{"id":2743,"date":"2015-02-24T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T01:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2015-03-24T11:53:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:53:45","slug":"free-hilton-points-delta-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/24\/free-hilton-points-delta-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Hilton Points and Delta Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are 2 interesting promotions going on right now:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>1000 Free Hilton Points for updating your online account password<\/li>\n<li>2500 Free Delta Miles if it takes longer than 20 minutes for your checked bag to arrive<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>1000 Free Hilton Points<\/h4>\n<p>Up until now, Hilton accounts have utilized a PIN for logging in. &nbsp;On April 1, 2015 they&rsquo;ll be changing over to a password system for logging in, since numeric PINs aren&rsquo;t nearly as secure as alphanumeric passwords. &nbsp;To encourage members to update their accounts and improve security, if you set or update your account password between now and <strong>March 25, 2015<\/strong>, you&rsquo;ll get a completely free 1000 point bonus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hilton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2750 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hilton.jpg\" alt=\"free Hilton points\" width=\"446\" height=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To put that amount in perspective, the first tier\/category of Hilton properties require 5000 points per night (mostly Hampton Inn and Hilton Garden Inn properties). &nbsp;So 1000 points isn&rsquo;t a huge amount, it&rsquo;s 1\/5 of a free night at a Category 1 Hotel, and free points are free points! &nbsp;It takes just a minute to update your password:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log into your Hilton account<\/li>\n<li>On the left menu, click Personal Information under the My Profile Section<\/li>\n<li>Click Change Password and enter a new password of at least 8 characters with at least 1 capital letter<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It&rsquo;s as simple as that to score some free Hilton Points!<\/p>\n<h4>2,500 Free Delta Miles<\/h4>\n<p>Delta has quietly launched a new 20-minute checked baggage guarantee. &nbsp;If you check a bag and it takes more than 20 minutes for it to arrive at baggage claim, they&rsquo;ll give you 2,500 free SkyMiles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DL-Checked-Bag-Guarantee-1.png\" class=\" wwm_socialshare_imagewrapper \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DL-Checked-Bag-Guarantee-1-650x261.png\" alt=\"DL Checked Bag Guarantee 1\" width=\"650\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DL-Checked-Bag-Guarantee-1-650x261.png 650w, https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DL-Checked-Bag-Guarantee-1.png 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your checked bag takes more than 20 minutes to arrive, you unfortunately do have to go online and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delta.com\/contactus\/pages\/baggage_guarantee\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">fill out a form<\/a> to request the miles, but the form is pretty easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DL-Checked-Bag-Guarantee-2.png\" class=\" wwm_socialshare_imagewrapper \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DL-Checked-Bag-Guarantee-2-650x467.png\" alt=\"DL Checked Bag Guarantee 2\" width=\"650\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DL-Checked-Bag-Guarantee-2-650x467.png 650w, https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DL-Checked-Bag-Guarantee-2.png 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of now, they&rsquo;re only offering this guarantee through <strong>March 31, 2015<\/strong>, so it seems to be a bit of a trial program to test how it works.&nbsp; But if you&rsquo;re flying Delta anytime in the next month and your bag takes more than 20 minutes to arrive, make sure to fill out the form and get your free miles!<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wwm_social_share wwm_top_left\"><li class=\"wwm_pinit\"><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: I received information from Hilton that the promotion below about receiving bonus points for updating your account password is not active yet.  They have run into a technical glitch in implementing this promotion, so hang tight on changing your passwords for now.  I will remove this update and publish a new post once they let me know that the issue has been corrected on their end so that your bonus points will be credited to your account correctly.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 interesting promotions going on right now:<\/p>\n<p>    1)  1000 Free Hilton Points for updating your online account password<br \/>\n    2)  2500 Free Delta Miles if it takes longer than 20 minutes for your checked bag to arrive<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, Hilton accounts have utilized a PIN for logging in.  On March 25, 2015 they&#8217;ll be changing over to a password system for logging in, since numeric PINs aren&#8217;t nearly as secure as alphanumeric passwords.  To encourage members to update their accounts and improve security, if you set or update your account password between now and March 8, 2015, you&#8217;ll get a completely free 1000 point bonus. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guruoftravel.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/24\/free-hilton-points-delta-miles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Free Hilton Points and Delta Miles<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta","category-hilton","category-tips-tricks-and-special-deals"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Free Hilton Points and Delta Miles - Guru of Travel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For a limited time, grab some FREE Hilton Points: just update your Hilton Account profile! 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