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Hilton credit card welcome offers: Increased, limited-time offers, but…

Hilton releases new limited-time offers across all of its cards through 7/29/26, but the offers aren’t as good as the last time around and, confusingly, the offer on the Surpass card appears to be the same as the regular offer.

All offers on the Hilton cards are currently sitting at their “business-as-usual” offers. Here they are:

My take: Wait for the free night offers

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Aaron Hurd
Executive Editor of Cards and Points

Often, when Hilton and Amex have upped the ante with limited-time offers on their cards in the past, they have included a free night certificate. Most Hilton enthusiasts love getting access to free night certificates because Hilton free night awards are probably the most valuable free night certificate out there. That’s because they can be used for a standard night at almost any property, worldwide, with the exception of about 50 properties.

Unfortunately, this time around, the limited-time offers don’t feature free night certificates, only points, statement credits, and annual fee waivers.

The offer on the no-annual-fee Hilton Card matches the number of points for the most recent best limited-time offer on this card that didn’t include a free night certificate, and it includes a statement credit on top. This is probably the overall best offer of the bunch.

Confusingly, the Surpass Card‘s offer seems to be the same as the previous non-limited-time offer. I certainly hope that this doesn’t mean a lower “business-as-usual” offer, but we will see.

The Aspire card’s offer matches the number of points that you could get on previous limited-time offers and the business card awards the same number of points as the regular offer, but gives you the annual fee free for the first year.

Overall, none of these offers really excite me a lot. The no-annual-fee Hilton Card’s offer is good enough to go on my list of best offers through the end of the offer, but, honestly, unless you’re staying at Hilton often and don’t yet have a Hilton credit card, I’d recommend passing on this round of offers.

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    Aaron Hurd is the Executive Editor of Cards and Points. He is a credit card and travel rewards expert whose contributions have been featured in WSJ, TIME, Forbes, NerdWallet, and many other outlets.

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