Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
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 has launched a series of special offers for cardholders, offering cashback on purchases at selected retailers. What is different this time is that the discounts ONLY seem to appear on .....
American Express has launched a series of special offers for cardholders, offering cashback on purchases at .....
18 Nov 201318 November 2013 • 49 comments
There are now 11 UK credit cards which earn Avios points at a rate of at least 1 Avios per £1 on an American Express card. This is what you now have to choose from: British Airways American .....
There are now 11 UK credit cards which earn Avios points at a rate of at least 1 Avios per £1 on an American .....
15 Nov 201315 November 2013 • 85 comments
Two months ago, I ran this article on ‘Small Business Saturday’. This has been running in the US for a few years, and is a nationwide attempt to promote smaller retailers. It is of .....
Two months ago, I ran this article on ‘Small Business Saturday’. This has been running in the US .....
9 Nov 20139 November 2013 • 15 comments
In August I ran an article on ‘What is your credit card ‘end game’ strategy?‘. This was fundamentally about which cards you should, long term, end up keeping in your wallet, .....
In August I ran an article on ‘What is your credit card ‘end game’ strategy?‘. This .....
4 Nov 20134 November 2013 • 59 comments
The majority of the credit card articles on Head for Points are focussed on exploiting sign-up bonuses. Get a card, spend the minimum required to trigger the bonus, cancel the card, move on. .....
The majority of the credit card articles on Head for Points are focussed on exploiting sign-up bonuses. .....
30 Oct 201330 October 2013 • 36 comments
Reader Dan dropped me a note to say that he had just renewed his car tax, and was pleasantly surprised to see that the DVLA website is now accepting American Express for payment. This is quite rare .....
Reader Dan dropped me a note to say that he had just renewed his car tax, and was pleasantly surprised to see .....
22 Oct 201322 October 2013 • 32 comments
If you have an Amex Gold or Amex Platinum charge card, and are opted in to postal mailshots from Amex, you should have received the Membership Rewards Christmas offers brochure recently. There is a .....
If you have an Amex Gold or Amex Platinum charge card, and are opted in to postal mailshots from Amex, you .....
15 Oct 201315 October 2013 • 8 comments
This seems like easy free money, to be honest. American Express is offering a £5 statement credit when you connect your Amex card to your TripAdvisor account and write one review on the site. The .....
This seems like easy free money, to be honest. American Express is offering a £5 statement credit when you .....
9 Oct 20139 October 2013 • 50 comments
I gave Accor a bit of a hard time the other day for reducing the conversion ratio of LeClub Accorhotels points to Avios points without notice. They deserved it. At the same time, though, Accor has .....
I gave Accor a bit of a hard time the other day for reducing the conversion ratio of LeClub Accorhotels points .....
8 Oct 20138 October 2013 • 24 comments
American Express and the Hyatt London Churchill hotel are jointly sponsoring a weekend of focus group / relationship building events later this month. This is happening over the weekend of Friday .....
American Express and the Hyatt London Churchill hotel are jointly sponsoring a weekend of focus group / .....
7 Oct 20137 October 2013 • 10 comments
Over the last couple of years, Avis and Hertz have opened up their loyalty schemes, removing joining fees and eliminating tiers. This means that the main benefits offered by premium credit cards .....
Over the last couple of years, Avis and Hertz have opened up their loyalty schemes, removing joining fees and .....
1 Oct 20131 October 2013 • 16 comments
Not sure what else I can add to my original post! Except that, at the time of writing on Saturday evening, the £20 off code (ACHICA20AMEX) is working again. For orders under £20, you don’t pay .....
Not sure what else I can add to my original post! Except that, at the time of writing on Saturday evening, the .....
28 Sep 201328 September 2013 • 48 comments
American Express has rolled out two new cashback offers for holders of Amex-issued Amex cards, which includes MBNA and Lloyds Bank-issued Amex cards as well as the ‘official’ ones. The .....
American Express has rolled out two new cashback offers for holders of Amex-issued Amex cards, which includes .....
28 Sep 201328 September 2013 • 1 comment
If you have an American Express Platinum card you should have received the latest emailed edition of Platinum Life yesterday. Tucked away at the bottom, so you might have missed it, was a mention of a .....
If you have an American Express Platinum card you should have received the latest emailed edition of Platinum .....
20 Sep 201320 September 2013 • 99 comments
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