The Offer
- Citi Hilton Hhonors Visa Signature Card has increased it’s sign up bonus to 75,000 points after $2,000 in purchases within three months of account opening
Card Details
- No annual fee
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 6x points on hotel stays within the Hilton Portfolio
- 3x points on supermarkets, drug stores & gas stations
- 2x points on all other purchases
- Complimentary Hilton Silver Status as long as you’re a cardholder
- Fast track to gold status (four stays within 90 days of account opening or when you make $20,000+ purchases in each calendar year)
- Annual loyalty bonus of 10,000 Hilton HHonors bonus points at end of each calendar year in which you spend $1,000 or more on stays with the Hilton Portfolio
- Standard Visa Signature Benefits
- Hilton HHonors Bonus Points offer not available if you have had a Citi Hilton HHonors Visa Signature Card account that was opened or closed in the past 18 months
Our Verdict
The standard bonus on this card is only 40,000 points, but it regularly goes up to 60,000 points after only $1,000 in spend. Even though the minimum spend requirement on this bonus is $1,000 higher, I think the extra 15,000 points makes it worth it.
I don’t have a huge need for Hilton points, but I’m going to pick up this card anyway. I don’t see the bonus going any higher than this in the short term and you can only get bonuses on Citi cards once every 18 months, so I might as well pick up this card. If you’re going to also apply for this card, I encourage you to use a bloggers link that you want to support (we don’t use credit card affiliate links, so please don’t use ours!). Also keep in mind Citi’s application rules, which are as follows:
- You can only apply for one Citi personal card every 8 days
- You can apply for no more than two Citi personal cards every 65 days
- You can apply for one Citi business card every 95 days
I’d also strongly recommend you reading this post: 14 things everybody should know about Citi.
Question on this – I assume you can’t get this if you’ve had a Hilton card in the last 18 months? I tend to churn the 50,000 one on Flyertalk so am I ineligible?
wow 2% on all other purchases? i might just get this and not use my citi doublecash anymore then
Easy there JohnnyD… its not 2% and its not cashback.
It’s two HHonors points per $1 spent. Most people value HH pts at ~0.5c… so that’s closer to 1%. And they can’t be cashed out.
I already have Hilton surpass card. Can I still earn point using this offer
Yes, they are different products.
Any idea when this offer expires? I just applied for some cards, but might be interested in this in a few months.
No idea, sorry! I expect that when it’s getting close to expiring you’ll hear about it on all the blogs.
Please define these acronyms
4% cb (cc cb + agc)
cb = cash back, cc = credit card, agc = american express gift card. The basic premise is using a credit card to purchase american express gift cards when they are offering a high portal bonus.
I admit I’m not familiar with Hilton or it’s points value. I did however look at a double tree in a city we’re going to and after looking at the cost in points for the category hotel it is (category 5) I was a bit disappointed as I expected the bonus to be worth more.
I’m looking at a cost 80,000 points for two nights. After meeting the $2.5k spend it’ll give me 80k points. The value is $358 based on room cost for the two nights selected (some other nights go down to $139/night). The way I look at this is an opportunity cost of 4% cb (cc cb + agc) which is $100 loss. The value is now $258.
I’m not willing to waste a hard pull on this card unless I get other long term value out of it. I’d assume those who get this card plan on putting it in the sock drawer. Those who are serious would get the AF version with better value yes?
Maybe I’m missing something here. In fact I hope I am, because from what I see this isn’t as tempting as it seems.
@anthony — You can still buy agc to fulfill the spend requirement on this card, so the opportunity cost is 2% rather than 4%. (Or slightly higher than 2% with the Arrival card.)
Lol good point. I wrote that in the early morning and the brain wasn’t fully functioning. It seems Citi is OK to buy AGC now, but I’m still hesitant with the whole cash advance fee issue. I’d imagine I’d just have to set it to $0 and then buy the AGC to be safe.
any way to get cash from the Amex gift cards?