Get £10 American Express cashback on Heathrow Express train tickets

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• Nigel says:

  4 Mar4 March 05:42

  You may get Avios but there is no rail card discount……

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    4 Mar4 March 10:52

    That’s why I take the Heathrow Rewards option. With a Network Railcard (available to anyone) a return on the HEX is £24.40 rather than £37. The Network Railcard applies the discount for up to 4 people.

    So I miss out on 370 Avios but I save £12.60, I still get 48 Heathrow Rewards points (as they’re doubled due to premium membership) and another £24 towards requalifying for the premium tier.

    Network Railcard is also usable on other trains in the former Network South East area. Please check the validity though as on weekdays (except bank holidays) they’re not valid until after 10:00. Weekends have no restriction.

    HEX tickets have a longer validity than normal National Rail tickets so you could add an extra one to your basket if you want to get your balance over £35 to trigger the Amex offer. On a return the outward is valid three months from the date on your eTicket, the return is then valid a month from where the outward is used.

    Last time I tried this (I’d check with HEX to be sure this is still the case) you could use a return ticket like two singles in the same direction for example if you took Uber to the airport and HEX on the way back you could use the return for two trips Heathrow to Paddington.

    • JD says:

      4 Mar4 March 11:03

      I had no idea you could use Network Railcards on the HEX. Thank you for sharing

      • James77 says:

        4 Mar4 March 11:07

        Neither did I, very useful post, thank you!

      • Save East Coast Rewards says:

        4 Mar4 March 11:52

        That was true many years ago, originally no railcards were accepted and then they were accepted but they made it difficult to buy, but for a few years now the main HEX booking page has added a railcard option and also the HEX app supports that too.

        I quite like how HEX is one of the few operators that has decent eTicketing. All the tickets that HEX offers are available as eTickets – even the carnets (which are worth looking at if you need to use the HEX frequently in the morning peak, otherwise it’s cheaper buying railcard discounted tickets)

      • Save East Coast Rewards says:

        4 Mar4 March 12:54

        I think many people probably don’t know about the Network Railcards being valid to Heathrow (actually when I was talking to people from work many people didn’t know about their annual season ticket also acting as a railcard), also many people don’t realise you can buy as many Two Together Railcards as you want so I’ve put together a quick blog on railcards http://saveecrewards.co.uk/blog/railcards-anyone

• shd says:

  4 Mar4 March 06:26

  Rob – any word on whether the Costco Amex is likely to survive?

  • @mkcol says:

    4 Mar4 March 07:34

    I was very surprised to get an email from Costco yesterday pushing their AMEX card.

• JamesB says:

  4 Mar4 March 06:50

  Many UK residents can access the digital version of the economist on their mobile device for free via their local authority library subscription for free. Therefore, these offers make little sense unless one wants the print edition.

  • Genghis says:

    4 Mar4 March 07:17

    Or… I’ve just started my £1 / copy sub again. I churn that more than credit cards

  • Tom says:

    4 Mar4 March 07:34

    I did not know this.. just found my library does this! great tip!

    (shame the library doesn’t give out Avios though 🙂

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    4 Mar4 March 08:41

    Was going to make exactly the same comment.

  • fbrj says:

    4 Mar4 March 12:43

    Well – I never knew that! Just found my local library provides an online edition – thank you….great tip JamesB

• Polly says:

  4 Mar4 March 07:00

  Agree, but you can get about 3 free articles a day l think.. That should do. When we had the sub, without avios, my OH was sucked in by an email and forgot to mention it to me, so no avios. I was not happy. Anyway, we might think about this one now. Saying that, there were often as many as 6 copies unopened still in their plastic wrappers waiting to Opened and read at any one Time!

• Ray. says:

  4 Mar4 March 07:56

  OT. Curve rewards, how do you redeem the 500 curve points? Do you have to make a purchase for exactly £5?

  • Genghis says:

    4 Mar4 March 07:59

    I just top up amazon acct with the exact amount.

  • RK says:

    4 Mar4 March 08:21

    Correct – switch the curve onto the rewards card and make a purchase for £5, before switching back to a debit/credit card

    • Graham Walsh says:

      4 Mar4 March 10:12

      Just tried this. I have 1881 points and tried to do a top up of £18 on Amazon and it got declined. What am I doing wrong?

      • Liz says:

        4 Mar4 March 10:34

        If you are doing it for the first time – amazon have probably sent a £1 preauthorisation to your Card so the transaction will decline. . I had that over the last couple of days. Contact Curve and they will give you the £1 back – I just converted our 2x £5 refer a friend bonuses to Amazon this morning.

      • Graham Walsh says:

        4 Mar4 March 16:49

        Thanks Liz. Sent them a message

  • TGLoyalty says:

    4 Mar4 March 08:34

    If you have 500 points then yep exactly £5. You can redeem any amount up to whatever your curve balance is but can’t go above (as it doesn’t/can’t charge another card for the balance)

    • Lumma says:

      4 Mar4 March 09:22

      Has anyone ever tried withdrawing cash from an ATM with curve rewards?

  • Peter K says:

    4 Mar4 March 09:40

    Make a payment towards something like your council tax, phone bill, water rates etc. It uses up fiddly little amounts of your have for example £5.23 in rewards.

    • Lumma says:

      4 Mar4 March 10:40

      Most restaurants will allow you to pay an exact amount towards your bill on a card. They may think you’re slightly odd when you want to pay £2.38 towards a £100 bill on 1 card but I don’t think they’d stop you from doing so

• Lumma says:

  4 Mar4 March 08:12

  Indeed, but you’re spending in Asda and not one of their rivals. If creation are making 0.3% in interchange fees, then giving less than that seems extremely mean considering the restriction on were you can spend it.

  Could anyone truly be bothered with spending £1000 on a card to get £2 off at Asda? It’s not like using a card that earns avios where there’s many other ways of earning the currency and you can see it build up into something worthwhile.

  • callum says:

    4 Mar4 March 09:34

    It’s not 0.3% of pure profit – it costs money to run a credit card.

    Well I’d imagine the ASDA credit card is primarily aimed at ASDA shoppers, but I’d guess the millions using credit cards with no rewards whatsoever would find it worthwhile!

  • Lumma says:

    4 Mar4 March 10:35

    Anyway it’s a moot point for me anyway this card. Using Creation’s credit scoring logic I’m ineligible for all the Asda credit cards, even the higher interest one for people with poor credit, yet I am eligible for both IHG rewards cards.

  • Lady London says:

    4 Mar4 March 12:10

    Demand for food is inelastic even if the way of using the 0.2% is restricted to supermarket spend so I guess they’re accounting for the 0.2% bonus to be used by cardholders close to 100%.

    Is my thinking woolly here? if interchange fees are capped at 0.3% then does this kind of imply the card company thinks it can run its business with the other 0.1%?

    • Rob says:

      4 Mar4 March 12:12

      I am guessing that the propensity of ASDA cardholders to pay interest is higher than any travel rewards card.

• Kevin says:

  4 Mar4 March 09:33

  Is anyone else still getting free copies of the TLS? They sent a letter saying the free trial would stop but it never did.

  • Peter K says:

    4 Mar4 March 09:41

    Mine stopped.

  • Liz says:

    4 Mar4 March 10:37

    I’m still getting the Sunday Times Travel Magazine despite cancelling my direct debit last August.

    • Richard says:

      4 Mar4 March 22:17

      Likewise

      • john says:

        5 Mar5 March 15:11

        Same. I cancelled DD and cancelled the sub with them. I’ve moved and my mail redirection will stop soon so I emailed them last week. Not heard back though.

  • Elaine says:

    4 Mar4 March 14:48

    I’m still getting the TLS. I don’t read it so I’d be happy if it stopped. I also got the letter saying it would stop.

• Delbert says:

  4 Mar4 March 09:37

  20% HEX discount with the following promotion code: TAJHOTELS

  • Rob says:

    4 Mar4 March 11:20

    Ooh thanks

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