How we use our Hilton credit card perks | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep295 | 2-28-25

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hilton credit cards come loaded with perks that CAN BE worth more than the card's annual fee IF you use them well. On today's show, we discuss how we use these credits.

(01:06) - Hilton points for the win that all starts with the Venture X credit card promo to enter into the special access raffle to buy Taylor Swift tickets.

(06:24) - This person was trying to use up a $200 Hilton resort credit for themself and their player 2 account, booking on December 31st for a date beyond the expiration.

(09:39) - Hilton has a bad habit of taking a substantial deposit (in this case, several hundred dollars) at many of its resorts at the time of booking. But is booking with points and cash (sliding the cash slider as far as possible) a way around this?.

(15:15) - Learn more about the Hilton Aspire card here.

(17:15) - Diamond status

(18:42) - Annual Free Night Reward every year

(20:19) - $400 Hilton Resort Credit per calendar year ($200 semi-annually)

(22:11) - $200 Flight Credit ($50 per quarter for purchases directly with airlines or via Amex Travel)

(24:05) - $199 CLEAR (R) Plus fee credit per calendar year

(24:35) - $100 on-property credit with Aspire Card package

(25:24) - Learn about the Hilton Surpass card here.

(26:12) - Free night award after $15K spend in calendar year

(27:55) - Free Gold status. Diamond elite status with $40K calendar year spend

(28:40) - $200 in Hilton credits ($50 per quarter)

(30:28) - Learn about the Hilton Business card here.

(32:16) - Free Gold status. Diamond elite status with $40K calendar year spend

(32:31) - $240 in annual credits for Hilton purchases (Up to $60 per quarter)

(33:27) - Complimentary National Car Rental(R) Emerald Club Executive(R) status

(34:07) - You gave advice that if using "2-player mode", both applicants should open their Hilton Aspire cards on the same day. If you didn't do that and your annual free nights don't post together, is there a way to fix this?

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0:00.0	This is a Voyescape podcast.
0:03.9	You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com.
0:10.9	In today's episode, we'll give you an example of a great use of Hilton points.
0:15.7	We'll show you why you might want to use your Hilton points to poor value.
0:20.6	And we'll talk about how the Hilton credit cards can pay for themselves.
0:24.6	Frequent Miller on the air starts now.
0:29.2	Today's main event, how we use are Hilton credit card perks.
0:34.4	Hilton credit cards come loaded with perks that can be worth more than the card's annual fee if you use them well. Now, I'm not saying we necessarily use them well, but on today's show, Nick and I are going to talk about how we use our Hilton credit card perks. Yeah, you know, I think there's some value in learning what we actually do, not just what you can do, but, you know, what are we actually doing day by day with these types of cards? Because Greg and I have a lot of cards. And so we'll talk about how we use the perks on the Hilton cards today. But first, don't forget, if you want to jump ahead to a specific segment or you want to come back to something later on, you can always find the timestamps in the show notes. So just expand those to jump around wherever it is you want to go.
1:13.8	And wherever it is that you're watching or listening to this, don't forget to like it.
1:18.8	Give us some feedback, leave us a review. We appreciate that stuff from you. Now, we're going to drag out this week's giant mailbag. Today's giant mail is extra big. On today's show, instead of
1:24.1	our many usual segments, we're going to be doing three pieces of giant mailbag mail
1:29.5	and then move right into the main event from there. We're going to start with a giant mail from
1:36.6	Brian, whose subject heading was Hilton Points for the Win. Brian says, this all starts with the Venture X credit card promo to enter into the special
1:49.0	access raffle to buy Taylor Swift tickets.
1:53.0	I was an aside.
1:53.6	I don't even remember this.
1:54.5	Do you remember this?
1:55.1	Oh, I sure do.
1:56.6	My wife's a Swifty.
1:57.6	So yes, I did try to get tickets that way.
2:01.2	And a number of people reached out because I had mentioned something about Taylor Swift on the show. And a number of people reached out to let me know when that happened. And I didn't get picked to buy or I did get picked, maybe one of them. But it was like a late time. I didn't get tickets through it. I can tell you that. That's not how I got my tickets. Well, anyway, as it's going to be clear as I read this, this is a pretty old piece of giant mail. I just never got around to reading it on the show before. And Brian goes on to say, my wife is a huge fan. Now, this is of Taylor Swift, not of Freakomile around there, by the way. Both, I'm sure.
2:34.8	I'm sure.
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