Back in November I wrote about a great Amex Offer that will allow you to purchase Hilton gift cards with a 20% off. With this offer, you can purchase a $50 gift card and receive a $10 statement credit. You can take advantage of this offer 4x per eligible American Express credit card, thus a total of $200 in Hilton gift cards per card for only $160. And of course you can take advantage of this offer on every card American Express card you have (that was targeted for this offer). You need to do 4 separate $50 transactions.
When I initially wrote about the offer, Hilton was charging $1.95 shipping fee, which was quite annoying, especially since you needed to purchase all gift cards separately. Then, Cyber Monday came early and Hilton offered the promo code CYBERHILT to waive the shipping fee. That meant that a $50 gift card costs $50 (not $51.95) and will trigger the $10 statement credit. To my surprise, thank you blog readers, this promo code is still working! This means you can still get the full 20% savings! If you stay at Hilton properties often, taking advantage of this promotion is a no brainer. Or, if you typically use points for your stay, you can always use gift cards are incidentals charged to your room – i.e., restaurants, activities, drinks at the bar, etc. This offer expires February 28, 2018, but I suggest adding this offer to your card sooner than later so it doesn’t meet maximum enrollment. I also am not sure when the free shipping promo code expires.
To enroll in this offer:
- Sign into your AmericanExpress.com account and go to the “Amex Offers For You†tab. Find the Hilton Gift Card offer and make sure to select the “Add to Card†button (although once you do this for one card the option will disappear on other cards so make sure to do the multi-browser trick to learn how to register multiple Amex cards with your AmericanExpress.com account)
- Purchase a $50+ gift card at http://buyhiltongiftcards.com/ and receive a $10 statement credit.
To learn more about these American Express offers, read this Amex Offers series:
- Overview and FAQs for Amex Offers
- Registering for Amex Offers with your AmericanExpress.com Account
- Registering for Amex Offers with Twitter
- Simplify your Life… Register for Twitter Amex Offers with Tweet Deck
- Maximizing Amex Offers by Purchasing Gift Cards
- Eligible Credit Cards to Take Advantage of Amex Offers
You can check out all the other current Amex Offers here. Enjoy!
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The gift cards are good at all Hilton family brands (e.g. Curio Collection, Hilton Garden Inn, Doubletree, etc), correct? If so that’s a good deal, as the regular Amex offers on Hilton tend to be quite narrow in which brands qualify.
@02nz – yes they are good at all hilton umbrella properties
Any way to make this stack with the “Spend $175 or more, get $35 back/Hampton by Hilton & Hilton Garden Inn” Amex Offer?
@ymx – unfortunately not, unless after the gift cards are used you still need to pay $175 out of pocket and then you bill it to your registered amex credit card to utilize this offer.
Promo code is no longer needed as shipping is free.
And the site is having issues. The link now directs to an AMEX url that may not give the stmt credit.
The link http://buyhiltongiftcards.com/ redirects to a website that Safari won’t allow to load because it appears to be a fake website. Not sure how to get this deal….
Do you know if the charges post as Hilton Spend, i.e. on hilton AMEX Surpass, will I get 12x points on the gift cards I purchase?
@Chris – I do not believe so.
CYBERHILT no longer appears to be working, and contrary to what rxgeek says above, the 1.95 shipping fee is still there at checkout.
Now standard shipping is free at https://buyhiltongiftcards.com
I just tried and it is NOT free.
Does anyone have a new free shipping code for 2018?
Sorry when I purchased several gift cards on 1/7, it was free. Maybe it changed after I bought…
I’m not even seeing a field to enter a promotional code on buyhiltongiftcards.com. If I go through the AMEX link, there is a field for a promo code, but there isn’t one via buyhiltongiftcards.com.
*BUMP*
Not seeing where to even enter the code either. And it was this way back in Dec. Is there some trick to getting the field to appear? Different browser?
Please more details, please, or at least confirm there’s no longer a place to enter the code so that I can give up on this snipe hunt.
@mrfnuts – unfortunately I think the code has expired.
At this point, I’m just curious as to where you enter a code, regardless of whether it’s expired, invalid or not.
A week or so ago, shipping was free…
Now its $1.95.
Since its “per order” it s not as desirable.
No place ot enter the code…
https://www311.americanexpress.com/BOLWeb/SSO/bolfeOrder.do?request_type=orderProduct&promotion=ACP&program=ACPWEBHLTN&selleracctnbr=6430098999I&SOURCE=searchHilton&extlink=us-giftcard-ps-pfx-consumerbau&loginerrURL=https://www311.americanexpress.com/BOLWeb/bolfeOrder.do
this where you go to put promo code. however nothing is working for free shipping. anybody have any input?