How To Unearth the Hilton Points Calendar To Find the Cheapest Award Nights How To Unearth the Hilton Points Calendar To Find the Cheapest Award Nights

How To Unearth the Hilton Points Calendar To Find the Cheapest Award Nights

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Hilton Honors does not offer a standard award chart for each property, so you may find it difficult to decide where to spend your hard-earned points and free night certificates. However, Hilton does offer an award calendar buried on its website. You just have to know how to find it. Here's how to uncover the Hilton points calendar.

Hilton Honors Award Calendar

The Hilton Honors award calendar allows you to pull up the points cost for a specific property an entire month at a time. This makes searching for the lowest-priced room much easier than searching for individual dates.

How To Pull Up Hilton's Calendar

For this article, we are going to highlight the Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal. As you can see from the photo below, this property is pricey. Thus, it's a great property for a points booking.

screenshot of the Hilton website showing the Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal

Hilton Honors uses dynamic pricing for both points and cash, which means rates can vary widely. In the interest of getting the most bang for our points, we're looking for standard pricing. Additionally, if you want to use a free night certificate, you'll need to find standard availability.

For a standard night at the Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal, you'll need 120,000 Hilton Honors points a night. Let's look at the steps to find that price.

First, you'll need to navigate to the Hilton website. Once there, it's time to start searching. Run a search for your preferred property and enter your dates. Be sure to select “Use Points & Money.”

screenshot of a Hilton search with the points and cash option highlighted

Next, scroll to the top of the page and select “Edit Stay.”

Hilton search page with an arrow pointing to the Edit Search option

After that, click the date and a calendar will pop up. At the bottom of this pop-up select “Shop by Price.”

Hilton search showing calendar dates

Finally, the award calendar will pop up, showing the prices for each individual date. You can scroll by month at the top of this page.

Hilton award calendar for Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal

As you can see, the prices for the Waldorf Astoria Los Cabos Pedregal swing wildly from the standard 120,000 points per night all the way past one million points per night. Crazy. This is why we think it's an excellent use of a free night certificate.

Furthermore, if you're looking for other ways to maximize your Hilton certificates or use Hilton Honors points, check out our list of the best Hilton points redemptions for luxury stays.

Hilton Points Explorer

If you're not looking for a specific property but are instead looking for ideas of where to use your points, check out Hilton's Points Explorer tool. This tool allows you to search by the amount of points you're willing to spend each night. You also have the option to narrow it down by location or type of property (i.e., all-inclusive, beach, luxury, etc.).

screenshot of the Hilton website doing a search for award nights with a woman at the top of the page clapping her hands in front of a pool

Best Credits Cards for Earning Hilton Points

Hilton points are relatively easy to come by, thanks to Hilton's four co-branded American Express cards. If you're looking to build up a stash of Hilton Honors points, here are your options:

Related: Which Hilton Honors Credit Card Is Right for You?

Final Thoughts

The Hilton points calendar can be obnoxiously complicated to find. But, once you know how to find it, the process is simple, and it can make finding the cheapest nights around your travel dates much less complicated.

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