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American Express Gold card

The American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Credit Card 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 Credit Card here.  You can apply for the card here.

Six new statement credit deals from American Express, including Debenhams

American Express has launched another batch of cashback offers available. You need to activate these offers before using them. If you have an Amex-issued Amex card: On a desktop PC, log in to your .....

American Express has launched another batch of cashback offers available. You need to activate these offers .....

by Rob Burgess13 comments

Lots of free Hailo taxi credit for American Express cardholders

Following on from their recent promotion (which Head for Points readers exhausted within a few hours), American Express and London taxi app Hailo have launched another collaboration. This one could be .....

Following on from their recent promotion (which Head for Points readers exhausted within a few hours), .....

by Rob Burgess29 comments

American Express USA bans card churning …. UK to follow?

Follow a number of rumours in recent weeks, American Express’s USA operation has now confirmed that card ‘churning’ will not be allowed from 2nd May. Here is the statement that it .....

Follow a number of rumours in recent weeks, American Express’s USA operation has now confirmed that card .....

by Rob Burgess93 comments

New Amex deal: £50 off £250 spend at Hilton hotels

You may remember last Winter that American Express launched a partnership with TripAdvisor.  They were paying £5 to every Amex cardholder who linked their American Express card to their UK .....

You may remember last Winter that American Express launched a partnership with TripAdvisor.  They were paying .....

by Rob Burgess49 comments

Three new £10 cashback deals from American Express launched

American Express has launched another couple of cashback offers available exclusively to holders of Amex-issued Amex cards. For the purposes of Head for Points, this means Gold, Platinum, SPG and BA .....

American Express has launched another couple of cashback offers available exclusively to holders of .....

by Rob Burgess16 comments

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

Our ‘Credit Card Offers’ tab lists all of the card deals currently available. What I thought might be interesting, though, would be to rank the sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard cash. Put .....

Our ‘Credit Card Offers’ tab lists all of the card deals currently available. What I thought might be .....

by Rob Burgess93 comments

What are the best credit card deals for February 2014?

I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for February. The big event during January was the launch of the temporary sign-up bonus on the Virgin Flying .....

I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for February. The big event .....

by Rob Burgess44 comments

How to pay your January tax bill with an American Express card

If you are self-employed, 31st January is the day that you will need to make your final tax payment for the 2012-2013 tax year. HMRC now accepts credit cards for tax payment.  However, they do .....

If you are self-employed, 31st January is the day that you will need to make your final tax payment for the .....

by Rob Burgess55 comments

New year, new credit card – various sign-up bonuses are disappearing soon

If one of your New Year resolutions was to churn your credit card collection in order to pick up a generous sign-up bonus, there are a number of offers which are ending soon and are well worth .....

If one of your New Year resolutions was to churn your credit card collection in order to pick up a generous .....

by Rob Burgess32 comments

Is Lloyds Avios Rewards now the best credit card for FX spend?

The Lloyds Avios Rewards credit card was a game-changer when it launched in October.  For the first time, we had a credit which offered NO FOREIGN EXCHANGE FEE – AND gave you Avios points for .....

The Lloyds Avios Rewards credit card was a game-changer when it launched in October.  For the first time, we .....

by Rob Burgess34 comments

Get 1,200 bonus Membership Rewards points for £400 spend at Amex Travel

American Express Travel has launched a decent bonus promotion for anyone spending £400 or more at their website. To qualify for the 1,200 point bonus, you need to spend £400 or more on pre-paid .....

American Express Travel has launched a decent bonus promotion for anyone spending £400 or more at their .....

by Rob Burgess10 comments

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