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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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Comments (101)

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  • Moe says:
    2 Jun2 June 14:08

    The registration website looks strange and I can’t find the offer on amex.co.uk Is this genuine?

    • Lionel says:
      2 Jun2 June 14:22

      Yes: as posters have already got the success/ £50 email from Amex

    • Rob says:
      2 Jun2 June 16:14

      Sometimes they look a bit weird! The image in the article is a cut and paste from the Amex email and the registration page does sit on the Amex website.

  • Sam says:
    2 Jun2 June 15:05

    Grrr

    “Due to some technical problem page can not be displayed.”

    Anyone else being having these issues? Perfect timing – need to book a hotel for next week…

    • Lionel says:
      2 Jun2 June 15:18

      Link is fine for me.

      This might come at a great moment for families planning half term hols May-June 2016. £50 off the getaway 🙂

      Currently more than 355 days away but if your kids start hols on 27 May like ours, I make that 6/7 June for first bookings

  • SoloFlyer says:
    2 Jun2 June 15:16

    I feel like I’m being stupid here but I have registered for this offer and its fine (similar to the Amazon offer) but is there anyway to check that you did in fact register? Like the Amazon offer I registered a few cards and now I am trying to recollect which ones have the offer and I can’t distinguish the ones that have it apart from my Lloyds Avios Account which I checked through their Amex offer page. Any help?

    • Worzel says:
      2 Jun2 June 16:12

      I’m in a similar position-and reckon pen that and paper notes are the best course, 🙂 .

    • Rob says:
      2 Jun2 June 16:12

      No, no way of checking if you didn’t register via the Amex statement page on your account. Although only an Amex Gold would have worked for the £50 offer.

    • Lionel says:
      2 Jun2 June 16:17

      You can check 🙂

      Oops, our records show that you’ve already enrolled in this offer. We limit the number of times that a Cardmember can enroll in each offer.

      • Lionel says:
        2 Jun2 June 20:04

        ‘Enroll’??? – they could have Anglicised it! 🙂

  • Nicholas says:
    2 Jun2 June 15:41

    Does anybody know how a £100 spend with £50 credit would count towards a spending requirement? – Is it the full £100 or just the £50?

    Thanks to this site I’ve had a few statement credits and want to check in case I’m fairly close to the minimum spend!

    • Rob says:
      2 Jun2 June 16:11

      Needs to be a £100 charge to the Amex card

    • Mark says:
      2 Jun2 June 18:30

      Good question. I think the full £100 probably counts towards the minimum spend, on the basis that my BA card is not taking into consideration statement credits when showing me how much qualifying spend I have towards the companion voucher.

      But if you’re close to the spend deadline and don’t want to risk it you may not want to count the credits, just to be safe…. better to spend slightly more than you need to than miss out on the bonus.

      If you’re specifically talking about the Gold card (or any Amex issued card) it should tell you on your online accounts how close to achieving the threshold you are.

    • Lionel says:
      2 Jun2 June 20:54

      Can’t really understand your logic unless you manage your spend to the penny! Why are you not over the line already? 🙂

      So you need to hit a spend target by a deadline?

      Buy some pay.com cards and earn Tesco points (= Avios) at the same time.

      Pay some bills with pay.com Visa.

      Pay council tax through Amex @ Paypoint.

      • Lionel says:
        2 Jun2 June 21:04

        Buy some foreign currency @ Amex! 🙂

        There are a hundred & 1 ways to hit your spend requirement that don’t actually cost more than a few minutes’ work.

    • Kai says:
      2 Jun2 June 21:02

      I am pretty sure the full 100 counts towards to target.

  • Philip says:
    2 Jun2 June 16:53

    Got the ‘by invitation only’ brush off. But it was worth a try. I could have easily used the offer.

  • Nick Haley says:
    2 Jun2 June 20:48

    I had Gold, but now Plat. Been thinking about going back and this is tempting… !
    Definitely miss the triple points on travel as opposed to no bonus with Plat.

    Having said this, Platinum has already earned its weight when I had to make a car hire claim for £520, more than the £450 annual fee!

  • Matthieu says:
    2 Jun2 June 22:29

    Do you get your £50 credit if you buy currency via the Amex Travel Money service online (£150 minimum)?

  • Lorca says:
    3 Jun3 June 09:09

    I successfully enrolled – can I book a flight for a friend on my Amex card via Amex travel and get the 50 pounds back, or does the flight have to be in my name as the cardholder?

    • Lionel says:
      3 Jun3 June 09:14

      The only bit that matters is that the £100+ payment is made through the enrolled card.

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