Stewie Mac

£20 off a £100 spend with Berry Bros appeared on my PRG card this morning - two days after I placed my order for Xmas....

louie-m

I've got the Hilton £50 off £250 offer but it specifies you have to pay at checkout. The cheapest rate is prepaid. Does anyone have any experience of whether prepayments do actually work in practice?

hanrahantom

I pre payed on a different card, then on check out asked it to be refunded and charged to a different card (which has the cashback offer)

cashback credited ok

louie-m

Good thinking. Shame I already took the risk! Will post later whether it worked.

louie-m

I can confirm that I have now had the £50 Amex credit having prepaid for a stay after Christmas.

Bloomsbury

Can anyone confirm whether the Trailfinders credit posts on flight-only bookings?

The terms and conditions on the Amex site and Trailfinders site keep mentioning 'per holiday booking', but I'm still not 100% sure whether that means the credit will only post on package holidays or if they're just trying to steer people towards that.

wmaciej

notforfooduse

Anyone have any experience with this?

EDIflyer

I've previously used it in-store to buy Trailfinders vouchers and it worked fine for that - might be a safer route? I suppose there's always a risk with flight-only that it comes through to credit card as the underlying airline rather than the TA...

xmrbrightside89

How does Amex target its customers with the offers? As some people seem to get more travel offers such as the £100 off when spending £500 on a BA ticket etc?

I seem to get a lot of shopping offers

£50 off when spending £250 at Farfetch
3000 extra avios at Mulberry when spending £300
5000 avios when spending £300+ at Cladige's
£5 off when spending £50 at duty free (lol)

mia

Offers are targeted by the merchants, not by American Express.

ExpatSomchai

AMEX Connect has a few hotel offers

wmaciej

And it's a yet another time when people get "AmEx Travel spend 200GBP get 50GBP back" on their free cards and nothing on Platinum or Gold charge cards here. It's very disappointing - the offers are getting worse and worse.
Has anybody succeeded asking AmEx to enrol their cards in the offer they were not targeted for?

JFSV

Quick query - the "Spend 200+ GBP get 55GBP back" for Guoman towels has the rule (within the Offers section of Amex's site) that the hotel booking must be booked and paid before 30 Sept 2018.

I have already booked this hotel for a couple of nights in late October and the cost is above this threshold so I should get the rebate - suprisingly though, the cheapest hotel rate is a flexible one and the hotel has not yet charged me anything. They will likely only do so upon check out i.e. late October and technically speaking after the period included in the offer rules, despite the booking has been done within the stated period.

Is it worth calling the hotel to ask them to pre-charge me the amount early (to trigger the automatic rebate) or would you rather take chances and speak afterwards with Amex in case the rebate is not automatically triggered in late October (my assumption)?

Thanks!

aidy

i did this for the Thisle offer and it worked, with my £35 cashback paid within 3 days