Post new Amex statement credit offers here!

[SabrinaW]

Ladyshopper wrote:

NCL cruises are back – spend £750 get £200 back. Had already made use of the previous offer on our booking (spend £1000 get £350 back, which we had on 2 cards), so a bonus to get another offer so soon.

Hi. I would like to book a mediterranean cruise – they only depart from Venice and Rome. I am based in the Uk but would be purchasing my own flights and simply booking the cruise through NCL site. The offer terms refers to ‘location’ restrictions in the heading and then says in t&cs ‘offer valid on journeys departing from uk’
In this most recent offer that has just come up has anyone successfully used this offer purchasing a cruise departing from europe or anywhere else (not uk)? How quickly does the £200 confirmation show up in your account?
Is it best to pay online on the website – (it says book dierect at http://www.ncl.com/uk/en/ ) or should I download the NCL app?
Thanks for your help

[FFoxSake]

Harvey Nichols
Spend £250 get £50 seen on free BA
Spend £200 get £20 seen on Platinum (should stack with free 6-monthly £50 spend)
Expires 09/07/2023

[Skywalker]

Speaking of Harvey Nichols £50 credit – had a nice surprise – upon spending a little over £50, I noticed that 700+ Avios had been dropped into my BA account as a result of HN being a “BA Instore” vendor 😁

[pureshtuyot]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned,

There’s a Which? offer on Amex giving you 55% money back on spend over £35. If my calculation is correct, if you go via topcashback uk and use the AMEX offer you will actually MAKE MONEY taking out the full subscription.

Topcashback offer may expire anytime. Amex offer finishes in 3 days

[Ladyshopper]

SabrinaW wrote:

Ladyshopper wrote:

NCL cruises are back – spend £750 get £200 back. Had already made use of the previous offer on our booking (spend £1000 get £350 back, which we had on 2 cards), so a bonus to get another offer so soon.

Hi. I would like to book a mediterranean cruise – they only depart from Venice and Rome. I am based in the Uk but would be purchasing my own flights and simply booking the cruise through NCL site. The offer terms refers to ‘location’ restrictions in the heading and then says in t&cs ‘offer valid on journeys departing from uk’
In this most recent offer that has just come up has anyone successfully used this offer purchasing a cruise departing from europe or anywhere else (not uk)? How quickly does the £200 confirmation show up in your account?
Is it best to pay online on the website – (it says book dierect at http://www.ncl.com/uk/en/ ) or should I download the NCL app?
Thanks for your help

All of my experience with the last 3 offers is that it has worked for any cruise, no matter where it departs from, as long as you pay on the website or app in £. Indeed, our previous cruise last year started in Lisbon, and I was able to use the offer for that (and it had exactly the same terms written down about journeys starting from the UK).

Plenty of people on the cruise critic forum have used this offer for cruises not starting in the UK and had it paid out. The cruise we currently have booked IS starting in the UK (for a change). I made a payment on Tuesday on the app, and the credit was showing on my Amex card on the Friday.

[SabrinaW]

Hi, thank you for clarifying this 🙂

I have read that people in the US have been able to pay a travel agent and still receive the AMEX NCL Credit back. Do you know if this applies if you book an NCL cruise through a travel agent in the UK? (As the TAs seem to offer better prices/ additional offers eg on board credit)

Do you have any tips on how I can get any on board credit thrown in if I do have to book directly with NCL? I did ring them and they said they wouldn’t match travel agent deals or offer anything extra!

Thanks for your help. I have never been on a cruise before so thought this offer was a good way of doing it but its all new to me!

[Ladyshopper]

SabrinaW wrote:

Hi, thank you for clarifying this 🙂

I have read that people in the US have been able to pay a travel agent and still receive the AMEX NCL Credit back. Do you know if this applies if you book an NCL cruise through a travel agent in the UK? (As the TAs seem to offer better prices/ additional offers eg on board credit)

Do you have any tips on how I can get any on board credit thrown in if I do have to book directly with NCL? I did ring them and they said they wouldn’t match travel agent deals or offer anything extra!

Thanks for your help. I have never been on a cruise before so thought this offer was a good way of doing it but its all new to me!

I did see one person over on cc who paid a travel agent and still got the credit back on their Amex card. I wouldn’t expect this to be the norm though – I think it depends on how the agent pays NCL for a start.

No tips I’m afraid – some cruise lines do price match (P&O for example) but NCL aren’t one that I’m aware of doing that. They will re-price your cruise for you if the price goes down, but charge an admin fee of £35 per person to do this. I’ve done it twice on our recent cruise, a bit annoying that the price has gone down so much since I booked (and to be fair, it was very reasonably priced in the first place so probably isn’t selling that well), but at least I’ve had 3 lots of Amex credits (1 this time and twice with the previous offer) plus have got the new price less £140 in admin fees.

[BuildBackBetter]

SabrinaW wrote:

I have read that people in the US have been able to pay a travel agent and still receive the AMEX NCL Credit back. Do you know if this applies if you book an NCL cruise through a travel agent in the UK? (As the TAs seem to offer better prices/ additional offers eg on board credit)

Cards in US are given general travel credit offers which might be the ones they are talking about.

[NorthernLass]

Just spotted 2 new decent offers on my BAPP – £50 off £150 spend at NH hotels. Also 3000 avios for £100 spend at The Wine Flyer – presume this will stack with the current HFP offer?

[meta]

Intrestingly for NH hotels offer Portugese properties are on the list. I think this is the first time Portugal has been included on any of the hotel offers.

[deerwood]

I notice the NH hotels offer is ‘in store’ only and based on checkout spend, so presumably this will not include the booking cost, especially if booked online?
Also the offer is only for items billed in GBP, so I guess anything charged to card in local currency will be excluded?

[NorthernLass]

Both these Ts and Cs appear quite often but the offers still seem to work with pre-paid bookings in other chains, notably Hilton and IHG.

[sloth]

deerwood wrote:

I notice the NH hotels offer is ‘in store’ only and based on checkout spend, so presumably this will not include the booking cost, especially if booked online?
Also the offer is only for items billed in GBP, so I guess anything charged to card in local currency will be excluded?

worked fine for me on a pre booked NH in Barcelona in January, paid in eur

[NorthernLass]

Thanks for the data point, @sloth. Offer is valid until late August which gives plenty of scope for booking into spring and summer 2024.

[FFoxSake]

NorthernLass wrote:

3000 avios for £100 spend at The Wine Flyer

Also a 2000 avios for £80 spend at The Wine Flyer on free BA card

[Alex1904]

Has someone tried and gotten cashback for using that nh hotels offer on an online booking?

[lifelessordinary.xyz]

Does anyone have any experience with the Hilton 50/200 Amex Cash Back crediting for stays after the offer window but booked during the offer window?

Looking to book today for the 6thJune. Hoping it counts!!

Thanks

[Harrier25]

Not a chance, unless payment is taken by the hotel during the offer period.

[lifelessordinary.xyz]

Harrier25 wrote:

Not a chance, unless payment is taken by the hotel during the offer period.

Thanks for confirming. Damn that’s annoying. Can’t win ‘em all!!

Cheers

[sloth]

Alex1904 wrote:

Has someone tried and gotten cashback for using that nh hotels offer on an online booking?

Yes, back in January

[Maples]

For Amex Travel, “Spend £1 or more, collect 10
MR Points up to 10000 MR
Points” has shown up on my Gold card.

[rtid]

I had a spend £30 get 1000 MR ppints at Prezzo.

Made the schoolboy mistake of paying for our meal off the QR xode on the table. Realised afyer that QR code is a third pary provider, came up in my statemt as Sunday App.

Doh!

Dont make the same mistake i dis

[zapato1060]

Maples wrote:

For Amex Travel, “Spend £1 or more, collect 10
MR Points up to 10000 MR
Points” has shown up on my Gold card.

Youd have to spend 1k to get the most benefit. But check as Amex Travel prices are higher like for like to other OTAs in my experience.

[Jasdev]

Nice offer for the Financial Times today in my app.
Spend £319 or more, get £160 back, expires 31/07/23 – Online only.

For reference, it costs £319 for an annual standard digital subscription, and £525 for an annual premium digital subscription.
A comparison of standard vs premium is here: https://subs.ft.com/spa3_digital_v2?&segmentid=12e942a3-c183-01ef-5b77-70c8c7378d15

[JDB]

Jasdev wrote:

Nice offer for the Financial Times today in my app.
Spend £319 or more, get £160 back, expires 31/07/23 – Online only.

For reference, it costs £319 for an annual standard digital subscription, and £525 for an annual premium digital subscription.

It’s a great offer for the Premium subscription which is hardly ever reduced but the standard subscription is almost always offered at half price (so unsurprisingly comes to the same as the Amex offer). Bloomberg plays the same trick.