Amex Offers: Save on Any Hotel with $50 Off $250 or $25 Off $100

The Offer

There are two targeted hotel offers from Amex showing for some people, what’s good about them is that they work anywhere and aren’t tied to a particular hotel.

• Spend $250 or more with a registered Amex card and receive a $50 statement credit.
• Spend $100 or more with a registered Amex card and receive a $25 statement credit.

The first offer is better in terms of the total off and the second one is better is terms of ease of use (shorter stay/cheaper room) and also a better percentage (25% off vs. 20% off).

Both are targeted and are showing for some people in their online logins. Many people are seeing it on more than one of their cards. Be sure to use the multi-tab trick to save it on multiple accounts.

The Fine Print

“Reservations made and paid for with any eligible US American Express® Card accepting domestic and/or non-US merchants between 1/4/16 and 3/31/16 are valid for the offer. Only purchases made directly with eligible merchants are eligible for the offer. Eligible merchants are hotels, motels, and bed & breakfasts that accept the American Express Card. Timeshares, banquets, events, and vacation packages are not “eligible merchants”. Reservations made or paid for with online accommodation services for short term or long term rentals for a room, apartment, home, or property are not valid for this offer. Qualifying purchases at eligible merchants must total at least $100/$250 and be made during the offer period above. Qualifying purchases are charges made directly to your room. When you make a qualifying purchase in a foreign currency, the applicable statement credit will be credited in your local currency using the exchange rate at the date the statement credit is applied. Must add offer to Card and use same Card to redeem. Only U.S.-issued American Express Cards are eligible for this offer.”

• Valid until 3/31/16
• “Qualifying purchases at eligible merchants must total at least $100/$250 and be made during the offer period above.” This indicates that the total is cumulative – a very significant detail.

Our Verdict

Many will be able to take advantage of this offer for a hotel stay, especially since you just need to hit the total with cumulative spend.

Note that purchasing a gift card at your favorite hotel or hotel chain should work as well; although it doesn’t meet the conditions of the terms, so long as it processes through the same POS as the room charge, it will likely work to trigger the offer credit.

Also interesting is that some people are finding offers for other hotels as well, such as $35 off $175 at Hampton, and the offers will likely stack for an amazing discount.

HT: Slickdeals