[Expired] AmEx Offer: TripFuel, Spend $200 & Receive $50 Statement Credit, Repeat 3x [Hotel Booking]

December 17, 2018
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by Chuck

Deal has expired, view more TripFuel deals by clicking here.

The Offer

Link

Check your American Express login to enroll in the following offer:

  • Get a $50 statement credit when using your enrolled card to spend $200 online at tripfuel.com/amexoffer by 6/3/19.

Tripfuel is a Priceline company for hotel bookings, see analysis below.

 

The Fine Print

  • Must spend $200 or more in a single purchase.
  • Limit 1 enrolled Card per Card Member across all American Express offer channels.
  • Offer valid only for hotel bookings through www.tripfuel.com/amexoffer.
  • Excludes all other Booking Holdings Inc. brands, such as but not limited to booking.com, priceline.com, and rocketmiles.com.
  • Limit of 3 statement credits per Card Member.

Our Verdict

Works out to be a 25% discount. Doesn’t look like it’s possible to stack with any shopping portals and the site doesn’t offer any referral program or any other way to stack this deal either. It’s odd that going to Tripfuel.com takes you directly to the tripfuel.com/amexoffer website, seems like it’s set up just for this purpose.

 

Here’s our analysis from last time this deal came around, I assume it still holds true:

 

When doing a search on the site, it shows a price and says ‘average per night’; that’s actually the total cost, not the average per night.

I did one search and a hotel was pricing at $599 instead of $483 when comparing with other sites. American Express seemed to do something similar with HotelStorm offers as well, offer something like $50 cash back on $200+ spend and then the hotels are all over priced. Even if this site did price competitively you’re better off stacking discounts with Hotels.com to get 30%+ off. Keep in mind with third party online hotel bookings like this you don’t get elite night stay credits, hotel points or your status recognized in most cases when booking chain hotels.

In my opinion American Express needs to clamp down on this type of offer if the hotel booking website is pricing significantly higher than other sites on a frequent basis. If you do your own price comparisons, please share your results in the comments below. For now I’m giving this offer zero stars out of ten.

Hat tip to DDG

View more Amex offers here & if you have any questions abut American Express offers then read this post.

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