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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.

Join an Amex Gold cooking event on Saturday night

Eat Life is the ongoing programme of foodie events for American Express Preferred Reward Gold cardholders. On Saturday 20th March, via an online event, well known chefs Jason .....

Eat Life is the ongoing programme of foodie events for American Express Preferred Reward Gold cardholders. On .....

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How to use your American Express Business £50 or £75 Dell credit

There are currently VERY generous sign-up bonuses on the American Express Business cards for SME’s: American Express Business Platinum comes with a 100,000 points bonus – apply here, .....

There are currently VERY generous sign-up bonuses on the American Express Business cards for SME’s: .....

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Don’t overlook the American Express / Dropbox offer

Dropbox has been running various cashback offers for American Express cardholders for some time. If you got used to seeing their logo in your online list of offers, you may have failed to notice that .....

Dropbox has been running various cashback offers for American Express cardholders for some time. If you got .....

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Review: the American Express Business Gold card

If you are looking for an Amex business card, American Express offers two core products in the UK.  This review looks at the American Express Business Gold charge card.  Our review of the .....

If you are looking for an Amex business card, American Express offers two core products in the UK.  This .....

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New American Express cashback offers appearing

After a lockdown-driven hiatus, new American Express cashback offers have started to appear this week. Many Marriott Bonvoy American Express cardholders, including myself, have an easy win – .....

After a lockdown-driven hiatus, new American Express cashback offers have started to appear this week. Many .....

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What are the most valuable credit card sign-up bonuses?

It’s time for our annual rank of the best UK travel credit card sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard cash. How do I value my miles and points? The biggest question mark is over the value of the .....

It’s time for our annual rank of the best UK travel credit card sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard .....

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Get 50,000 points – and no fee in Year 1 – with Amex Business Gold

As we announced yesterday, American Express has launched the biggest sign-up bonuses ever seen on a UK payment card. These are, genuinely, on a scale unlike anything we have seen before. If you or .....

As we announced yesterday, American Express has launched the biggest sign-up bonuses ever seen on a UK payment .....

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The biggest UK card sign-up bonus EVER is here, worth 100,000 points

American Express has launched the biggest sign-up bonus ever seen in the UK for a payment card. It doesn’t just set a new record, it smashes them. The highest bonus I have ever seen in the last .....

American Express has launched the biggest sign-up bonus ever seen in the UK for a payment card. It .....

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What can you do with American Express Membership Rewards points?

Who are the UK American Express Membership Rewards partners? Today I wanted to do one of our occasional ‘first principles’ articles where we look at a topic that is regularly discussed on .....

Who are the UK American Express Membership Rewards partners? Today I wanted to do one of our occasional .....

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Get £100-£150 of Dell cashback with a new Amex Business benefit

American Express has launched a new statement credit offer with Dell Technologies. It is worth £100 to £150 per year of statement credit on your future purchases from dell.co.uk

American Express has launched a new statement credit offer with Dell Technologies. It is worth £100 to £150 .....

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