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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.
I was having a look at the reservations process for the American Express lounge at the O2 Arena last week, and noticed that it has changed entirely in the last year or so. I thought it was worth .....
I was having a look at the reservations process for the American Express lounge at the O2 Arena last week, and .....
30 May 201930 May 2019 • 21 comments
American Express is closing the ‘Preferred Golf’ programme. Holders of The Platinum Card from American Express are losing a benefit from 30th June. It seems they forgot to mention this .....
American Express is closing the ‘Preferred Golf’ programme. Holders of The Platinum Card from .....
28 May 201928 May 2019
Yesterday we broke the exclusive news that the UK version of The Platinum Card from American Express will see big changes on 11th June. You should read my full article on the Amex Platinum UK changes .....
Yesterday we broke the exclusive news that the UK version of The Platinum Card from American Express will see .....
14 May 201914 May 2019 • 324 comments
American Express is planning yet more changes to its UK card portfolio, this time on The Platinum Card. For once, you are getting four weeks notice of what is going to happen. Whether you are a .....
American Express is planning yet more changes to its UK card portfolio, this time on The Platinum Card. For .....
13 May 201913 May 2019 • 665 comments
This is the second part of our two articles on how American Express supplementary cards work. In Part One earlier in the week we looked at why you might want to add a supplementary card to your .....
This is the second part of our two articles on how American Express supplementary cards work. In Part One .....
4 May 20194 May 2019 • 38 comments
I wasn’t planning to do another American Express article this week, but something came up in the comments to the article on Monday (and comes up in my emails with worrying regularity) which made .....
I wasn’t planning to do another American Express article this week, but something came up in the .....
2 May 20192 May 2019 • 111 comments
Why should you get the The Platinum Card from American Express? Today, in our ‘Top 10 Reasons’ series, I want to look at the top 10 reasons to apply for an American Express Platinum charge .....
Why should you get the The Platinum Card from American Express? Today, in our ‘Top 10 Reasons’ .....
30 Apr 201930 April 2019
Following the recent changes to the American Express sign-up bonus rules, imposing a 24 month gap between bonuses, and the reduction in the sign-up bonus on Preferred Rewards Gold and American Express .....
Following the recent changes to the American Express sign-up bonus rules, imposing a 24 month gap between .....
29 Apr 201929 April 2019 • 171 comments
We have a long history of writing about points-earning wine deals on Head for Points. Unfortunately the days when Tesco Wine would offer 1,500 Clubcard points (3,600 Avios) for buying 12 bottles of .....
We have a long history of writing about points-earning wine deals on Head for Points. Unfortunately the days .....
26 Apr 201926 April 2019
American Express has launched a new cashback offer with taxi app Gett which operates in London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Coventry, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle. The offer may or may not .....
American Express has launched a new cashback offer with taxi app Gett which operates in London, Bristol, .....
25 Apr 201925 April 2019 • 168 comments
I wanted to flag the excellent Wheely deal again today. A lot of Head for Points readers have taken advantage of this since we first mentioned it, and feedback from those who have used the service .....
I wanted to flag the excellent Wheely deal again today. A lot of Head for Points readers have taken .....
25 Apr 201925 April 2019
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 .....
22 Apr 201922 April 2019 • 117 comments
Priority Pass, the lounge access card which comes free with American Express Platinum (or you can buy one here) has a few interesting quirks as we cover from time to time. Reader Susan has just .....
Priority Pass, the lounge access card which comes free with American Express Platinum (or you can buy one .....
21 Apr 201921 April 2019
This is our review of the Gleneagles hotel and resort in Scotland. We spent three nights at the Gleneagles resort in Scotland last week, at the end of a 10 day holiday. We thought we should end the .....
This is our review of the Gleneagles hotel and resort in Scotland. We spent three nights at the Gleneagles .....
19 Apr 201919 April 2019 • 63 comments
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