If you have Marriott Bonvoy status, you should take a quick look online and see what it shows. During Sunday, Marriott Bonvoy dropped the status of a lot of people – including myself – who thought that they had been rolled over. More annoyingly, Marriott […]
Marriott Bonvoy American Express card
The Marriott Bonvoy American Express credit card is popular among miles and points collectors in the UK because of its sign-up bonus. The points you receive can transferred at 3:1 into 40 different frequent flyer schemes or redeemed for free hotel nights.
Our main article reviewing the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card is here. You can learn more and apply for the card via the Amex website.
Marriott news: has your Marriott status surprisingly dropped?, last chance to get 50% bonus buying Bonvoy points
25 March 2020 By 33 Comments
How can you maximise the American Express ‘£20 cashback on £25 Daily Telegraph spend’ offer?
15 March 2020 By
There is an interesting offer from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph showing on a lot of American Express accounts at the moment. To see if you are targeted, you need to look under the ‘Offers’ tab on the statement page for each Amex card […]
What are the top 10 reasons to get the Marriott Bonvoy American Express credit card?
4 March 2020 By
Why should you get the Marriott Bonvoy American Express credit card? Today, in our ‘Top 10 Reasons’ series, I want to look at the top 10 reasons to apply for a Marriott Bonvoy American Express (Marriott Amex) credit card. You can see all of our […]
How to use the Marriott Bonvoy American Express credit card to earn miles with 44 different airlines
2 March 2020 By
On Wednesday, the Marriott Bonvoy American Express credit card launched. This is a rebranding of the old Starwood Preferred Guest American Express credit card. As we covered in our master article (click here) on the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card, there are two groups of […]
The Marriott Bonvoy American Express credit card launches today – is it any good?
26 February 2020 By
The Marriott Bonvoy American Express card launches today! And here it is: The card has a representative APR of 39.7% variable including the fee based on a notional £1200 credit limit. The interest rate on purchases is 22.9% variable. You can apply via the American […]
Time is running out to apply for the Starwood Preferred Guest American Express credit card
23 February 2020 By
As we covered back in January, the new Marriott Bonvoy American Express credit card is launching on 26th February. Unfortunately this is not a brand new product. It is a rebranding of the existing Starwood Preferred Guest American Express card, with a few tweeks. American […]
What are the top UK credit card sign-up deals by £ value?
26 January 2020 By
I am in The Sunday Times as part of an article discussing how to earn miles and points from credit cards. It is the Money section if you have a copy – the link is here but there is a paywall. As it will bring across […]
What is the best replacement for your Starwood Preferred Guest American Express (SPG Amex) credit card?
21 January 2020 By
As we covered last week, American Express has written to holders of the Starwood Preferred Guest American Express card telling them that the benefits package is changing on 26th February. The card is being rebranded as the Marriott Bonvoy American Express on that date. Here […]
American Express is cutting the sign-up bonus on the new Marriott Bonvoy Amex credit card
17 January 2020 By
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 Express card, with a few tweeks. From 26th February: The name of the […]
BAD NEWS: Amex cuts the earning rate on the SPG Amex as it rebrands as the Marriott Bonvoy American Express credit card
14 January 2020 By
A few days I wrote a long article on the Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Card. It seems that this was a partial waste of time (only partial, because we’ve cut and pasted much of it into this article!) because American Express has now announced […]
You now permanently earn 6 Bonvoy points per £1 of Marriott spend on the SPG American Express credit card
11 January 2020 By
The Starwood Preferred Guest American Express card has become the ugly sister of the American Express portfolio. For a start, there are not that many people who have the foggiest idea why a card earning Marriott Bonvoy points is called the Starwood Preferred Guest card! […]
What are the best credit card bonuses for your LONG TERM spending?
7 January 2020 By
Many of the credit card articles on Head for Points are focused on sign-up bonuses. Get a card, spend the minimum required to trigger the bonus and potentially move on. However, if you are a high to medium spender, the few thousand pounds of card spend […]
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