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New Amex statement credit travel offers launched inc Eurostar, Hyatt and Selfridges

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American Express has launched a new round of statement credit deals, with a particularly strong travel focus.

There are two ways to sign up to these deals.  The easiest is to visit the Amex website or app and go the statement page for each card you hold.  At the bottom is a list of current offers targetted to you.  Click ‘Save To Card’ and you’re good to go.

A selection of deals are also available via the Amex Connect website here.  If you hold an American Express issued by Lloyds, MBNA, TSB or Barclays then you can register for these deals via Amex Connect.

These are the travel related offers available:

Eurostar – £20 cashback when you spend £60

Expires 24th July.  If you have two Amex cards you could book a trip as 2 x one-way tickets and get the cashback twice as long as each leg was £60 or more.

Hyatt Hotels – £50 cashback when you spend £250

Expires 30th September.  Valid at most European Hyatt properties including the four in the UK.  Remember that, if used in Europe, the cashback will be offset by Amex’s 3% FX fee.  This offer is NOT on Amex Connect.

Red Carnation Hotels – £50 cashback when you spend £250

Expires 29th July.   They run Ashford Castle in Ireland (photo above) amongst other properties although only the UK hotels are included in this offer.  Earlier this week I wrote about their generous ‘2000 Virgin miles per night’ promotion which you could combine with this.

The Halkin / Metropolitan – £50 cashback when you spend £250

Expires 17th July.  This offer is valid twice per card so you can earn up to £100 back at each hotel.

Landmark Hotel Group – £75 cashback when you spend £200

Expires 11th September. Valid at The Landmark London, Lancaster London or K West Hotel & Spa.  This is obviously very generous and worth considering if planning a London hotel stay.

OneFineStay – £100 cashback when you spend £300

Expires 11th September for stays by 31st December.  Generous deal from the ‘upmarket Airbnb’ company.

Of the non-travel deals, there is a ‘£30 back on £100 spend at Selfridges’ which I thought was pretty decent plus quite a few others.

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Comments (48)

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  • zark says:
    16 Jun16 June 06:13

    No sign of the Selfridges deal either on any of my direct Amex accounts or Amex connect

    • Johnnycl says:
      16 Jun16 June 06:51

      +1 but do have a spend £50 get £10 back at House of Fraser.

      • Rum says:
        16 Jun16 June 08:52

        Same here. No Selfridges, but have HoF. Damn it!

      • Modern Day Sinbad says:
        16 Jun16 June 09:10

        No Selfridges or HoF for me. I wonder if it’s because I’ve already taken advantage of similar promotions in the past.

        • M says:
          16 Jun16 June 10:24

          4 days earlier I purchased a nice jacket from selfridges which I could have done with £30 off!

        • lostantipod says:
          20 Jun20 June 12:01

          Ditto….have no offers with either, spent over £500 in Selfridges and HoF yesterday, on my Amex too….bugger

  • Chris says:
    16 Jun16 June 06:48

    Doesn’t Eurostar have quite a hefty credit card fee?

    Not as much as £20 but it does reduce the value of the statement credit if you usually pay by debit card.

    And if you like a glass of wine in the lounge, best wait for England to get knocked out of Euro2016.

  • Paul says:
    16 Jun16 June 06:51

    I’m not seeing Selfridges in either site..,

  • Shelly says:
    16 Jun16 June 06:54

    No selfridges for me either but I’ve got house of Fraser £10 off £70 spend and £10 off £50 spend on different cards

  • Tom C says:
    16 Jun16 June 07:02

    The Landmark is often available on Hotels Tonight for ~£200, so that could end up being a very good last minute deal.

    • Rob says:
      16 Jun16 June 09:02

      Hotel Tonight is only prepaid though, so you would need the hotel to have the same rate itself direct (which it might).

  • shd says:
    16 Jun16 June 07:26

    No Hyatt offer on any of our cards 🙁

    • Jovanna says:
      16 Jun16 June 08:25

      No Hyatt for me too, which is annoying because I need to book a couple of nights in August.

  • mark2 says:
    16 Jun16 June 07:42

    I have just made a booking on Amex Travel which means that I have to pay about £2000 by Feb 2017. From time to time there are statement credit offers for Amex Travel (or at least there have been).
    From people’s experience would I be able to pay chunks off what I owe on various Amex cards and get the credit?

    • harry says:
      16 Jun16 June 07:52

      Yes, you can trigger multiple statement credits across several cards for the same purchase, if they are so good as to allow you to use different cards – which is allowable in any case with Amex Travel ISTR.

      I split my £50 Xmas beef joints across 5 Amex cards to get 5x £5 statement credits on the 5x £10 payments. [Amex Shop Small.] Thank you, Messrs Butchers (though 1 person thought I was money-laundering & was on the point of calling the police 🙂 )

      • Genghis says:
        16 Jun16 June 08:05

        Paid for my dental hygienist appt across 5 Amex cards in Nov last year for £25 credit.

        • mark2 says:
          16 Jun16 June 09:07

          Yes, last December I split one purchase across 13 cards and another across 10, but this was with small businesses.
          I wondered if anyone had specific Amex Travel experience, but did not word it very well.

  • Chee says:
    16 Jun16 June 07:57

    No Selfridges for me either!

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