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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.
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You can get £5 Amex cashback deal when you next use Paypal. A Paypal cashback deal has appeared on a lot of American Express cards. You need to look at the online ‘Offers’ section for .....
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American Express has launched a new cashback deal with Heathrow Express. It is showing on my British Airways Premium Plus card but not on any others. Remember that you must click ‘Save to .....
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This is my review of the American Express Platinum charge card, also known as The Platinum Card from American Express. It is part of my series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards .....
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26 Oct 201826 October 2018 • 99 comments
American Express has launched an ‘extra night’ offer with Preferred Hotels. You get a third, fourth, or fifth night free when you book two, three, or four consecutive nights at selected .....
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On Tuesday, we wrote about how American Express and Amazon have launched another of their occasional cashback offers. And it is a generous one. If you are targeted, you will receive £5 cashback on .....
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13 Oct 201813 October 2018 • 30 comments
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9 Oct 20189 October 2018 • 160 comments
Regular readers will know that I am very fond of the new Plaza Premium Lounge in Heathrow Terminal 5. See my article here for example. Even though I have British Airways status, I still pop in .....
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6 Oct 20186 October 2018 • 53 comments
American Express Shop Small is returning in December. ‘Shop Small’ is an annual American Express promotion which can prove very lucrative. You receive £5 cashback for every purchase .....
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6 Oct 20186 October 2018 • 110 comments
American Express has launched a new cashback deal in association with Selfridges. You are likely, but not guaranteed, to find this under the ‘Offers’ tab of your online statement page on .....
American Express has launched a new cashback deal in association with Selfridges. You are likely, but not .....
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American Express Travel has launched a new cashback credit promotion. There are a couple of versions. The most generous, which I got, is a whopping £200 back on a £600 spend via Amex Travel. The .....
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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. Our directory of the 16 main UK travel credit cards can be .....
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