[Expired] American Express Hilton Increased Bonuses (Up To 175,000 Points)

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• Missed it

• Does anyone know if you cancelled this card less than month ago, would I be able to get this card, not sure about PUJ? Or is it suggested we wait 6 months and hope this deal comes up again.

  • Be careful. Amex keeps track of your activity for quite a few years, and if you keep applying for new cards too soon, at first you may get approved if it's a NLL link, but later you may get into hard-to-get-out Pop-Up Jail (PUJ). Amex doesn't like people who only apply to get signup bonuses and make that clear through their actions, and tends to often eventually penalize them.

    So after you apply for any card at Amex, if you want to be able to keep applying later on, put some regular spend on all of you open Amex cards, and keep each card open for at least 13 months, if not much more, to show Amex that you're not only interested in signup bonuses.

• wish they returned the 10 free priority passes for these cards. Otherwise I have to pass, not worth the risk of PUJ as I wont use these card

• Hope Biz card will have the FNC next promo.

• I have two amex cards, the credit line is 24k in total. If one more amex card, will it trigger financial review?

• I don't have any amex card at all. is this worth/a good way to start with?

  • It was my first time application and I was denied wow. The reason is too many new accounts recently.

  • Got my P3 to get both the Surpass and no AF as their first Amex cards. We'll plan on MR points later

  • Yes, I value FNC so much. I have applied all 3. Now wait for Biz one

  • Depends on your 5/24 status, but generally speaking, if your plan is to spend only the minimum amount for the bonus - and then sock drawer it - you'll end up in pop-up jail pretty fast

• @GregR I have an offer to upgrade to the Surpass for 75k points.

  • how long have you had the hilton honors card?

• Has anyone been offered bonus points for upgrading their plain Hilton Amex to a Surpass or Aspire recently? The upgrade “offers” we now see on our Hilton Amex cards are simply to pay the higher annual fee and get the perks but no mention of any bonus points that used to be fairly generously and frequently offered.

  • I got a 50k point offer to upgrade my NAF HH card to the Surpass in November 2024. Contrast that to the 125k point upgrade offer I received in 2019, which I did, then downgraded back to the NAF card a couple years later.

  • Nope.. held onto my no AF HH card for two years and never got an upgrade offer, so decided to upgrade it for a second Aspire

• If I downgrade the card to a regular Hilton Honors from Surpass, before the first payment but after 9 months of use and close it, will this cancel the future welcome bonus from Amex? I want to get the bonus and use it for a trip, but in everyday life I don't need this card

  • You typically cannot downgrade a card until it's been for a full year since you got the card, due to most banks' interpretation of a federal law.

    You can get put in "pop-up jail" (PUJ), which bars you from future welcome bonuses from Amex, if you don't put spend on your existing Amex cards for at least a few months before applying for a new Amex card, or if you cancel cards too soon (showing Amex that you wanted them for nothing other than the signup bonus), etc.

    And Amex also has a "lifetime" rule, meaning that you can't reapply for a card using a standard application link until the previous card you had of the same type has disappeared from the Amex database, which can take up to 7 years, thought it can vary.

• Just a DP - points and free night can post quite quickly (~10 days after open!). Opened card mid-March, immediately hit spend using the provided temporary card number, and points hit the hilton account ~10 days later along with FN notification email. This despite the first statement close still being over 2 weeks out. Useful if you have travel in the short term coming up