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The Platinum Card® by American Express UK is a premium rewards card that offers a ton of elite travel benefits including access to more than 1,200 airport lounge worldwide, complimentary elite status across several hotel programs, car rental benefits, and much more. It's one of the best UK credit cards to have if you frequently travel.
Earn 2 points for every £1 spent on amextravel.co.uk.
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Earn 1 point for every £1 spent on all other purchases.
Current Intro Bonus
Earn 30,000 Membership Rewards® points when you spend £4,000 in your first three months of Cardmembership. Terms apply.
Key Cardholder Benefits
Complimentary access to over 1,400 airport lounges across more than 140 countries worldwide. Includes Priority Pass lounges, Plaza Premium Airport lounges, Delta SkyClub Lounges (when flying Delta), American Express Lounges (including Centurion Lounges) and Eurostar Business Premier Lounges.
Receive up to £300 in Global Dining Credits. That's up to £150 in statements credits to spend in the UK per year, and a further £150 to spend abroad.
Every year, you can book a stay in private homes with onefinestay and receive a £200 statement credit when you use your AMEX Platinum UK card to pay. The stay must be booked through onefinestay.
Enroll to enjoy up to £100 in statement credits per year with Harvey Nichols, when you spend online and in-store with your Card. Get maximum £50 back every six months.
Enroll and enjoy complimentary elite status with leading hotel programs. This includes Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite status, Hilton Honors Gold Elite status, MeliáRewards Gold, and Radisson Rewards Gold Status.
Enjoy up to 20% off base airfare when buying select first class, business class, and premium economy tickets with participating airlines through Platinum Concierge or at American Express Travel Online
Enjoy access to the higher tiers of our travel partners’ loyalty programs including Avis Preferred and Hertz Gold Plus Rewards® with benefits including a discount of up to 15%
Enjoy room upgrades (if available), daily breakfast for two, in-room Wi-Fi, noon check-in (when available), guaranteed 4pm late check-out, and a special amenity such as a US$100 food and beverage credit when booking through Fine Hotels & Resorts
Enjoy worldwide travel insurance for you, your partners, your dependent children and your supplementary cardmembers.
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Transferring points to airline partners for premium, First, and Business class redemptions
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Transferring points to airline partners for economy class redemptions
The Platinum Card has an annual fee of £575. The first Platinum supplementary card is provided at no charge and all additional Platinum supplementary cards will cost £285 annually.
AMEX Points Calculator
Input your monthly and yearly spend to see how many AMEX points you can earn with the The Platinum Card UK. Compare the results side by side up to two credit cards to find out which cards are best for you.
Any spend entered into the primary card column (the first column) will carry over to all credit card calculators on the site, so there's no need to re-enter spend when viewing other credit cards.
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Use this section to add credit cards to the calculator. You can search for a card or go through our top recommendations for each category.
Once you select a card, you'll be shown the details of the card. Any link you click on in the details will open up in a new tab, so you will not lose your calculations.
Clicking on Add Selected Card will add it to the calculator.
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Family Cards
These cards are part of the same family and generally earn the same type of rewards.
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Travel Cards
Travel credit cards are great for building rewards redeemable towards a wide variety of travel including airfare, hotels, car rentals, cruises, and more. Most travel cards also offer a range of benefits that can make your trips more enjoyable and save you money.
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Cash Back Cards
Cash back is one of the most flexible form of rewards and most easy to understand. Rewards earned are worth face value and they can be used towards almost anything.
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Business Cards
Put money back into your business by earning cash back, points, or miles on business expenses. Many cards also offer travel insurance, purchase protection, and more.
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Airline Cards
These are the best credit cards if you're looking to use rewards towards award flights. Some of these cards also offer various benefits such as lounge access the ability to earn qualifying miles through spending.
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Hotel Cards
If you're looking to use rewards towards free nights at hotels, these are the best cards for you. Many of these cards also offer great benefits such as annual free nights, complimentary elite status, and more.
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No Annual Fee
If you're looking to minimize your immediate costs while still earning plenty of value, you may want to consider a credit card with no annual fee. Some of these cards also offer lower interest rates and balance transfer offers.
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Loyalty & Memberships
Loyalty: When adding hotel rewards cards (and a select few others) you'll be able to factor in the points earned from elite status. If a card offers complimentary status, the proper status will be selected by default.
Loyalty is reflected by a blue LOY image. Adding a card with loyalty attached to it will add it to the calculator. It becomes its own entity once added to the calculator and can be removed independent of the card that added it.
Membership: If a card offers any kind of bonus rewards based on your membership in a program, the option will be listed here. Do note that some options calculate automatically.
Welcome Bonus: Any welcome bonuses that changes the earning rates of a card will also be listed here. This allows you to toggle the bonus on or off.
Category Spending
Use this section to enter how much you plan on spending either monthly or yearly across different categories for each card listed.
You can click on the option button for access to a lot of useful tools you can use to quickly adjust spending for the calculator.
Change the order of the categories in the Category Spending section. This has an impact on cards that have spend limits and bonus caps on categories.
Resets all fields in the Category Spending section for all columns. Also clears all saved spend values that carry from calculator to calculator.
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Search for categories and click 'Add Category' to add it to the calculator. If you want to be more specific, you can specify domestic or international spend.
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The amount of rewards earned from card spending.
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Rewards & Bonuses
If a card earns bonus points, miles, or cash back, it will be listed here. You'll be able to edit or toggle on/off most bonuses listed here.
Do note that some bonuses may be automatically calculated based on spend entered in the Category Spending section.
If you want to factor in an intro or welcome bonus, you can also do that here by entering it in the Extra Value field. You can click on View Offers when applicable to see current sign up bonuses for all top credit cards by category.
Extra Value
Use this field to add additional rewards to include in the calculation such as an intro or signup bonus.
Extra Value
Use this field to add additional rewards to include in the calculation such as an intro or signup bonus.
Extra Value
Use this field to add additional rewards to include in the calculation such as an intro or signup bonus.
Rewards & Bonus Total
The amount of rewards earned from card bonuses.
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Total Rewards
This is the total of all points, miles, and cash back earned between Loyalty/Memberships, Category Spending, and Reward Bonuses.
This is how much we value the rewards earned with the card on average based on our valuations. Cards that may offer bonus/additional value are reflected here.
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Transfers To Partners
Redemptions to do with transferring rewards to partner loyalty programs and redeeming them for high value (when applicable). These redemption values typically require knowledge of the best transfer partners.
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Cash Back, Statement Credits
Redemptions to do with turning your rewards into cash back or using it as a statement credit to offset purchases made to the card.
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Travel
Redemptions to do with using your rewards towards travel such as airfare, hotels, and car rentals (not including transfers to partners).
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Gift Cards
Redemptions to do with using your rewards towards the purchase of gift cards.
Enter how much you value a single rewards point or mile in cents or regional currency equivalent (X.XX). The value of cash back cannot be changed.
Rewards Cash Value
The average cash value of rewards earned in the Grand Total section based on the set Currency Worth.
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Monetary Bonuses
This section lists all monetary bonuses. This includes annual credits and top-tier benefits that can offer great monetary value.
If there's a perk or benefit missing that you find valuable, you can add how much you value it in the Extra Cash Value field.
Extra Cash Value
Use this field to add additional cash value to the calculations.
Extra Cash Value
Use this field to add additional cash value to the calculations.
Extra Cash Value
Use this field to add additional cash value to the calculations.
Total Cash Value
The total cash value of all listed benefits plus the cash value of rewards earned.
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Fees
With great benefits comes great annual fees. If a card has a fee that you have to pay annually (or monthly in rare cases), it will be listed here. You have the ability to change it.
If the card charges a fee for adding authorized users, it will also appear in this section.
Annual Fee
This is the fee you must pay annually to have the card.
Authorized User Fee
This is the cost to add additional users or supplemental cards to the account. Enter total amount of authorized users.
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Total Card Value
This is the total cash value of each listed card when factoring in all rewards and all fees.
