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20,000 Hilton HHonors^® bonus points after first purchase ¹
To earn 20,000 Hilton HHonors bonus points, you must make your first eligible purchase with the Hilton HHonors Card within one year of Card issuance. Only one first purchase bonus per Card Account. Only first-time Hilton HHonors Cardmembers will earn 20,000 Hilton HHonors bonus points.

Get rewarded from day one

Earn 20,000 Hilton HHonors^® bonus points with your first purchase² — enough for up to two free nights.³ With the Card’s built-in benefits, you can quickly earn HHonors bonus points toward even more free nights at any Hilton Family hotel.

Earn HHonors bonus points even faster

Earn 2,500 HHonors bonus points for each of your first four Hilton Family stays charged to your Card during your first 18 months of Cardmembership — up to 10,000 HHonors bonus points.⁴

Points that really add up

Earn 6 HHonors bonus points for every eligible dollar you spend at Hilton Family hotels, and at grocery stores, drugstores, gas stations, wireless and home phone, internet, cable, and satellite TV service providers. Earn 3 HHonors bonus points for every eligible dollar charged everywhere else.⁵

No Blackout Dates

You won't find Blackout Dates with Hilton HHonors. If a standard room is available, you can redeem points for it.

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Rewards Program

Hilton HHonors

Payment Options

Option to carry balance

Annual Fee

No annual fee

APR on Purchases

2.90% for first 6 months, then Prime Rate+ 11.99%

Imagine Your Arrival with the credit card that gives you rewards

The Hilton HHonors^® Card from American Express helps bring you closer to free nights at over 3,000 Hilton Family hotels.

Welcome to Hilton HHonors^® VIP Status

HHonors Silver VIP status is yours, complimentary, for the life of your travel rewards Card. You can receive a 15% bonus credit on all HHonors Base points earned, as well as other benefits when you stay at Hilton Family hotels.

Enjoy an automatic upgrade to HHonors Gold VIP status when your total eligible spend reaches $20,000 in the calendar year.⁶ With Gold VIP status you may enjoy:

A 25% bonus credit on all HHonors Base points earned
Access to the Executive Floor lounge
Upgraded accommodations when available

Points & Miles^®. No Blackout Dates. Only Hilton HHonors.

You won't find Blackout Dates with Hilton HHonors — just 3,000 hotels and the chance to earn HHonors bonus points and miles with more than 50 participating airlines. If a standard room is available, you can redeem points for it.

Enjoy the ride.

If you need a comfortable ride to or from the airport, simply call EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services. Empire offers door-to-door service in over 650 cities around the globe.

As a Hilton HHonors Cardmember, you can⁷:

Receive a 10% discount on EmpireCLS car service
Enjoy a car class upgrade, when available
Earn 500 HHonors bonus points per booking

Call 1-888-826-1326 or visit www.empirecls.com/hilton.

Use your Card to create a vacation when you earn HHonors bonus points.

Get off to a great start — your first four stays are just the beginning.

Earn 2,500 Hilton HHonors bonus points for each of your first four Hilton Family stays charged to your Card during your first 18 months of Cardmembership.⁸ That’s another 10,000 HHonors bonus points — enough for up to 1 free night.⁹

The free nights can add up every time you use your Hilton HHonors Card from American Express.¹⁰

There’s no limit to the amount of points you can earn on your Card
Your points have no expiration date as long as you earn points on your Card at least once every 12 months.

We’d like to see you more, for less.

With your Hilton HHonors Card from American Express, you can redeem for less. Receive 4 HHonors reward nights at Category 5 or 6 Hilton Family hotels worldwide at a special rate exclusively for Cardmembers.¹¹

Call 1-800-920-5649 to redeem a four night stay:

Category 5 hotels — 125,000 HHonors bonus points (normally 140,000). Mention promo code AXON5.
Category 6 hotels — 145,000 HHonors bonus points (normally 160,000). Mention promo code AXON6.

They’re your points. Use them however you like.

There are countless ways to redeem your Hilton HHonors bonus points:

Redeem at over 3,000 Hilton Family hotels worldwide with no Blackout Dates.
Shopping and Dining: The Hilton HHonors Rewards Store at HiltonHHonors.com/shopping has more than 5,500 products — electronics, housewares, fashion, and more, plus gift cards to your favorite stores and restaurants.
Experience Rewards: Redeem your HHonors points for dozens of once-in-alifetime experiences. You could fly a fighter jet, rent a motorcycle, learn to surf, or test-drive your dream job.

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1To earn 20,000 Hilton HHonors bonus points, you must make your first eligible purchase with the Hilton HHonors Card within one year of Card issuance. Only one first purchase bonus per Card Account. Only first-time Hilton HHonors Cardmembers will earn 20,000 Hilton HHonors bonus points.

2To earn 20,000 Hilton HHonors bonus points, you must make your first eligible purchase with the Hilton HHonors Card within one year of Card issuance. Only one first purchase bonus per Card Account. Only first-time Hilton HHonors Cardmembers will earn 20,000 Hilton HHonors bonus points.

3Hilton HHonors bonus points required for a free night range between 7,500 HHonors bonus points for an Opportunity Category hotel and 40,000 Hilton HHonors bonus points for a Category 6 hotel. 10,000 Hilton HHonors bonus points are enough for a free reward night at an Opportunity Category or a Category 1 hotel. For information on reward stays, visit HiltonHHonors.com/hotelrewards.

4In your first 18 months of Cardmembership, earn 2,500 Hilton HHonors bonus points for each of your first four stays at Hilton Family hotels when you charge $100 or more to your Hilton HHonors Card for each of those four stays.

5You will receive 6 Hilton HHonors bonus points for each U.S. dollar of eligible spending on the Card at any Hilton Family hotel worldwide (excluding Hilton Grand Vacations timeshare purchases and package sales). You will receive 6 Hilton HHonors bonus points for each U.S. dollar of eligible spending at the following categories of merchants, excluding warehouse clubs and superstores: supermarkets; drugstores; stand-alone gas stations; and home telephone, wireless, cable, satellite TV, and internet service providers. You will receive 3 Hilton HHonors bonus points for each U.S. dollar of all other eligible spending. To receive the appropriate bonus points, the merchants must submit the charge using the appropriate industry code, merchant code, or products/service code established by us. If the merchant submits a Charge using a different code, the applicable Charge will only receive the bonus points corresponding to that code. Merchants with multiple locations may submit Charges at different locations using different codes. This means that Charges at some locations will qualify for additional bonus points, but Charges at other locations of the same merchant will not. You will not receive Hilton HHonors bonus points for balances transferred from other accounts, purchases of American Express^® Travelers Cheques or American Express^® Gift Cheques, fees, Finance Charges, Cash Advances, and similar means of assessing your Card Account. Additional terms and conditions apply.

6If in any calendar year of Cardmembership your total eligible spend reaches $20,000, you will be upgraded to Hilton HHonors Gold VIP tier status for a one-year period. Allow 10–12 weeks for your Hilton VIP status to be upgraded.

7To be eligible to receive a 10% discount on Car Service with EmpireCLS, Cardmembers must make the reservation by calling 1-888-826-1326 (toll-free) or visiting www.empirecls.com/hilton and pay for the Car Service with their Hilton HHonors Card. Cardmembers will earn 500 HHonors bonus points for each EmpireCLS charge (purchases less returns) made on the Card and will receive those HHonors bonus points within 10–12 weeks of the transaction date.

8Hilton HHonors^® bonus points required for a free night range between 7,500 HHonors bonus points for an Opportunity Category hotel and 40,000 HHonors bonus points for a Category 6 hotel. 10,000 HHonors bonus points are enough for a free reward night at an Opportunity Category or a Category 1 hotel. For information on reward stays, visit HiltonHHonors.com/hotelrewards.

9In your first 18 months of Cardmembership, earn 2,500 HHonors bonus points for each of your first four stays at Hilton Family hotels when you charge $100 or more to your Hilton HHonors^® Card for each of those four stays.

10Hilton HHonors bonus points required for a free night range between 7,500 HHonors bonus points for an Opportunity Category hotel and 40,000 HHonors bonus points for a Category 6 hotel. 10,000 HHonors bonus points are enough for a free reward night at an Opportunity Category or a Category 1 hotel. For information on reward stays, visit HiltonHHonors.com/hotelrewards.

11Hilton HHonors bonus points required for a free night range between 7,500 HHonors bonus points for an Opportunity Category hotel and 40,000 HHonors bonus points for a Category 6 hotel. 10,000 HHonors bonus points are enough for a free reward night at an Opportunity Category or a Category 1 hotel. For information on reward stays, visit HiltonHHonors.com/hotelrewards.