Hilton Honors American Express Business Card 125,000 Point Offer + $100 Statement Credit

Update 9/15/20: Offer is still available via dummy link, can’t seem to get a direct link to work. When doing a booking you should see an offer in the bottom right corner for 75,000 points + $100 on the no annual fee card, click that. Then there is also an option for this 125,000 + $100 offer on the business card. Unfortunately not showing up for everybody. Hat tip to reader Parts Unknown

Update 12/27/19: Deal is available, this time with a direct link.

Update 6/26/19: Not sure if this deal ever went away, but it’s showing up again during dummy bookings.

The Offer

Direct link now available. Do a dummy booking to get the offer to show up. Will show up in the payment details section, you don’t need to complete the booking to get this bonus.

  • American Express has increased the sign up bonus on the Hilton Honors American Express business card to 125,000 Hilton Honors points after $3,000 in spend within the first three months of card membership + $100 statement credit after first purchase within three months

Card Details

  • Read our full review here
  • Annual fee of $95
  • Card earns at the following rates:
    • 12X Hilton Honors Bonus Points at hotels and resorts in the Hilton portfolio worldwide
    • 6X Hilton Honors Bonus Points on U.S. gas stations, wireless telephone services purchased directly from U.S. service producers and U.S. purchases for shipping
    • 6X Hilton Honors Bonus Points on U.S. restaurants, flights booked directly with airlines or amextravel.com, and car rentals booked directly from select car rental companies
    • 3X Hilton Honors Bonus Points on all other eligible purchases
  • Complimentary Hilton Honors Gold status; Earn Diamond status after spending $40,000 in purchases on the Card in a calendar year
  • One Weekend Night Reward at a hotel or resort in the Hilton portfolio after spending $15,000 in purchases on the Card in a calendar year
  • A second Weekend Night Reward at a hotel or resort in the Hilton portfolio after spending $60,000 in purchases on the Card in a calendar year
  • 10 free Priority Pass™Lounge passes to ease the airport experience and get work done more easily and comfortably while waiting for a flight
  • No foreign transaction fees
  • Welcome bonus offer not available to applicants who have or have had this product.

Our Verdict

Previous offers have been:

This is obviously better than the first offer. Second offer you save the $95 annual fee, but $50 statement credit less (so $45 difference really) and with this offer you get an extra 25,000 points. Because of that I’d say this is the best offer they have ever had on this card. Minimum spend is also only $3,000 this time vs $5,000 last time. Definitely worth considering if you’re in the market for some more Hilton points. As always before applying for any American Express cards, read this first. A lot of readers would have recently signed up for the 100k point + $50 statement credit AF waived offer, I doubt American Express will match the bonus but sometimes they will grant courtesy points. I doubt they will in this case due to the AF being waived, but might be worth a try.
    William Charles
  • On September 15, 2020, 10:00

View Comments (248)

  • I'm still able to pull up this offer *ONLY* through a logged in dummy booking, but I was denied. 3 credit cards and 3 charge cards.

  • Approved for Hilton Biz 125k + $100 statement credit via dummy booking. Chrome/Firefox did not work likely due to too many ad blockers. Credit Card app popup showed on Microsoft Edge.
    Had 4 Amex biz CC's, 1 biz charge, and 1 personal charge at time of applicaiton

  • Applied didn't receive popup however I did get:

    "Your application is pending further review.

    Your application has been received and will be processed as soon as possible. We will notify you of the decision by mail within 14 days.

    Thank you for applying."

    Currently have 6 Amex cards total (1 charge + 5 credit cards):
    Gold
    Blue Business Plus
    BCP
    Bonvoy
    Hilton Aspire
    Hilton Honors NAF

    Should I wait for letter/possible card or call recon? Does anyone have the correct phone # for Amex business recon?

    I'm at LOL/24 and would rather not provide documents for my "business" (although I do have the Blue Business Plus card).

    I am willing to cancel and close my BCP, originally applied in 2013, about 18 months ago accepted an upgrade offer from BCE to BCP, not current under any retention offers. I don't use it enough to justify having it and paying AF.

    Suggestions?

    • Called Amex business recon was connected to someone offshore, I offered to close 1 credit card if I'm approved for the Hilton Business card. They stated current Amex credit card limit is 4, so i would have to close 2 credit cards then they would CONSIDER my application, so there is no guaranteed approval. If I'm not approved, I'm unable to cancel the account closures.

      Other than HUCA, any other suggestions/strategies I should consider?

    • When I've gotten declined because of having too many credit cards Amex always callls me afterwards. Maybe that's changed lately with covid.

      • Applied on the 17th. Got the 14 day message. Using the application status link was approved by the time I checked (5 minutes).

  • I can't get it to show. I tried Edge, Chrome, Chrome Incognito, signed into HHonors, not signed into HHonors. I suppose I could try all this again on a different computer. Or, maybe I should just give up and apply for the 130,000 points, with no statement credit?

  • Got declined. The second denial for the Hilton Business card. The first and last time I applied for the Hilton Business card was 1/18/2018, and that was denied. I can't access the denial information for some reason.

  • whoa, is this normal? applied and approved, however at the point of getting my number now I get the message

    We're sorry, our systems are not responding at this time.
    Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with your Card number and credit limit right now.

    While you await your new Card, we will award you $110 in the form of a statement credit.

    We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please call 1-800-348-6103(Mon-Fri 6am-9pm MST). You will receive this statement credit within 8-12 weeks.

  • I got it last September for 130k Hilton pts and a Free Weekend Night after $5k in 4 months. I think that was the best offer ever.

  • I can't get the offer to show on the Hilton site in either Chrome or Safari on a macbook. Tried expanding the window, full screen, etc.

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