Hilton Honors American Express Card

We've had this card for almost 25 years and love it. We use the points on overseas travel where hotels are more expensive. We stayed a week in Rome on points. Super easy to use and great customer service.

The points are super easy to use. Sometimes you can find special deals, like a room at a decent/new hampton inn for 7500 points. Usually more like 25k for a $100 room. 

Yes, the point value is very low. 50k points gets you a $200 one night stay at a Hilton. I'll take it but I've seen better

Of all of my reward cards, this is the one I use the least, because it is useless. The points are horrible. Just google Hilton Points. They are some of the most expensive points. Any nice hotel costs well over 75k points. Go with SWG. 

If this is your first AE card though it's a nice starter. Although it has the highest APR of any of my AE cards, so still not great.

Customer services are really bad, needed them in multiple of incidents and they disappointed me as usual, verbal communication is really weak, long time waiting on call, lack of knowledge, this is what you will face when you call them... I don't recommend this card at all, it is not worth all frustration you feel after calling them.

I recently got this card and use it mostly for grocery, gas and eating out, which are all worth 5 points/$$.  Mixed together with other buys at 3 points/$$ and I average a bit over 4 points/$$.  Using the card to stay at a Hilton really bumps up earnings too (i.e. use for business trips). 
The second half is using the points for Hilton Stays.  Not every Hilton offers a point alternative and some inflate the points needed, so you have to spend your points wisely.  My absolute minimum that I'll use them for is if the room rate and points come out to a half cent /point (i.e. $50 per 10,000 points).  If you're lucky you can do better, and you usually do if you take the option for a discounted stay instead of full cost.  If I stay within the guidelines above, I get an equivalent of about 2% cash back or better.  When I score a really good deal, I get up to 4%.  With my other rewards card I was getting less than 1%. 
The downside is, if you don't pay attention, you can get ripped off on how many points you spend.  Spend wisely!

50,000 Hilton Points are not $500 worth, its about 80$
one night for a 113 hotel is 40k points.  to convert these to miles, you have to convert directly to airline points at 1/10 of redemption rate making this one of the worst cards ever. 

Great customer service.No annual fee.American Express advantages.We charge everything. So it really doesn't take long to earn free night stays. Hilton/American Express together is a winning combination. No black out date. No games. If there's a room at the hotel you can book it. We have stayed in Toronto Los Angeles, Orlando, New York, Hawaii and other cities and spent $0 on the room. I have held and used heavily for 10 years. Do yourself and family a huge favor and sign up for this card. You will not be disappointed.

Good customer service, tons of security. So much so that at 1st I had to go through some extra stuff to verify my identity and my card was suspended while this happened. It was over an address change and I was a little annoyed because "Security" promised to call me back with the resolution within 24 hours.  I wound up calling them back in 48 hours, then it was taken care of immediately.  I like the quick and easy point accumulation.

The website is very user friendly. AmEx is excellent at customer service. It is easy to accumulate and use points.