At 1pm Eastern and 10am California time Hilton HHonors points are available for purchase through U.S. Travel Association’s Daily Getaways. This is a big ticket item starting at $550 for 100,000 points. The price is reduced 10% when paying with American Express.
Hilton HHonors 100,000 points = $550 ($495 with American Express payment).
- 160 sets available.
- One set available per member.
Hilton HHonors 150,000 points = $825 ($742.50 with American Express payment).
- 200 sets available.
- One set available per member.
Hilton HHonors 250,000 points = $1,375 ($1,237.50 with American Express payment).
- 200 sets available.
- One set available per member.
It is possible to buy one set of points in each offer for a total 500,000 points.
Deal Analysis
There are certainly hotels where points award nights would be a deal at this rate. To tell the truth though, from my perspective, a $500 investment in HHonors points is a big investment and I just don’t know if I can find that kind of value in hotel nights to justify speculative purchases.
HHonors points are points I could really use since my account is only about 10,000 points. There have been times this past year where Hilton HHonors would have been a good deal for me. Also, I have HHonors Gold elite status this year.
While there are certainly places where HHonors points would drop a hotel rate down from $300 to $200, that is still not sufficient incentive for me. My sweet spot would be if I could find several hotels where a $200 hotel night would be $100 with points and that seems harder to find. This means getting a hotel for 20,000 points and there are not many Hilton brand hotels at 20,000 points that run $200 per night.
The HHonors Points Search Tool is vital when looking for Hilton award nights. After checking several places I did locate a very good rate savings after about 20 minutes of searches.
Conrad Istanbul, Turkey
5-night stay July 14-19, 2014.
Here is a hotel where the 5-night rate would be over $1,481 after tax for this stay on a flexible cancellation rate or $1037 for a prepaid, nonrefundable rate.
Using points, the 5-night stay is 120,000 points (5th night free) or about $600 with the Daily Getaways points purchase rate.
Points & Money award would be 60,000 points + $230. This reduces the nightly rate from about $296 per night after tax to $106 per night paying $60 in points + $46 cash.
This is exactly the kind of value I would be looking for if buying these points. This is an example of how points can bring a $300 per night luxury hotel down to around $100 per night when buying these points through Daily Getaways.
Unfortunately, Istanbul is not in my immediate plans.
Obviously there are good deals to be found. I am just not sure there are sufficiently good values to be found in the places where I will be to make a $500 speculatively purchase.
This Daily Getaways HHonors points deal might be a good one for you.
