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• Akyhugh says:

  27 May27 May 09:52

  Downgraded from gold to plat, will i be charged a membership fee? No because it’s supposed to be free in year 1?

  • Rob says:

    27 May27 May 10:02

    Yes you will. Downgrades do not free first year.

• s879 says:

  27 May27 May 10:29

  OT: Rob, how likely are we to see the £200 off £600 travel offer on Amex Platinum? I’ve hardly used any offers this year as they are not places where I shop.

  • Roger says:

    27 May27 May 11:14

    Likely back in October?
    Going by past history.

    However it may not repeat.
    I am waiting for 25% bonus on AA miles from hotels, which normally runs in May for last 1 or 2 years but hasn’t happened so far!

  • Jovanna says:

    27 May27 May 12:09

    I’ve yet to receive my £200 on a booking I made in February. The 90 days is up tomorrow. Webchat here I come!

• Patrick says:

  27 May27 May 10:36

  OT Amex Platinum card can get you free fast track in some Scandinavian airports, ARN is mentioned on the Swedish Amex page. I used GOT today, and the display screen next to the fast track showed airlines and then Platinum. I showed my card to the man at the desk, and he let me through. The airport was very busy (by it’s standard), I must have jumped 200-300 people. I did not say only for Swedish issues Amex. Norwegian charge about £5-10 for this I think.
  I think there is also an Amex sponsored lounge in ARN.

• sk123 says:

  27 May27 May 10:40

  OT – I have a Lloyds Avios upgrade voucher expiring in December 2019. Do I need to book and travel by that date or just make a booking. I want to travel in April 2020.

  • fivebobbill says:

    27 May27 May 10:48

    Just need to make the booking before expiry date, think you can travel up to a year afterwards

    • sk123 says:

      27 May27 May 10:52

      Thanks, I just checked on a couple of other websites and they also say you just need to book before expiry.

      • Tom1 says:

        27 May27 May 11:08

        You can also ask nicely to extend it.
        Or.. I made a booking which I genuinely intended to use, but when I cancelled it, they reissued the voucher with a year from when I cancelled. I questioned it ‘to check’ and she confirmed. Seems to be manual.

        • Mikeact says:

          27 May27 May 12:26

          If you’re not sure where you want to go, book something in zone that appeals to you a year out. You now have a year to decide where, call up to change when ready assuming seats are available. Small change fee can be a no brainer compared to cash price.

        • sk123 says:

          27 May27 May 12:42

          I called but she said i booked my ticket in March 2019 and now I want to change the dates (not destination) to travel in April 2020 and that won’t be possible. She said if you make a change you have to travel within 12 months of the original booking! So the voucher expiry wasn’t an issue or the change fee but will need to keep existing booking…

      • Mikeact says:

        27 May27 May 16:10

        Avios.com are correct. I assumed it was an unused voucher you were looking to use….not very clear. You can still change it, up to your date of travel, if that helps.

• Jason says:

  27 May27 May 10:52

  Morning all!

  OT – I wish to cancel my AMEX Plat, I understand I’ll get a pro-rata refund of the £450.

  I have a stash of 60k points, If I apply for a free credit card such as American Express Rewards Purchases Credit Card, then I can keep my MR account alive?

  Thanks,

  • Charlieface says:

    27 May27 May 10:55

    Yes, make sure they connect the two accounts together

  • Mark says:

    27 May27 May 10:58

    Or just downgrade your Platinum account rather than cancel it. You’ll still get the prorata refund.

    • Sandgrounder says:

      27 May27 May 11:35

      There are no free charge cards earning MR as far as I know- you would have to go to green which is £60 pa.

      • Grant says:

        27 May27 May 11:40

        There are three flavours of the Amex Rewards Card, all of which have no annual fee and earn 1 MR point per £ spent.

      • Grant says:

        27 May27 May 11:41

        Sorry I noticed you specifically referred to charge cards – the Rewards cards are, of course, credit cards.

        • Lumma says:

          27 May27 May 15:38

          Amex would let me change my gold credit to one of the rewards cards. I had to open a new account, link them together and then close gold

      • Shoestring says:

        27 May27 May 16:56

        what about the free blue charge card?

        • Sandgrounder says:

          27 May27 May 19:03

          No MR on the Basic card.

        • Genghis says:

          27 May27 May 19:17

          https://www.americanexpress.com/uk/credit-cards/rewards-credit-card/
          “Earn one Membership Rewards® point for every full pound you spend on purchases.”

        • Shoestring says:

          27 May27 May 19:31

          and nobody has reported back on 20K upgrade to Plat here just yet, I mentioned it a couple months ago (but went for Green myself, given a) no info on Blue & b) forgot about it)

        • guesswho2000 says:

          27 May27 May 22:49

          Data point, upgrade from Green to Plat – applied for Green about a month ago, upgraded to plat about two weeks ago. Spend £1,800 on the Green while waiting for Plat to arrive, 21,800 MR in the account about 48 hours later.

        • Russ says:

          28 May28 May 10:39

          So another way to look at that is if you picked up 21800 MR points then your new Plat fee has had a big chunk of it offset plus you still have the PP.

• Harvey says:

  27 May27 May 11:37

  OT
  I made a reservation on Bonvoy points advance for the Carlton Central Park NYC for July sometime ago(before increase of points required) at 60k per night for 5 nights. Now I see on my account they require 85k per night.
  1. Was it not supposed to stay at 60k since i reserved before the changes?
  2. If i needed to change the dates, could I still keep it at rate of 60k?
  Any advice. TY

  • Lee says:

    27 May27 May 20:37

    1. You can call them, they will credit you additional points to make up the booking
    2. Any change you will lose old points redemption

• Rooster says:

  27 May27 May 12:19

  1. should still be 60k
  2. I doubt it

  • meta says:

    27 May27 May 12:50

    The policy recently changed. If you did points advance reservation, you’ll have to pay new rate if there are increases.

    • N says:

      27 May27 May 13:48

      where is this written?

      • meta says:

        27 May27 May 14:17

        Not sure if it’s written. I actually think it might be only for reservations made before 5 March. I called Marriott CS about a month ago and they said that I will now have to pay increased redemption rate if I want to finalise a redemption. Cancelled and went elsewhere.

        • BigSi says:

          27 May27 May 16:48

          Not true, I had 2 bookings made before 5 Mar on points advance and both were honoured without issue at the lower rate. You need to call Bonvoy customer service.

        • meta says:

          27 May27 May 17:45

          @BigSi I did call, a few times actually and every single agent said the same. Bonvoy CS is still a total mess. I’ve come to realise that I will only deal with Bonvoy if things can be done wholly without intervention of CS.

        • BigSi says:

          27 May27 May 21:15

          Meta, did you try this number during UK working hours – 020 7012 7312 (Cork)? I’ve found them pretty helpful. I had to hold a while but got the issue sorted, for one booking they manually added the points to allow me to make the booking and the other they did something behind the scenes and all worked fine.

    • Rooster says:

      27 May27 May 14:51

      That might be the case if you used the advance point feature

    • Lee says:

      27 May27 May 20:38

      Not true, just done that last week

• Gerarf says:

  27 May27 May 16:19

  Any idea of offers on pointbreaks, few decent offer to be had last time.

  • Peter K says:

    27 May27 May 21:48

    How would anyone know if the list has not been released yet?

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