Get £50 cashback when you spend £150 at American Express Travel

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• Akhil Gupta says:

  9 Nov9 November 13:15

  Hi,

  Does anyone know about the cancellation policies for Amex Travel? I want to book the Doubletree Hilton Tower of London. I usually book this hotel via hotels.com and the cheapest rate is fully refundable. Can’t find anything about cancellation policies on the amex travel site.

  Thanks

  • Akhil Gupta says:

    9 Nov9 November 13:51

    Thanks for the reply. I have read this before – it seems quite vague

    Bookings may be amended or cancelled in accordance with the relevant supplier’s terms and conditions and subject to the supplier’s amendment and cancellation charges. In many cases our flight suppliers may impose charges of up to 100% of the cost of the travel arrangements and these will be passed onto you. Please refer to Section D7 for more details on changing your booking.

    Most hotel website clearly state the cancellation policy for that specific rate?
    Thanks

    • Idrive says:

      9 Nov9 November 15:54

      Try calling the hotel or amex travel can not help otherwise sorry

    • Alan says:

      9 Nov9 November 16:16

      Yeah it’s a pretty poor website TBH – it doesn’t state things like this nearly as clearly as it should.

• Mark Cleverly says:

  9 Nov9 November 21:03

  Does anyone know if you can use this in conjunction with the Thistle and Guoman £50 back against a £100 spend offer?

  • Rob says:

    9 Nov9 November 21:26

    I assume Amex will charge your card as Amex for a prepaid Thistle room so it would not trigger the Thistle bonus. However, if you spent £100 in the hotel on food etc the bonus would trigger then so you would be getting £100 back on £250 spend.

• Flieduk says:

  9 Nov9 November 23:23

  Further to Raffles’ comment in the main article, does anyone know for sure if (and in respect of which brands) Amex Travel is a “corporate” travel agent and able, therefore, to award stay credit for.

  I have got some Hilton stays lined up and it would be a no-brainer to use this offer for them if I was going to get stay credit for it. Alternatively, I would stay at another chain through this offer if I could credit it to the relevant rewards program.

• Justas says:

  10 Nov10 November 16:02

  More complicated bookings are outsourced to an agency and are not processed by Amex.

• Cambus says:

  14 Nov14 November 09:23

  Re whether the £150 is cumulative or a single transaction, this is what Amex had to say when I asked them:

  “I confirm that this offer is eligible on a single charge of £150 or above. It will not be eligible on charges which are less than £150”.

  Slightly annoying as there is not a lot of flexibility to add additional items to the basket before checking out, but it’s a great offer nonetheless.

• Idrive says:

  15 Nov15 November 03:47

  I can not check my account yet but i will challenge them in case. This is not clearly stated on T&C and i will fight for it

• BLT says:

  15 Nov15 November 10:12

  Not yet. I paid for some flights for 2 people which came to over £150 on the 9 Nov. When amex billed them on the statement they appear as 2 separate transactions (1 per person) and therefore below the £150. I feel I’m going to have to contact them for this. Annoying as I have enough bookings to make use of this on all 8 of my cards, not sure I can fight for all of the credits!

  • Anon says:

    15 Nov15 November 14:54

    Is this standard? I notice BA did 2 x transactions for a flight of mine too. I don’t fly much so not seen this before.

    • squills says:

      15 Nov15 November 22:23

      Yes I had exactly the same thing last month. Booked 2 of us to fly @ the same time (1 a minor so couldn’t fly on his own or book flights independently in any case) – paid with one payment my end – but BA split it into 2 transactions.

• CC says:

  15 Nov15 November 21:56

  If anyone is thinking about renting a car double check prices direct on the rental company website.

  I just checked a few cars at Hertz and they were all more than £50 cheaper than on Amex and in one example £122 cheaper!

  • CC says:

    15 Nov15 November 22:06

    Ignore my comment, I entered different pick up time of day which gave higher quote on Amex!

    Prices are identical to the rental firms.

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