Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is our top choice for your first ‘miles and points’ credit card. It has no annual fee for the first year, comes with four free airport lounge passes and £120 of annual Deliveroo credit and has a very generous sign-up bonus of 20,000 Membership Rewards points.
You can read our full review of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card here. You can apply for the card here.
American Express is about to announce another round of product changes. These will impact ALL credit cards (British Airways, Starwood, Nectar, Costco, Preferred Rewards Gold etc). The good news is .....
American Express is about to announce another round of product changes. These will impact ALL credit cards .....
22 Jul 201922 July 2019 • 67 comments
10 day ago we wrote about a new spend-based bonus promotion launched by American Express for many people – but not everyone – who have Preferred Rewards Gold or The Platinum Card. The .....
10 day ago we wrote about a new spend-based bonus promotion launched by American Express for many people .....
11 Jul 201911 July 2019 • 1 comment
If our review of Malaysia Airlines Business Suite has got you interested in their service (a review of Business Class follows next week), the airline has just launched a 15% discount code for UK .....
If our review of Malaysia Airlines Business Suite has got you interested in their service (a review of .....
6 Jul 20196 July 2019
American Express has launched a new bonus points offer for many people – but not everyone – who have Preferred Rewards Gold or The Platinum Card. The deal may also be available to .....
American Express has launched a new bonus points offer for many people – but not everyone – who .....
2 Jul 20192 July 2019 • 151 comments
American Express has teamed up with Wimbledon to offer a variety of amenities during the 2019 tournament, which starts on Monday. This includes a members lounge. You can see the details on the .....
American Express has teamed up with Wimbledon to offer a variety of amenities during the 2019 tournament, .....
29 Jun 201929 June 2019 • 30 comments
A new wave of American Express cashback deals has been launched. You can see what you are targeted for by visiting the Amex website and looking at the ‘Offers’ tab on your online statement .....
A new wave of American Express cashback deals has been launched. You can see what you are targeted for by .....
25 Jun 201925 June 2019 • 81 comments
I was having a look at the reservations process for the American Express lounge at the O2 Arena last week, and noticed that it has changed entirely in the last year or so. I thought it was worth .....
I was having a look at the reservations process for the American Express lounge at the O2 Arena last week, and .....
30 May 201930 May 2019 • 21 comments
This is the second part of our two articles on how American Express supplementary cards work. In Part One earlier in the week we looked at why you might want to add a supplementary card to your .....
This is the second part of our two articles on how American Express supplementary cards work. In Part One .....
4 May 20194 May 2019 • 38 comments
I wasn’t planning to do another American Express article this week, but something came up in the comments to the article on Monday (and comes up in my emails with worrying regularity) which made .....
I wasn’t planning to do another American Express article this week, but something came up in the .....
2 May 20192 May 2019 • 111 comments
Why should you get the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold credit card? Today, in our ‘Top 10 Reasons’ series, I want to look at the top 10 reasons to apply for an American Express .....
Why should you get the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold credit card? Today, in our ‘Top 10 .....
1 May 20191 May 2019
We have a long history of writing about points-earning wine deals on Head for Points. Unfortunately the days when Tesco Wine would offer 1,500 Clubcard points (3,600 Avios) for buying 12 bottles of .....
We have a long history of writing about points-earning wine deals on Head for Points. Unfortunately the days .....
26 Apr 201926 April 2019
American Express has launched a new cashback offer with taxi app Gett which operates in London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Coventry, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle. The offer may or may not .....
American Express has launched a new cashback offer with taxi app Gett which operates in London, Bristol, .....
25 Apr 201925 April 2019 • 168 comments
I wanted to flag the excellent Wheely deal again today. A lot of Head for Points readers have taken advantage of this since we first mentioned it, and feedback from those who have used the service .....
I wanted to flag the excellent Wheely deal again today. A lot of Head for Points readers have taken .....
25 Apr 201925 April 2019
What I thought might be interesting to look at today, in very mercenary terms, would be to rank the best UK travel credit card sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard cash. How do I value my miles and .....
What I thought might be interesting to look at today, in very mercenary terms, would be to rank the best UK .....
22 Apr 201922 April 2019 • 117 comments
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