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

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• Zag says:

  2 Jan2 January 11:44

  Great, thanks! Justmbooked 10 days car hire from LAX for our excursion in Feb. Excellent deal.

• FrontSeatPhil says:

  2 Jan2 January 11:47

  Just used this with my Platinum card. I needed two nights away at a location with no decent chain hotels, so I’m not missing out on points/status. AmEx’s rate was only £3 higher than the lowest rate I could find, so it’s a saving of £47 to me.

  Thanks for pointing the deal out 🙂

• TigerTanaka says:

  2 Jan2 January 11:49

  I didnt get this on my Amex Gold, maybe because I got the £50 off £100 travel spend in June and spent about £110 on a flight.

• RIccati says:

  2 Jan2 January 14:22

  Amex Travel uses all sort of suppliers in geographic locations. In most cases, you will find a name of an intermediary company on your hotel voucher (Galleon, etc.). That company buys hotel rooms in bulk cheaply and then sells at the rate currently advertised on a hotel website.

  In most cases, you will NOT be eligible to earn points while on Amex Travel reservation. The new rule is, if you are paying for your stay directly at the hotel than yes, you will have points and benefits. Otherwise – no.

  I can also see that,

  a. Hotels around the globe have learned about third party bookings and can only award you points by a mistake (not going to happen in 95% of cases).

  b. Established loyalty schemes have adapted and hotels offer you a small (3-5%) membership discount if you book while logged in. IHG and Accor do that. Also ensures they practically have no ‘best rate guarantee’ claims.

• James67 says:

  2 Jan2 January 15:49

  It looks like amex may have a promotion going on for signing up for the gold credit card through 31 January. Unfortunately the relevant page requires flash which is not supported by my tablet so I cannot see the details. However, anybody interested should be able to bring them up by searching the appropriate key words.

  • harry says:

    2 Jan2 January 15:56

    tried, can’t see it

  • Charlie says:

    2 Jan2 January 16:56

    I see it, it looks like a repeat of an offer that Rob has covered herehttps://headforpoints.com/2013/11/12/got-amex-gold-get-3000-free-mr-points-by-adding-the-gold-credit-card/

  • Rob says:

    2 Jan2 January 18:29

    Amex told me this is targetted and others won’t get the bonus which is why I stopped plugging it.

• What's the Point says:

  2 Jan2 January 16:28

  Shows on my gold charge and credit – booked two nights at a hotel (Amex had the cheapest rate) received email confirmation of the £50 credit within 60 seconds!

• Stephen says:

  2 Jan2 January 16:30

  Raffles, you say you can book anything you like and “It also works fine for car hire and non-chain hotels.” But looking at the terms below, it would appear it doesn’t work on FHR?

  “Cruise bookings and hotels booked through the FINE HOTEL & RESORTS and The Hotel Collection programme are not eligible for this offer.”

  • Rob says:

    2 Jan2 January 18:29

    FHR is not prepaid.

• James says:

  2 Jan2 January 17:02

  Completely OT, so apologies but I’m hoping some of you lovely people can help me out…

  I was reading an article that Raffles posted last January, regarding using a Tesco’s bought pre paid gift card, to pay your HMRC tax bill. I have an £18,000 corporation tax bill that will be due for payment in approx 3 months and obviously I’m looking at using that spend to generate some points, be it Avios, or hotel reward stays, whatever, some kind of value. I collect Amex MR points and Avios as a hobby, I don’t travel for business but I am registered for all the major hotel loyalty programmes. Anyway, what I need I suppose, is a method of purchasing funds via an Amex card, (in the shape of prepaid card of some sort I imagine) that is recognised by HMRC as a debit card, as they charge 1.4% on credit card transactions, and don’t take Amex. Bit of a shot in the dark I know, but does anyone have any ideas at all please?

  • Leo says:

    2 Jan2 January 17:09

    I think we’d all like there to be an easy answer to this query…..

    • James says:

      2 Jan2 January 17:14

      Thank Leo, I wouldn’t even mind if there was a complicated one! I certainly don’t expect an easy way around this but I’m definitely willing to put in the effort!

      • Danny says:

        2 Jan2 January 17:27

        Do u have a supercard?

        • James says:

          2 Jan2 January 17:31

          Danny,

          I haven’t even heard of that, so no?

        • Leo says:

          2 Jan2 January 18:55

          I do! Can I put my tax and VAT on that???

        • Danny says:

          2 Jan2 January 22:21

          U might 😉

  • whiskerxx says:

    2 Jan2 January 17:55

    new rules supposedly came into force on 1st January for self assessment, and corporation tax gets a mention too – from the HMRC website:
    Making more than one card payment
    From 1 January 2016, HMRC will limit the number of times you can use a credit or debit card within a certain time to pay your tax.
    There isn’t a set limit – it depends on HMRC’s view of what’s reasonable based on payment card industry standards and guidance.
    The rules apply to multiple card payments against the same tax – you can only make extra card payments if each one’s for a different tax, eg Corporation Tax and employers’ PAYE.
    If you’re unable to pay your Self Assessment tax bill in full by card, you should use another payment method like a bank transfer.

    • James says:

      2 Jan2 January 18:19

      Thanks for that Whiskerz, along with the lack of availability of acceptable pre paid cards it does seem like this may be too much effort for the reward. I will most probably apply for the IHG card, spend £10k on that and get a free night. I’m going to NYC in December, and I have already secured two free nights at one of their properties so this may well be the best I will get from my £18k “spend” with HMRC! Better than nothing I suppose.

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