The Hilton Honors Amex is an entry-level travel card that has no annual fee. Even as a no annual fee travel card, it still offers significant rewards rates for many common spending categories and has the potential to be an everyday spending card.
If you want to test the rewards waters with an entry-level travel card, you’d definitely choose this over the Hilton Aspire Card. As long as you don’t mind getting fewer card perks and benefits, you can still get good deals on Hilton stays without the annual fee.
That said, you can do very well with the Aspire card, provided you use all the benefits. You can get completely cover your annual fee and then some — just be sure you have a plan to make the most of all the credits and offers.
