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Hilton Honors members can redeem points at select hotels at just 5,000 or 10,000 per night. We have updated the list of available hotels as of September 2020.
Hilton Honors members can currently redeem at 23 hotels for 5,000 points per night and 78 hotels (previously 130) for 10,000.
Hilton has an interesting yet little promoted rate for stays at a resort(ish) hotels in the Americas either through December 31, 2020, or June 30, 2021 (terms are unclear).
Honors members get every third night free when booking three, six, or nine nights by December 30, 2020.
Hilton Honors launched in late-July a sale that allows members to buy points with a 100% bonus that ends today (was extended until September 25, 2020).
Members can usually buy up to 80,000 points every calendar year before any bonus, although the limit is now doubled for most if not all members (check the purchase page).
Hilton Honors is reactivating its Twitter and Instagram channels by having a giveaway for 1,000,000.
You need to follow Hilton Honors and either a tweet or share a photo on Instagram with a hashtag to participate in.
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We have randomly chosen the winner of the 100,000 Hilton Honors points giveaway that ended on Wednesday.
The person whose name is displayed below will receive an email from us today with instructions on redeeming the prize.
Hilton Honors launched in late-July a sale that allows members to buy points with a 100% bonus that ends this Sunday (September 20, 2020).
Members can usually buy up to 80,000 points every calendar year before any bonus, although the limit is now doubled for most if not all members (check the purchase page).
To celebrate Hilton’s latest Double Rewards promotion, 100% points sale, and generous travel waivers, we launched a giveaway for 100,000 Honors points that ends tomorrow!
Readers can enter our giveaway here by 11:59 PM ET on Wednesday (September 16, 2020). We will announce the winner on Friday.
Hilton’s latest Double Rewards promotion for Honors members began last week, offering double points and nights through the end of 2020.
The first stays for member accounts have posted now, and many might wonder if the nights are correctly recorded for milestone bonus purposes.
The much loved Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, which has been closed since March, is going through severe financial difficulties and is being foreclosed by its lender.
It is unclear when the hotel will reopen its doors, if ever. The current owner is behind payments, and the hotel is “underwater,” meaning that its outstanding loans exceed its most recent valuation (and the owner has decided to turn the keys to the lender).
Hilton Honors members in Japan have an excellent opportunity to take advantage of the current Double Rewards promotion by combining two other offers.
Hilton has 30% off Summer Sale going on until September 25 that you can combine with the 35% rebate from Japan’s government (room rate max 20K yen per person for the latter) for a discount of 54%.
Hilton has several sales under Dream Away for stays worldwide and has now launched an updated one for India.
Honors members can save up to 35% (non-member discount capped at 30%) on stays in India through August 31, 2021, if booked by October 12.
A LoyaltyLobby reader sent us a copy of an email that Conrad Hong Kong had sent requesting a prepayment on a non-prepay rate using a third-party platform.
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