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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.
I have updated the ‘Credit Cards Offers’ page for February. As with January, it was one of the quicker jobs I’ve done on this page because there have been no major changes since the .....
I have updated the ‘Credit Cards Offers’ page for February. As with January, it was one of the .....
2 Feb 20132 February 2013 • 24 comments
Some people received this offer by email yesterday. However, it is NOT targetted and is described on the Amex Currency Exchange website, and so must be open to all. It is not a bad deal and .....
Some people received this offer by email yesterday. However, it is NOT targetted and is described on the .....
29 Jan 201329 January 2013 • 50 comments
I must admit, I was a little surprised when – like many of you – I was emailed on Saturday with details of the new Amex / Foursquare promotions that will run in February. Did they learn .....
I must admit, I was a little surprised when – like many of you – I was emailed on Saturday with .....
27 Jan 201327 January 2013 • 92 comments
A lot of people with an American Express charge card got an email yesterday offering them a conversion bonus if they moved their Membership Rewards points into airline miles. There seem to be two .....
A lot of people with an American Express charge card got an email yesterday offering them a conversion bonus .....
17 Jan 201317 January 2013 • 26 comments
If you read this article from a few days ago, I am pleased to say that the promotion is working exactly as planned. The deal is that Amex Platinum cardholders can get 5,000 bonus Membership Rewards .....
If you read this article from a few days ago, I am pleased to say that the promotion is working exactly as .....
16 Jan 201316 January 2013 • 41 comments
The American Express Platinum charge card has an astounding sign-up bonus at present – 50,000 Membership Rewards points. These are worth 50,000 Avios, or a whole heap of other things. Yes, .....
The American Express Platinum charge card has an astounding sign-up bonus at present – 50,000 Membership .....
14 Jan 201314 January 2013 • 22 comments
The American Express Platinum charge card has a lot to offer the regular traveller. Yes, there is a fairly bonkers £450 annual fee, but you can get 50,000 Avios for signing up and the benefits are .....
The American Express Platinum charge card has a lot to offer the regular traveller. Yes, there is a fairly .....
11 Jan 201311 January 2013 • 13 comments
A lot of American Express Platinum charge card holders, including myself, got a special offer in the mail yesterday. The card offers 5,000 bonus Membership Rewards points for making ANY booking on the .....
A lot of American Express Platinum charge card holders, including myself, got a special offer in the mail .....
9 Jan 20139 January 2013 • 47 comments
So, the end of 2012 is here. And, overall, it has been a good one for the miles and points collector. The stand-out deal, without a doubt, was the Lloyds TSB Avios credit card promotion. There has .....
So, the end of 2012 is here. And, overall, it has been a good one for the miles and points collector. The .....
30 Dec 201230 December 2012 • 8 comments
Yesterday I wrote an article, triggered by our current holiday, on the best credit card to use to pay our hotel bill. Today I am writing about a similar dilemma, also triggered in part by the holiday .....
Yesterday I wrote an article, triggered by our current holiday, on the best credit card to use to pay our .....
19 Dec 201219 December 2012 • 38 comments
As you read this I should be sitting on a beach in the Middle East. Last week, though, I was having a debate with myself about how to pay the hotel bill! It’s not that I can’t .....
As you read this I should be sitting on a beach in the Middle East. Last week, though, I was having a .....
18 Dec 201218 December 2012 • 12 comments
I wrote about Amex’s new gift cards recently. They are poor value for money, but have one great advantage – they are a relatively cheap way of getting to the minimum spend .....
I wrote about Amex’s new gift cards recently. They are poor value for money, but have one great .....
8 Dec 20128 December 2012 • 7 comments
The ‘Credit Card Offers’ page at the top of site has been updated for December. (Click here to see it if you are an email or RSS reader.) There has been quite a lot of promotional .....
The ‘Credit Card Offers’ page at the top of site has been updated for December. (Click here to .....
2 Dec 20122 December 2012 • 11 comments
One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up to 10,000 Membership Rewards points per year for 1.5p each. Full details are here. .....
One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up .....
30 Nov 201230 November 2012 • 5 comments
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