Last Reviewed: 10/22/2010

The Hilton Honors American Express card is a serious player in the hotel credit card space. It’s currently a top 3 card (based on PlasticIQ’s standard spending profile) when we screen for hotel credit cards using the PIQ Ranking Engine.   Perhaps a slightly more serious player is the Starwood Preferred Guest Card from Amex, but you should review both carefully before deciding which piece of plasstic to mate with.

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For those of you who like to get to the answer fast, PlasticIQ estimates the value of Hilton points to be worth around $0.0043 per point. This is a complex question to tackle (and like many rewards calculations, at times subjective), but here’s PlasticIQ’s take. The first thing to note is that the value of Hilton rewards actually varies depending on several factors, primarily:

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