July 28
HHonors Reserve Update
LINK: Citi® Hilton HHonors™ Reserve Card
After applying for the great new Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve card on Tuesday, I was immediately approved. I assumed it would be next week sometime before the card showed up. Much to my surprise, it was delivered via UPS Friday afternoon. Interestingly enough, I had signed into my Hilton account online on my way home Friday to see if my HHonors account now reflected my Gold status that is a key benefit of the card, and it did!
Citi and Hilton really stepped up the packaging for this card as well. It’s not quite Amex Centurion worthy, but fancier than I expected, for sure.
Slick marketing for sure. That said, I think this card is backed up with some compelling benefits that make it worthy of your consideration. Those benefits include:
- Earn 2 weekend night certificates good at select hotels and resorts within the Hilton HHonors portfolio after $2,500 in eligible purchases within 4 months of account opening
- Earn 10 HHonors Bonus Points per $1 spent on hotel stays within the Hilton HHonors portfolio
- Earn 5 HHonors Bonus Points per $1 spent on airline and car rental purchases
- Earn 3 HHonors Bonus Points per $1 spent on all other eligible purchases
- Enjoy the benefits of HHonors Gold status as long as you are a cardmember
- No foreign transaction fees on purchases
- Travel with ease and enjoy global acceptance with your Citi chip credit card
- Earn an anniversary bonus of 1 weekend night certificate at select hotels and resorts within the Hilton HHonors portfolio each cardmembership year with qualifying purchases
LINK: Citi® Hilton HHonors™ Reserve Card
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Thanks for sharing….
I just got my citi hilton (2 browsers), and will wait out a little for reserve since I don’t have a plan to travel until after new years day.
Nice packaging- it definitely looks like Citi is taking a page out of Chase’s book with this new product. The UPS delivery and fancy packaging (not just in a white envelope) sounds like what Chase has been doing with the Hyatt card.
regarding the two browser trick, does it have to be one visa and one amex? or can both be the same (i.e. both visa) and its simply the matter of using 2 browsers to do it??
@albert
It’s same Visa, two diff. browser (i did chrome/IE), make sure clear all the cookies. On the same day, I also applied for Amex Hilton 50K.
Wow so citi actually sends you two of the same card? When I did it in the past it was on the a a visa vs Amex.
You definitely can apply for 2 Visas at once. My wife got two AA Visas and we confirmed with the CSR when we activated that she would get both bonuses. In ~90 days she will apply for 2 Citi Amexs for another 100k miles.
How long do you have to use the free night certificates and are there any availability restrictions?
Jon,
Unfortunately, I left my marketing materials at home. Traveling this weekend. I will email a contact and report back.
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