{"id":475,"date":"2011-06-22T15:28:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2011-06-22T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:28:29","slug":"hilton-hhonors-60000-bonus-points-amex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Hilton HHonors 60,000 Bonus Points Amex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I\u00a0stumbled across\u00a0an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiltonhhonors.com\/landingpages\/VisaSignature.aspx?WT.mc_id=zkdCSAA0US1HH2REP4VisaSignature7BR841247\">offer to improve my Hilton HHonors status to Gold Elite Status\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0if I had a Visa Signature card.\u00a0 Well lucky me&#8230; I just happen to\u00a0have a Visa Signature card &#8211; in fact, I have two: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.chasecreditcards.com\/MPSignature.aspx?CELL=RRW&amp;MSC=IQ33872619\">Chase United Mileage Plus\u00a0Visa Signature <\/a>(for which I piled up 50k miles to be used on United), and the <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/07\/american-airlines-75000-aadvantage-citi\/\">Citi AAdvantage Visa Signature <\/a>(for which I received 75k miles that I used to take my family to Colombia). &#8211;<em>Sorry, neither of those deals are formally available now. \ud83d\ude41<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gold Elite Status gives me the following benefits at everything from the Hampton Inn chain to the Waldorf Astoria chain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a025% bonus on HHonors points awarded for stays<\/li>\n<li>Complimentary high-speed internet<\/li>\n<li>Space-available room upgrades\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Complimentary breakfast<\/li>\n<li>Executive lounge access<\/li>\n<li>Early check-in\/late check-out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the midst of my daydreaming about how I can take advantage of these as soon as possible, I received an <a href=\"https:\/\/www143.americanexpress.com\/apisites\/microsite\/ApplicationFormApp.do?partnerId=71&amp;channel=1000&amp;sourceCode=&amp;authid=&amp;cardType=HHPD&amp;seqNumber=86&amp;returnUrl=https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\">email offer for the Hilton HHonors American Express card<\/a>&#8230; They&#8217;re offering 20,000 points on the first purchase plus 30,000 more once I spend $500 in the first 3 months.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll also give me 2,500 bonus points for the first 4 nights I stay.\u00a0 I coud be up to 60,000 miles in no time at all&#8230; very tempting considering that those points could get me up to 5 nights&#8230;. more than enough for a couple of weekend getaways.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully some of you can take advantage of these offers.\u00a0 Thanks for taking the time to wanderlust with us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I\u00a0stumbled across\u00a0an offer to improve my Hilton HHonors status to Gold Elite Status\u00a0\u00a0if I had a Visa Signature card.\u00a0 Well lucky me&#8230; I just happen to\u00a0have a Visa Signature card &#8211; in fact, I have two: the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[152,154,156],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}