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Get A 100% Bonus When You Buy Hilton Points
From now through 10/22, you can get a 100% bonus when you buy Hilton points.
For example, 160K points are normally $1,600 and with this sale you’ll get 320K points for $1,600. That’s just 0.5 cents per point.
Need more than 320K points? Friends and Family can transfer Hilton points to each other for free, so you can buy points from multiple accounts and then transfer them!
That will only make sense to buy if you have a specific redemption in mind or if you need more points to have enough to redeem for a 5 night stay, but I wouldn’t buy points speculatively due to the risk of devaluation, room availability, and hotels being able to leave the Hilton brand.
If you have a Hilton credit card or elite status you get the 5th night free on all award redemptions.
When will it make sense to buy points? An overwater villa with a private pool in the Conrad Maldives can cost $1,500-$3,500 after tax, but its bookable for just 95K points. That’s like paying $475/night with points from this deal. If you have a Hilton credit card or elite status and stay for 5 nights you’ll need just 76K points/night or just $380/night if you buy points for 0.5 cents each.
5 nights in the Maldives is pretty much the definition of Heaven on Earth. Read more about the Conrad Maldives here.
Most Hilton hotels are capped at a cost of 95K points per night for a standard room, but the new Waldorf Astoria Maldives opens in July and will cost 120K points/night. It is the only Hilton hotel that costs 120K points/night. If you have a Hilton credit card or elite status and stay for 5 nights you’ll need 96K points/night or just $480/night if you buy points for 0.5 cents each.
That’s an incredible value compared to the paid rates:
A 5 night stay can cost $20,333 or 480K points. That’s a value of 4.24 cents per Hilton point!
The Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal is now bookable for 120K points per night as well. It’s Trip Advisor’s top ranked hotel in Cabo and is Travel + Leisure’s World’s top resort in Mexico this year.
Similar to the Waldorf Astoria Maldives, you’ll need a whopping 120K points per night, though with Hilton’s devalued currency that’s still a bargain.
With a 5 night stay you can pay 96K points per night with the 5th night free award that is available to Hilton cardholders and elites.
Even the base rooms come with a private plunge pool.
Sample paid rate versus the points rate:
That’s $6,735 after tax versus 480K for a 5 night stay, a value of 1.4 cents per Hilton point. That value will vary by date, but is very good for Hilton points. You can currently buy points on sale for just 0.5 cents each. 480K points would cost $2,400 or $480/night, a fraction of the paid rates at this hotel.
Chabad of Cabo has tourist information on their website and operates a kosher restaurant. They’re located just 1.2 miles from the Waldorf! Discuss more about Cabo on DDF here.
The Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem has gotten stingier with the King Superior room space required for a standard points booking. When there is space the rate is 95K points per night. That’s $475 per night with this deal. Given that the hotel’s rates aren’t always that high, you’ll need to see what rates and availability look like for your dates. If you have a Hilton credit card or elite status and stay for 5 nights you’ll need 76K points/night or $380/night with this deal.
The Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem is one of the finest hotels in Israel.
There is a mind-boggling quantity of awesome kosher food at the hotel’s daily breakfast, from dozens of daily hot dishes to hard cheeses, fresh fruits and pastries to fresh squeezed juices, as well as on-demand dishes like french toast, pancakes, waffles, and eggs. Unlimited wine, hot or cold chocolate drinks, and espresso drinks are included as well!
Breakfast is free on points stays if you have Gold or Diamond status, which you can get just by having a Hilton credit card.
With a breakfast like this, you may not even be hungry for dinner…
Will you buy Hilton points with this deal? What hotel redemption are you gunning for? Sound off in the comments!
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The WA Maldives let you ‘downgrade’ for your beach villa to an overwater villa for a 2020 stay. They priced the beach villa on the highest category which gives award reservation a choice between the beach, reef or overwater.
Don’t want to kill this, but this is true, for now 🙂
Nothing to kill, the hotel does ot in purpose to free up space for the high demand of beach villas since many visitors are with kids. Because their occupancy will be high, they will get paid in full.
Do uo know if this is possible for the conrad in BOB?
It’s a policy for a certain period of time from a particular hotel. Nothing to do with HH points.
Seems that even if you get a good rate on the room, costs at the WA (boat transfer, food, etc) are pretty ridiculous.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilton-hilton-honors/1890498-waldorf-astoria-maldives-ithaafushi-mdv.html
Bring your own food 🙂
Yes, very high price for a short boat transfer. If you booking was made in February 2019 you can claim the ‘mistake’ price which was half of it.
Dan, would this be a time that its worth buying points with a non-Hilton card to meet a spend threshold?
Depends what you’ll do with the points.
How can you do 5 nights at the Conrad’s Maldives and make it back for Shabbas?
Stay there for Shabbos?
Spend Shabbos somewhere nearby?
Figured that was the answer. How can we have hot food over Shabbas? Thanks Dan, appreciate your response!
Bring a hot plate or crock pot.
Where is a good place to stay nearby?
Hundreds of options. Chiang Mai, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc, etc.
You said the WA Jerusalem is the only Hilton over 95k…..When look at the conrad BoB the rooms go up to the millions points per night ….what am I missing?
No, I said the WA Maldives.
That rate is for the standard rooms, not upgraded rooms. Availability is scarce in BOB, but it exists.
Flexible points search:
I beleive that 89k rate is for a base room no pool no ow no nothing….the good rooms start at 300k +per night
OK?
Weird that they charge 95k in mle and more than triple for same thing without pool in bob……no? Like what’s the cheshbon….
Triple what?
Screenshot above shows 89K.
I mean for the equivalent room in bob…they have ow without pool but they are at least 300k . The ones for 89k are nerdy garden rooms not ow no pool…so…..
Any idea what explanation might be ?
Ow with pool at conrad mle = 95k hh
Ow without pool at conrad bob= 361k
Basically that means that hilton /conrad considers it a premium award in bob as opposed to standard in mle the only question is why….
Basically, the Hilton Maldives are a comparative steal. If interested, take advantage of it.
You can upgrade with cash for $250/night or if you have diamond status you’re automatically going to be upgraded
Standard room award only. Premium is higher. It means that on your dates the standard room award is fully booked.
Your comment is not so clear…..If a room says premium award rate that means that they always charge higher than the standard for that room? Or that means that they have a certain amount of premium rooms they will let you book for standard rates and once that fills up they start charging premium rates?
It’s a different category which the hotel makes it very limited.
Check this website to set up an alert for a particular date if availability will open up. https://openhotelalert.com/
What is? I dont get what you ate trying to say. My question basically is if I search a room and it prices a premium award rate is it ever possible to find that same room for standard rate or there’s no such thing
That website works for award availability?
Hotels only need to designate one room type as standard. Everything else is premium and costs an insane amount of points.
Aha. I guess for some reason the conrad in mle decided to be generous and designate an ow as standard as well…maybe this is a good argument for the mle vs bob question ….
If you had to go to Israel and the only rate available in WAJ are the premium 190k night would you book at that rate or stay somewhere else in Yerushalaim and save points for other redemptions? (I’m not talking about buying points, rather points earned on my acc)
Use Chase points?
Yes I have chase points as well what are the options if using chase points that’s comparable in luxury to WAJ?
Look what comes up in their portal?
Overwater villa at Conrad Maldives only good for 3 people, family of 4 must go to the beach villa. Does buying the points using an Amex hilton considered as spent at hilton hotel?
I booked 2 free nights at the Waldorf using my nights I got from Amex Hilton card. Now I want to book a third night with UR points from my Sapphire, how can I get the 2 reservations combined into one?
Just call the hotel to link the 2 reservations.
I don’t currently have a Hilton credit card. Would paying $30 to buy 6,000 points be a good option? I was going to just transfer 1,000 Amex points to extend my miles. Also if I do spend $30 would that be categorized as travel (to use up some of my $300 Chase Saphiree Preferred travel credit)?
Sitting at the airport lounge and coming back from Male from the W.
They import kosher meat from Australia and Singapore. They have separate pans and pots for cooking kosher meals, we washed vegetables for them in the kitchen and they knew all the laws of kosher. If needed they charge $300 if you want them to buy and use a new set of pots and pans for cooking. Hot food for breakfast, lunch and dinner and the food is about the same price or cheaper than their non kosher options.
For Shabbat you can prepay for your kosher meals and they even had non mevushal kosher wines imported from Spain.
You were in the w maldives or somewhere else?
W Maldives
Care to share which room and how many points you used ?
they have a mashgiah? how do they cook kosher on demand without supervision? they ask the customer to get involved? how the separate pots and pans are kept kosher? thanks for the details
No mashgiah on site. All meats were sealed and stamped. You put on the pilot light for them to cook and you may supervise and be involved if you wish. They just have a separate set of pots that they keep for kosher. You can get your own new set as well for $300 extra. They are even willing to set up their extra kitchen for $250 per meal to exclusively cook only kosher meals in that kitchen. Otherwise they take the kosher pots and use it in a separate section of their regular kitchen.
Does this trigger the 250$ hilton hotel credit on hilton ascend amex card?
If you buy the points on your Hilton card, does that mean bonus points for the purchase?
Considering buying for Hilton Tokyo Bay for Disney Tokyo visit, thoughts?
I don’t currently have a Hilton credit card. Would paying $30 to buy 6,000 points be a good option? I was going to just transfer 1,000 Amex points to extend my miles. Also if I do spend $30 would that be categorized as travel (to use up some of my $300 Chase Saphiree Preferred travel credit)?
When do Hilton points expire? Will buying points extend them?
https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/milespoints/mileage-expiration-guide-for-38-loyalty-programs-how-to-keep-your-points-from-expiring-and-how-to-bring-them-back-to-life-after-theyve-expired/
Yes.
Will this extend points?
Yes.
If I don’t have the card, can I apply today and get this deal?
Is the deal done