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American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is our top choice for your first ‘miles and points’ credit card. It has no annual fee for the first year, comes with four free airport lounge passes and £120 of annual Deliveroo credit and has a very generous sign-up bonus of 20,000 Membership Rewards points.
You can read our full review of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card here. You can apply for the card here.
American Express launched a new batch of ‘conditional spend’ offers recently. You will see these either by logging in to your online account and clicking the ‘Offers’ button .....
American Express launched a new batch of ‘conditional spend’ offers recently. You will see these .....
10 Aug 201410 August 2014 • 28 comments
Most British Airways American Express cardholders were emailed about this offer on Tuesday, but you can also take part if you have any other American Express card. The first 24,000 people to register .....
Most British Airways American Express cardholders were emailed about this offer on Tuesday, but you can also .....
23 Jul 201423 July 2014 • 60 comments
I get occasional emails from Head for Points readers asking me if it is worth trying to ‘bargain’ with American Express over threatening to cancel your card, hoping to get a lucrative .....
I get occasional emails from Head for Points readers asking me if it is worth trying to ‘bargain’ .....
22 Jun 201422 June 2014 • 57 comments
American Express has launched some new Foursquare deals after a long hiatus. This promotion offers you £5 statement credit when spend £10 at Tesco. You will also receive £10 back when you spend .....
American Express has launched some new Foursquare deals after a long hiatus. This promotion offers you £5 .....
10 Jun 201410 June 2014 • 156 comments
American Express is expanding its ‘Invites’ programme – which gets cardholders early access to tickets for certain cultural events – by opening a private lounge at the O2 Arena .....
American Express is expanding its ‘Invites’ programme – which gets cardholders early access .....
29 Apr 201429 April 2014 • 17 comments
American Express has launched another batch of cashback offers available. You need to activate these offers before using them. If you have an Amex-issued Amex card: On a desktop PC, log in to your .....
American Express has launched another batch of cashback offers available. You need to activate these offers .....
17 Apr 201417 April 2014 • 13 comments
This is my review of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold (Amex Gold) charge card. It is part of my series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing .....
This is my review of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold (Amex Gold) charge card. It is part of .....
12 Apr 201412 April 2014 • 38 comments
For the last 5 months or so, the long-term title holder of the ‘best miles and points credit card for newcomers’ award has been in flux. Between November and January, I was encouraging .....
For the last 5 months or so, the long-term title holder of the ‘best miles and points credit card for .....
6 Apr 20146 April 2014 • 31 comments
Following on from their recent promotion (which Head for Points readers exhausted within a few hours), American Express and London taxi app Hailo have launched another collaboration. This one could be .....
Following on from their recent promotion (which Head for Points readers exhausted within a few hours), .....
1 Apr 20141 April 2014 • 29 comments
Follow a number of rumours in recent weeks, American Express’s USA operation has now confirmed that card ‘churning’ will not be allowed from 2nd May. Here is the statement that it .....
Follow a number of rumours in recent weeks, American Express’s USA operation has now confirmed that card .....
27 Mar 201427 March 2014 • 93 comments
You may remember last Winter that American Express launched a partnership with TripAdvisor. They were paying £5 to every Amex cardholder who linked their American Express card to their UK .....
You may remember last Winter that American Express launched a partnership with TripAdvisor. They were paying .....
19 Mar 201419 March 2014 • 49 comments
American Express has launched another couple of cashback offers available exclusively to holders of Amex-issued Amex cards. For the purposes of Head for Points, this means Gold, Platinum, SPG and BA .....
American Express has launched another couple of cashback offers available exclusively to holders of .....
20 Feb 201420 February 2014 • 16 comments
Our ‘Credit Card Offers’ tab lists all of the card deals currently available. What I thought might be interesting, though, would be to rank the sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard cash. Put .....
Our ‘Credit Card Offers’ tab lists all of the card deals currently available. What I thought might be .....
18 Feb 201418 February 2014 • 93 comments
I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for February. The big event during January was the launch of the temporary sign-up bonus on the Virgin Flying .....
I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for February. The big event .....
5 Feb 20145 February 2014 • 44 comments
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