American Express has partnered with ONDA to provide card members with access for two months for free. ONDA is a global lifestyle club offering members access to private member clubs, co-working spaces and health clubs. Membership gives you three visits per year to all the properties within ONDA network (100+ clubs/co-working spaces). Enrolling in this offer does enroll you in auto billing, so remember to cancel otherwise you’ll be charged $96 per month.
This could be useful for getting back “out there” post-pandemic. The ONDA partners in my city frequently host(ed) events, Friday post-work mixers, etc. With a lot of people continuing to work remotely at least part time, it might be a nice change to use a co-working space periodically and take advantage of networking opportunities. I could even see using it for one-on-one meetings (most seem to allow members one guest).
“global lifestyle club” – at this point every one of those words has been beat to death, and when put together, it sounds like marketing vomit. and combined with all the “luxury eyeware”, “luxury furnishings”,”luxury bedding”, “luxury fashion”, I am really not the target audience. Please Amex raise the fee on plat and make it easy for us non-luxury people to cancel.
So let’s say I choose a club that offers spa treatments and massages. Are these also included or I need to pay extra for them?
They cost extra. ONDA only covers admission. You’ve never been to an actual spa before, have you?
At one point I had the Platinum, Gold, Green and EDP. Now I only have the ED card. All these credits are totally unusable to me. I really like AMEX, but these are zero incentive to get any of their charge cards again. I can’t use Uber credits because I live in the sticks. I can’t use Grubhub because of the same reason. My home airport is ANC, so Priority Pass is useless. I usually fly through SEA, and it doesn’t work there either. I tried to use it one time in LAX and was told that the AMEX version of Priority Pass was not accepted. I’ve only been in one Centurion lounge and that was in PHL since I was passing through on a business trip. The Lounge Buddy credit wasn’t usable for me in ANC, SEA or TPA, which are the airports I frequent. I could use the airline credits for Alaska lounge access and that’s about it.
The AMEX offers for Hotels and things have been useful, but that’s about it. I did get one of the targeted 0% for 12 month on new purchase offers that have been floating around on my ED card and used it to buy a Tempur-Pedic mattress, so that was nice.
You simply aren’t the target demographic for AmEx and that’s fine
I get that, unfortunately.
Most people would be better offer with Croissant or Deskpass for flexible and affordable coworking arrangements that beats this Amex offer and WeWork.
More useless crap from Amex. Amex motto – quantity over quality. Would someone please rehire Pam Habner! For goodness sakes Amex has been playing catch up to Chase since 2016.
This seems like a good deal.. I’m doing some travel in California this month and can probably use the free 3x visits.. don’t know why others are dissing this deal.
Probably because this is another one of those crap offers that only a very small percentage of cardholders will be able to take advantage of.
Because not everyone can or wants to travel. Don’t know why people think an extremely niche promotion with a two-month window and extremely limited geographical coverage 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 be an amazing deal for 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚.
Wow i can’t believe someone was able to take the wework business model and make it worse.
Any in SF?
The site shows 2 co-working and 1 club in SF, though the map only appears to show 2 of them. Oddly the map seems to leave several off. For example, nothing shows on the map for DC even though they list 3 there, NYC only has 1 on the map but 6 on the site. Chicago shows nothing on the map and nothing on the site, but lets me click on the city. Whatever, be sure to _NOT_ sign me up for this “deal”.
This is cracking me up. There is one down the street from me in DC!