Ranking EVERY American Express Hotel Credit Card: Which One is BEST?! | Best Hotel Credit Card 2024

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0:49 American Express Hilton Honors
2:00 Amex Hilton Surpass
5:30 Amex Hilton Business
5:48 Amex Platinum
8:55 Hilton Aspire
12:59 Amex Marriott Bonvoy Business
15:15 Marriott Bonvoy Bevy
16:39 Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant

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[DC_Consulting_DC]

Waldorf Astoria Maui has Standard Night award space during Christmas holidays. We booked yesterday.

[thatgeekdad]

A loop hole for the surplus $50 credit are Hilton gift cards. If you buy them once a quarter for $50, that counts. So every quarter get a Hilton GC for free. They don’t expire either. Plus it counts towards Hilton so 12x bonus. 2400 pts in the year, $200 in GC, free. Just set a calendar reminder for Jan 1, April 1, June 1, and Sept 1

[mattfrias]

Hilton Surpass is definitely worth an A-grade. Compared to the Aspire, there is not much difference between 12x and 14x HH points. The annual fee differences are a consideration.

[EthanPatrick_CreditCards]

Hilton has a pretty awesome lineup of cards overall. Would love to see IHG and Hyatt do something similar.

[ohmedk]

Just a correction.. Southwest flight credit does not expire

[shadowblade]

If Marriott/Amex made the Brilliant free night uncapped, it would immediately be A+/S-tier. Right now at 85k+15k, it's in a weird range - barely good enough for the top-end during off-season but too good to waste on a lower to mid-tier property. The Hilton free nights are incredible value in comparison.

[SpencerJohnsonOfficial]

🥃 Amex definitely has some powerful hotel cards, mainly looking at the Hilton cards, Marriott Biz, and Marriott Brilliant. I'll likely stick with Chase for my Marriott cards for the most part (particularly with Amex's 5 credit card limit), but I'm definitely interested in the Hilton cards. Great stuff as always man! 👊🏼

[JohnDoe-vpbo]

I have both the aspire and brilliant and end up staying at Marriotts a lot more and have gotten a ton of value from the platinum status, especially the free breakfast and don’t think you mentioned the 4pm late checkout. Life saver when I was working remotely from time to time as my place was getting renovated.

[FalconNipps]

I agree with everything so goated Tierlist as usual.
Brilliant is just so hard to justify since rules are so varied for Marriotts and multipliers are bad. Having to top off the free night for luxury travelers and bad credits also hurt it. I would get rather get 3X Hilton Aspires.
I think the old hilton surpass was A tier or higher for economical travelers since I would say it was the cheapest way for priority pass with family/friend groups of 4 or more.

[Ljberkow]

Your only miss on the Surpass card is that you don’t have to stay at Hilton properties quarterly to get the $200 credit. You go online and buy the gift cards and use the $200 all at once, including restaurants at Hilton properties. Maybe you have looked at this differently since making this video. I would argue the FNC on the Surpass is better than the one for the Aspire, since you can time when you get the certificates depending on spending.

[JasonChecque]

Question: looks like Amex removed the 6x categories of dining, gas, shipping and telecom on the Hilton Business. And removed the ability for a free night based on spend. Anyone else notice these changes?

[aytacboduroglu]

Can the 50$ quarterly credit on the Hilton aspire work for getting lunch at a Hilton without staying there ?

[royce]

Hilton Surpass is definitely A tier. I know some are upset at losing Priority Pass, but almost everything else is the same or better. Gold status can pay for the card in as little as 5 nights thanks to the F&B credit and you still get breakfast internationally. Also, just one stay a year and you’re back at the same annual fee as before. Still one of if not THE best mid tier hotel card on the market

[billwright]

Are the Surpass credits working for buying hilton gift cards?
And if so is it a physical gift card you could then use with a Aspire?

[gregb]

I prefer the Hilton brands so Aspire is the obvious choice. My real decision is, can I handle 2 Aspire cards? 4 Aspire, if I'm including my player 2.

[stevensoncerisier]

What is FHR for the platinum card that you were talking about?

[josuevega]

my surpass let me stay at the conrad LA for free with points and I loved it. was my first 5 star hotel ever (my trip was in November and I had just turned 21) really makes me wanna stack and get an aspire card or two with how much I enjoyed the 5 star hotel experience

[alfonsca]

Hotel 🏨 and whiskey 🥃. Perfect combo and great video!

[charliedurham]

0.8 ccp for Hilton? Bawhaha... Only if you stay in some super overpriced place to start with. For normal Hampton Inn type properties, you are now lucky to get 0.4 ccp

[SuperVeganShark]

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