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Amex deals: £100 at Mr Porter, Harrods 10% off + £100, Wheely, FREE NOW, Corinthia and more

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There are quite a few comings and goings with American Express cashback deals worth mentioning, so I have put them together in this article.

£100 cashback on £350 spend at Mr Porter

A new Mr Porter offer has appeared for those who like designer menswear. In my experience this offer reaches its sign-up capacity rapidly – this one is capped at 6,000 cards – so save it now if you think you might use it.

It is valid until 22nd December.

The offer will stack with a 10% discount for signing up to their emails. You can register here or go via the home page here and you should see it appear at the top of your screen.

Same day delivery is available in London if you order by 10am. Details are here – select ‘Your Delivery Options’.

£100 back on £500 spend at Qatar Airways

This is self explanatory, valid for flight bookings in any class to any destination made by 31st December. Travel can be for any date.

If you travel a lot with Qatar Airways, you could – if you wanted to tie up your money – use this towards a future flight. You could make a £500 flight booking now for a random route, bank the cashback and then – under Qatar’s ‘travel with confidence’ policy outlined here – swap it for a £500 travel voucher valid for two years towards a future booking.

Your voucher would actually be for more than £500, as Qatar Airways gives you a 10% bonus on the base fare (ie excluding taxes and charges).

The Qatar Airways website is here. You can see our Qatar Airways flights reviews – and many more – on our flight reviews index page here.

Harrods American Express £100 offer

Harrods 10% weekend extended to Wednesday

Harrods has extended its ‘10% off almost everything’ promotion to Wednesday, at which point the physical store will close.

If you have an American Express Platinum card and received a letter or email saying that you are eligible to £100 cashback on a £100 Harrods spend (or 100% cashback on smaller spends) then you may want to head down to Knightsbridge now.

If you have the offer, it may now show online – it does for me. Look under your ‘Saved’ offers and NOT the main list.

Remember that the offer ends on 30th November and the store will not be reopening before then. I assume that online sales will continue but the website only sells a fraction of the products available.

Wheely – £50 cashback for three rides

There has, for a while now, been a ‘£50 cashback for taking three rides with Wheely’ offer on many Amex accounts.

We mentioned it once but have not pushed it aggressively. I was – not unfairly – chided over this in the comments over the weekend. Realising that my diary involves a lot of dashing around London over the next couple of days, I thought I would use it.

Wheely is basically a ‘posh’ or ‘very posh’ Uber based on whether you book a ‘Business’ or ‘First’ car. It’s how Uber used to be before the Exec service lost its shine.

My first ride yesterday was from Knightsbridge to Kensington High Street, which clocked in at £13 for a Mercedes E-Class. When the driver realised that it was raining and he couldn’t drop me exactly at the door I needed because of the one-way system, he parked up, pulled out an umbrella (I didn’t have one) and insisted on walking me to the building. Fantastic service.

I have the offer on two Amex cards and should be able to do six rides by Wednesday (the offer ends on Saturday, technically, but ….). On this basis I will breakeven or make a small profit on the £100 cashback I receive as well as saving money and time by not taking the tube. It’s a win all round.

Wheely American Express offer

50% off a FREE NOW ride

I also have an offer for 50% off one ride at FREE NOW (was MyTaxi, was previously Hailo).

The 50% rebate is capped at £7 and you can only earn it once, so it isn’t hugely generous. The offer runs to 12th December.

The Gett offer – 15% back on all taxi rides – which was on personal cards recently has now appeared on my Platinum Business card. It runs until 31st December.

£100 off £300 spend at Corinthia Hotel London

Corinthia has joined the 20+ hotel chains offering cashback via Amex.

If targeted, you will receive £100 back on a £300+ spend. This offer runs until 31st March which gives you a better chance of using it.

Only the London hotel is taking part. This is, however, the best Corinthia hotel by miles. I had a tour of Corinthia London a few years ago and the London website is here. The restaurant is run by Tom Kerridge which is a good enough reason in itself to stay.

The main website is here.


Want to earn more points from credit cards? – April 2024 update

If you are looking to apply for a new credit card, here are our top recommendations based on the current sign-up bonuses.

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

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5,000 Avios for signing up and an upgrade voucher at £20,000 Read our full review

You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the best of the other deals currently available.

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

25,000 Avios and the famous annual 2-4-1 voucher Read our full review

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

18,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review

Earning miles and points from small business cards

If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers:

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

Huge 30,000 points bonus until 12th May 2024 Read our full review

For a non-American Express option, we also recommend the Barclaycard Select Cashback card for sole traders and small businesses. It is FREE and you receive 1% cashback on your spending.

Barclaycard Select Cashback Business Credit Card

1% cashback uncapped* on all your business spending (T&C apply) Read our full review

Comments (121)

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  • Nicholas says:

    Nothing appeared on my card yet but I did get the promotional mailing for the Harrods offer

    • Andrew says:

      Then you’re fine. You can call Amex to check if you’re in doubt and they will confirm it’s saved to card. Not showing for many people in their offers tab.

  • Cat says:

    For those with the Harrods offer – I got a £140 Godiva hamper for £26 with the 10% off. Some of the contents will be Xmas gifts, some I will keep for myself! 😋

    • Olly says:

      @Cat, I got all excited at the thought of the Godiva offer you mentioned but cannot find out online.

      • Sandgrounder says:

        +1 comes up on Google, but not on the site, you must have nipped in and got the last one.

        • Cat says:

          Oh, sorry! There might still be some boxes of chocolates that I saw too, and top it up to £100 with a panettone! They probably have a better selection of Godiva chocolates in store, if you can go tomorrow…

  • KBuffett says:

    I used Wheely for the first time yesterday. I got automatic upgrades for both journeys. I was very impressed with the service, vehicle and driver. Mercedes S Class. I’ve been finding Uber vehicles truly horrible so this was a nice chance with £0 to pay for the short journeys that I took

  • Tony says:

    Disappointed – no Harrods offer.

  • Neil says:

    I got a £10 off £70 at Waitrose, successfully used, from my MR card.

  • Olly says:

    Has anyone sought advice from Amex as to whether they are going to extend the Marriott £400 offer dates due to the lockdown? For those who did have The Westbury, Mayfair booked and were going to re-book for December, they are bringing forward renovating work that was going to happen early in 2021 and so will not be available for the offer.

    • Rob says:

      If Marriott is only doing this to hit minimum income guarantees it won’t go beyond year end.

  • Mike says:

    I have 70 available offers on my BAPP – not one of them any use to me. Mainly hotels and London based restaurants. I don’t intend any UK hotel stays until Summer 21 at the earliest and work policy is now WFH until Easter 21 (but plan for Summer 21) at the earliest no UK travel / stays until Summer 21 and not international travel until Christmas 21.

    • Jill (Kinkell) says:

      I’ve already had a rant over the useless( to me) offers on our cards, and I am heartily sick of hearing all the moaners about not getting their Harrods offer and then reading the constant stream of posters telling them it’s fine.

      • Anna says:

        I’m holding a teeny glimmer of hope that we might come out of lockdown AND Tier 3 in December and I’ll get to use one of the Hilton/Marriott/IHG offers before they expire!

  • jil says:

    if you were with Kapten (they are closed now), FreeNow also offers you 50% off for transfering your Kapten account to FreeNow (up to 6 for 5 times)

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