topic Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved in Credit Card Approvals

AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:21:33 GMT

I love Hilton hotels and have been an HHonors member for quite some time, but have been a little cautious about getting an HHonors credit card. For some reason today I decided to bite the bullet and applied (I currently have a BCE and a Delta Gold with AMEX). Instant approval for $2800, which I'm okay with. It's less than the current $6K I have on the BCE, but signficantly more useful than the piddly $1K I have on the Delta. I get 50K HHonors points for only a $750 spend in the first three months, 7x points on purchases through Hilton portfolio hotels, 5x points in restaurants, grocery stores and gas stations and 3x points on everything else. For data point, my EX score is 680 and I have less than 10% util. on the two AMEX cards, with around 15% util. across all cards.

I have a question that hopefully the forum can answer: since I recently got a 3x CLI on the BCE, do I have to wait the full six months to ask for a CLI on this new card? I know how it works for existing accounts, but I'm just not sure where it lands with new cards.

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:09:24 GMT

Congrats! That's a great offer for the Hilton card with minimal spend. I'm sure your limit will grow generously over time.

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:15:57 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I love Hilton hotels and have been an HHonors member for quite some time, but have been a little cautious about getting an HHonors credit card. For some reason today I decided to bite the bullet and applied (I currently have a BCE and a Delta Gold with AMEX). Instant approval for $2800, which I'm okay with. It's less than the current $6K I have on the BCE, but signficantly more useful than the piddly $1K I have on the Delta. I get 50K HHonors points for only a $750 spend in the first three months, 7x points on purchases through Hilton portfolio hotels, 5x points in restaurants, grocery stores and gas stations and 3x points on everything else. For data point, my EX score is 680 and I have less than 10% util. on the two AMEX cards, with around 15% util. across all cards.

I have a question that hopefully the forum can answer: since I recently got a 3x CLI on the BCE, do I have to wait the full six months to ask for a CLI on this new card? I know how it works for existing accounts, but I'm just not sure where it lands with new cards.

Congrats!! Yes you need to wait for 6 months for 3X CLI(initiated by you). If it is Auto CLI, then no such restrictions.

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:27:23 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Congrats!! Yes you need to wait for 6 months for 3X CLI(initiated by you). If it is Auto CLI, then no such restrictions.

Thanks! That's what I figured, but wasn't sure.

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:40:47 GMT

Thats nice, congrats on your Amex approval. You will need to wait 180 days to request another CLI

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 22:44:14 GMT

love hilton!! Congrats, happy traveling

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 22:46:46 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
love hilton!! Congrats, happy traveling

Thanks!

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:49:45 GMT

Congrats! Yes, 6 months after CLI approved request(manual).

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:54:53 GMT

Congrats, I got this card in June and its an easy 75k points!

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 01:49:47 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Congrats, I got this card in June and its an easy 75k points!

Me too!!! I got this card in April. It was great... only had to spend $1k for 75k points and they posted to my account quickly.

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 04:46:39 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I love Hilton hotels and have been an HHonors member for quite some time, but have been a little cautious about getting an HHonors credit card. For some reason today I decided to bite the bullet and applied (I currently have a BCE and a Delta Gold with AMEX). Instant approval for $2800, which I'm okay with. It's less than the current $6K I have on the BCE, but signficantly more useful than the piddly $1K I have on the Delta. I get 50K HHonors points for only a $750 spend in the first three months, 7x points on purchases through Hilton portfolio hotels, 5x points in restaurants, grocery stores and gas stations and 3x points on everything else. For data point, my EX score is 680 and I have less than 10% util. on the two AMEX cards, with around 15% util. across all cards.

I have a question that hopefully the forum can answer: since I recently got a 3x CLI on the BCE, do I have to wait the full six months to ask for a CLI on this new card? I know how it works for existing accounts, but I'm just not sure where it lands with new cards.

Congratulations to you!...Thanks for sharing.

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 19:44:11 GMT

Congrats! I obtained the card in January.

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 20:14:06 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Congrats! I obtained the card in January.

Thanks! The card arrived yesterday and aesthetically I like it better than the ugly cheap looking Delta Skymiles Gold that I have. It's a nice blu-ish color, reminiscent of the old Amex charge cards. I know that doesn't matter, but I still like the way it looks.

Re: AMEX Hilton HHonors approved

glamchick — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 03:25:38 GMT

I just got approved for this card yesterday also!! With the same SL $2800!! I was also approved for the Preferred 5 days prior with a SL of $4000.

So you can only request one CLI one Amex card at a time? The rep told me I could request a cli in Oct for my preferred. So would I have to wait 6 months from that date to request on my Hilton?

Congrats by the way!!!