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80% bonus when purchasing Hilton Honors Points
Hilton is offering a pretty solid deal to buy points with an 80% bonus. It runs until February 17th and as long as you buy 5000 or more points between now and then…you’ll get the bonus. This isn’t the best deal we’ve seen recently: In the middle of last year Hilton offered a 100% on purchased points which placed the purchase price right about 0.5 cents per point, but this is a great deal if you’re in need. An 80% bonus equates to a slightly higher price, roughly 0.55 cents per point, and is capped at $800 or 144,000 total points. If you’re looking at a trip, to stay at a Hilton, and are short – this is a very good option to get an 80% bonus when purchasing Hilton Honors Points.
Here’s a link to the deal
And a chart showing the relative prices and points
And if you buy the maximum…you’ll buy them at $0.00556 per point.
When could this make sense? Let’s take a look at the Conrad Dublin
It’s a gorgeous hotel with a great location. Images courtesy of Conrad.com
Let’s take a look at a random date and see the advantage of buying points. Here is the all points, points and cash, and revenue rates for the hotel in July 2017:
If you were to buy enough the 24,000 points and pay the 90 € = $140 + 96 or $236 – that’s a $115 savings per night compared to the flexible rate. Sometimes it makes sense to just buy the points.
Points + Cash is my favorite use of Hilton Honors purely because it increases the value and therefore stretches the use for more and more trips.
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