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.
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this .....
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If .....
6 Apr 20136 April 2013 • 8 comments
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If you didn’t take part this time, don’t worry as I will be re-running this .....
Over Easter, I will be answering a number of the reader questions that were submitted via this article. If .....
26 Mar 201326 March 2013
This is the 2nd of my series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether of not they are worth applying for. These articles will be linked to the relevant sections .....
This is the 2nd of my series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether .....
25 Mar 201325 March 2013 • 20 comments
I first wrote on this topic back in November 2012. However, with major changes, I thought it was a good time to re-run the analysis. Our ‘Credit Card Offers’ tab lists all of the card deals .....
I first wrote on this topic back in November 2012. However, with major changes, I thought it was a good time .....
18 Mar 201318 March 2013 • 14 comments
An email from Gerry, to whom I am grateful for the examples below, highlighted this interesting titbit which may be useful to some of you. Given that the miles and points earned on Amex cards are .....
An email from Gerry, to whom I am grateful for the examples below, highlighted this interesting titbit which .....
9 Mar 20139 March 2013 • 21 comments
A massacre! Is there any other way to describe what has happened to the sign-up bonus on the American Express Platinum card which has plunged overnight from 50,000 Membership Rewards points (=50,000 .....
A massacre! Is there any other way to describe what has happened to the sign-up bonus on the American .....
5 Mar 20135 March 2013 • 20 comments
March is here, and with it are two great new Foursquare deals. As was hinted at last month, two new deals have been launched with Debenhams and Fenwick / Bentalls. Both work the same way as the .....
March is here, and with it are two great new Foursquare deals. As was hinted at last month, two new deals have .....
2 Mar 20132 March 2013 • 33 comments
Reader John emailed Amex last week to cancel his Platinum charge card. When they responded, Amex tried to persuade him not to cancel but to downgrade to a new ‘secret’ card – Gold .....
Reader John emailed Amex last week to cancel his Platinum charge card. When they responded, Amex tried to .....
11 Feb 201311 February 2013 • 3 comments
Last year I ran a number of articles about American Express Currency Exchange, the new bureau de change partner of British Airways Executive Club. See here, here and here. What we discovered was that .....
Last year I ran a number of articles about American Express Currency Exchange, the new bureau de change .....
4 Feb 20134 February 2013 • 34 comments
I have updated the ‘Credit Cards Offers’ page for February. As with January, it was one of the quicker jobs I’ve done on this page because there have been no major changes since the .....
I have updated the ‘Credit Cards Offers’ page for February. As with January, it was one of the .....
2 Feb 20132 February 2013 • 24 comments
Some people received this offer by email yesterday. However, it is NOT targetted and is described on the Amex Currency Exchange website, and so must be open to all. It is not a bad deal and .....
Some people received this offer by email yesterday. However, it is NOT targetted and is described on the .....
29 Jan 201329 January 2013 • 50 comments
I must admit, I was a little surprised when – like many of you – I was emailed on Saturday with details of the new Amex / Foursquare promotions that will run in February. Did they learn .....
I must admit, I was a little surprised when – like many of you – I was emailed on Saturday with .....
27 Jan 201327 January 2013 • 92 comments
A lot of people with an American Express charge card got an email yesterday offering them a conversion bonus if they moved their Membership Rewards points into airline miles. There seem to be two .....
A lot of people with an American Express charge card got an email yesterday offering them a conversion bonus .....
17 Jan 201317 January 2013 • 26 comments
If you read this article from a few days ago, I am pleased to say that the promotion is working exactly as planned. The deal is that Amex Platinum cardholders can get 5,000 bonus Membership Rewards .....
If you read this article from a few days ago, I am pleased to say that the promotion is working exactly as .....
16 Jan 201316 January 2013 • 41 comments
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