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Amex Gold offer: Get £50 off a £100 booking with Amex Travel

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American Express has launched a generous new offer for holders of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card.

Until June 30th, you will receive £50 statement credit when you spend £100 or more at Amex Travel.

The £100 needs to be on a pre-paid product so a flexible hotel booking would not count.  You are fine to book a pre-paid flight, car hire, experience or hotel.

The offer is limited to the first 5,000 people to register.  You can only register Gold cards.  Supplementary cards cannot be registered.  The registration page is here.

The rules actually say “An “Eligible Card” is a valid American Express card issued in the UK by American Express Services Europe Limited, Lloyds Bank PLC, Barclays PLC, TSB Bank plc or MBNA Europe Bank Limited” but that is simply a cut and paste error from an old offer …..

I strongly recommend registering via this link if you hold an Amex Gold.  Even if you don’t have anything in mind now, your plans can change over the next 29 days and it would be a shame to miss out on a £50 saving.

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You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the best of the other deals currently available.

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If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers:

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Comments (101)

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  • kirill says:
    2 Jun2 June 07:49

    First year gold, get this – Unfortunately This Campaign Is By Invitation Only.

    • Worzel says:
      2 Jun2 June 07:51

      Strange-I’ve registered 2 with no problem?

      • VS says:
        2 Jun2 June 08:02

        Could it be that you were sent the registration emails but they got caught up in a junk/spam filter?

  • Lionel says:
    2 Jun2 June 08:02

    I tested Amex Travel’s prices on one-way European flights on a number of dates/ variations. The prices were nearly identical to BA’s so this is a genuine £50 off.

    I can’t understand the point about ‘selfishness’ – if there’s any sort of chance you can book travel/ hotel etc within the next month for use up to a year away, you’d be ill-advised* to turn down the chance of a £50 saving.

    *politest term I could think of 🙂

    • Andrew says:
      2 Jun2 June 09:06

      Identical prices to BA.com and no credit card fee (and membership rewards points).

  • Brian says:
    2 Jun2 June 08:49

    The terms do say one per ACCOUNT, so that’s obviously why it’snot working with supp. cards.

    • Lionel says:
      2 Jun2 June 08:58

      Not exactly – I tried registering our sup card BEFORE the main card – & it didn’t work. My main card worked subsequently.

  • Col A-B says:
    2 Jun2 June 09:13

    The T&C I had yesterday stated 8000 available.

    I grabbed my slot despite not having a plan I’m pretty darn certain I will be booking something before the end of June.

  • Polly says:
    2 Jun2 June 09:23

    Very useful, thanks for sharing

    • Lucas says:
      2 Jun2 June 10:21

      How does getting those 12600 points work exactly?

      • Lionel says:
        2 Jun2 June 11:19

        Premium members can convert £52.50 but in any case anything over the limit can be donated to charity.

  • Dave says:
    2 Jun2 June 09:29

    I’ve got 1st year gold & have had no luck with registration , getting the ‘Invitation only’ page. A real shame considering I need to book a hotel for Fri night!!! 🙁

  • ts77 says:
    2 Jun2 June 11:01

    I got

    “Unfortunately This Campaign Is By Invitation Only”

    I am using a Business Gold card…

  • Nick M says:
    2 Jun2 June 11:31

    Same here – I thought it could have been as I was trying to register on my phone, but not working on the PC either…

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