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Amex Hilton Changes

BingoBangoBongo

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Found this under offer in the Amex App today.

Great promo if you’re about to drop $1000 or more at an eligible property. Have a 7 night Hilton stay starting tonight and it’s all points + 2 FNC’s. Folio will likely be less that $100. Thanks for posting though!
 

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Great promo if you’re about to drop $1000 or more at an eligible property. Have a 7 night Hilton stay starting tonight and it’s all points + 2 FNC’s. Folio will likely be less that $100. Thanks for posting though!

We have 2.1M HHonors points and get two FNC per year. The last time we spent this much at a Hilton was probably never. And we primarily stay at Hyatt now anywa.

Good for those that can use it. 20% back doesn't suck.

Cheers.
 

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Works great if you go to a resort and spend for food and pool drinks on-site. I've also been able to ask the concierge to apply excursion fees to my room.
 

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You have to own a resort on the list of properties. Most are hotels.
 

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Here’s the list of eligible resorts for the $200 Amex Offer. You do need to enroll.

I have a Valdoro MF that is due 7/1, and I think bills in May but it isn’t on the resort list.

There is a Home 2 Suites in Anaheim though;)
 

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Found this under offer in the Amex App today.

I just posted about this on this very thread on Friday. I just paid my MFs for SW, so I am hoping that it qualifies. I will post back next week, as it usually takes 8 days from payment to credit posting.
 

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I guess this is slightly targeted, i checked my Aspire account and didn't see the offer, but it is available on my wife's authorized user card. We are headed to the Tokyo and Hong Kong Conrad's, both award stays. Though depending on how much we eat or drink the hotel this could have been handy. Unfortunately no locations in Asia included in this promotion.
 

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Interested in applying for this card towards the end of the year. Has anyone who owns Trump tower in Vegas received their resort credit?
I wasn't able to find any posts that directly stated that in this thread.
 

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Latest DP:

Purchased AS $50 Gift Card on 4/1
Posted to the account showing 4/2
Credit posted to the account showing 4/4 (even though it really was yesterday).

so, they seem to have sped up the response. My Amex Bonvoy dining credit also showed up within this "two day" period instead of the usual 9.

Cheers.
 

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Latest DP:

Purchased AS $50 Gift Card on 4/1
Posted to the account showing 4/2
Credit posted to the account showing 4/4 (even though it really was yesterday).

so, they seem to have sped up the response. My Amex Bonvoy dining credit also showed up within this "two day" period instead of the usual 9.

Cheers.
MY Amex Brilliant dining credits are really variable, sometime right away sometimes over a week..
 

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Received the following offer to add authorized user to existing Surpass card. $4k spend for 20k HHonors worth it? Or should player 2 sign up for another Surpass or Business Card and spend $3k to get 150k sign up bonus. AFAIK the AU doesn't receive another $50/quarter benefit but another Surpass would.

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Received the following offer to add authorized user to existing Surpass card. $4k spend for 20k HHonors worth it? Or should player 2 sign up for another Surpass or Business Card and spend $3k to get 150k sign up bonus. AFAIK the AU doesn't receive another $50/quarter benefit but another Surpass would.

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Nice. How did you get it, email?
 

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I guess this is slightly targeted, i checked my Aspire account and didn't see the offer, but it is available on my wife's authorized user card.
Everyone has more than 100 offers per card, but they're in a "queue" to be shown. You need to add active a couple offers for more to show up.

While there's no guarantee this particular offer is in your "queue", you may get something else that is interesting.

I usually look for expiring offers and mass-add them to see what else will show up.
 

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Everyone has more than 100 offers per card, but they're in a "queue" to be shown. You need to add active a couple offers for more to show up.

While there's no guarantee this particular offer is in your "queue", you may get something else that is interesting.

I usually look for expiring offers and mass-add them to see what else will show up.

I use a Chrome add-on/extension called Card Pointers. I did buy up to the Plus version or whatever, so it'll add ALL my cards instead of one at a time (I have like 4 Chase cards and 7 Amex cards).

Then I can use the extension to sort/search for things much more easily.

Only works with Chrome, AFAIK.
 

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well it took a while but I was successful in getting credited the $250 resort credits on both his and hers Aspires for resort MFs paid in December. we had gotten the credit in Jan 2023 then paid our AFs in November and since this was an anniversary date benefit, we should have received and ultimately did receive the credit.
 

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Has anyone figured out how to extend the Log-in period on the Aspire/amex site? I get logged off in just 2 minutes or less. searched but haven't found the "setting" for that. Thanks
 

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Has anyone figured out how to extend the Log-in period on the Aspire/amex site? I get logged off in just 2 minutes or less. searched but haven't found the "setting" for that. Thanks
you mean your being logged out of the American Express website in just two minutes? i am not sure how long it takes for me to be logged out, but its longer than that
 

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This is probably a question for Amex but figured I would ask here first. Regarding the quarterly Airline credit of $50.00. I spent $11.20 on my Amex with Alaska ai Amex credited it back to me question is do I lose the remaining 39.00 or if I spend additional funds with an airline will they credit me the 39.00?
 

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This is probably a question for Amex but figured I would ask here first. Regarding the quarterly Airline credit of $50.00. I spent $11.20 on my Amex with Alaska ai Amex credited it back to me question is do I lose the remaining 39.00 or if I spend additional funds with an airline will they credit me the 39.00?
You can spend the rest. It doesn't need to be in one purchase
 

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i own at the diamond resort’s Kaanapali beach club and received the $200 resort credit for the maintenance fees.
 

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i own at the diamond resort’s Kaanapali beach club and received the $200 resort credit for the maintenance fees.
Thanks for reminding me to make a small payment toward the 2025 MF's, so I can get the rebate for this quarter.
 

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I am already enrolled in TSA-pre. Would it be redundant or worth it to get Clear plus?
 
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