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American Express Gold card

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.

This article explains in greater detail why the American Express Gold card is the best credit card for a miles and points beginner.

You can read our full review of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card here.  You can apply for the card here.

What can you do with American Express Membership Rewards points?

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 .....

by Rob Burgess90 comments

What are the best credit card deals for 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 .....

by Rob Burgess106 comments

American Express announces a global move to lower merchant fees

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 .....

by Rob Burgess

New American Express and Emirates cashback deal launched

Emirates has launched a decent cashback deal with American Express although not many people appear to have it. There seem to be a few variants so you will need to look through the .....

Emirates has launched a decent cashback deal with American Express although not many people appear to have .....

by Rob Burgess

Get £10 American Express cashback on Heathrow Express train tickets

American Express has launched a new cashback deal with Heathrow Express. It is showing on my Platinum charge card and my British Airways Premium Plus card but not my Starwood Amex. You get £10 back .....

American Express has launched a new cashback deal with Heathrow Express. It is showing on my Platinum charge .....

by Rob Burgess71 comments

What are the most valuable UK credit card sign-up bonuses?

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 .....

by Rob Burgess118 comments

Learn which Amex cards you can get, based on the cards you have

We don’t do very many ‘first principles’ articles on Head for Points.  A number of recent emails, plus a discussion in the comments section on Saturday from a reader who had been .....

We don’t do very many ‘first principles’ articles on Head for Points.  A number of recent .....

by Rob Burgess191 comments

Get £5 off at Aldi with American Express

If you missed our article last week, American Express is now accepted at Aldi. A ‘£5 cashback when you spend £10’ offer appeared on many Amex cards yesterday – I have it on my .....

If you missed our article last week, American Express is now accepted at Aldi. A ‘£5 cashback when you .....

by Rob Burgess100 comments

Does Aldi in the UK now take American Express cards?

It looks like Aldi is starting to target American Express cardholders.  There have been rumours about the discount supermarket starting to accept Amex but as we couldn’t find anything online, I .....

It looks like Aldi is starting to target American Express cardholders.  There have been rumours about the .....

by Anika Burnett99 comments

Which airline credit card is best for long term spending?

Many of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focused on sign-up bonuses.  Get a card, spend the minimum required to trigger the bonus, cancel the card, move on.  After a period, you .....

Many of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focused on sign-up bonuses.  Get a card, spend the .....

by Rob Burgess337 comments

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