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Have you Noticed that all the offers on AMEX, especially the platinum card, are in London or south of England. Living in Scotland I have not been able to take up any of the offers and find the card not worth the fee and so have cancelled I wonder why AMEX don’t realise that some people people live outside the main metropolis. Do you agree?
Just outside Edinburgh for me, but I travel most weeks for work, and I find the platinum card covers the cost of it for me.
£400 a year meal credit
£100 a year Harvey nicks
Lounge access
Travel insurance
Secondary card for OHAre the benefits I use without factoring in the extra Amex offers to card, so for me, just on the listed offers, I’m paying £150 for 2 x lounge access accounts (OH travels too) and travel insurance.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1byaciu/gdp_per_capita_of_each_uk_region_in_gbp/
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Wow, never thought Scotland as a whole would be higher than the Midlands.
I guess Edinburgh must be doing some serious carrying.I agree pretty much restaurant wise they are mainly London based for the UK but hotel offers are worldwide usually & shop discounts can often be used online – I use my Harvey Nicks credit online if not in London before it runs out (our kids are currently in the London area so it helps that we do go down a few times a year). We are East Midlands/Humber area and I never have an issue with Humberside airport lounge access 😂 but elsewhere, Stanstead for example, that has been a problem sometimes. Generally long haul we fly Bus. so not an issue then. My overseas dining credit I managed to use last year for the first time (Vienna) & the first half year for this year (Sydney). I have just successfully claimed on the travel insurance and that refund alone virtually covers my annual fee. I suppose you have to weigh up the benefits for you based on how much you travel, where you shop etc but at the moment it works for me. Before renewal I will call them though and if I can get another points bonus of 50K or more that also sweetens the deal.
Same for the north of England, especially as we don’t have a city like Edinburgh to draw in business and tourism!
I mainly use the offers for cash back on hotel stays, then the odd one for extra avios such as Wine Flyer. I was mulling over whether the most recent 3k bonus avios was worth it when they sent me an email for an extra 2k avios which should stack. And I discovered that BA gold gets 15% off on top which has made it a decent deal!
So I definitely get the BAPP card fee back and more, which is my measure of whether it’s worth keeping the card in the long term.
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