Does Aldi in the UK now take American Express cards?

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• AK says:

  1 Feb1 February 10:36

  OT:

  I’m currently planning booking a trip in Summer where I plan to make use of the $75 hotel credit that’s part of the amex gold. If I was to make a booking using the amex gold, assuming it qualifies for the $75 hotel credit, but then subsequently cancel my amex gold card a couple of months later because I plan to upgrade it to the plat card and make use of the upgrade bonus, will I still have the $75 hotel credit?

  • Alan says:

    1 Feb1 February 11:08

    Depends a bit in hotel – some insist on payment with Gold/Plat Amex, some any Amex, some don’t care at all!

  • Anna says:

    1 Feb1 February 12:46

    I was thinking of making a booking to take advantage of this but found the “selected” hotel prices to be very high, so you may want to comparison shop before committing.

• Alan says:

  1 Feb1 February 11:07

  OT bits

  Got worried when I received an email from MBNA entitled “Important message from MBNA”, thinking it was going to be end of existing cobrand cards – thankfully just them saying that they’re changing the email address that messages are going to be sent from!!

• gary says:

  1 Feb1 February 11:29

  I can confirm Aldi now takes Amex as of 1 Feb 2018. I’ve just made a purchase……don’t see any huge points earning opportunities but every little helps.
  circa 15 avios richer!

  • Tracy says:

    1 Feb1 February 12:08

    Good news, I shop quite a bit in Aldi, it all helps towards to my BAPP 241 🙂

• Tracy says:

  1 Feb1 February 12:04

  O/T I have an IHG accelerate target I was hoping to complete in one go. I had a stay, spend $39 on food, book a points package and pay with credit card. I should have met 4 targets in one stay. However, only the stay target has been ticked off. Should I contact IHG or is there a chance they will still complete?

  • Peter K says:

    1 Feb1 February 12:14

    They can be slow to update. Wait a bit then context them.

    • Tracy says:

      1 Feb1 February 12:37

      ok

  • Lady London says:

    1 Feb1 February 13:50

    be very very careful when meeting any in-hotel food and beverage target for Accelerate.

    – VAT component of spend does not contribute to the total so that’s 1/6th less value you spent towards the target.
    – they also use the in-hotel exchange rate if your target is in a different currency. The only way I found to protect against that is to vastly underestimate the exchange rate (like, at least 20% worse than bank/MC rate). Ideally allow a bit more.

    The net effect on one of my targets to spend $39 was that I spent $40-42 or so and only just exceeded the required minimum spend.

    • Lady London says:

      1 Feb1 February 13:52

      Actually correction to the above my hotel spend was in GBP so I spent £40-42 or so and recall that I did not exceed the $39 target by much.

      • Tracy says:

        1 Feb1 February 20:43

        Yes, just found this out. I spent £42.60 at dinner but some of that was on bottles of pepsi from the fridge as I don’t like draft coke. Looks like the pepsi has been classed as vending purchases and not included in the food and beverage charges. I have a receipt from dinner that adds the drinks on to the receipt so might have to argue this one…..

• Cate says:

  1 Feb1 February 12:07

  Same here when promotions are on but try to move between different hotels in the same chain if they’re close together. We only take carry on anyway and typically rooms in one hotel are all the same and with guaranteed late checkout you’re covered for the time between check out and check in at the next hotel. Anecdotally IMHO if you look like you’re staying for just the one night you’ve got more chance of getting an upgrade.

  • Cate says:

    1 Feb1 February 12:09

    That should have been a reply to Original JamesB’s comment @07:12

• Alan says:

  1 Feb1 February 12:25

  Was queried in Curve beta group recently but they didn’t say it had. Was it in a location where you’d used it before? (some of them seem to have slightly unclear wording for the retailer name which can occasionally cause issues in rewards tracking).

  • Rob says:

    1 Feb1 February 14:35

    No-one told me it had ended …. although that does explain why I never got any notification of points on recent M&S trips.

• Nick Burch says:

  1 Feb1 February 12:44

  OT The Amex Hilton offer that ended yesterday, for spend £250 get £50 back, does anyone know if it was supposed to be cumulative or just a single payment? (I hit the spend but over 3 stays, and hasn’t credited yet, wondering if it’s worth asking Amex about it or not)

  • John says:

    1 Feb1 February 12:53

    Supposed to be single but previously worked cumulatively

    • Harj says:

      1 Feb1 February 13:16

      Definitely worked cumulatively for me on Plat and Gold (£200 off £600 on Plat).
      Have you had the confirmation email through that you’ve triggered it? If so, mine took about 10 days after that to show on statements.

      • Lumma says:

        1 Feb1 February 16:42

        Was the £200 off £600 not for amex travel rather than Hilton?

      • Cat says:

        2 Feb2 February 06:38

        I got the £50 back for Hilton cumulative spend, despite being on a ridiculously cheap winter sale pre-paid rate, which they said wouldn’t count. I also got the £200 back for AMEX travel cumulative spend.

        I was delighted!

• Tom Cook says:

  1 Feb1 February 12:48

  OT – bought two one for all post office gift cards when the AMEX £5 back offer was on. Long story short I have had a mare getting them accepted in two M&S stores in Leeds so needed up getting them (thankfully the full £20) refunded direct to my bank account, after having to go back and forth to the customer service email. What a shame!

  • mark2 says:

    1 Feb1 February 13:42

    I am surprised to hear that. As well as the Post Office offer, I buy One4All all the time as I can buy them at 6% discount. I am sure that I have used them at M&S and definitely at John Lewis (including café), Debenhams and TK Maxx among others.
    Did you swipe the card or try to scan the number. The only slight glitch is that they ask for a signature but there is none on the card to compare but this has never stopped use.

    • Tom Cook says:

      1 Feb1 February 13:52

      Tried to swipe the cards but to no avail. On a number of visits not one employee recognised the card or knew what to do with it.

      Oneforall said that the issue was that the merchant number differed to what they had on their approved system, and then when I tried (and failed) again, that it again differed…so basically they blamed M&S and M&S said they didn’t recognise the card.

      • Brasov says:

        1 Feb1 February 18:37

        It only works in main M&S stores, not train station / airport / service stations

        You could also have used them in Boots

      • Tom Cook says:

        2 Feb2 February 08:11

        The two M&S stores were main stores – hey ho. I don’t shop in Boots unfortunately.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    2 Feb2 February 22:27

    Credit to Amazon just need to use the all4one website. Very easy

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