Maximise your Avios, air miles and hotel points
Membership Rewards is the rewards currency for many American Express cards including the The Platinum Card, Preferred Rewards Gold and American Express Rewards Credit Card. You can see a card comparison here.
You can convert Membership Rewards points into many other hotel, airline and retail schemes including Avios, Virgin Flying Club, Hilton Honors, Marriott Bonvoy and even Amazon credit. For a complete list of all UK Amex Membership Rewards transfer partners, click here.
This article looks at the best value partners to use your Membership Rewards with.
Two months ago I wrote a post on “What are the best credit card bonuses for LONG-TERM spending?“. This was an attempt to judge the best card to use as your ‘day to day’ card. .....
Two months ago I wrote a post on “What are the best credit card bonuses for LONG-TERM spending?“. .....
21 Nov 201221 November 2012 • 33 comments
A lot of Head for Points readers now have the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card, following the special sign-up offer of 30,000 Membership Rewards points which ran two weeks ago. (If you .....
A lot of Head for Points readers now have the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card, following the .....
19 Nov 201219 November 2012 • 10 comments
A couple of days ago I wrote about American Express’s new promotion of 5,000 Membership Reward points for making a £100 foreign exchange transfer. At the time, I posted: I am trying a little .....
A couple of days ago I wrote about American Express’s new promotion of 5,000 Membership Reward points .....
18 Nov 201218 November 2012 • 8 comments
American Express has launched an interesting promotion to promote its foreign currency transfer service. Full details can be found here (deleted as now dead). In summary, Amex is offering 5,000 .....
American Express has launched an interesting promotion to promote its foreign currency transfer service. Full .....
15 Nov 201215 November 2012 • 14 comments
Last week I promoted an offer, now closed, for 30,000 bonus American Express Membership Rewards points with the fee-free Amex Preferred Rewards Gold card. A lot of people took this offer up, and .....
Last week I promoted an offer, now closed, for 30,000 bonus American Express Membership Rewards points with .....
6 Nov 20126 November 2012 • 26 comments
The ‘Credit Card Offers’ page at the top of the site has been updated for November to reflect changes over the past month. After a quiet start to the month, things have really picked .....
The ‘Credit Card Offers’ page at the top of the site has been updated for November to reflect .....
1 Nov 20121 November 2012 • 1 comment
I have spent the last few days with some friends of ours in Stuttgart. Had I not been there, I would have tried to get across to the Hyatt Churchill Hotel in London, where a group of 40 or so .....
I have spent the last few days with some friends of ours in Stuttgart. Had I not been there, I would have .....
31 Oct 201231 October 2012 • 47 comments
Well, the results of my experiment are in. This is what turned up on my Membership Rewards statement: 22/10/2012 AMEX TRAVEL MONEY Charge: £166.92 Base points: 166 Bonus points: 0 Total points: 166 .....
Well, the results of my experiment are in. This is what turned up on my Membership Rewards statement: .....
28 Oct 201228 October 2012 • 13 comments
I’m always happy to receive tip-offs of new promotions and interesting miles and points earning ideas from readers. You can contact me at rob at headforpoints.com I have had two good ideas .....
I’m always happy to receive tip-offs of new promotions and interesting miles and points earning ideas .....
18 Oct 201218 October 2012 • 12 comments
American Express has been emailing selected cardholders this week with an offer from online male fashion website mrporter.com This is what I got as a Platinum cardholder: And here’s one more .....
American Express has been emailing selected cardholders this week with an offer from online male fashion .....
17 Oct 201217 October 2012 • 27 comments
If you have an Amex Membership Rewards account, and are opted in to emails (and if not, you should be), you should have received an email yesterday which looks, on the face of it, like a piece of .....
If you have an Amex Membership Rewards account, and are opted in to emails (and if not, you should be), you .....
4 Oct 20124 October 2012 • 25 comments
There is always something satisfying about making a good value redemption, especially when you can see the saving in hard cash! My wife has been sitting on 21,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points for a .....
There is always something satisfying about making a good value redemption, especially when you can see the .....
1 Oct 20121 October 2012 • 8 comments
A quick reminder that today is the last day to register your Amex card (any Amex-issued Amex) to received double rewards when you shop at World Duty Free. Original post is here. You will receive .....
A quick reminder that today is the last day to register your Amex card (any Amex-issued Amex) to received .....
30 Sep 201230 September 2012 • 1 comment
If you’re a BMI Diamond Club member, you will have had yesterdays email announcing what is effectively the formal winding up of the club. For the rest of you who are interested, here is a .....
If you’re a BMI Diamond Club member, you will have had yesterdays email announcing what is effectively .....
29 Sep 201229 September 2012 • 6 comments
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