The "most obvious" offer is often worse than a less-publicized one (and not just in this case).

So, yes, the 85k offer is still valid, but only if you know the link.

It's just like there'a a bunch of Citi AA MC 50k miles offers always valid if you know the link, but at AA's website or Citi's website most of the time the public Citi AA MC offer maxes out at 30k miles.

The highest offers are often only marketed to a limited audience (and copied here from there), while the "widely available" offers are often not as high.

Thank you all for confirmation. I am pretty new to this.

100k offer
 

Public offer is now 100k with spending requirement $3000/3 months; available through May 4 2016.

Something odd afoot: when I visit https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...honors-surpass, I see a 50K offer, not 100K. Have never held this card.

Odd indeed. When I click the same link I get this http://i.imgur.com/c3EvqDL.png.

Did you try an incognito browser?

Same thing appears for me, but I have the no fee Amex Hilton and it shows 50k to upgrade my card. Opening in incognito or in a different browser shows the 100k offer.

Since my husband already has this Amex Surpass card, I thought of applying for my own...but it seems Hilton does not allow you to easily combine points, but rather you must gift them for a fee.

So I was just looking at other Hilton cards, and currently the Hilton Visa Signature has an offer, expiring TODAY (3/31), that gives you 75,000 bonus points, no annual fee, must spend only $2,000 in first 3 mos. Of course does not have the same earnings - only 6 at Hilton, 3 at drug stores/gas stations (and something else), and 2 at everything else.

But for anyone else in a similar situation to us I think it sounds like a great alternative to get some bonus points.

The no annual fee put it over the top for us.

Here's the link: https://creditcards.citicards.com/us...694C8580E77D17

Keep in mind that though you may not be able to merge accounts you can book a room under your account for your husband. Either for him or add him to your reservation. So getting the better offer may work out for you guys, GL.

Note that there's a separate thread dedicated to the base Hilton Visa (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/citi-...ki-choose.html), as well as a master thread, http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/citi-...amex-citi.html, compiling the various Amex & Citi Hilton product offers. Both have wikis with 75K offers listed. (This one, despite the date in the URL, seems to be unreported; I'll add it to the other wikis shortly.)

Does the bonus for this card post before statement close? I just received 100k points in my account and can't figure out where they came from.

I have found Amex often posts bonus points shortly after spend requirement is met, rather than after the corresponding statement closes.

Correct. Amex differs from Citi & Chase in this respect.

I already have the Amex Hilton with no annual fee. Just today, I logged on and found that my Hilton is eligible to upgrade to Surpass card with 100K point bonus after $3k spending. Should I upgrade or should I apply as a new card for the same offer? If I upgrade, is it possible to downgrade in the future since I still want to keep the no annual fee card for the long run? If so, how soon can I downgrade?

I have a question about the points. Is there a place were I can see how many points I get per charge (transaction)?
I would like to see a breakdown for each transaction showing how many points it got me.
I put my groceries and gas on this card. I have read here before that some groceries stores like Walmart do not count because they are not really just a grocery store.
Is there a list of grocery stores on Amex website?

If you want to keep the no-annual-fee card for the long run, then I don't know why you would jump through hoops to upgrade and downgrade.