New Amex £1,000+ cashback flood – IHG, Marriott, SLH, Minor, Virgin, AF-KLM, Singapore

I take back everything we wrote about American Express cashback deals apparently disappearing for good.

A flood of deals has emerged in the last 24 hours, for both airlines and hotels.

I suspect many of us may be rethinking our upcoming travel plans ….

Let’s start with the hotel offers. As always, some, all or none of these deals will show under the ‘Offers’ tab on one or more of your American Express cards. You need to click ‘Save to card’ to register before making your transaction.

Hilton

To keep the discussion in one place, I want to start by reminding you that Hilton has already launched a ‘get £50 back on £200 spend’ offer which we wrote about here.

Marriott

Marriott is offering £100 cashback when you spend £400 before 3rd July. Cumulative spending is OK.

I suspect a more generous version will emerge for holders of the Marriott Bonvoy American Express card in the next few days.

The list of participating hotels is here. It covers most of Europe.

This will double up with the current Marriott Bonvoy promotion. You will receive 1,000 bonus points per night, plus double elite night credits, on every stay between 13th February and 29th April.  Registration closes on 15th April. Our full article is here and you can register here.

IHG

IHG is offering £75 cashback when you spend £300 before 11th August. Cumulative spending is OK.

The list of participating hotels is here. It covers much of Europe.

This will double up with the current IHG One Rewards promotion. You will earn 2,000 bonus points for every two cash nights you stay between 1st April and 31st May.  Nights do not need to be consecutive. Our full article is here and you can register here.

Small Luxury Hotels of the World

SLH is leaving World of Hyatt on 15th May and will join Hilton Honors as a partner soon after. These offers will credit either via a direct hotel booking or if you go via Hyatt or Hilton.

SLH is offering £100 cashback when you spend £300 before 3rd July. Cumulative spending is OK.

The list of participating hotels is here. This is a global list, not just Europe.

Minor Hotels (Anantara, NH, nhow, Avani, Tivoli)

This is the first time that Minor Hotels has run an American Express cashback offer across all of its brands. We usually just see NH Hotels and nhow included.

Minor is offering £50 cashback when you spend £150 before 3rd July. Cumulative spending is OK.

The list of participating hotels is here. This is a global list, not just Europe.

Most (all?) of these hotels are part of Global Hotel Alliance. You can learn about how GHA works, and its generous GHA DISCOVERY loyalty scheme, in this article.

Let’s move on to the airline deals

Remember that you need to be targetted for these deals under the ‘Offers’ tab of your Amex card, in the app or online. Don’t waste your time looking under your British Airways American Express card ….

Save £250 with Virgin Atlantic

Well …. this could be the first ever Virgin Atlantic cashback deal we’ve seen.

You will get £250 cashback when you spend £1,500 with Virgin Atlantic.

You must book by 22nd May and depart from a UK airport. Cumulative spend is OK.

I am fairly certain that taxes and charges on Virgin Atlantic redemption flights WILL trigger the cashback as long as you hit the £1,500 threshold. They go through your credit card in the usual way. American Express will get details of the underlying flight but is it smart enough to weed out redemptions? The T&C don’t even explicitly block redemptions.

The cashback will NOT trigger on the purchase of Virgin Points because this is handled by a third party intermediary.

You can check prices on the Virgin Atlantic website here.

Save £400 with Singapore Airlines

The second offer is worth £400 cashback when you spend £2,500 with Singapore Airlines.

You must book by 22nd May and depart from a UK airport. Cumulative spend is OK. Remember that Singapore Airlines is restarting Gatwick flights in June, alongside the Heathrow services – Rhys will be on the inaugural flight to report back on the business class seat and service.

You can check prices and times on the Singapore Airlines website here.

Save £150 with Air France / KLM

The third offer is worth £150 cashback when you spend £1,500 across Air France or KLM.

There are TWO versions of the offer. One is branded Air France, one is branded KLM. The version you register for is the airline website you need to use.

Irrespective of which version you have, the Air France and KLM websites are identical and carry each others flights. They also carry Virgin Atlantic transatlantic flights under AF/KLM flight numbers.

All flights need to depart from UK airports.

You must book by 22nd May.

The Air France website is here. The KLM website is here.

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Want to earn more points from credit cards? – April 2025 update

If you are looking to apply for a new credit card, here are our top recommendations based on the current sign-up bonuses.

In 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the best of the other deals currently available.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

Earning miles and points from small business cards

If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers: