Which of the 19 current American Express hotel cashback deals is the best?

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• YC says:

  4 Oct4 October 10:28

  Majority of the T&Cs state spend at checkout (assumes you have to stay). For the minority of deals that don’t specify ‘at checkout’, does this mean the offers should work for just dinner or spa?

  • YC says:

    4 Oct4 October 10:47

    Thanks makes sense. Either need to test a small transaction (coffee) before blowing hundreds on an expensive dinner to test the waters! Or the power of shared knowledge from groups like these. Grand scheme of things £50/25% not massive savings but we all do like to feel like we are getting a good deal!

    • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

      4 Oct4 October 11:07

      Or ask the hotel nicely. Most good places should be able to open a folio for you to charge to without having a room (for guests who arrive/leave before/after their room is available). Whether they are willing is another matter but I’d imagine that flexibility would be high in the current environment.

  • Harry T says:

    4 Oct4 October 11:03

    An example would be University Arms, Cambridge, where if Parker’s Tavern charges you it comes up as the name of the restaurant, rather than the hotel. Of course, this was quite helpful when I was staying at the hotel and Parker’s was on Shop Small…

  • Andrew says:

    4 Oct4 October 11:22

    This is something I found at the Kimpton Fitzroy when I’d use my IHG card in the coffee shop, it didn’t give the IHG spend points.

  • Travel Strong says:

    4 Oct4 October 11:41

    Hilton is pretty reliable on this – everything within their walls usually gets billed as the hilton, and counts towards the cumulative (coffee, bar, restaurant).

    • RussellH says:

      4 Oct4 October 12:39

      The DT Girona bills under the name of the management co. – at least on Visa. Something like URH Hotel management. I e-mailed Barclaycard after the payment posted, but before the points were calculated at billing to ensure that I got the extra points. It did work.

    • Lady London says:

      4 Oct4 October 12:51

      I will takea bet that this is because, like department stores like Harrods, the hotel is taking both a fixed in rent and a percentage of turnover from the restaurant, do the hotel wants it going through their billing system.

      At Harrods IIRC the percentage on throughput in “shop in shops” was around 30%.. This was in addition to chunky ground rent payable regardlessof turnover.

      I believe airports work the same way.

      So you can imagine that an in-hotel restaurant is not going to tell you you can bill it to your hotel room unless you’ve arranged it with Reception. As even if they’re not paying a % of turnover they would still rather not wait for your money as and when the hotel would net it off a rent charge.

  • Lady London says:

    4 Oct4 October 12:43

    In these cases you can check with hotel reception to have the in-hotel restaurant billed to your room bill.

    Sometimes this is possible even if the restaurant would normally not do this – you have to sort it out with Reception first though.

• John Caribbean says:

  4 Oct4 October 10:52

  Not hotel, but Amex offer related.
  Does the Avery’s deal work across multiple transactions, or is it one time only.
  I fancy the tasting nights as a year to brighten up some winter lockdown nights

• Chris Heyes says:

  4 Oct4 October 11:13

  Rob i don’t see the point ! i have most of what you’ve listed
  I’ve already read them on my cards most seem to end when no-one should be booking Hotels anyway.
  only one seems to be March so maybe that is the one your pointing HFP readers towards
  i for one wouldn’t think of booking a hotel at this time except for essential reasons no-matter how cheap.
  I laugh at how many on here are booking & canceling & booking & canceling lol
  Now if you was to actually state (this is the best offer or don’t book this offer it would be a more interesting read)

  • Travel Strong says:

    4 Oct4 October 11:41

    Some of us still work, chris

    • Chris Heyes says:

      4 Oct4 October 12:57

      Ha yes work the necessary evil forgot about that little detail
      22 years retirement dulls the brain lol i can come & go anytime i want and do lol
      73 later this year so last long haul flight next year
      Denver-Boulder Hotel Boulderardo 1 week-Phoenix-Sedona Best Western Arryo Robie 1 week Phoenix-Page Lake Powell Resort around 1week
      note Lake Powell Resort crap hotel but marvelous views from Lake View Suite (if anyone goes make sure your not viewing car park a lot of rooms do)

  • TGLoyalty says:

    4 Oct4 October 12:16

    Still plenty of the UK to see and as the winter nights draw in spending 2 weeks in quarantine after a week in sunny Portugal seems like less of an issue.

  • Lady London says:

    4 Oct4 October 12:55

    @Chris glad to see you’re still around ! you have been very quiet lately.

    The point of promotions is to drum up business when there isnt a lot. Some of us are still travelling -a promotion means I’ll choose your hotel rather than another one.

    • Chris Heyes says:

      4 Oct4 October 18:50

      yep LL still around had to go Blackburn family funeral Gr
      23 year old O.D. Why are they idiots
      bytheway Blackburn was mad people getting on buses with masks then taking off when sat down Gr
      stopped at Mercure Blackburn Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa (got the 6000 promotion) In between stopping at one of daughters & Willows for Hotels.com last two stamps needed (2 vouchers available for future use 2022 lol

  • Harry T says:

    4 Oct4 October 13:20

    I’ve been using them in the UK, Chris.

• Kevin says:

  4 Oct4 October 12:13

  Just checking some Marriott hotels for Hamburg/Berlin. It is noted that the Marriott offer varies between cities, eg Hamburg’s hotel offer member return rate with free breakfast incl. while Berlin doesn’t at all. In fact Courtyard stated non refundable if cancel after 5 Oct for a stay in the end of Oct. not sure whether there is typo but definitely need to run through all the T&C of every hotel first prior to book.

  • DJ says:

    4 Oct4 October 12:26

    That’s been noted before on here I think. Also some of the offers are only applicable to their basic rooms. So it’s always better to read everything.

• Ikaz says:

  4 Oct4 October 13:08

  It has worked on cumulative spend for Marriott on 2 of my cards

• r* says:

  4 Oct4 October 13:51

  Are there any hotels that will charge now to trigger the offers but where the stays would be middle of next year? Preferably cancellable bookings? Im not going to be staying anywhere before these will all expire.

• gerry says:

  4 Oct4 October 13:55

  Can anyone recommend hotel in Larnaca/Limassol, arriving Thursday for 4 nights

  • Rob says:

    4 Oct4 October 14:28

    Parklane (Marriott’s Luxury Collection) claims to be the only genuine luxury property on the island.

    • Harry T says:

      4 Oct4 October 14:47

      Parklane looks excellent.

  • YC says:

    4 Oct4 October 15:21

    Yes parklane is v. good. There is also Amara next door (less resort feel but possibly more luxurious) and also Anassa up north which is very good

  • RH says:

    4 Oct4 October 15:43

    4 Season is superb.

    • YC says:

      4 Oct4 October 15:59

      A good product is a good product. But worth flagging, this isn’t part of the 4S brand/group (no brand standards & no preferred travel agent I think)

      • RH says:

        4 Oct4 October 16:17

        True, but it still excellent. I went in August and going back at the end of this month with the family! You can see on Trip Advisor how good it is!

• dezbez says:

  4 Oct4 October 15:35

  I might be wrong, but it doesn’t look like the Bath Indigo is included in the list of participating hotels with the Amex offer. I know there has been a lot of talk about this hotel this last week and a number of bookings (mainly with points, admittedly) but for any cash bookings it might make more sense to use a Creation card to pay instead (unless I’ve missed it).

  • Rob says:

    4 Oct4 October 16:20

    The lists never include brand new hotels unfortunately – they are drawn up weeks in advance.

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