The minimum amount you can transfer is 1, points, which will put 2, Hilton points into your account. Hilton and AmEx have a partnership that offers several different co-branded Hilton cards :.
Hilton Honors American Express Card. Spending money on these cards earns you Hilton points and qualifies as eligible activity for your Hilton account. Lyft and Hilton have a partnership that allows you to earn Hilton points every time you take a ride. Hilton Dining Rewards gives you Hilton points when dining at participating restaurants.
This may seem pretty obvious but it obviously needs to make the list. Staying at a Hilton hotel — paid or with an award stay — counts as eligible activity and will extend the life of your points. Although Hilton gives you only a month window of inactivity before your points expire, there are plenty of ways to keep them alive, including a hotel stay or purchasing a few points. Here are our picks for the best travel credit cards of , including those best for:. Do Hilton points expire? How long are my Hilton points good for?
How do I find out when my Hilton points expire? Nerdy tip: If your points have expired and you have no activity for five years, Hilton may opt to close your account entirely.
How to keep your Hilton points from expiring. Take surveys. Thankfully there are a bunch of ways to generate a bit of activity without having to go complete a stay to keep your miles active. The bad thing is that the Hilton points expire and the good news is that there are plenty of possibility to avoid the expiration of points: lot of partners. I read that if I buy Hilton Honnors points I can extend the expiration date. It was not clear to me if all the points will have a new expiration date or only the recently purchased ones.
All valid transactions will extend the expiration date of all points to 15 months. Buying miles is a valid transaction for extending the expiration and therefore all points will be valid for another 15 months. But currently Hilton paused expiration until So there is no reason to extend the duration now. I agree that a no-fee HIlton AmEx card is very useful for keeping an account active. I set my card up to pay for an inexpensive monthly or even annual charge, which then continually resets the expiry date for my HIlton miles.
I use a similar strategy with other no-fee cards for other points and miles programs. Be careful about trying to use online shopping activity to extend your expiration date when it it just months away. The Aspire is actually the card I use the most.
I appreciate working with AMEX for their extended card benefits. It should! We tried to include the examples we knew would count in this article. If an e-reward point transfer works, we would love to know about it! May be we can redeem a hotel to stay and cancel it to prevent to expire? Just a suggest, the most good idea is shopping and earn some points to Hilton. E-rewards have not been working for me since I have not been given any surveys to fill out in the last year.
But I have found that guest opinion rewards also gives Hilton rewards and have extended my expiration. I am so thankful for that! But, the expiry has always been a program. Great that it has been increased — Useful for those who are not earning them on a regular basis.
Does that work to extend Hilton points expiration date? That should work! Not enough time still. I agree that extending the expiration time from 12 to 15 months is barely helpful. I do have the credit card and recently got an offer for extra base points per thousand dollars spend. Due to the pandemic, I believe they have stop expiring points in the meantime. Also I did not know they extended it to 15 months from 12 months.
I am also curious as to why redemption of amex points to Hilton does not reset the clock. In this context, with so many airports closed, the points should not expire. Thank goodness for my awardwallet to keep me posted when points expire! Sadly i had to let my Hilton points expire…. Just tried shopping portal; United States not an option for shopping region from drop list. Hey Christian, thanks for the heads up.
It looks like the Shop-to-Earn Mall has been discontinued for the U. Sorry for the trouble. It does seem that Hilton Dining is still working. I tried Hilton last week at Amazon.
The points deducted but no activity showed up. Could this method be dead? Award Wallet now points to Hilton terms which states the only valid actions to keep points from expiring are donation, purchasing points, earning points and stays. Spend is not included. So are there any data points about this, is amazon or other spend still working?
Does using points for a hotel room count as activity to keep the account active and prevent the points from expiring? Based on what Hilton says, yes. So the stay appears to need to occur prior to the expiration.
Does transferring points from one family member to another family member keep it active? Oh, and what is the Amazon trick?
Transferring to a family member does not extend expiration. Amazon trick: use 1 Hilton point as a part of your amazon. Pay the rest with your credit card on file.
I bought points in June and yet have received an email telling me that a bunch of my points expire in October! Yes, I just did this.
Great idea! It looks like activity is activity, no matter the increment. I called in and was given the thumbs up. I think I will call back once more in a couple days just to verify as I have a pretty large quantity of points. I am going to see if this will qualify as activity to extend my points expiration date.
Unless someone has already proven that it will not? I will update the thread when I find out. Can anyone recommend the best option to extend HH points for non-US based members please? International shipping costs usually rule out a shopping portal and the Amazon option which I could use for a Kindle purchase seems like por value.
I can now confirm it worked — used 1. Howie, I just tried the 1. But I have an additional question. So if award wallet only uses stays to track when my points expire…and since Hilton does not post your expiration date in my online account…I assume the only way to find out for sure whether this worked or not is to call them after a day or two and find out when my points expire?
But, on Oct 19th you said you did not think that using a small amount of points on an amazon purchase would reset the clock…yet award wallet shows it did. Since there is no way for me to confirm this on my Hilton online profile I have emailed them to find out when they show my points expire to confirm this is correct…stay posted and I will be back with the confirmation.
Expiring points are in my view a double edge sword for airlines and hotels. My family have 4 KLM accounts from a business class flight in August They recently wrote to me to say they would expire which was disappointing. It seems short sighted to have a very short period before expiration, BA allow 36 months which seems altogether more sensible. Another way to keep them alive right now is to open thanksagain account — they have 2 quizzes for points each — and transfer them till the end of I also transferred Citi TY points to top up my account for an award, so I am good for another 12 months.
I try to keep my eye on the ball regarding expiration dates of my Hhonors points. Admittedly, sometimes it falls off of my radar, so I, for one, really appreciate an article like this one.
Inspired by it, I am moving my Hilton cc to the front of my wallet this week and will make sure I give it some action. What are some good uses for , Hilton points? Is there good bang for points outside the US? Check out AwardMapper. Thank you for the heads up on this! I am always looking around on my Hilton page when my points expire. I did not know that they did the shopping too. Not bad to just buy points though. Does anyone know where they post when your points expire on their own Honors page?
Is it the usual wks for credit for the shopping and dining? Earning points by booking a rental car. Earning points by filling out E-Rewards surveys. Purchasing Hilton points. Redeeming your Hilton points for a Hilton Hotel. Shopping with Hilton points at Amazon. Donating Hilton points to charity.
Comparison of Hotel Programs. Andy Medearis, Esq.
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