
What if one were to open two or three of these accounts? So you had multiple times for your account anniversary and resort credit based on the card you use. Are you allowed to do that?