Apr 30, 2013, 1:02 pm
AXON Hilton Honors Award Questions and Information: The Definitive Thread
Apr 29, 2013, 3:50 pm
#1051
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Pittsburgh
Programs: Whoever Has the Best Bonus
Posts: 5,183
The new rewards are lame. The Cat 7 I booked in Hawaii was 50k a night. So it was 200k, with the AXON that was 145k. Good savings. Now 190k. Not worth it.
Luckily I'm already on the no fee AMEX. Glad I didn't take the bait to upgrade (and I only got this one because Hilton gave me a free year as Diamond a few years ago for the no fee card).
Down to 300k points. I'm going to try to get another AXON in at the lower rates before the June 15th implosion. If you know of any good places to redeem please share!
Luckily I'm already on the no fee AMEX. Glad I didn't take the bait to upgrade (and I only got this one because Hilton gave me a free year as Diamond a few years ago for the no fee card).
Down to 300k points. I'm going to try to get another AXON in at the lower rates before the June 15th implosion. If you know of any good places to redeem please share!
Apr 29, 2013, 3:52 pm
#1052
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 6,607
Time to buy some gift cards so I hit the spend on my 50K Visa and book and Axon at 145K before june 15
Apr 29, 2013, 4:01 pm
#1053
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 211
I'm still out of luck booking AXON at NYC properties at category 5,6,7. Seems everything is 8,9,10 now. ugh!
Apr 29, 2013, 4:10 pm
#1054
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: 10^7 mm from Ȱ
Programs: Hyatt D/HHonors D/ SPG P/ Marriott P/ IHG P/ UA 1K/ AA EXP/ DL D
Posts: 1,976
Apr 29, 2013, 6:35 pm
#1056
Join Date: Aug 2005
Programs: AA Plt 3MM; UA 1K 2 MM; MR Lifetime Plat; HH Lifetime Diamond; HH Diamond; IGH Spire Ambas; SPG Gold
Posts: 2,149
And I am one of those who absolutely care about this massive devaluation, and am shifting my business to Marriott, Hyatt and Radisson.
By the way--many here seem to have forgotten that Hilton did a prior devaluation right in the midst of the economic meltdown as rates were plummeting.
If I want to earn points from CC--there is always Starwood--and that's where I'll continue to spend for earning free stays.
Hilton Corp. There is just one word for the execs running that corporation.
Greed.
Apr 29, 2013, 8:22 pm
#1057
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Chapel Hill, NC - UA Nobody (sigh)/0.925MM, HHonors Diamond
Posts: 3,510
Hilton Corp. There is just one word for the execs running that corporation.
Greed.
Greed.
), is what all corporations are about.
Apr 30, 2013, 1:08 am
#1058
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 367
Amex Surpass is 6% supermarkets and drugstores, and 60K bonus, while Citi Reserve is 3% (non-travel) and two weekend certificates, though it doesn't seem you can use them consecutively.
Apr 30, 2013, 1:40 am
#1059
Join Date: May 2003
Location: CA
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold, HHonors Diamond
Posts: 2,879
AXON Hilton HHonors Award Questions and Information: The Definitive Thread
Surpass is stopping the 6 points per $ at drug stores.
Apr 30, 2013, 3:50 am
#1061
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: PHL
Programs: AA EXP MM, HHonors Lifetime Diamond, Marriott Lifetime Ti, UA Silver
Posts: 5,037
Does anyone else have experience with being unable to use the Citi free night certs consecutively? If that really is the case it may well change my plans WRT this card.
Apr 30, 2013, 8:56 am
#1062
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: San Diego, Ca
Programs: AA 2MM LT PLT; AS MVP Gold75k; HHonors Diamond; IHG PLT
Posts: 3,503
Apr 30, 2013, 9:28 am
#1063
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: In CT,left my heart in Leicester.
Programs: Work in progress.
Posts: 1,237
What makes you think that Hilton did not do a fair amount of research before making the change. Like the airlines, hotels are most concerned about their bigger spenders, who apparently are not too concerned by the devaluation.
I could be wrong, but would hazard a guess that the people making the most noise are those who accumulate points by credit card churns rather than stays, will have to put a bit more effort in to working the system, have made it more difficult for those of us who earn points the old fashioned way (okay, I also dabble in credit cards
).
I could be wrong, but would hazard a guess that the people making the most noise are those who accumulate points by credit card churns rather than stays, will have to put a bit more effort in to working the system, have made it more difficult for those of us who earn points the old fashioned way (okay, I also dabble in credit cards
).I don't think so. I think the people who this has hurt the most and therefore are most vocal about it are the ones who EARNED the points by stays.
I accumulate these points like candy but I haven't earned them and therefore I feel that I don't *really* have the right to cry foul. I got something for free and now that something is worth less. And that's why you won't hear me complaining about it.
I feel bad for the ones who've exclusively stayed at Hilton when they could have stayed anywhere else. Spent their money with Hilton because they believed that the points they were accumulating meant something.
But Hilton turned out to be a cold back-stabbing bas***d.
Apr 30, 2013, 11:15 am
#1064
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: PHL/EWR
Programs: AA, US, WN, HHonors Diamond, Hyatt Plat
Posts: 1,528
Welcome to the AXON/Amex Surpass Changes/Citi Reserve Free Nights/What is the Best Hilton Card/Not Another Devaluation Thread!
Apr 30, 2013, 11:30 am
#1065
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 3,786
I didn't have any problem. Use them consecutively for Saturday and Sunday nights at Conrad HK. Now that's for the 2 certs I got from spending bonus after applying for the card. Maybe he was talking about the cert you get from the annual spending at renewal time. You only get 1 per year at the same time of the year. And it expires in 1 year. So you won't be able to use 2 of them at any given time...