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Amex Gold offer: Get £50 off a £100 booking with Amex Travel

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American Express has launched a generous new offer for holders of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card.

Until June 30th, you will receive £50 statement credit when you spend £100 or more at Amex Travel.

Amex 50 credit

The £100 needs to be on a pre-paid product so a flexible hotel booking would not count.  You are fine to book a pre-paid flight, car hire, experience or hotel.

The offer is limited to the first 5,000 people to register.  You can only register Gold cards.  Supplementary cards cannot be registered.  The registration page is here.

The rules actually say “An “Eligible Card” is a valid American Express card issued in the UK by American Express Services Europe Limited, Lloyds Bank PLC, Barclays PLC, TSB Bank plc or MBNA Europe Bank Limited” but that is simply a cut and paste error from an old offer …..

I strongly recommend registering via this link if you hold an Amex Gold.  Even if you don’t have anything in mind now, your plans can change over the next 29 days and it would be a shame to miss out on a £50 saving.


Want to earn more points from credit cards? – December 2021 update

If you are looking to apply for a new credit or charge card, here are our November 2021 recommendations based on the current sign-up bonus

You can see our full directory of all UK cards which earn airline or hotel points here. Here are the top current deals:

British Airways BA Amex American Express card

British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up, no annual fee and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending ….. Read our full review

British Airways BA Premium Plus American Express Amex credit card

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

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Nectar American Express

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & two airport lounge passes Read our full review

American Express Platinum card Amex

The Platinum Card from American Express

30,000 points and an unbeatable set of travel benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Earning miles and points from small business cards

If you are a sole trader or run a small company, you may also want to check out these offers.

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and free for a year Read our full review

Amex Platinum Business American Express

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and a long list of travel benefits Read our full review

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express card

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

30,000 Avios sign-up bonus – plus annual bonuses of up to 30,000 Avios Read our full review

Capital On Tap Business Rewards Visa

The most generous Avios Visa or Mastercard for a limited company Read our full review

For a non-American Express option, we also recommend the Barclaycard Select Cashback card for sole traders and small businesses. It is FREE and you receive 1% cashback on your spending:

Barclaycard Select Cashback Credit Card

1% cashback and no annual fee Read our full review

Comments (101)

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  • kirill says:

    First year gold, get this – Unfortunately This Campaign Is By Invitation Only.

    • Worzel says:

      Strange-I’ve registered 2 with no problem?

      • VS says:

        Could it be that you were sent the registration emails but they got caught up in a junk/spam filter?

  • Lionel says:

    I tested Amex Travel’s prices on one-way European flights on a number of dates/ variations. The prices were nearly identical to BA’s so this is a genuine £50 off.

    I can’t understand the point about ‘selfishness’ – if there’s any sort of chance you can book travel/ hotel etc within the next month for use up to a year away, you’d be ill-advised* to turn down the chance of a £50 saving.

    *politest term I could think of 🙂

    • Andrew says:

      Identical prices to BA.com and no credit card fee (and membership rewards points).

  • Brian says:

    The terms do say one per ACCOUNT, so that’s obviously why it’snot working with supp. cards.

    • Lionel says:

      Not exactly – I tried registering our sup card BEFORE the main card – & it didn’t work. My main card worked subsequently.

  • Col A-B says:

    The T&C I had yesterday stated 8000 available.

    I grabbed my slot despite not having a plan I’m pretty darn certain I will be booking something before the end of June.

  • Polly says:

    Very useful, thanks for sharing

    • Lucas says:

      How does getting those 12600 points work exactly?

      • Lionel says:

        Premium members can convert £52.50 but in any case anything over the limit can be donated to charity.

  • Dave says:

    I’ve got 1st year gold & have had no luck with registration , getting the ‘Invitation only’ page. A real shame considering I need to book a hotel for Fri night!!! 🙁

  • ts77 says:

    I got

    “Unfortunately This Campaign Is By Invitation Only”

    I am using a Business Gold card…

  • Nick M says:

    Same here – I thought it could have been as I was trying to register on my phone, but not working on the PC either…

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