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Membership Rewards is the rewards currency for many American Express cards including the The Platinum Card, American Express Preferred Rewards Gold and The 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.
If you are looking for an Amex business card, American Express offers two core products in the UK. This review looks at the American Express Business Platinum charge card. Our review .....
If you are looking for an Amex business card, American Express offers two core products in the .....
1 Sep 20191 September 2019
American Express dropped us a note to highlight a special offer currently running on its Gold Business and Platinum Business products. Gold Business Cardmembers can earn 3,000 Membership Rewards .....
American Express dropped us a note to highlight a special offer currently running on its Gold Business and .....
30 Aug 201930 August 2019
Whilst there are a wide range of personal credit and charge cards which offer rewards on your spending, your options are smaller if you are looking for a Small Business payment card with a rewards .....
Whilst there are a wide range of personal credit and charge cards which offer rewards on your spending, your .....
15 Aug 201915 August 2019 • 19 comments
I got an email from a reader last week asking about the difference between American Express Preferred Rewards Gold and The Platinum Card from American Express. He thought it was a simple question with .....
I got an email from a reader last week asking about the difference between American Express Preferred Rewards .....
5 Aug 20195 August 2019 • 77 comments
A couple of days ago we posted about a special offer for converting Nectar points to LNER train credit. You can read our article here, but basically until 14th August you get 1p per point (double the .....
A couple of days ago we posted about a special offer for converting Nectar points to LNER train credit. You .....
1 Aug 20191 August 2019
10 day ago we wrote about a new spend-based bonus promotion launched by American Express for many people – but not everyone – who have Preferred Rewards Gold or The Platinum Card. The .....
10 day ago we wrote about a new spend-based bonus promotion launched by American Express for many people .....
11 Jul 201911 July 2019 • 1 comment
Probably the worst possible way of redeeming any sort of travel loyalty points, whether it be airline miles, hotel points or credit cards points, is for ‘real stuff’. The ‘person who .....
Probably the worst possible way of redeeming any sort of travel loyalty points, whether it be airline miles, .....
15 May 201915 May 2019 • 48 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
For the last couple of years, Amazon has been offering a generous bribe to anyone with an American Express card which offers Membership Rewards points. You may not be aware that Amazon lets you pay .....
For the last couple of years, Amazon has been offering a generous bribe to anyone with an American Express .....
26 Apr 201926 April 2019 • 111 comments
One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up to 10,000 Membership Rewards points per year for 1.5p each. This facility is mentioned on .....
One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up .....
20 Apr 201920 April 2019 • 11 comments
I thought I’d drop this in as an extra quick item as the tickets may not still be there on Friday morning. FA Cup Final tickets at Wembley have popped up for redemption with Emirates Skywards .....
I thought I’d drop this in as an extra quick item as the tickets may not still be there on Friday .....
18 Apr 201918 April 2019 • 18 comments
In the comments to our article yesterday on the changes to certain American Express card sign-up and referral bonuses, a couple of readers questioned the merit of leaving their Membership Rewards .....
In the comments to our article yesterday on the changes to certain American Express card sign-up and referral .....
17 Apr 201917 April 2019 • 111 comments
As we covered yesterday, American Express has announced a 2nd round of ‘no notice’ changes to its personal credit and charge cards. The details are here. This follows the changes made .....
As we covered yesterday, American Express has announced a 2nd round of ‘no notice’ changes to its .....
17 Apr 201917 April 2019 • 67 comments
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