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Easy points: Earn 5,000 Hilton points (enough for a free night!) by enrolling in dining program

  • Joseph Hostetler

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    Did you know that you can earn tons of bonus points for money you’d spend anyway simply by enrolling your travel credit card into airline and hotel dining programs?

    Registering and linking your card is easy. Whenever you spend money at a participating restaurant, bar, etc., you’ll receive bonus rewards on top of the rewards you’d normally earn anyway. For example, if you register your Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card with a dining program, you’ll earn:

    That’s what we call “double dipping” your points earnings.

    Plus, programs usually offer sweet intro bonuses to draw new members. Such is the case with the Hilton dining program!

    Easy 5,000 Hilton points with the Hilton dining program

    Hilton is currently offering 5,000 points to new customers who are not currently enrolled in the dining program. Note that you can already have a Hilton Honors account — you just need to be new to the dining program.

    Here are the terms:

    That’s it! If you live near even a moderately sized city, there should be plenty of participating restaurants. Plus, you’ll earn points for the spend at the restaurant itself:

    Again, all these earnings are on top of whatever your credit card normally earns for dining.

    5,000 points is an uncommonly high bonus for joining a dining program (they usually hover between 1,000 and 2,000 points). We estimate Hilton points value to be about 0.5 cents each, making this bonus worth $25 on average. If you’re interested in earning even more Hilton points, signing up for a Hilton credit card is another quick route.

    There is no real Hilton award chart, but Hilton prices all its hotels between 5,000 and 120,000 points per night. That’s right, it’s possible to get a free hotel night simply by enrolling in the Hilton dining program. I wouldn’t count on it, however, as 5,000-point hotels are few and far between — and usually far, far away. As an example, you could stay at the Hilton Garden Inn Bali Ngurah Rai Airport — a great starting point if you intend to explore Bali.

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    Featured image courtesy of Hilton.

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