hilton honors points

[jann1033]

ok ,i am stupid ..how do these things work? can not find it on the website( evidently i am the" only" stupid one since everyone else knows automatically) but can get a bunch from e-rewards ( i think it's 2000?) & i could maybe use for the drive down? help anyone?

 

[macs4us]

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[mad4themouse]

At e-rewards, you can redeem for 1,000 HHonors points at a cost of "$25" or for 3,000 HHonors points for "$50". You can buy points from HHonors for $0.0125 each or less. That's $12.50 for 1,000. I don't know where e-rewards gets the impression that the same amount of points is worth "$25".

To be honest, I get several e-rewards emails per week and it takes me almost a year to earn "$50". Most of the emails are only worth a few cents. Every once in a while, I get a survey that's worth a few $$. It will take quite a while to earn enough for a free night, even at HHonors' lowest reward level of 7,500 points.

But, you can also redeem MyPoints points for HHonors points. 1,000 MyPoints Points = 1,000 HHonors Points. I find that the MyPoints points add up a little faster, even if I'm only doing their surveys and their emails. It may be worth joining MyPoints as well if you want to add to those free HHonors points.

 

[jann1033]

so do you have to have enough for a free night or can you use them for so much off a night...ie 1000 pts=$ 10 off or something..agree about the e-rewards in general...the points are the only thing i might ever use!

 

[mad4themouse]

From what I can see on the HHonors website, you need to redeem for free nights, not $$ off coupons. There are other things that you can redeem for but most of them are at least 10,000 HHonors points. Among the rewards that you can redeem for are:

• 15% off dining certificate (participating hotels) .....................................7,500 HHonors Points
• BOGO meals (equal or lesser value, participating restaurants)..............7,500 HHonors Points
• Free In-room Movies (book of 5 certificates) .........................................7,500 HHonors Points
• Buy 3 nights/get 4th night free (qualifying rates, selected dates) ..... 10,000 HHonors Points
• Buy 2 nights/get 3rd night free (qualifying rates, selected dates) ..... 12,500 HHonors Points

 

[speedyf]

I am also a member of e-Rewards. As an IT guy, I get a bit more surveys and e-mails from them and my account now has $400.

E-Rewards only lets you convert the $25 or $50 into HHonors points once every 90 days. In fact, you can only do one of the 2 every 90 days....ie, you cannot do the $25 and $50 every 90 days...only one of the two. So, of course, I do the $50 to 3,000 points every 90 days.

I've done it 3 times so far and thus have 9,000 HHonor points saved up for next year. We are going to use the free rooms at our half-way driving stop points from Louisiana.

From what I've read on the HHonors website, you cannot use points for a % discount. I think it's a minimum of 7,500 points for their lowest free room award.

speedyf

 

[Puffy2]

I did the erewards thing - kind of a pain, accumulating money is SLOW and then your points get close to expiring before you can really get anything good. Won't do that again.

The hilton honors thing - I had a credit card that accumulated hh points and I got a two day kid pass to Universal once, but the best use of the points from that seems to be to convert them to "Ebay, Anything Points" - I converted 30,000 points for $60.00 worth of anything points to use on ebay purchases.