Good uses of Hilton Aspire Annual Free Night Certificate

[buzglyd]

I think Visa Infinite is a different benefit than Sapphire. It’s so confusing having two different benefits for the same thing. My local restaurants say Sapphire near the time rather than Visa.

 

[Eric B]

This like the elusive Hilton Resort credit; it is listed until it is not. I was only able to see U.S. restaurants in the first link. But then was able to find this which includes Mexico. Does Sapphire $150 Credit apply or not? If not, bye bye Acre. Very confusing!

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There are two different lists of restaurants - Chase Sapphire Exclusive tables and Visa Dining Collection. It looks like this list is the Visa Dining Collection. I may have had the two confused when I made the bookings originally - it now looks clear to me that there's a difference.

 

[CalGalTraveler]

You are right. Here is what I found in the FAQ. Unless they add Mexico those reservations go adios. I was hoping to get 2x $150 with 2 cards to use at 2 restaurants. Not much in it that is within a half hour drive, and overpriced restaurants so we may dump player 2 card at anniversary unless we find some value. Edit is also questionable given we own timeshares and have a lot of hotel FNC, points and Sapphire points.

 

[brp]

This like the elusive Hilton Resort credit; it is listed until it is not. I was only able to see U.S. restaurants in the first link. But then was able to find this which includes Mexico. Does Sapphire $150 Credit apply or not? If not, bye bye Acre. Very confusing!

When I look at the restaurant that I booked, just via a basic search in Vegas and pull it up, I see a small banner that says "Curated for Sapphire Reserve." Tapping it explicitly lists the $300 credit. So this may be the best way to tell if it really applies. I then tried a place I have not booked (Gary Danko in SF) and see the same banner.

When I search Acre, I get a banner with a Visa logo and "You've got Visa Dining access." It does not have the above message. And clicking does not show the credit. based on this, I'd say that this will not get the credit.

Cheers.

 

[brp]

Not much in it that is within a half hour drive, and overpriced restaurants so we may dump player 2 card at anniversary unless we find some value.

Not much for us in the South Bay. But we travel really a lot, so I'm sure that we can be in a place each half year to use this. For example, this half will be Vegas and next half (first of 2026) could well be New Orleans as we're there for 13 nights. But we only have 1 CSR (and two Aspire since we can easily get the benefits from that each).

Cheers.