Buy Hilton Honors Points with a 100% Bonus

Buying Hilton Honors points during one of their frequent 100% bonus events can be a very effective way to instantly top up your account balance for a big redemption.

Hilton typically offers this bonus a few times a year. This time, you’ll have until September 18, 2022 to buy points at the bonus rate. Let’s have a look at how the promotion works and under what circumstances you might wish to take advantage of it.

Buy Up to 160,000 Hilton Honors Points with a 100% Bonus

Hilton Honors normally allows you to purchase points at a rate of 1 US cent per point, which is much higher than a fair price at which I’d consider purchasing points.

Indeed, we generally value Hilton Honors points at 0.6 Canadian cents per point or 0.5 US cents per point, so it would almost never make sense to buy points at the usual rate of 1 US cent per point. 

During these 100% bonus events, you’ll get double the points, meaning that you’re effectively purchasing points at half price for 0.5 US cents per point. That’s much closer to a fair price at which buying points might make sense.

How many Hilton Honors points can you buy?

Hilton normally caps the number of points each member can buy at 80,000 base points per year, plus bonus points. That limit has been doubled to 160,000 for this promotion, so the most you can buy, in total between base and bonus points, is 320,000 points.

This is amongst the best offers we’ve seen with Hilton Honors, both with the bonus and the number of points you can buy.

Be sure to log into your Hilton Honors account to see the exact structure of your offer.

Keep in mind that Hilton allows you to easily pool points among different individuals’ accounts, so it’s easy to bypass the limit by purchasing the maximum number of points under different family members’ accounts and then pooling them all together.

Which credit card should you use to buy Hilton Honors points?

You’ll want to use a US credit card to buy Hilton Honors points, if possible. That’s because Canadian residents are subject to local tax on points purchases, which can add a further 5–15% to your total. Combined with the 2.5% foreign exchange fee on most Canadian credit cards, these avoidable costs can quickly eat into the value of your purchase.

Hilton Honors points purchases are processed by an external vendor, Points.com. They don’t count as a hotel purchase, so there’s no advantage to using one…