Booking a hotel this week? Here’s a summary of the current promotions

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• Funtime says:

  28 Dec28 December 12:21

  OT Just had a glossy flyer from Amex through the letterbox promoting refer a friend to any card. A little credit card size card with the referral code on it to keep in your wallet.

  My gold Amex was correctly addressed and named me along with my referral code however Mrs Funtime’s BA whilst addressed correctly refers to her as Richard along with Richard’s referral code.

  This really is basic schoolboy stuff.

  • Anna says:

    28 Dec28 December 13:52

    I’ve got that – not sure why one would need a referral code, just refer online?

• Manya says:

  28 Dec28 December 12:58

  Have booked one night at the Four Seasons in Hampshire with wife and baby daughter after New Years based on past recommendations from here. I am expecting this to trigger the spend 200 get 50 offer saved on my Amex card as the booking was for made via Amex travel website. I know there was some discussion around FHR properties not applying to this offer but I couldn’t see anything prohibiting FHR bookings mentioned within the T+C’s and Amex customer service rep I spoke to over the phone also confirmed the same.

  Any readers able to offer tips on which facilities to make best use of with a 19 month old?

• JamesB says:

  28 Dec28 December 13:33

  OT AMEX Platinum Upgrade: my dad has just done this and he said platinum already showing on his online account. Does this mean any further spend on his gold card counts towards his £1000 target or does he need to wait until the physical platinum card arrives?

  • johnny_c-l says:

    28 Dec28 December 15:01

    It starts counting from when the online logo goes Plat.

  • Lawro says:

    28 Dec28 December 15:03

    Any spend on the Gold card should count towards the £1k spend target. At least that’s what I was told by an Amex rep. Essentially the Gold card functions as your ‘new’ Plat until the actual Plat card arrives.

  • JamesB says:

    28 Dec28 December 17:34

    Thanks Johnny and Law to.

• Doug M says:

  28 Dec28 December 13:45

  OT: can you book Hilton with points you don’t have but will have by check-in? I’m sure I read here there’s one group that allow that?

  • JamesB says:

    28 Dec28 December 13:57

    No, it’s Marriott you can do this.

• Tom H says:

  28 Dec28 December 15:03

  OT closing in a Marriott 7 night travel packacage can go up and in cat to 9 if needed, any other sweet spots other than Domes and the car 5 in Vietnam?

  • ankomonkey says:

    28 Dec28 December 20:22

    Not that I’ve found. I’m currently saving for my second package but have no idea where I’ll use it (first is booked for Phu Quoc, Vietnam).

  • Peter K says:

    28 Dec28 December 22:48

    The Renaissance Barcelona Fira hotel sounds really nice as a category 6. It has very good reviews. Potential downsides are it is a bit out of town (which I think is good thing personally) and the troubles in Catalonia at the moment with the press for independence

• Leo says:

  28 Dec28 December 17:48

  OT Sorry if I have misunderstood – when referring from Plat for Gold does the Plat referer get 18K points or 9K?

  • Rob says:

    28 Dec28 December 18:02

    18k now

    • Leo says:

      28 Dec28 December 19:32

      Cheers – that puts a slightly new slant on things.

• ankomonkey says:

  28 Dec28 December 20:32

  I got the extra 10k just by logging into my spg account like normal. No promo code needed.

• AndrewPaddy says:

  28 Dec28 December 20:39

  OT / Confused by AMEX referral…

  With the referral mailing landing on the mat today I remembered something I meant to ask before. As a platinum can i refer for the BA and Starwood cards as well as the gold and platinum AMEX cards?

  Is there a guide somewhere showing who can refer what to who for what amount ?

  Finally, I took out a platinum and hit the 35,000 bonus. I also referred a friend who referred me for a gold card. Strangely enough it is showing me as eligible for the 20,000 signup bonus on that card as well… is that normal?

  Thanks to all for their help!

  • JamesB says:

    28 Dec28 December 21:56

    As a platinum holder you refer platinum. Your family and friends on opening your referral link will be invited to apply for a platinum card. However, the link now has a further button they can click to view other cards. If they follow this through with a successful application you still get the 18k referral bonus despite them applying fir another card.

    There used to be an amex page tabulating all the referral options but I have not seen it in ages.

    I do not recall anybody saying they held platinum and gold cards simultaneously. I doubt you can but I could be wrong. However, even if it is possible I cannot see how you can get another bonus with an existing MR account, it usually must have been closed for 6 months to qualify for a new bonus,

    • AndrewPaddy says:

      28 Dec28 December 22:24

      Thanks for the info….

      Instead of dropping my Platinum down to Gold I got a family member to refer me for a Gold while I still had the Platinum. It worked out as an 18,000 for them and no loss to me…

      I was very surprised myself when the 20,000 points offer appeared. Will see whether it is honoured although I have no real complaints if it is not.

      • lev441 says:

        29 Dec29 December 00:58

        Although you can hold a platinum card at the same time as a gold card, you wouldn’t be eligible for the welcome bonus as the t’s & c’s state that only those that haven’t held a Membership Rewards account for 6+ months will be eligible….

      • Genghis says:

        29 Dec29 December 07:28

        Re amounts, it’s obviously the card you refer from: 18k MR from Plat, 9k MR from PRG, 9k avios from BAPP, 3k avios from BA Blue (not sure exactly but I think 3k), 5k SPG from SPG Amex…

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