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The Platinum Card is the most premium credit card that American Express offers openly to the general public in the UK.
It comes with a number of benefits including travel and car insurance, hotel status with chains such as Hilton, Marriott, Radisson and Melia, airport lounge access with Priority Pass, £400 of restaurant credit each year and much more.
This article looks at whether the American Express Platinum Card is worth the £650 annual fee.
You can read our full review of The Platinum Card by American Express here. You can apply for the card here.
American Express is currently offering the biggest sign-up bonus ever seen in the UK for a payment card. The offer ends on 9th April. This means that you only have a few days left to decide if you are .....
American Express is currently offering the biggest sign-up bonus ever seen in the UK for a payment card. The .....
2 Apr 20212 April 2021 • 16 comments
A regular question I get asked by readers is how American Express Business Platinum differs from The Platinum Card, apart from the obvious £20 difference in annual fee. As American Express Business .....
A regular question I get asked by readers is how American Express Business Platinum differs from The Platinum .....
30 Mar 202130 March 2021 • 48 comments
One of the benefits of having American Express Business Platinum or Business Gold is the annual Dell credit. You MUST opt-in via this page of the American Express website. Once opted in, you will .....
One of the benefits of having American Express Business Platinum or Business Gold is the annual Dell credit. .....
30 Mar 202130 March 2021
American Express is closing its ‘Departures’ travel magazine sent to Platinum and Centurion cardholders, as well as the dedicated ‘Centurion’ magazine. This New York Post .....
American Express is closing its ‘Departures’ travel magazine sent to Platinum and Centurion .....
29 Mar 202129 March 2021
Gas and electricity is a substantial monthly outlay for most people, but it is rare that you find a way of putting the cost of gas and electricity onto an American Express card. This is unfortunate, .....
Gas and electricity is a substantial monthly outlay for most people, but it is rare that you find a way of .....
28 Mar 202128 March 2021 • 149 comments
On 21st March 2019, American Express unveiled major changes to its rules on who could obtain a sign-up bonus on its cards. Our article from that day is here – it ended up getting over 72,000 .....
On 21st March 2019, American Express unveiled major changes to its rules on who could obtain a sign-up bonus .....
22 Mar 202122 March 2021 • 100 comments
If you’re looking to get yourself some hotel status cards quickly, there is no easier route than getting The Platinum Card from American Express. It comes with SIX hotel status cards. Five .....
If you’re looking to get yourself some hotel status cards quickly, there is no easier route than getting .....
20 Mar 202120 March 2021 • 22 comments
American Express is currently offering the biggest sign-up bonus ever seen in the UK for a payment card. The offer ends on 9th April. You have three weeks left to decide if you are going to jump in. .....
American Express is currently offering the biggest sign-up bonus ever seen in the UK for a payment card. The .....
19 Mar 202119 March 2021 • 41 comments
One interesting and often-forgotten benefit of the American Express Business Gold and American Express Business Platinum is annual Dell credit. You MUST opt-in via this page of the American Express .....
One interesting and often-forgotten benefit of the American Express Business Gold and American Express .....
15 Mar 202115 March 2021 • 4 comments
Dropbox has been running various cashback offers for American Express cardholders for some time. If you got used to seeing their logo in your online list of offers, you may have failed to notice that .....
Dropbox has been running various cashback offers for American Express cardholders for some time. If you got .....
5 Mar 20215 March 2021 • 40 comments
After a lockdown-driven hiatus, new American Express cashback offers have started to appear this week. Many Marriott Bonvoy American Express cardholders, including myself, have an easy win – .....
After a lockdown-driven hiatus, new American Express cashback offers have started to appear this week. Many .....
2 Mar 20212 March 2021
It’s time for our annual rank of the best UK travel credit card sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard cash. How do I value my miles and points? The biggest question mark is over the value of the .....
It’s time for our annual rank of the best UK travel credit card sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard .....
28 Feb 202128 February 2021 • 23 comments
American Express has brought back its very interesting offer for holders of American Express Business Gold and American Express Business Platinum. If you use your points for statement credit (ie .....
American Express has brought back its very interesting offer for holders of American Express Business Gold and .....
28 Feb 202128 February 2021 • 32 comments
As we announced earlier this week American Express has launched the biggest sign-up bonuses ever seen on a UK payment card. These are, genuinely, on a scale unlike anything we have seen before. If you .....
As we announced earlier this week American Express has launched the biggest sign-up bonuses ever seen on a UK .....
26 Feb 202126 February 2021 • 57 comments
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