Unveiled: the 2025 Amex Platinum dining and Harvey Nichols cashback changes

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• Geoggy says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:30

  Any news on pro rata annual fee refunds ending?

• BJ says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:31

  I would love to know what proportion of applicants cancel Platinum after 1, 3, 7 and 12 months, and what proportion stay for 24+ months. My guess is that 24+ retention is less than one third of applicants. Perhaps you could include a question on which cards people hold long term in the next HfP survey.

  • ken says:

    31 Oct31 October 09:54

    These changes certainly worse for the people getting and dumping a card 2 months either side of the new year and rinsing the credits.

    They can hardly complain though.

    I suspect if people get thinking the priority pass has huge value, they are swiftly disabused of the notion.

• Emma says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:31

  Disappointing to see the 2x£100 split for global dining credit. Realistically, it’s hard to spend under £100 for 2 people at the international restaurants (I just went to Baieta in Paris, the cheapest set menu was £80pp so just in budget. Highly recommended if you’re in Paris!).

  Am I likely to be in one of the global dining cities once a year wanting to visit a fine dining restaurant? Yes. Twice? Probably not.

  Altough if they could add a Stansted lounge to the pre-book priority pass offer that would make me less disappointed!

• Domo1915 says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:34

  Off to Japan in 2025. There’s no list of restaurants, just “Pocket Concierge” any one any experience of using tge foreign dining credit against this?

  • John says:

    31 Oct31 October 09:54

    Restaurants listed on the Pocket Concierge website are eligible for the dining credit. Pocket Concierge will take the payment once the restaurant confirms your booking.

    You prepaid your meal via Pocket Concierge

  • BJ says:

    31 Oct31 October 09:59

    Google it in the forum, comes up quite regularly there. Also in the comments of the dining articles and the dining thread in forum.

  • FlyingChris says:

    31 Oct31 October 10:11

    Used it last year. Worked well. You pre-pay for the base price of the meal (charges card immediately) and then drinks + additions are charged on dining. If clever with your timing you can ‘pre-pay’ in 2024 and then pick up drinks with 2025 allowance. But I think Pocket Concierge can only book a certain number of months in advance.

    FYI if going to Tokyo we had a stunning meal at RAMA. Japanese/Italian Omakase sat at a counter in an intimate small restaurant with just a handful of other people. Also very reasonably priced for the quality.

    • meta says:

      31 Oct31 October 10:32

      You can book certain restaurants 3 months in advance. At many restaurants £100 will not cover 1 person’s meal. £100 is about ¥20,000.

      • meta says:

        31 Oct31 October 10:37

        Also beware that some restaurants will be cheaper if you book direct or another similar platform. In some cases even 20%.

  • N says:

    31 Oct31 October 11:26

    Absolutely no problems. You prepay and when you get to the restaurant you only pay for drinks. Hospitality in Tokyo is very high quality.

• Simon says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:38

  For everyone complaining about HN being overpriced – log in to your reward account, and add something to your basket. Then leave. And await a 10% discount voucher code to arrive. Seems to work every time.

• masaccio says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:38

  Just looking at the Atlanta restaurants where I am next May, but one is permanently closed and one is vegan (yes, I am a total omnivore snob).

• Paul says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:42

  I have to disagree with Rob on this. The rise in the benefit is welcome but the split means I am far less likely to dine high end as I have done till now. Not that that is always a good move. The Savoy Grill was used twice, the first time it was exceptional so I went back but that was a bloody awful experience and I won’t return. The overseas benefit similarly is a pain now that it is split.

  The HN benefit was useful for to offset a lunch before heading to the Royal Albert Hall and I have also just stocked up on Lakrids by Bulow.

  So overall for me a retrograde step but lets see what will replace HN going forward.

  • Laura Powell says:

    2 Nov2 November 20:50

    Had to check what “ Lakrids by Bulow” are 😂. There should be a forum to discuss what little flights of fancy people use their £50 on. I’ve bought EDT for a present, used the credit at Burger & Lobster in store at Knightsbridge and when this re-subscribing thing settles down I plan on getting an Atkinsons perfume travel set. What about others?

• Luca M says:

  31 Oct31 October 09:44

  I have made great use of the dining credit so far, both home and abroad, selecting Michelin star restaurants I wanted to visit anyway. I for one do not feel I will be better off: whilst I also spend a considerable amount of time abroad, I have not found a great option of interesting restaurants in most countries I have visited in the last two years, and so it would probably be the one trip with the wife where we would have spent £150, so potentially we would be £50 worst off. Similarly in UK, £150 off a £350-£400 special dinner bill would be better for me that going at least twice a year and needing to basically spend more than I would have had before. I also made use of the HN credit by buying gift card in store each 6 month and then using them on a nice bottle of prestige champagne (which was anyway overpriced compared to Harrods, Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason). But basically, it looks like the HN is going without being replaced and the £100 is moving to the Dining credit, together with the 6 months T&C split.

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