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Membership Rewards is the rewards currency for many American Express cards including the The Platinum Card, Preferred Rewards Gold and American Express Rewards Credit Card. You can see a card comparison here.
You can convert Membership Rewards points into many other hotel, airline and retail schemes including Avios, Virgin Flying Club, Hilton Honors, Marriott Bonvoy and even Amazon credit. For a complete list of all UK Amex Membership Rewards transfer partners, click here.
This article looks at the best value partners to use your Membership Rewards with.
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
American Express has, it seems, been running an interesting promotion with Admiral Insurance since the end of August, not that they bothered to tell us about it. If you are a new customer to Admiral .....
American Express has, it seems, been running an interesting promotion with Admiral Insurance since the end of .....
26 Nov 201226 November 2012 • 18 comments
American Express has launched its pre-paid gift cards in the UK. Take a look at their website. Basically, you can now (in theory) walk into a WH Smith, Sainsbury or Superdrug and a buy a £20, .....
American Express has launched its pre-paid gift cards in the UK. Take a look at their website. Basically, .....
25 Nov 201225 November 2012 • 10 comments
I broke this post out from the long piece I did on American Express promotions yesterday as I didn’t want any regular Virgin travellers to miss it. Between 20th November and 31st December, Amex .....
I broke this post out from the long piece I did on American Express promotions yesterday as I didn’t .....
24 Nov 201224 November 2012 • 2 comments
Yesterday I ran a post about earning double Avios when you shop at Sainsbury’s. Amex is offering double Membership Rewards points on all purchases until 31 December. If you have a BA Amex, you .....
Yesterday I ran a post about earning double Avios when you shop at Sainsbury’s. Amex is offering double .....
23 Nov 201223 November 2012 • 47 comments
Yes, that’s right. Sainsbury’s! For those with very long memories, Sainsbury’s used to award BA Miles and Air Miles before the contract switched to Tesco in 2002. You may .....
Yes, that’s right. Sainsbury’s! For those with very long memories, Sainsbury’s used to .....
22 Nov 201222 November 2012 • 13 comments
Two months ago I wrote a post on “What are the best credit card bonuses for LONG-TERM spending?“. This was an attempt to judge the best card to use as your ‘day to day’ card. .....
Two months ago I wrote a post on “What are the best credit card bonuses for LONG-TERM spending?“. .....
21 Nov 201221 November 2012 • 32 comments
A lot of Head for Points readers now have the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card, following the special sign-up offer of 30,000 Membership Rewards points which ran two weeks ago. (If you .....
A lot of Head for Points readers now have the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card, following the .....
19 Nov 201219 November 2012 • 10 comments
A couple of days ago I wrote about American Express’s new promotion of 5,000 Membership Reward points for making a £100 foreign exchange transfer. At the time, I posted: I am trying a little .....
A couple of days ago I wrote about American Express’s new promotion of 5,000 Membership Reward points .....
18 Nov 201218 November 2012 • 8 comments
American Express has launched an interesting promotion to promote its foreign currency transfer service. Full details can be found here (deleted as now dead). In summary, Amex is offering 5,000 .....
American Express has launched an interesting promotion to promote its foreign currency transfer service. Full .....
15 Nov 201215 November 2012 • 14 comments
Last week I promoted an offer, now closed, for 30,000 bonus American Express Membership Rewards points with the fee-free Amex Preferred Rewards Gold card. A lot of people took this offer up, and .....
Last week I promoted an offer, now closed, for 30,000 bonus American Express Membership Rewards points with .....
6 Nov 20126 November 2012 • 25 comments
The ‘Credit Card Offers’ page at the top of the site has been updated for November to reflect changes over the past month. After a quiet start to the month, things have really picked up .....
The ‘Credit Card Offers’ page at the top of the site has been updated for November to reflect .....
1 Nov 20121 November 2012 • 1 comment
I have spent the last few days with some friends of ours in Stuttgart. Had I not been there, I would have tried to get across to the Hyatt Churchill Hotel in London, where a group of 40 or so .....
I have spent the last few days with some friends of ours in Stuttgart. Had I not been there, I would have .....
31 Oct 201231 October 2012 • 46 comments
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