Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is our top choice for your first ‘miles and points’ credit card. It has no annual fee for the first year, comes with two free airport lounge passes and £120 of annual Deliveroo credit and has a very generous sign-up bonus of 20,000 Membership Rewards points.
You can read our full review of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card here. You can apply for the card here.
Amex is clearly reading our articles. The refer a friend rules for American Express Preferred Rewards Gold have been changed back this morning. They now say, as they used to: “Please note, .....
Amex is clearly reading our articles. The refer a friend rules for American Express Preferred Rewards Gold .....
23 Mar 201823 March 2018 • 131 comments
For the last 18 months, Amazon has been offering an exclusive £15 discount code for Amex Gold, Green and Platinum charge card holders when they spend £25 or more. This offer expires on 31st March .....
For the last 18 months, Amazon has been offering an exclusive £15 discount code for Amex Gold, Green and .....
20 Mar 201820 March 2018 • Leave a comment
It is time for our regular round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and hotel credit card sign-up deals. To be honest, there is more ‘going’ than .....
It is time for our regular round up of what is coming and what is going in the world of UK airline and hotel .....
15 Mar 201815 March 2018 • 109 comments
The Financial Times carried an article yesterday (paywall, or free if you google ‘Amex to woo retailers with biggest fee cut in 20 years’) in which the new American Express CEO talks of .....
The Financial Times carried an article yesterday (paywall, or free if you google ‘Amex to woo retailers .....
13 Mar 201813 March 2018 • Leave a comment
Emirates has launched a decent cashback deal with American Express although not many people appear to have it. There seem to be a few variants so you will need to look through the .....
Emirates has launched a decent cashback deal with American Express although not many people appear to have .....
7 Mar 20187 March 2018 • Leave a comment
American Express has launched a new cashback deal with Heathrow Express. It is showing on my Platinum charge card and my British Airways Premium Plus card but not my Starwood Amex. You get £10 back .....
American Express has launched a new cashback deal with Heathrow Express. It is showing on my Platinum charge .....
4 Mar 20184 March 2018 • 72 comments
What I thought might be interesting to look at today, in very mercenary terms, would be to rank the best UK travel credit card sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard cash. How do I value my miles and .....
What I thought might be interesting to look at today, in very mercenary terms, would be to rank the best UK .....
19 Feb 201819 February 2018 • 122 comments
We don’t do very many ‘first principles’ articles on Head for Points. A number of recent emails, plus a discussion in the comments section on Saturday from a reader who had been .....
We don’t do very many ‘first principles’ articles on Head for Points. A number of recent .....
12 Feb 201812 February 2018 • 196 comments
If you missed our article last week, American Express is now accepted at ALDI. A ‘£5 cashback when you spend £10’ offer appeared on many Amex cards yesterday – I have it on my .....
If you missed our article last week, American Express is now accepted at ALDI. A ‘£5 cashback when you .....
8 Feb 20188 February 2018 • 102 comments
It looks like ALDI is starting to target American Express cardholders. There have been rumours about the discount supermarket starting to accept Amex but as we couldn’t find anything .....
It looks like ALDI is starting to target American Express cardholders. There have been rumours about the .....
1 Feb 20181 February 2018 • 99 comments
Many of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focused on sign-up bonuses. Get a card, spend the minimum required to trigger the bonus, cancel the card, move on. After a period, you .....
Many of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focused on sign-up bonuses. Get a card, spend the .....
23 Jan 201823 January 2018 • 341 comments
Two readers have contacted me in recent days to say that they have been told by the American Express call centre that imminent changes are coming to the way sign-up bonuses are earned. The two stories .....
Two readers have contacted me in recent days to say that they have been told by the American Express call .....
16 Jan 201816 January 2018 • Leave a comment
Today I thought I would take a look at the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold credit card. I mention this card quite a bit on Head for Points but if you are new to this hobby then it .....
Today I thought I would take a look at the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold credit card. I .....
11 Jan 201811 January 2018 • 154 comments
Back in September we first wrote about Billhop, a Swedish company that lets you pay almost ANY bill with a credit or charge card – including American Express cards. You can probably imagine how .....
Back in September we first wrote about Billhop, a Swedish company that lets you pay almost ANY bill with a .....
6 Jan 20186 January 2018 • 17 comments
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