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.
My wife was recently targetted for the Priority Club Black Visa card. This was for the offer that I highlight on the ‘Credit Cards Update‘ page – 40,000 Priority Club points (good .....
My wife was recently targetted for the Priority Club Black Visa card. This was for the offer that I .....
8 Aug 20128 August 2012 • 3 comments
There are three types of loyalty credit card: The card you actually use day-to-day because of its good earning rate in a programme you value The card you get purely for the sign-up bonus, and cancel .....
There are three types of loyalty credit card: The card you actually use day-to-day because of its good earning .....
2 Aug 20122 August 2012 • 6 comments
With BMI’s departure from Star Alliance, those of us who regularly fly on Star Alliance member airlines are having to look for a new home for their miles. One of the key determinants, for me, .....
With BMI’s departure from Star Alliance, those of us who regularly fly on Star Alliance member airlines .....
23 Jul 201223 July 2012 • 4 comments
Today is July 16th, which means that its the day that the changes to the American Express Platinum Card benefits come into force. To say that Amex’s changes to the Platinum card this year have .....
Today is July 16th, which means that its the day that the changes to the American Express Platinum Card .....
16 Jul 201216 July 2012 • 14 comments
American Airlines has halved the sign-up bonus on its American Express and Visa credit card double-pack. The cards, issued by MBNA, now offer only 5,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles for .....
American Airlines has halved the sign-up bonus on its American Express and Visa credit card double-pack. .....
11 Jul 201211 July 2012 • 3 comments
When I wrote my piece on Friday about getting family and partners to apply for American Express cards so that you could both benefit from referral bonuses, I forgot to mention one additional benefit .....
When I wrote my piece on Friday about getting family and partners to apply for American Express cards so that .....
8 Jul 20128 July 2012
The credit card posts on Head for Points are focussed on the sign-up and ongoing bonuses that you can get for applying personally for the various loyalty credit cards. These are, at .....
The credit card posts on Head for Points are focussed on the sign-up and ongoing bonuses that you can get for .....
6 Jul 20126 July 2012 • 5 comments
Breaking news. American Express has changed the sign-up bonuses and the T&C’s for receiving them on its charge cards. The net result is to make the bonuses harder for existing customers .....
Breaking news. American Express has changed the sign-up bonuses and the T&C’s for receiving them .....
5 Jul 20125 July 2012
The American Express Platinum charge card has taken a lot of stick this year. And frankly, most of it was justified. There was a lot of grumbling, to put it mildly, when Amex cut the insurance .....
The American Express Platinum charge card has taken a lot of stick this year. And frankly, most of it .....
22 Jun 201222 June 2012
American Express Platinum (and indeed Centurion) cardholders get a number of decent hotel deals, through either the Fine Hotels & Resorts programme (late check-out, upgrade if available at .....
American Express Platinum (and indeed Centurion) cardholders get a number of decent hotel deals, through .....
10 Jun 201210 June 2012
The eagle eyed will have noticed a new page at the top of the site called ‘Credit Card Offers‘. There are a lot of good UK credit cards available which offer benefits in various airline .....
The eagle eyed will have noticed a new page at the top of the site called ‘Credit Card Offers‘. .....
6 Jun 20126 June 2012
For most of 2011, UK frequent fliers who track the US market could only sit back and stare as credit card sign-up bonuses went crazy. Ironically, the credit card that BA launched in conjunction .....
For most of 2011, UK frequent fliers who track the US market could only sit back and stare as credit card .....
29 May 201229 May 2012
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