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.
For the last 20+ months, Amazon has been offering an exclusive £15 discount code for Amex Gold, Green and Platinum charge card holders when they spend £25 or more. This offer expires on 30th June .....
For the last 20+ months, Amazon has been offering an exclusive £15 discount code for Amex Gold, Green and .....
19 Jun 201819 June 2018 • 128 comments
A ‘£5 cashback on a £50 Esso transaction’ cashback deal has appeared on a lot of American Express cards. You need to look under the ‘Offers’ section of your online .....
A ‘£5 cashback on a £50 Esso transaction’ cashback deal has appeared on a lot of American .....
1 Jun 20181 June 2018
What is the best Avios credit card? With the Lloyds Avios Rewards credit card now closed to new applicants, I wanted to take another look at the other remaining options for earning Avios points from .....
What is the best Avios credit card? With the Lloyds Avios Rewards credit card now closed to new applicants, .....
7 May 20187 May 2018 • 124 comments
Harrods has launched a generous cashback offer with American Express. If you are targeted for this (log in to your online account and look at ‘Offers’ on each of your statement pages) you .....
Harrods has launched a generous cashback offer with American Express. If you are targeted for this (log in to .....
3 May 20183 May 2018
Overnight on Wednesday, with no advance notice, American Express withdrew the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold charge card. The good news – with sighs of relief all round – is that .....
Overnight on Wednesday, with no advance notice, American Express withdrew the American Express Preferred .....
26 Apr 201826 April 2018 • 313 comments
We have spent a lot of time this week discussing the new (and still nameless) merged Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and The Ritz-Carlton Rewards loyalty scheme. If you missed it, this .....
We have spent a lot of time this week discussing the new (and still nameless) merged Marriott Rewards, .....
20 Apr 201820 April 2018 • 82 comments
It is time for our regular round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and hotel credit card sign-up deals. Finally, after a few relatively dull months, we have had some .....
It is time for our regular round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and hotel .....
16 Apr 201816 April 2018 • 71 comments
There are a lot of references on Head for Points to American Express Membership Rewards, mainly linked to articles on their charge cards. It has been a while since I looked at the programme in .....
There are a lot of references on Head for Points to American Express Membership Rewards, mainly linked to .....
8 Apr 20188 April 2018 • 90 comments
Council tax bills for the new tax year are dropping through letterboxes at the moment. For a lot of people these are chunky (£2,000 is not uncommon in London) and obviously it would be great to pick .....
Council tax bills for the new tax year are dropping through letterboxes at the moment. For a lot of people .....
26 Mar 201826 March 2018 • 43 comments
Yesterday we wrote about apparent changes to the referral bonus on American Express Preferred Rewards Gold and Gold Business charge cards. Instead of receiving 22,000 Membership Rewards points on .....
Yesterday we wrote about apparent changes to the referral bonus on American Express Preferred Rewards Gold and .....
24 Mar 201824 March 2018 • 91 comments
Amex is clearly reading our articles. The refer a friend rules for American Express Preferred Rewards Gold have been changed back this morning. They now say, as they used to: “Please note, .....
Amex is clearly reading our articles. The refer a friend rules for American Express Preferred Rewards Gold .....
23 Mar 201823 March 2018 • 126 comments
For the last 18 months, Amazon has been offering an exclusive £15 discount code for Amex Gold, Green and Platinum charge card holders when they spend £25 or more. This offer expires on 31st March .....
For the last 18 months, Amazon has been offering an exclusive £15 discount code for Amex Gold, Green and .....
20 Mar 201820 March 2018
It is time for our regular round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and hotel credit card sign-up deals. To be honest, there is more ‘going’ than .....
It is time for our regular round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and .....
15 Mar 201815 March 2018 • 106 comments
The Financial Times carried an article yesterday (paywall, or free if you google ‘Amex to woo retailers with biggest fee cut in 20 years’) in which the new American Express CEO talks of .....
The Financial Times carried an article yesterday (paywall, or free if you google ‘Amex to woo retailers .....
13 Mar 201813 March 2018
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