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

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• RIccati says:

  2 Jun2 June 05:26

  What a slap in the face to Amex Platinum cardholders!

  • Tom C says:

    2 Jun2 June 06:39

    I actually have both cards, but I can’t help feel that the Gold actually has more benefits than the Platinum in many cases, especially around accumulating points. Surely the Platinum should have everything the Gold does and more? I’d rather just have the 1 card that covers everything, not pick and choose.

  • Raffles says:

    2 Jun2 June 07:04

    It is not a coincidence, I think, that the new reduced benefits package and higher fee for Amex Gold kicks in this month …..

    • Jason says:

      2 Jun2 June 07:26

      If I downgraded a plat Amex to gold, today, is it the new or old benefits?

    • Jon says:

      2 Jun2 June 07:31

      Mr card renews 6/6/15. I have confirmed that I will pay the old £120 fee, and get old benefits.

      I will renew, collect my 7500 points, and then cancel, getting pro-rata refund.

      • Jason says:

        2 Jun2 June 07:47

        I will give them a call today and hopefully will get the old benefits.

    • Thomas says:

      2 Jun2 June 09:39

      They do.
      I called Amex to have a moan and I was given double points on all expenditure (triple on all forms of travel including buses, tubes) for 6 months..

    • grex9101 says:

      4 Jun4 June 21:47

      Excuse my ignorance, what does the “reduced benefits package” amount to on the “new” gold Amex?

      • bob says:

        4 Jun4 June 21:59

        Gold Amex benefits are changing as of June 2015. I think old/ existing Gold cardholders still get their old benefits for the first year then switch to the new benefits.

        Costs more per annum, not so many points eg no more double points on supermarket spend. OTOH you get 10,000 on renewal in year 2.

        Somebody probably knows more detail.

        • Rob says:

          4 Jun4 June 23:14

          There is a full article on the changes on HFP if you search (click on Amex Gold in the Categories menu).

  • polly says:

    2 Jun2 June 08:09

    Ricatti I agree. But here’s hoping plat holders will be offered it at a later date. Nice if they had included supps. They did this plat offer last autumn. But might be too late for some though.

    • RIccati says:

      2 Jun2 June 08:58

      Polly, I see it over and over again someone comes on forums saying there surely must be an improvement, they can’t charge £450 for nothing much.

      Apparently they can and win: I have collected every offer and a couple of nice promos while having Plat. Even with that and occasional use of PP, altogether does not seem to cover the annual fee.

      • Lionel says:

        2 Jun2 June 09:01

        Did you both get the £20 off £100 @ Selfridges? (Plat only)

        • Polly says:

          2 Jun2 June 09:17

          Yes I did, thanks, but couldn’t use it, unfortunately. Saying that, between all these very useable offers recently, plus using pp, we are just about covering the fee, but def the Gold is better ATM. As Rob says it could be to do with their enhanced changes, I don’t think! We are evaluating whether to just have a gold and then use our ba silver when we get it in oct. As we mainly use ow. Maybe cancelling plat then. We will see how they continue to bribe us to stay!

        • Rochelle says:

          2 Jun2 June 11:18

          When did you see the Selfridges offer? Must have been targeted as I didn’t get it. Shame, I just bought quite a bit there this week – would have been nice to get the £20 off!

        • YL says:

          2 Jun2 June 12:12

          I did not get this offer either, I am also guessing this offer is targeted?

  • James67 says:

    2 Jun2 June 13:33

    Not at all, plats get more and better promos than gold; it just feels so because gold are getting a good offer at a timd there is nothing for plat. For me thd bigger issue is whether the benefits of platinum are now worth the fee.

• TigerTanaka says:

  2 Jun2 June 05:58

  I got this offer yesterday registered and then booked a £135 flight. 5 minutes later I got a confirmation email to say that the £50 would be credited in a few days so I’m very happy. Will still cancel my gold card at the end of the year though as it was only worth it for the double travel spend.

  • James says:

    2 Jun2 June 06:54

    Typical! I got the email about 12hrs after I cancelled the card and needed to book a £100 car hire anyway 🙁 You win some, you lose some!

    • Frenske says:

      2 Jun2 June 13:53

      Try to cancel it and rebook it later?

• Tom says:

  2 Jun2 June 07:05

  Damn. I have every type of Amex except a Gold card!!!!

• Dom says:

  2 Jun2 June 07:07

  Not working for me. Says “Sorry this campaign is by invitation only”

  • trickster says:

    2 Jun2 June 08:23

    Was that using a supplementary card? – I got that with mine, then registered successfully with my wife’s card (the main cardholder).

• Ralph says:

  2 Jun2 June 07:12

  ‘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.’

  Great site as ever Rob and your work rate is epic but I want to disagree with this statement. Most people know their plans for the next month and it would be selfish, and a bigger shame, taking one of the 5000 spots and denying someone a £50 saving when one is pretty certain they are unlikely to use it themselves

  • Rohan says:

    2 Jun2 June 07:15

    I disagree with you

    • Ralph says:

      2 Jun2 June 07:20

      That’s your entitlement.

    • Jason says:

      2 Jun2 June 07:28

      +1

      • Jason says:

        2 Jun2 June 07:30

        Sorry, was agreeing, with Rohan, to disagree with Ralph 🙂
        Even I’m confused as to what I think now.

  • PGW says:

    2 Jun2 June 07:27

    Yes, but the 30 June deadline is for spend not travel. It is very likely that I would use the discount in the next 4 weeks for travel I plan to make over the next year and have registered on that basis..

    • Worzel says:

      2 Jun2 June 07:35

      Good point PGW-there’s some confusion here.

  • Worzel says:

    2 Jun2 June 07:28

    I hear what you you are saying Ralph- having had similar thoughts myself in the past.

    However, the offer provides an incentive to getting away somewhere this month-something I’m looking at now.

    No point doing a lot of research without having the incentive in the bag.

    • Raffles says:

      2 Jun2 June 09:52

      As mentioned above, you need to book by the end of June, not travel. I have plenty of things in the pipeline where dates or hotels are still not finalised for later in the year but things may crystalise in the next 4 weeks.

  • Richard says:

    2 Jun2 June 08:20

    Sounds like you only have to book in the next 29 days, not travel in 29 days.

  • David says:

    2 Jun2 June 08:38

    Ralph: “Most people know their plans for the next month”
    – When it comes to people who follow travel sites, never generalise! Some people lock their plans, I can’t remember the last time I had a months gap wihout a flight booked under 14 days from departure, usually 3-10 days is when I book.

  • Phillip says:

    2 Jun2 June 09:50

    I think a bit of common sense wouldn’t hurt anyone. If you know you definitely won’t need it, then why add it? If you think you might, then go for it. As simple as that!

• Ron says:

  2 Jun2 June 07:28

  Can’t register my supplementary card, but primary card has registered ok.

• JohnG says:

  2 Jun2 June 07:28

  I’ve just tried a couple of my supplementary gold cards and I get the ‘Unfortunately This Campaign Is By Invitation Only.’ message as well 🙁

  Shame really, as I could happily of used 3-4 of these on hotels.

  • Oscarthegrouch says:

    2 Jun2 June 07:38

    As could we all. And yes, we’ve all tried… But alas, they’ve figured out how to limit the offer to main gold cards only, how very unsporting of them..

    • JohnG says:

      2 Jun2 June 13:27

      Can’t say I can blame them; though it does seem a little off to not include Platinum cards…

• VS says:

  2 Jun2 June 07:36

  I confess that I thought this was a targeted promotion (within the Gold card population). Are people who didn’t get an email invite finding they’re able to register via the registration page?

  • Lionel says:

    2 Jun2 June 07:42

    Yep

  • mark2 says:

    2 Jun2 June 07:45

    Yes.
    It would be useful if you could de-register for Amex offers if you grab a couple of slots and then discover that you do not need them.

  • The Urbanite says:

    2 Jun2 June 10:19

    I didn’t get the email but successfully registered. Had my Gold card for about 6 weeks now.

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