All things American Express.
One of the most compelling reasons to keep the American Express Platinum card is for the $200 annual airline fee reimbursement. Of course it can be difficult for most people to spend $200 on crappy food and booze in flight, bag fees, or one day airline lounge passes. What many people have found is that…
Wow. Didn’t see this one coming. American Express just announced that they are raising the annual fee on the Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Card to $95 (previously $65). The fee increase is effective August 11, 2015. I previously wrote about how this card is one of my favorites in this Starwood Amex Card Review,…
If you are an American Express cardholder, then I hope you’ve been taking advantage of the Amex sync bonuses. Every month Amex releases new promotions and with the holiday shopping season well underway, they have released some pretty good ones. Below is a list of my favorites so far. I’ll keep this post updated with…
The Amex Target Card is well known in the blogging world as a tool for manufactured spending (albeit a very expensive one). Amex Target Card Features $3 fee to activate card (you must buy the card at a B&M Target store) $3 fee to load card (can be loaded using a credit card) $1,000 limit…
American Express is now offering a Los Angeles Restaurant Week promotion where you can get $5 back after spending $21 at a participating restaurant. Amex has done an LA restaurant week promo for the last 3-4 years, and unfortunately the promotion has gotten less and less generous over the years. Still, if you are foodie…
Hilton HHonors just released a great Amex Sync offer where you can get a $50 statement credit after spending $250 or more at a Hilton Hotel & Resort. Unfortunately this deal only includes Hilton hotel properties, and does not include Hilton family hotels like Hampton Inn, Doubletree, Hilton Garden Inn, Conrad, Waldorf Astoria, Embassy Suites,…
One of my all time favorite credit cards is the American Express Starwood Preferred Guest card. It’s great because Starwood hotel redemptions are among the most favorable in the industry, but the option to convert Starpoints into airline miles often at a 1:1 ratio offers another tremendous avenue to value. To top it all off, if…
In December I wrote about Amex Platinum Cardholders losing Admirals Club access on March 22, 2014. At the time of the announcement, they had been sending out letters to certain lucky members offering anywhere from a $200 to $500 statement credit toward incidental airline fees like: Membership fees in the Admirals Club program One-Day passes…
About a month ago I wrote about an Amex gift card purchase where Chase had charged me a cash advance fee and interest on the purchase. This was obviously unsettling brcause not only were these fees very high, but Amex never indicated they would code the transaction this way. What was even more disturbing was…
Starting on March 22, 2014 Amex Platinum Card holders will no longer receive access to the AA Admirals Club. In December Amex sent an email out to Platinum cardholders announcing that members would no longer receive complimentary access to the American Airlines Admiral’s Club or US Airways Club lounges after March 22, 2014. This did…