Save £75 on a £300 travel purchase during American Express Member Week

Potentially taking a leaf from Marriott’s ‘Week of Wonders’ promotions – which don’t seem to be returning this year – American Express UK is running its first ‘Member Week’ next week.

It runs from Monday 16th to Sunday 22nd October.

Whilst not all of the offers will be interesting to you, the £75 travel discount does offer genuine value.

Here is what you can expect. Note that registration MAY be required for some of these offers.

Save £75 on a £300 booking at Amex Travel

This is one which I think will be of most value.

Any (TBC) Amex cardholder spending £300 on a pre-paid product at American Express Travel will receive £75 cashback.

It isn’t clear if this is once per card or once per cardholder. If the former, you would be able to split a long hotel stay or multiple flight bookings up and receive £75 back each time, assuming you had multiple American Express cards.

Got a Platinum card? There will be special offers on selected Fine Hotels & Resorts hotels, offering an extra free night or an extra property credit. I assume these would stack with the £75 credit if prepaid.

Got a Gold or Platinum card? Similar deals will run with The Hotel Collection.

Other Member Week offers include ….

Entertainment

You will be able to enter a range of competitions all week to win tickets to see Little Simz and Amex Gold Unsigned, plus ice skating packages at Somerset House and tickets for Wimbledon, the National Theatre, BST Hyde Park, All Points East and Brighton & Hove Albion football games.

A Membership Rewards competition to potentially avoid

300 members who use ‘Pay with Points’ to cover the cost of a purchase on their Membership Rewards-earning Amex card next week will win 30,000 Membership Rewards points.

As ‘Pay with Points’ gets you a terrible 0.45p per Membership Rewards points, the small chance of winning isn’t worth the loss of value on your points in my view. Potentially, if you bought something for £1 or so next week, you could cover the cost of that with points if you wanted to enter. You will need to register for the competition in advance.

A Bose deal

You will receive 25% off (up to £50) any online purchase from Bose next week.

You can find out more about Member Week on this page of the American Express website.

We’ll remind you about the Amex Travel deal when we have the full T&C but you may want to think about any £300 travel purchases you could bring forward to next week. Remember that any hotels booked via Amex Travel do NOT earn hotel loyalty points or status benefits so it’s not a no-brainer at branded properties.

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