Receive £5 from Amex for writing a review on TripAdvisor

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• Roger says:

  9 Oct9 October 10:55

  When I was still taking Miles & More semi seriously, I submitted some TA reviews and earned M+M miles. That offer was ‘enhanced’ down and in the end was barely worth it.

  However, I’d be more active if airline miles were a possibility.

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 19:29

    I am mentioning the Miles and More promo with HolidayCheck tomorrow, as it happens

    • avstar says:

      9 Oct9 October 22:16

      talking of which – i just got the 3k airberlin topbonus miles for posting reviews on holidaycheck!

• Andrew says:

  9 Oct9 October 11:57

  I just linked my Gold card and it asked me to review a restaurant I went to in NYC last week. The only way Trip Advisor would have known that I had visited is via my Amex. I’m sure it says somewhere in the T&Cs that this would happen, it just surprised me.

  • Roger says:

    9 Oct9 October 12:00

    Me too. I wondered about this and wondered at first whether I had checked the restaurant at TA. I don’t think I did.

    You’ve squared the circle, I think.

  • Luke says:

    9 Oct9 October 17:43

    That wouldn’t surprise me. I wondered how it knew I was at the Marriott in NYC.

• Andy says:

  9 Oct9 October 14:54

  It worked with SPG, AAdvantage, Gold and BA Amex on all 8 of our cards

  • Rob says:

    9 Oct9 October 17:15

    You’ve used 8 different TA accounts? Or have you swapped them over on the same one?

    • Andy says:

      10 Oct10 October 15:01

      Yes, already had 3 accounts active so registered another 5 and did 8 reviews. Got 5 emails this morning saying that my reviews have been published .

• kipto says:

  9 Oct9 October 20:34

  do you have to set up a different trip advisor account for each different card or can you put all your cards on the same trip advisor account ?

• Brendan Sweeney says:

  9 Oct9 October 20:50

  I wonder does this signal the end for Amex’s link this Foursquare. There’s an awful lot of overlap in what Tripadvisor does

• flyforfun says:

  9 Oct9 October 21:15

  Hmmm. Call me paranoid, but I’m not doing this for £5. Why does Amex want to know what I’m reviewing? I use a fake name on Tripadvisor (and Facebook!) and only put the bare minimum of info needed to create accounts. I never register my real date of birth or mother’s maiden name on these sort of sites.

  This isn’t like a Tesco spycard where you just buy stuff, but here they want to know what you think.

• Fred says:

  9 Oct9 October 22:10

  I just submitted one but I regret a bit.

  When I was submitting the review, the website asked for First name & Surname, which is not compulsory for general TA review submissions. A scary thing was that whilst filling in the First name box, the username (which is displayed in your reviews) was automatically replaced with the name in the First name box. I nearly submit my real name for the review, which horrified me.

• David Butcher says:

  9 Oct9 October 22:37

  I believe that this promotion, added to the increasing number of “cardmember offers” in recent times, plus the lack of any Foursquare activity, probably means that Foursquare is dead and buried so far as Amex is concerned. A shame – I thought it was a brilliant concept.

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