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.
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
As we covered yesterday, American Express has announced a 2nd round of ‘no notice’ changes to its personal credit and charge cards. The details are here. This follows the changes made .....
As we covered yesterday, American Express has announced a 2nd round of ‘no notice’ changes to its .....
17 Apr 201917 April 2019 • 67 comments
Last month American Express made some aggressive – and frankly confusing – changes to the rules regarding who qualifies for a sign-up bonus on its personal UK cards. My summary of the .....
Last month American Express made some aggressive – and frankly confusing – changes to the rules .....
16 Apr 201916 April 2019 • 494 comments
I get quite a few emails from holders of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold credit card asking what they should do after their first year. With the recent changes to the American Express .....
I get quite a few emails from holders of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold credit card asking what .....
14 Apr 201914 April 2019 • 202 comments
‘Shop Small’ is one of the most popular American Express promotions. Running annually in the Autumn, it offers £5 cashback every time you spend £10 at a designated ‘small .....
‘Shop Small’ is one of the most popular American Express promotions. Running annually in the .....
28 Mar 201928 March 2019
A couple of weeks ago we highlighted a very generous deal being offered by British watch brand Bremont via American Express. If you were targeted by American Express for this offer and signed up, you .....
A couple of weeks ago we highlighted a very generous deal being offered by British watch brand Bremont via .....
28 Mar 201928 March 2019
There has been a lot to digest about the new American Express sign-up bonus rules in the last few days. Apart from everything we have discussed so far – see here and here – there was .....
There has been a lot to digest about the new American Express sign-up bonus rules in the last few days. .....
24 Mar 201924 March 2019 • 164 comments
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