Eurostar announces the start of Amsterdam rail services

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• Alan says:

  10 Feb10 February 09:38

  Perhaps needs reworded to buy and travel on the Railcard bit? Anyone can buy discounted tickets by saying they have one, but you need to have a valid Railcard when you actually travel 😀

• Luke says:

  10 Feb10 February 09:48

  Railcards seem to arrive in the post really quickly. I bought a Network one online after 4pm the Thursday before Christmas and it arrived the next day. Nice and plastic – much better than the old paper one. And our Two Together railcards always turn up quickly too.

  • ChrisC says:

    10 Feb10 February 14:00

    Same with mine – arrived next day. And they add 5 days extra validity to allow for possible processing and postal delays.

    The card is also a lot more sturdy than the paper one you get from the station!

    • Aeronaut says:

      10 Feb10 February 22:54

      The fulfilment of plastic Railcards bought online and delivered by post is indeed widely noted to be very speedy – Journeycall Ltd, who manage it on behalf of the Rail Delivery Group, evidently do a pretty good job.

• Paul says:

  10 Feb10 February 10:18

  Totally O/T: I recently applied for an AMEX Gold business card for my Ltd company. I’ve held a personal PRG card (and hence M/R account) for many years. I knew there was a chance I might not get the signup bonus for the business card since I already had a M/R account but hoped since this was a personal account and the new card was in my Ltd company name that I might get lucky, and read something on here to that effect too. It’s been a few weeks since meeting the spend threshold (yay for billhop!), I’ve had my first statement, but no sign of bonus points. The spend points seem to just be combined with my existing M/R account. Online chat say they can’t help as I’m not eligible for the welcome bonus. Anyone got any experience with this? When would the welcome bonus points normally post? And any views on my chance of success pushing AMEX further, and my best means of doing so? Thanks.

  (To something of my surprise, I did get a 9K referral bonus on my personal account for the self-referral for the business card…!)

  • Rob says:

    10 Feb10 February 11:47

    Sounds right unfortunately.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    10 Feb10 February 12:09

    You are not eligible for the sign up bonus if you hold a personal MR account so the chance was really that you would slip through and get a surprise welcome bonus.

  • Paul says:

    10 Feb10 February 14:12

    Fair do’s. Thanks for the replies.

  • mark2 says:

    10 Feb10 February 14:59

    I had a NatWest card when I had a company, but this does not sound right to me since the company is a separate legal person. How did they link you to the company (other than the referral)? were you the only cardholder?

    If I had been doing this I would have had another employee/director as the card holder and added myself later. Has anyone tried that?

    • Rob says:

      10 Feb10 February 16:16

      A company cannot have a MR account, only a person. And the rules say if a person has an MR account then that MR account cannot receive a new bonus.

      There are similar issues for some readers who are given Amex Green Corporate Cards via their job. If MR is activated they are blocked from Gold etc.

  • Czechoslovakia says:

    11 Feb11 February 08:56

    It’s almost certainly incorrect, but I got AMEX to set up the bonus target on my Ltd companies plat card. My argument, simply being my company and I are legally separate entities, and what if the company had applied and I personally had no AMEX? Did this twice successfully via the call center, but 3 and 2 years ago. These days put a good amount through the companies amex so as not to worth the trouble churning. Would be more, but billhops fee too rich for me…

• JamesB says:

  10 Feb10 February 10:19

  OT: I have had a ‘Return for 10000 bonus points’ offer applied to my IHG account. It just appeared without my registering for it and I have no idea what is required to trigger it. I’m hoping just a single stay by the deadline but I don’t want to ask CS in event they might remove it as an error. Anybody else had this offer or know anything about it?.

  • Paulm says:

    10 Feb10 February 18:12

    One of the us sites (OMAAT) just posted about this so assume it must be ok

• Ant says:

  10 Feb10 February 10:34

  OT: following the advice on here to get a Gold credit card before I upgrade my gold card to Platinum, I cannot find how to do this via the app or website (on mobile).

  Is there a link?

  Thanks

  • JamesB says:

    10 Feb10 February 10:39

    Mark2 posted weblinks on Tuesday and Wednesday. Try the credit card and BA domination articles first, I think it was one of them.

  • mark2 says:

    10 Feb10 February 11:27

    https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/content/gold-companion/#GoldCreditCardbenefits
    suggest you cancel gold credit before upgrading charge to Platinum

    • AndyR says:

      10 Feb10 February 12:32

      Interesting might do this. Why do you need to cancel the credit card first?

      • mark2 says:

        10 Feb10 February 13:17

        so that you can apply for the Platinum equivalent after upgrading.

    • Ant says:

      10 Feb10 February 12:39

      Thanks

• Pangolin says:

  10 Feb10 February 15:14

  OT: Is there any way of tracking Amex redemption bonus links? By that I mean, which links you’ve sent out and on what date. For the ones I sent via email it’s easy but what about the ones I sent direct from the Amex account page?

  I’m likely to downgrade Plat to Gold in the near future but I don’t want to do that if there are still some possible redemption bonuses outstanding (35K MR, so not to be sniffed at).

  • Pangolin says:

    10 Feb10 February 15:17

    Edit: I should have said downgrade to Gold OR cancel completely (which I’m also considering), as I guess there’s a good chance you’d still get the 35K points as long as you had a valid MR card at the time the redemption bonus was triggered.

  • mark2 says:

    10 Feb10 February 15:38

    You can only send five so easy to keep a record, except that the points credit does not say which referral it arises from.

    • Pangolin says:

      10 Feb10 February 15:57

      Except that I forgot to keep an external record of the referral links sent via the Amex site, hence why I’m asking here if there is any way I can now find out. I know that I could simply wait for referral bonuses to arrive, but the point is that I’m not sure how long I need to wait before it would be safe to cancel the card.

      • Polly says:

        11 Feb11 February 00:16

        And it’s too embarrassing to ask which of our two friends got the card! We too are in exactly the same position. Planning to cancel plat next month, but won’t know which one has got the card from our referral. And whether to hang on or not!

• mark2 says:

  10 Feb10 February 15:45

  On the subject of referrals, there is an annual maximum of 90,000 MR points earned from Gold/Platinum, 90,000 SPG points and probably 90,000 Avios (although I have not checked that one).
  Is that 270,000 points in total or 90,000 in total? 90,000 is only five referrals from Platinum; do I move on to SPG for further referrals?
  Also does a new card in the same year (after six months) come with a new limit?

  • Polly says:

    11 Feb11 February 00:17

    Yes the limit is actually attached to the card.

    • mark2 says:

      11 Feb11 February 10:52

      Thanks Polly; I suspected that that was the case.

• Nick M says:

  10 Feb10 February 15:56

  Do you know if you can split the journey in Brussels? – eg spending a few hours/days there before then taking the Eurostar back to the UK?

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