What is the best Avios credit card?  With the Lloyds Avios Rewards credit card now closed to new applicants, I wanted to take another look at the other remaining options for earning Avios points .....

What is the best Avios credit card?  With the Lloyds Avios Rewards credit card now closed to new .....

7 May 20187 May 2018 by Rob Burgess • 126 comments

Harrods has launched a generous cashback offer with American Express.  If you are targeted for this (log in to your online account and look at ‘Offers’ on each of your statement pages) .....

Harrods has launched a generous cashback offer with American Express.  If you are targeted for this (log in .....

3 May 20183 May 2018 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

We have spent a lot of time this week discussing the new (and still nameless) merged Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and The Ritz-Carlton Rewards loyalty scheme. If you missed it, this .....

We have spent a lot of time this week discussing the new (and still nameless) merged Marriott Rewards, .....

20 Apr 201820 April 2018 by Rob Burgess • 84 comments

Last night Marriott held a major event in New York to outline the first steps of the integration of Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and The Ritz-Carlton Rewards. This is what was announced, .....

Last night Marriott held a major event in New York to outline the first steps of the integration of Marriott .....

17 Apr 201817 April 2018 by Rob Burgess • 198 comments

There was speculation that Marriott, as the new owner of Starwood Hotels, was not keen to renew the lease on the Starwood Preferred Guest box at London’s 02 and at similar AEG-run venues around .....

There was speculation that Marriott, as the new owner of Starwood Hotels, was not keen to renew the lease on .....

29 Mar 201829 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 11 comments

Council tax bills for the new tax year are dropping through letterboxes at the moment. For a lot of people these are chunky (£2,000 is not uncommon in London) and obviously it would be great to pick .....

Council tax bills for the new tax year are dropping through letterboxes at the moment. For a lot of people .....

26 Mar 201826 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 43 comments

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 by Rob Burgess • 131 comments

Long term readers may recognise that I ran a version of this article last year.   The reason I have updated it today is that there is no guarantee that the Starwood Amex will continue beyond .....

Long term readers may recognise that I ran a version of this article last year.   The reason I have .....

19 Mar 201819 March 2018 by Rob Burgess • 43 comments

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 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment

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 by Rob Burgess • 196 comments

The end could be approaching, medium term, for the free British Airways American Express credit card after American Express finally lost a key European Union ruling yesterday. The decision means that .....

The end could be approaching, medium term, for the free British Airways American Express credit card after .....

8 Feb 20188 February 2018 by Rob Burgess • 121 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 by Rob Burgess • 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 by Anika Burnett • 99 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 by Rob Burgess • Leave a comment