Want to stay at a Hilton hotel? Buy points and save on your stay with the 100% bonus
I saved €7000 by booking the brand new Hilton Maldives, but from New York to London you can make huge savings. Here are practical examples of real savings
The Hilton Honors Loyalty Program launched a new Promotion that gives 100% bonus points over the points bought. This is not a sporadic activity, but a choice that loyalty programs make to persuade members to "spend." We have repeatedly recounted How the practice of buying points only makes sense when there is a rich promotion, and this is the case. Because the 100% of free points means that you halve the cost of them.
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Accumulating these points is very easy thanks to continuous promotions that allow you to get, for each stay, thousands and thousands of extra points and then use them to sleep in the well-known American chain's hotels around the world.
At example I booked the brand new Hilton Maldives., which will open next July, for December just by using points and saving nearly $8,000, that is, the amount I would have had to pay had I not had enough points in my pocket.
Why buy points to book instead of paying cash
This is a very smart solution to save thousands and is perfect both for those who already have points in their pockets, perhaps not enough to complete the reservation, and for those who have never stayed and therefore have no points available.
An award night, that is, a night paid for using points instead of a credit card, can cost anywhere from 5,000 to 140,000 Hilton Honors points per night. For example, the Conrad Ko Samui has a cost that starts at 80k and goes up, depending on seasonality, to 110k. Same for the Maldives Waldorf Astoria which is by far the most expensive facility in the Hilton portfolio.
On the flip side, however, a night in these facilities can cost up to thousands of dollars after taxes. By using points, not only do you pay nothing, but you will not even have to shell out the very expensive resort fees and taxes, a further savings of 20%.
How much do the points cost
Right now the promotion is valid until November 22 and allows you to have a bonus of 100%, this means that if you buy 100k points you will get as many free Hilton Honors points.
There is a limit to the maximum number of points that can be bought and that is 160k/year which, in this case at a cost of 1.600$, becomes 320 thousand. Points that can be immediately used to book a stay in one of more than 6000 hotels around the world.
It is good to remember that the Hilton Honors loyalty program allows members to Group the points into a family group, this allows multiple profiles to be put together and use the points in a single reservation. Similarly, however, a couple can buy 160k points twice and end up, with an expenditure of 3.200$, 640 thousand points in their pocket.
How to save thousands by buying points
To explain how by buying points you can book the same room while saving thousands of dollars, I will give some practical examples.
Sleep at the Conrad Down Town Manhattan Has a cost of 80k points per night. Taking advantage of the fifth night free rule, to stay 5 nights will then only need 320k points.
The expense for the same reservation in cash is over 3,500$. Here then, simply by buying points and using them to book the room, almost 2,000$ can be saved on the total stay.
Spending Christmas and New Year in Dubai at the brand new Hilton Palm Jumeirah costs AED 21,500, about 5,800$
Five nights booked using points cost 240k Hilton Honors which, if bought Taking advantage of this promotion, are equivalent to 1200$, That is, a net saving of more than 4,600$.
In conclusion
Buying points can be a surgical operation. You find availability, take advantage of The promotion like the one that gives away the 100% of points and you book a room saving thousands and thousands. Beware, however, it does not work only for hotels: buying 1300$ of points, I was able to peel off a plane ticket worth $13,000.
