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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.

American Express Member Week

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.

American Express Member Week

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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Comments (62)

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  • lumma says:
    13 Oct13 October 09:47

    I’ve used it twice in the past for a flight & hotel booking

  • Brian says:
    13 Oct13 October 09:49

    The Amex IHG offer is back – spend £300, get £70 back.

  • Stu_N says:
    13 Oct13 October 09:50

    …which is why it works best on independent hotels or chains you don’t care about their loyalty.

  • Pablo says:
    13 Oct13 October 10:38

    Not always the case. I have an eye on a Qantas flight: £400 direct from QF, £385 the cheapest OTA, Amex travel £396

  • meta says:
    13 Oct13 October 11:57

    Not always, if you use it on FHR/Hotel Collection rates 90% of time you’ll get points and status benefits.

    • Rob says:
      13 Oct13 October 13:46

      …. if you don’t pay in advance.

      • meta says:
        13 Oct13 October 14:56

        It will depend on the hotel. I received points on pre-paid FHR rates at Marriott/Hilton/IHG/Hyatt before, but you need to check with each individual hotel how they are going to treat it.

  • Voldemort says:
    13 Oct13 October 12:00

    Just a correction. Whereas you’re almost correct an Amex Hotel Collection booking I completed recently did earn Honors points and did get Honors benefits.

    • Voldemort says:
      13 Oct13 October 12:00

      (And I stacked it with the £100 off £300 Amex Travel offer)

    • Rob says:
      13 Oct13 October 13:45

      It would, if pay on departure.

      If pay at booking it shouldn’t have.

      This is the other exception, alongside FHR.

  • Somchai says:
    13 Oct13 October 12:15

    50% off Avios flights with Aer Lingus Flash sale just landed in my inbox (points only)

  • EdForPoints says:
    13 Oct13 October 13:09

    Grateful if anyone else could chime in and confirm/deny this. If correct it contradicts the article.

    It just so happens that I was about to use Amex Travel to book a flight itinerary which seems consistently cheaper through OTAs than direct with the airline (and only about £10 more expensive with Amex than other OTAs, which I think is likely worth it for better customer service). Happy to hold off until Monday but maybe it’s pointless to do so?

    • David says:
      13 Oct13 October 18:12

      If its £10 more expensive with Amex travel then wait til Monday. But its a moot point as its not possible to be used on flights.

      • Rob says:
        13 Oct13 October 18:28

        The only published T&C are “Enrolment required. Eligible Cards only. Exclusions and Terms apply*.” Clearly we’ll see on Monday what else is there.

    • Vit says:
      13 Oct13 October 19:24

      I used amex travel credit back before. Once for flight (PG) back in November 2021 (£300/£50 credit back). Once for hotel back in March 2023 (£400/£100 credit back). Both times with no issues. I did not remember specific T&C though I must admit.

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