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The Platinum Card is the most premium credit card that American Express offers openly to the general public in the UK.
It comes with a number of benefits including travel and car insurance, hotel status with chains such as Hilton, Marriott, Radisson and Melia, airport lounge access with Priority Pass, £400 of restaurant credit each year and much more.
This article looks at whether the American Express Platinum Card is worth the £650 annual fee.
You can read our full review of The Platinum Card by American Express here. You can apply for the card here.
Each week in the ‘Money’ section of The Sunday Times is a Q&A with a high profile figure about their personal finances. Last Sunday it was with economist Ha-Joon Chang, who has sold .....
Each week in the ‘Money’ section of The Sunday Times is a Q&A with a high profile figure about .....
8 May 20148 May 2014 • 85 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
In one of the odder American Express promotions of recent times, all Platinum charge card holders are being offered £50 of free steak! More precisely, they are being offered a £50 statement credit .....
In one of the odder American Express promotions of recent times, all Platinum charge card holders are being .....
23 Apr 201423 April 2014 • 78 comments
By the time you read this article, I will be back in London. However, as I edit this article, I am still sitting in Dubai pondering how to pay the hotel bill. It’s not that I can’t .....
By the time you read this article, I will be back in London. However, as I edit this article, I am still .....
23 Apr 201423 April 2014 • 38 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 Platinum charge card. It is part of my series of articles looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether or not they are .....
This is my review of the American Express Platinum charge card. It is part of my series .....
13 Apr 201413 April 2014 • 56 comments
Last July, I wrote about a special American Express promotion offering 1,000 Membership Rewards points (= 1,000 Avios, amongst other things) for each new supplementary cardholder added to your .....
Last July, I wrote about a special American Express promotion offering 1,000 Membership Rewards points (= .....
3 Apr 20143 April 2014 • 11 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
If you have an American Express Platinum charge card, an interesting new offer has popped up at the Amex Platinum website. To quote: Members-only website BestSecret is one of the fashion industry’s .....
If you have an American Express Platinum charge card, an interesting new offer has popped up at the Amex .....
24 Mar 201424 March 2014 • 80 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
Small Luxury Hotels of the World, the marketing group behind a number of leading global boutique hotels, is offering a decent deal for stays until the end of February 2015. As long as you book by .....
Small Luxury Hotels of the World, the marketing group behind a number of leading global boutique hotels, is .....
16 Mar 201416 March 2014
I promise I won’t mention this again after today. Honestly. However, if you were sitting on the fence about whether to apply for American Express Platinum before the free Cathay Pacific Gold .....
I promise I won’t mention this again after today. Honestly. However, if you were sitting on the fence .....
12 Mar 201412 March 2014 • 127 comments
I wanted to gently remind everyone that time is running out if you want to apply for the American Express Platinum card in order to get the free Cathay Pacific Marco Polo Club Gold card. The last day .....
I wanted to gently remind everyone that time is running out if you want to apply for the American Express .....
26 Feb 201426 February 2014 • 188 comments
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