Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points

American Express Gold card

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.

This article explains in greater detail why the American Express Gold card is the best credit card for a miles and points beginner.

You can read our full review of the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card here.  You can apply for the card here.

The top 16 UK loyalty credit card sign-up deals by £ value

Our ‘Credit Cards Offers’ tab lists all of the card deals currently available. What I thought might be interesting, in very mercenary terms, would be to rank the sign-up bonuses in terms of .....

Our ‘Credit Cards Offers’ tab lists all of the card deals currently available. What I thought might .....

by Rob Burgess49 comments

Comparing the 13 credit cards that now earn you Avios points

What is the best Avios credit card?  With 13 different cards now offering Avios points, and issuers starting to reduce the rewards on Visa and MasterCard products in response to the new EU rules on .....

What is the best Avios credit card?  With 13 different cards now offering Avios points, and issuers starting .....

by Rob Burgess81 comments

Bits: new Amex cashback deals, how HfP helped Paul see South America

News in brief: New American Express statement credit deals launched A new wave of Amex cashback offers launched yesterday. Some, all or none of these will be available for registration under the .....

News in brief: New American Express statement credit deals launched A new wave of Amex cashback offers .....

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New American Express statement credit deals launched

A batch of new ‘statement credit’ offers appeared on my American Express online account yesterday. If you have a Gold, Platinum, BA, SPG, Nectar or other Amex-issued Amex card, you should .....

A batch of new ‘statement credit’ offers appeared on my American Express online account yesterday. .....

by Rob Burgess27 comments

New targetted promo: £10 off £20 spend at Amazon with American Express

American Express and Amazon have quietly launched another promotion.  This is effectively free money if you are targetted for it. You will receive £10 cashback when you make a £20 purchase at .....

American Express and Amazon have quietly launched another promotion.  This is effectively free money if you .....

by Rob Burgess31 comments

What are the best credit card bonuses for LONG TERM spending?

The majority of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focussed on exploiting sign-up bonuses.  Get a card, spend the minimum required to trigger the bonus, cancel the card, move on. .....

The majority of the credit card posts on Head for Points are focussed on exploiting sign-up bonuses.  Get .....

by Rob Burgess110 comments

More American Express High Street cashback deals launched

American Express has launched a new wave of cashback offers. To see what you have been targetted for, log in to your American Express account and click on ‘Offers’ on the statement page. .....

American Express has launched a new wave of cashback offers. To see what you have been targetted for, log in .....

by Rob Burgess54 comments