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.
Despite having an American Express Business Platinum card, no-one had ever bothered to tell me that Amex Business has a gas and electricity deal with EDF Energy. You can see details here. The tariff .....
Despite having an American Express Business Platinum card, no-one had ever bothered to tell me that Amex .....
10 Dec 202010 December 2020 • 11 comments
Twice in one year? It must be Christmas. After American Express launched an out-of-season ‘Shop Small UK’ promotion over the summer we weren’t sure if it would return in time for .....
Twice in one year? It must be Christmas. After American Express launched an out-of-season ‘Shop Small .....
4 Dec 20204 December 2020 • 216 comments
How can you use American Express Membership Rewards points to benefit your small business? Here are some options you might want to try.
How can you use American Express Membership Rewards points to benefit your small business? Here are some .....
1 Dec 20201 December 2020 • 19 comments
American Express has recently launched a new service for Cardmembers called Premium Rewards. It allows you to pay the majority of your company bills - to suppliers who do not take payment cards - via .....
American Express has recently launched a new service for Cardmembers called Premium Rewards. It allows you to .....
25 Nov 202025 November 2020 • 39 comments
American Express has a payments business called American Express FX International Payments. I want to take a closer look at this today, as it allows Cardmembers to earn additional rewards.
American Express has a payments business called American Express FX International Payments. I want to take a .....
20 Nov 202020 November 2020 • 9 comments
American Express has just launched a 25% transfer bonus when you move your Membership Rewards points into Hilton Honors points. Let’s see if this is enough to move the needle or not. Which .....
American Express has just launched a 25% transfer bonus when you move your Membership Rewards points into .....
17 Nov 202017 November 2020 • 30 comments
Last week we published an article on the best ‘sweet spots’ in the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer programme. There are some interesting options. KrisFlyer is, I think, the cheapest way of .....
Last week we published an article on the best ‘sweet spots’ in the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer .....
17 Nov 202017 November 2020 • Leave a comment
This is the second part of the updated article I began two weeks ago, discussing the best ways to ‘zero out’ loyalty card accounts which you want to abandon. You need to remember that .....
This is the second part of the updated article I began two weeks ago, discussing the best ways to ‘zero .....
16 Nov 202016 November 2020 • 9 comments
American Express has been running a very interesting offer for holders of American Express Business Gold and American Express Business Platinum. This is the same offer which was made available to .....
American Express has been running a very interesting offer for holders of American Express Business Gold and .....
12 Nov 202012 November 2020 • 17 comments
You might think that the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer programme, which is part of Star Alliance and so accesses a different group of airlines to Avios, is irrelevant to you. And yet …. if you .....
You might think that the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer programme, which is part of Star Alliance and so .....
9 Nov 20209 November 2020 • 32 comments
One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up to 10,000 Membership Rewards points per year for 1.5p each. This facility is mentioned on .....
One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up .....
7 Nov 20207 November 2020 • 4 comments
A regular question I receive from readers is about ‘convertible’ points. There is a psychological desire to move, say, your Tesco Clubcard points to Avios as soon as you receive them, .....
A regular question I receive from readers is about ‘convertible’ points. There is a .....
27 Oct 202027 October 2020 • 16 comments
Last week I did a piece for This Is Money about the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold credit card, to help a reader who was unsure whether he should retain the card after the free first year. .....
Last week I did a piece for This Is Money about the American Express Preferred Rewards Gold credit card, to .....
28 Sep 202028 September 2020 • 47 comments
American Express has extended its interesting offer for holders of the Preferred Rewards Gold credit card. If you use your points for statement credit (ie reducing what you owe next month by redeeming .....
American Express has extended its interesting offer for holders of the Preferred Rewards Gold credit card. If .....
23 Sep 202023 September 2020 • 3 comments
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