Get £50 cashback when you spend £150 at American Express Travel

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• Eshaq Choudhury says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:11

  Damn, I booked an emirates flight yesterday night. If only I had known about this, I couldve booked it through Amex. Maybe next time.

  • Brian says:

    6 Nov6 November 10:45

    You should have read the comments on yesterday’s Amazon post – this info was contained in those before yesterday evening. It always pays to read the comments as well as the articles…

• Simon says:

  6 Nov6 November 08:11

  I got a message saying my accounts were already connected – is that fine? Supplementary cards ok?

  • TimS says:

    6 Nov6 November 08:33

    If your card is already linked that is fine as long as you have now opted in to the offer.

    Supplementary cards are fine as long as they are linked to a grip advisor account in their own right.

    • shd says:

      6 Nov6 November 08:35

      Just followed the steps but turns out TripAdvisor is already linked to at least one of my cards

      How can I see which Amex card is linked?

      • TimS says:

        6 Nov6 November 09:26

        I couldn’t find a way of identifying which card was linked to which TA account so I ended up disconnecting and reconnecting them!

      • Scottnothing says:

        6 Nov6 November 12:04

        @shd – Do as Tim S suggests (disconnect and reconnect).

        Once reconnected you will then get an email saying: “Congratulations, your Card ending XXXXX was successfully connected with TripAdvsior”.

        I swapped my BAPP out for my new Gold Charge Card this way successfully and loaded the promotion to my GCC.

        • shd says:

          6 Nov6 November 12:57

          Just tried this, but when I went to reconnect I had to re-enter my Amex details including card number, so no way of knowing which card(s) was linked beforehand

        • TimS says:

          6 Nov6 November 14:24

          If it accepted the card details then that card is connected fine.

          If you got a message along the lines of “good news! This card is already connected to another tripadvisor account” then the card you disconnected was different to the one you tried to reconnect.

• Adam says:

  6 Nov6 November 09:06

  Is there any way of booking other classes than Economy, Business or First?

  Specifically Y/B/H on Domestic or W on LH? Can’t see any settings on the AMEX site to do this.

  Follow on – if I have to phone up for this type of booking, will I still get the £50?

  • Raffles says:

    6 Nov6 November 09:12

    Good question. In theory, as the card transaction will still be processed by Amex, I reckon you would be OK. Check the rules though.

    • Nick Burch says:

      6 Nov6 November 21:47

      If you phone up to book, it normally seems to show on your statement as a transaction from the airline, not Amex. It also doesn’t generate the bonus 1 MR per £ that online bookings get. That makes me think that a booking by phone wouldn’t trigger it, though you might be able to argue it with Amex later (but no promises….)

• jas says:

  6 Nov6 November 09:52

  Does the IHG price promise apply to hotels booked though the Amex site?

• Matt says:

  6 Nov6 November 10:21

  Targeted?

• Chris says:

  6 Nov6 November 10:49

  Is this valid for MBNA issued AMEX Cards, such as a my Virgin Black one?

  • Rob says:

    6 Nov6 November 12:03

    Yes, that is what the rules imply as per what I quoted.

• Praveen says:

  6 Nov6 November 11:56

  Hi,

  I alreadypaid for my Flight Tickets,On the website There isin’t an Option of Choosing Hotel+car only.Is there a way around this?

• czechoslovakia says:

  6 Nov6 November 14:30

  Hmmm, linked my card to a new tripadvisor account. Got the Linked email confirmation from AMEX. HOWEVER, maybe there is a further step missing from the description? On going into TripAdvisor, logged in, under “get offers” there is:

  American Express Travel

  TripAdvisorSpend £150, Get £50 Back

  Save this offer to your connected Card then spend £150 on pre-paid hotels, flights, car hire or experiences at americanexpress.co.uk/travel by 18 December 2014 to receive £50 statement credit.

  And a button to save. Maybe this is not a necessary step, but would suggest doing it if making a booking.

  • Xinran says:

    6 Nov6 November 14:48

    Yes – I’m a little concerned about this.
    Discovered it the minute AFTER making my booking. Have e-mailed AmexTravel for confirmation either way. Will post here when they reply.

  • James67 says:

    6 Nov6 November 15:04

    Thanks for this, I was feeling a little dim and just about to post a question on whether it was necessary to register for the promo. Now I will get my four cards linked and offers loaded and wait a while before booking.

  • Xinran says:

    6 Nov6 November 15:22

    Reply for AmexTravel confirms that you need to “save” the offer:
    “Thank you for your email, I have spoken to our marketing team regarding this specific offer for you to check whether the credit would be applicable. They have advised that the way the process operates between our system and TripAdvisor you would have needed to save the offer to your account prior to making the reservation to be applicable for the credit. As the correct process has not been followed on this reservation your account will not be able to be credited.

    I have looked into this matter further for you to see if we can reverse this booking enabling you to make a new booking now that the offer has been saved to your account, however this booking has been confirmed on a non refundable non changeable rate so we would not be able to refund this booking for you.

    Sorry we have not been able to apply the credit on this booking for you. ”

    Not good for me – hopefully helps some of you out there.

    • Head for Points says:

      6 Nov6 November 20:33

      I would make a formal complaint to Amex about this. The website I link to does NOT say you have to save the offer to your card.

      Assuming you had already linked your card to TA you would have had no reason to visit the TA site. Amex is very good with complaints like this and you are likely to get the £50.

      • Xinran says:

        6 Nov6 November 21:35

        I hope your right.
        I have been in touch, because I agree it is somewhat misleading. If you read through Amex’s T&Cs, the final point states that we must abide by Tripadvisor’s T&Cs also. My point is that something a crucial as this should be brought to the fore on Amex’s site.
        They’ve promised to look into it tomorrow. I don’t believe that either Amex or TA intended for it to be obscure – so fingers crossed.

        • Xinran says:

          7 Nov7 November 16:22

          Good news from Amex – they have agreed to apply the credit to my booking.
          Full marks to their customer service for dealing with this with minimal fuss.

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