trach500

I am a fairly new platinum member and was wondering what you guys have gotten the plat concierge to do for you? Anything extraordinary? I think it would be a fun thing to see what people have used them for, so I can get some idea's in case I needed anything in the future.

proconcierge

Last month I was traveling to a city I didn't know. I asked the hotel about a shuttle from the airport to the hotel. The Front Desk Manager said there wasn't one but he could book me on a commercial sedan service for an additional fee. I checked with the belldesk and he too wanted to book me on a sedan service. Smelling a kickback, I checked online but since I didn't know the layout of the city, I couldn't tell which area my hotel was in. I contacted the Platinum Concierge, they sorted everything out, booked me on a shuttle for $18 instead of a sedan service for $120. I am sure they have done bigger things for others, but that helped me.
R.

DelrayChris

Ridiculous

I would have written a nice letter to the GM and CC'd the corporate office of the hotel.

Did you tell the Front Desk manager and the belldesk about the non-existent shuttle you booked yourself? lol..

This Mortal Coil

You mean the Amex concierge booked him on! Credit where credit is due.

HKBelonger

They are great about finding restaurants in the small cities/big towns that I tend to frequent. I call them before the flight and by the time I land, have a reservation or 3-4 options in my email of places nearby my hotel. When they make the reservation for me, I usually find the restaurant staff to be particularly attentive.^

bdb55

I've used plat concierge to:

Find me a gym in Paris near where I'd be living that had rowing machines, freeweights, and took monthly memberships.

Find me a bar in Paris that would be showing the World Series (and the games began at 2AM here! And the French don't watch baseball! Yet they did it... some Canadian bar in St Germain... though I never got to go because the Red Sox won before I got back from Prague...)

Also, they helped me file a claim under Amex purchase protection. My new camera got stolen in Barcelona, and I needed to fax documents to Amex to receive the reimbursement. It would have cost something like 20 or 30 euros to send the international fax. So I arranged to send the documents as pdfs via email to plat concierge, who then printed and faxed to the other department w/in Amex. Easy, and I got my refund very quick!

EWR ATC Hold

My wife & I got married on St. Patrick's Day this year. In a blizzard (those of you on the east coast this year know what I'm talking about), the Platinum Concierge helped me find a florist that was open that could deliver a boquet of 4 leaf clovers to my wife. It ended up costing a bit but it wasn't awful (about $50).

Two days earlier, we wanted to go to a particular SPA that my wife is a pretty regular customer at. She tried, couldn't get us in, I tried, couldn't get us in and then called Amex--they took care of it in just a few seconds.

They've also come through for me with reservations at sold-out restaurants.

Before I sound like the biggest proponent of them though, I will warn you--they get kick backs (I mean commissions!) from some suppliers they have arrangements with (i.e. florists, tour companies, etc.) so they sometimes don't come through well there (or you can book it yourself for a little less), and I did have one time that I asked them to do research on tours and they couldn't get me on one, but the local hotel concierge got me on the same tour for less money. What's the lesson here? Use them for restuarants and very special requests and sold-out events, otherwise do some of your own research (or use them but remember you're really paying them to do it for you).

Kagehitokiri

nice to have some great responses so fast ^

there is TONS of discussion on this in both this forum and the other credit cards forum.

coreynyc

What other forum?

Kagehitokiri

"other credit card programs" on flyertalk..

trilinearmipmap

1. Plat concierge got me tickets to Leno in Las Vegas, the seats were moderately better than I could get myself online or on the phone, for the same price.

2. Plat concierge got me tickets to Cirque du Soleil "Mystere" in Las Vegas, the seats were much better than I could purchase directly, for the same price.

3. I used them to try and make restaurant reservations and they were not too helpful, they e-mailed me a list of restaurant suggestions that was cut-and-pasted from Frommers.com, I didn't end up reserving any restaurants through them.

I haven't used the platinum concierge for anything else as I have had my platinum card for not too many months.

RichardInSF

I once asked them to get me Sumo tickets for Tokyo, and it was a miserable experience that ended in failure. I think they are probably more knowledgable about the U.S. and maybe major western European cities, I don't think I'd recommend counting on them for Asia if my experience was at all typical.

sbm12

Likewise. I think that they also saved my $6/tixket on some fee by calling the hotel directly instead of going through the regular telesales, but I'm not positive.


They usually start with OpenTable for restaurant reservations. Since OpenTable offers $1/reservation in kickbacks to whomever makes the reservation (and since I use it regularly in NYC anyways) I've just started making the reservations myself. I actually wish they did a better job of this because I'd like to find different/good restaurants when I travel instead of just the ones that subscribe to the service. but that can't really be expected for an agency that is covering the whole world (or even just the US).

HalfwayHotel

I love 'em! Most recently, they got me tickets for the upcoming Santana concert in Sydney, row 4, middle of the stage, at face value. Speak as you find, but I think they're great.

ladiflier

I just worked with a great women. I'm taking my SO away during New Years and to celebrate his birthday. Wanted to go somewhere great for New Years celebration and of course the best place in town was booked. They got me a reservation for 9:00PM. She also sent me a list of restaurants locally and will be helping me plan a local birthday celebration with friends as well!!

So far Kudos to them.