Hilton
Hilton's Devaluations were huge as the top price went up to 95,000 points for a single night. However, Categores 1 & 2 are only 5,000 points & 10,000 points. 5,000 points for one night is a fantastic deal.
So we made an interactive map with every Hilton HHonors Category 1 & 2 Hotel. We'll then give suggestion for what the best hotels on this map are, and then a complete list of the hotels at the end. Enjoy. ;-)
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After Hilton decided to make their points nearly worthless, I have had trouble finding good uses for HHonors Points. Points so worthless I argued to try to avoid paying for Hilton hotels (although found that I'm a liar if it's the only hotel chain in a city like Innsbruck). That being said, I do have a special spot in my heart for the Hilton credit card.
"How can it be? B-b-but you said Hilton HHonors Points are worthless?"
Well, that's true. But one of their credit cards gives free nights, not points....
Read moreThe last weekly Newsletter talked about how to earn points from free nights, along with other things. And kind of along those lines I had an interesting experience at check-out just over a week ago.
Recently I wrote how to get free nights via Hilton's Best Rate Guarantee. In this case the new DoubleTree in Bucharest was on another site for $60-something, so I booked and did the BRG. And it adjusted my rate to 10 Euro, like this:
Read moreMy thoughts when I first found out about the Hilton HHonors points devaluation were of thorough disappointment, no doubt. But it's just worse than I originally thought. Surely they would throw a bone after a month or something... but no. For the last little bit I've been trying to write a post on the New Best Use of Hilton HHonors Points, and let's just say it's thinner on content compared to the other "best of" posts.
Even running a promotion and earning 1,000 points... I'm 1/95th of the way to a free night at most Conrads, which is absurd.
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