Get a 30% Bonus When You Transfer Amex Points to Hilton

Update: The offer mentioned below has expired and is no longer available.

The beginning of a new month typically means new transfer bonuses, and American Express has just launched a transfer bonus to Hilton Honors aimed at those thinking of hotel stays for March and beyond.

Let’s take a look at the details of this bonus!

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Hilton Honors Transfer Bonus
Is It Worth It?
Final Thoughts

Hilton Honors Transfer Bonus

Typically, you can transfer Amex Membership Rewards points to Hilton Honors at a 1:2 ratio, which means you’ll get 2 Hilton Honors points for every Amex Membership Rewards point you move over to the program.

Now, thanks to this offer, you can get 2,600 Hilton Honors points for every 1,000 Membership Rewards points you transfer — a bonus of 30%. This offer is valid through March 31, 2022, so if you’re interested, make sure you transfer your Amex points to Hilton Honors before that date.

Amex Hilton transfer bonus — Image Credit: American Express

Is It Worth It?

Amex Membership Rewards points are some of the easiest to earn through cards like The Platinum Card® from American Express and American Express® Gold Card. And they’re the most valuable flexible points around, worth 2.2 cents apiece according to our valuations. This means you’ll likely lose value when you transfer points to Hilton.

However, transferring Amex points over to Hilton can make sense if you need to top off your account balance for a specific redemption or you have a short, inexpensive stay.

Hilton has more than 6,000 hotels spanning 6 continents in its portfolio. But it doesn’t use an award chart like some chains do (Hyatt, for example). Instead, Hilton uses variable award pricing, which means the number of points you may spend can vary by day. Sometimes, that can work in your favor.

Hot Tip: We value Hilton Honors points at 0.5 cents apiece. Use our points and miles valuations to determine whether it’s better to use points or cash for a given hotel stay.

For example, if you found yourself short a few thousand points before booking a stay at The Gates Hotel South Beach – a DoubleTree by Hilton in Miami (which costs 70,000 Hilton Honors points per night for dates in mid-March), a 30% transfer bonus can actually be a pretty good deal. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense to completely drain your balance of Amex points to transfer to Hilton.

Final Thoughts

Even though we’ve seen this Amex-to-Hilton bonus before, it’s always a nice surprise. If you have a Hilton redemption coming up soon, using some of your Amex points (at a 30% bonus) could be a decent deal, depending on the property you’re looking at.

Otherwise, you may want to save your Amex points for even better transfer partners, like Air Canada or Virgin Atlantic. Either way, remember to transfer your points over to Hilton before March 31.

2 comments

Avi Kerendian December 4, 2022

Great read!

Question – how often do these 30%-50% bonuses come around? I’m assuming people have noticed a pattern for these by now, e.g., every 3-4 months or every September. Would you say that’s accurate or, is there any way to be notified of these sort of things without logging onto Amex every day?

Thanks as always!

Jarrod West December 5, 2022
Hi Avi,
Thanks for the kind words. Amex seems to run a type of transfer bonus virtually every month. In terms of Hilton-specific bonuses, we usually see those about 3 times per year or so. For updates, you can always check out our transfer partner calculator where we track every transfer bonus across every transferable points currency.
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