News went around on July 4 of how AMEX clawed back the Hilton 12X grocery bonus points promo. I’ll detail what happened to me. My May 15th statement ended like this: Almost exactly 7 weeks later, my Hilton account updated with this: It seems they gave me 12K points and looking back at my statement, […]
When I posted about the AMEX Hilton Surpass deal a few weeks ago, a reader pointed out that maybe only the “bonus” points go towards the lifetime base points since most of the promo material does say “bonus” points. This means that instead of having all 12X grocery points count towards lifetime, maybe only 9X […]
Disclaimer – I highly recommend you DON’T DO THIS since it seems AMEX has been pretty shutdown happy of late. If you do go for it, proceed with caution. Due to COVID, AMEX is doing this promo where from May 1 to July 31, 2020, your Hilton Aspire card now gets 12X at grocery stores. […]
On Tuesday at around 4PM PST, one of the craziest redemptions CAME BACK – cashing out Hilton points for .5c on Amazon. I missed out a few weeks ago because I was an hour late and the Amazon/Hilton link was broken and the deal was eventually pulled. I have NO IDEA why Hilton brought it […]
Introduction I had an overnight layover in LAX en route to Costa Rica and was looking for the cheapest LAX hotel due to the early morning flight the next day. I picked the Hilton since a) it had an airport shuttle and b) it was only 38K points, which I equated to $76 worth of […]