[Expired] [YMMV] American Express Transfer Bonus: 30%-50% To Hilton Honors (1:2.6/3)

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The Offer

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  • You can currently receive a 30% transfer bonus when you transfer American Express Membership Rewards points to Hilton Honors points. Normally you can transfer 1,000 MR points and receive 2,000 Hilton Honors pointss, during this promotion you’ll receive 2,600 Hilton instead (1:2.6)
  • Some people are even seeing a transfer bonus of 50%, making it 1:3

The Fine Print

  • Valid until 12/31/2018

Our Verdict

They just offered the same deal, looks like this one is YMMV again. Strange to see how many of these YMMV bonuses American Express is now offering, seems like this might be the new meta for transfer bonuses. Other previously Hilton transfer bonuses include:

 

Targeted promotions:

  • October 16th – November 30th, 2014: 33% bonus (going from a rate of 1:1.5 to a rate of 1:2)
  • December 1, 2012 to January 31, 2013, 2013: 33% bonus (going from a rate of 1:1.5 to a rate of 1:2)

For a full list of current and historical offers head over to this post. In terms of how good this deal is it will really depend on how you value Hilton points and Membership Rewards points, I personally wouldn’t transfer unless I had a specific redemption in mind and even then it might make sense to get one of the increased offers on one of the Hilton cards instead:

Other transfer bonuses include:

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Susan
Susan (@guest_687994)
December 9, 2018 18:17

My offer was 1000 Membership Rewards points = 3,000 Hilton Honors Points. I called customer service because I couldn’t find my 3 digit pin number and he asked if I wanted to accelerate my “pending” rewards points and redeem 5000 points for 15000 Hilton points. So that all worked out!

P
P (@guest_687033)
December 7, 2018 11:23

Meh. Mine is 1:2

Sevillada
Sevillada (@guest_686844)
December 7, 2018 01:57

So Doc, what’s your opinion, worth it?
Not that i have many points since I’ve been cashing out with schwab

Abey
Abey (@guest_687524)
December 8, 2018 03:36

You couldn’t have said it any better.
MR points can be so valuable when you need them that why lock them up in Hilton even at 1:4 unless you have a specific redemption in mind. (Or if Amazon pops again the 0.5 for Hilton points).

R Johnson
R Johnson (@guest_686712)
December 6, 2018 22:48

Thanks for sharing this. Just transferred 350K for 1.05 million HH points. We now have 1.7M HH points for our 2 weeks upcoming in Hawaii. First trip, so we are looking forward to that.

KaizenWarrior
KaizenWarrior (@guest_686613)
December 6, 2018 20:46

Also got the 3:1 offer, but with some interesting special terms noted… If this is enforced, make sure to wait a couple days (starts December 10) and the transfer of extra bonus points might take a while.

“Redeem for this exclusive offer from 12:00 a.m. “MT on December 10, 2018 to 11:59 p.m. MT on December 31, 2018, to receive 50% additional Hilton Honors Bonus Points. Please allow up to eight weeks for the additional Hilton Honors Bonus Points to be awarded. Hilton Honors Bonus Points do not count towards elite tier qualification.”

Abey
Abey (@guest_686599)
December 6, 2018 20:34

Since I have the 1:3 offer I would have transferred some, but I already have 462K Hilton points…

Abey
Abey (@guest_686605)
December 6, 2018 20:43

At this rate if you use the Amex Blue plus Business you get 6 Hilton points on everything.

klanfa
klanfa (@guest_686574)
December 6, 2018 20:18

Ah, nice, 50%.
Thanks!

amz
amz (@guest_686573)
December 6, 2018 20:15

Confirming I can see 1:3 and “until 12/13/2018” statement

Abey
Abey (@guest_686596)
December 6, 2018 20:31

I also have 1:3 but end date is 12/31/18
wonder if amz was mistaken 12/13 with 12/31

Abey
Abey (@guest_686597)
December 6, 2018 20:32

I also have 1:3 but end date is 12/31/18
wonder if amz was mistaken 12/13 with 12/31

Clow
Clow (@guest_686606)
December 6, 2018 20:43

Think you meant 12/31, it’s what mine says.

amz
amz (@guest_686983)
December 7, 2018 10:15

Yes, sorry for the typo guys

amz
amz (@guest_688953)
December 11, 2018 02:41

Transferred some points today.at 1:3 rate. Completed very promptly, including the bonus.

Floyd
Floyd (@guest_686567)
December 6, 2018 20:10

I got the 50% bonus too! Thanks for the heads up!

Johnson
Johnson (@guest_686558)
December 6, 2018 20:05

So, if I transferred points to hilton last week at a rate of 1:2.6 to use for an upcoming trip and now I have a 1:3 offer, would they give me bonus hilton points if I call since I just transferred last week?