Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
Membership Rewards is the rewards currency for many American Express cards including the The Platinum Card, Preferred Rewards Gold and American Express Rewards Credit Card. You can see a card comparison here.
You can convert Membership Rewards points into many other hotel, airline and retail schemes including Avios, Virgin Flying Club, Hilton Honors, Marriott Bonvoy and even Amazon credit. For a complete list of all UK Amex Membership Rewards transfer partners, click here.
This article looks at the best value partners to use your Membership Rewards with.
As we covered yesterday, American Express is bringing back ‘Shop Small’ from next Monday – click for our full article. Until 13th September, you will receive £5 cashback on the .....
As we covered yesterday, American Express is bringing back ‘Shop Small’ from next Monday – .....
16 Jun 202016 June 2020 • 65 comments
Today is the first day that all High Street shops in England are allowed to re-open, regardless of whether they are considered ‘essential’ or not. To celebrate, American Express is .....
Today is the first day that all High Street shops in England are allowed to re-open, regardless of whether .....
15 Jun 202015 June 2020 • 93 comments
Here is an interesting little trick – only valid until Monday night – which lets you convert American Express Membership Rewards points to IHG Rewards Club points at a ratio of 1 : 2.2. .....
Here is an interesting little trick – only valid until Monday night – which lets you convert .....
14 Jun 202014 June 2020 • 21 comments
American Express recently extended the qualifying period to earn a sign-up bonus on its cards to SIX MONTHS. This was a sensible move. Even people with good salaries may struggle to spend £3,000 to .....
American Express recently extended the qualifying period to earn a sign-up bonus on its cards to SIX MONTHS. .....
20 May 202020 May 2020 • 73 comments
American Express has finally bowed to pressure, including from us, and extended the qualifying period to earn a sign-up bonus on its cards to SIX MONTHS. This means, if you apply today, you would have .....
American Express has finally bowed to pressure, including from us, and extended the qualifying period to earn .....
1 May 20201 May 2020 • 94 comments
American Express has launched a very interesting offer for holders of The Platinum Card. If you use your points for statement credit (ie reducing what you owe next month by redeeming points) you would .....
American Express has launched a very interesting offer for holders of The Platinum Card. If you use your .....
21 Apr 202021 April 2020 • 125 comments
News in brief: Looking for a Microsoft Teams background? If you use video conferencing software Microsoft Teams as part of your job, you may know that it recently introduced a new feature – .....
News in brief: Looking for a Microsoft Teams background? If you use video conferencing software Microsoft .....
20 Apr 202020 April 2020 • 40 comments
We ran an article yesterday to explain how American Express treats refunds made to your card. As I pointed out, a refund counts against your annual spend if you are trying to earn an annual .....
We ran an article yesterday to explain how American Express treats refunds made to your card. As I .....
16 Apr 202016 April 2020 • 87 comments
It says a lot about the spending and travel habits of Head for Points readers that I think I can safely say, without fear of contradiction, that at least 50% of our readers will currently be expecting .....
It says a lot about the spending and travel habits of Head for Points readers that I think I can safely say, .....
15 Apr 202015 April 2020 • 153 comments
What is the cheapest way of buying Avios points? The “Avios Redemption University” series is a good starting point for beginners, although I hope everyone will learn something from .....
What is the cheapest way of buying Avios points? The “Avios Redemption University” series is a good .....
13 Apr 202013 April 2020 • 31 comments
In the last few weeks we have had a constant stream of emails asking us if American Express is offering any help to people struggling to hit their sign-up bonus spend threshold. This is often £3,000 .....
In the last few weeks we have had a constant stream of emails asking us if American Express is offering any .....
4 Apr 20204 April 2020 • 28 comments
On Tuesday we covered the unveiling of the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card. Unfortunately this is not a brand new product. It is a rebranding of the existing Starwood Preferred Guest American .....
On Tuesday we covered the unveiling of the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card. Unfortunately this is not a .....
17 Jan 202017 January 2020 • 103 comments
Let me say up front that this opportunity is only relevant to a small part of our readership, but it will be valuable if it does apply to you. Amex has a payments business called, with no great leap .....
Let me say up front that this opportunity is only relevant to a small part of our readership, but it will be .....
15 Jan 202015 January 2020 • 24 comments
Over the past few days I’ve been updating a few introductory articles to miles and points, in recognition of the fact that we get a lot of new readers in January as people start to look at .....
Over the past few days I’ve been updating a few introductory articles to miles and points, in .....
12 Jan 202012 January 2020 • 17 comments
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