Get £75 back on a £300 spend at selected UK hotels as ‘Amex Stays’ returns

American Express has brought back ‘Amex Stays’, a generous cashback offer covering 40+ UK hotels and a handful of rather random European properties!

This is totally separate to the multiple ‘big brand’ hotel cashback deals we’ve covered in recent weeks.

Importantly, it is official that pre-paid hotel rooms WILL count for the offer. This allows you to book during the relatively short offer period and stay later.

It’s a simple deal:

• you will receive £75 cashback when you spend £300 IN ONE TRANSACTION with a participating hotel

• you can only earn the cashback once, in total – this is a change to last year when you could earn it once per hotel

• the offer runs until 1st June 2025

• pre-paid AND ‘pay on departure’ bookings count, so pre-paid online bookings for future stays are ok as long as the charge is taken by 1st June

• you need to opt-in for the offer via the ‘Offers’ tab of your card

• you will need to be an ‘eligible’ cardholder to see the offer – we’ll assume that Marriott Bonvoy American Express cardholders won’t be included

Which hotels are participating?

There is a PDF showing participating brands here.

Here are some of the notable brands, but for the full list click the link above. To add some value, I’ve listed the loyalty programme each is associated with and a link to any HfP review.

For me, the key opportunity would be for anyone working towards Global Hotel Alliance top tier status, which only requires stays at three different brands. With quite a few GHA hotels taking part, this offer would be a way of ticking a brand off and would potentially double up with any GHA promotion running.

Some of the independent hotels listed, such as Broadwick Soho, may be bookable via World of Hyatt as part of their Mr & Mrs Smith deal. Do check before booking.

• Hotel Cafe Royal, London – website here – HfP review here – Global Hotel Alliance (scheme review here)

• Clermont (x2) – website here – no loyalty scheme

• Broadwick Soho – website here – no loyalty scheme

• art’otel Hoxton – website here – Radisson Rewards

• Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London – website here – Jumeirah One (scheme review here) – image above

• Nobu Hotel, Portman Square – website here – no loyalty scheme

• One Aldwych, London – website here – no loyalty scheme

• One Hundred Shoreditch, London – website here – HfP review here – Global Hotel Alliance

• Sea Containers London – website here – HfP review here – Global Hotel Alliance – image above

• The Doyle Collection (x3 London) – website here – Global Hotel Alliance

• Thistle Hotels (x8 London, Luton) – website here – no loyalty scheme. Our review of Thistle Heathrow is here but good luck trying to spend £300 there in one transaction!

There are many more hotels too, as you can see on the full list here.

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