Reply To: Amex Platinum benefits into 2025

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jj wrote:

Raise the minimum income to £150K (£200K inside the M25), scrap the lounges, ditch the insurance. Then leverage the improved customer demographics to broaden the hotel status beyond tawdry, shabby Hiltons and Marriotts (GHA Discovery? Jumeirah? Some charming boutique hotels?). Offer more things that go beyond price – maybe a proper concierge service that can access ‘full’ restaurants and hotels, lounges in places like Bicester, personal shopper services.

The cash backs have been economically illiterate. Instead of £100 cash back at HN, they should have offered a 30% discount on spend above £300 in one transaction. Instead of £150 dining credit, they should have offered a bottle of decent champagne per couple on spend above £150 per head…that would get the credit cards spending more freely.

This bonkers post has made me laugh, every benefit you’ve listed above is of no interest to me and I suspect looking at the previous posts most people would agree. Highlights being Personal Shopper services, a lounge at Bicester and Shabby Hiltons (like the Conrad, Curio, Waldorf, No Mad etc etc)