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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.
If you have an Amex Gold or Amex Platinum charge card, and are opted in to postal mailshots from Amex, you should have received the Membership Rewards Christmas offers brochure recently. There is a .....
If you have an Amex Gold or Amex Platinum charge card, and are opted in to postal mailshots from Amex, you .....
15 Oct 201315 October 2013 • 8 comments
This seems like easy free money, to be honest. American Express is offering a £5 statement credit when you connect your Amex card to your TripAdvisor account and write one review on the site. The .....
This seems like easy free money, to be honest. American Express is offering a £5 statement credit when you .....
9 Oct 20139 October 2013 • 50 comments
I gave Accor a bit of a hard time the other day for reducing the conversion ratio of LeClub Accorhotels points to Avios points without notice. They deserved it. At the same time, though, Accor has .....
I gave Accor a bit of a hard time the other day for reducing the conversion ratio of LeClub Accorhotels points .....
8 Oct 20138 October 2013 • 24 comments
American Express and the Hyatt London Churchill hotel are jointly sponsoring a weekend of focus group / relationship building events later this month. This is happening over the weekend of Friday .....
American Express and the Hyatt London Churchill hotel are jointly sponsoring a weekend of focus group / .....
7 Oct 20137 October 2013 • 10 comments
Over the last couple of years, Avis and Hertz have opened up their loyalty schemes, removing joining fees and eliminating tiers. This means that the main benefits offered by premium credit cards .....
Over the last couple of years, Avis and Hertz have opened up their loyalty schemes, removing joining fees and .....
1 Oct 20131 October 2013 • 16 comments
Not sure what else I can add to my original post! Except that, at the time of writing on Saturday evening, the £20 off code (ACHICA20AMEX) is working again. For orders under £20, you don’t pay .....
Not sure what else I can add to my original post! Except that, at the time of writing on Saturday evening, the .....
28 Sep 201328 September 2013 • 48 comments
American Express has rolled out two new cashback offers for holders of Amex-issued Amex cards, which includes MBNA and Lloyds Bank-issued Amex cards as well as the ‘official’ ones. The .....
American Express has rolled out two new cashback offers for holders of Amex-issued Amex cards, which includes .....
28 Sep 201328 September 2013 • 1 comment
If you have an American Express Platinum card you should have received the latest emailed edition of Platinum Life yesterday. Tucked away at the bottom, so you might have missed it, was a mention of a .....
If you have an American Express Platinum card you should have received the latest emailed edition of Platinum .....
20 Sep 201320 September 2013 • 99 comments
The London Restaurant Festival is back this year, running from 3rd to 21st October. American Express is again sponsoring the festival, and is offering £25 cashback on your statement when you make 2 x .....
The London Restaurant Festival is back this year, running from 3rd to 21st October. American Express is again .....
19 Sep 201319 September 2013 • 18 comments
It is now two years since American Express sprung a surprise on its Platinum cardholders by introducing a new benefit – Gold tier membership of Cathay Pacific‘s Marco Polo Club. Marco Polo .....
It is now two years since American Express sprung a surprise on its Platinum cardholders by introducing a new .....
12 Sep 201312 September 2013 • 59 comments
Yes, be warned …. it is another weird American Express gimmick. But I honestly don’t know the point of it yet ….. If you have an Amex-issued Amex card, go to the website, log .....
Yes, be warned …. it is another weird American Express gimmick. But I honestly don’t know .....
2 Sep 20132 September 2013 • 18 comments
When three people email me about something, then something is definitely ‘up’! For the last few weeks, some American Express Platinum card holders have been mysteriously receiving bonus .....
When three people email me about something, then something is definitely ‘up’! For the last few .....
29 Jul 201329 July 2013 • 54 comments
American Express emailed me last week to offer 1,000 Membership Rewards points (= 1,000 Avios, amongst other things) for each new supplementary cardholder added to my Platinum charge card account. .....
American Express emailed me last week to offer 1,000 Membership Rewards points (= 1,000 Avios, amongst other .....
27 Jul 201327 July 2013 • 18 comments
16th July 2012 was the day when American Express made big changes to the benefits package attached to the American Express Platinum Card. One year on, the Platinum card is in a strange position. Many, .....
16th July 2012 was the day when American Express made big changes to the benefits package attached to the .....
17 Jul 201317 July 2013 • 100 comments
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