Get £75 back on a £300 spend at selected UK hotels as ‘Amex Stays’ returns

American Express has brought back ‘Amex Stays’, a generous cashback offer covering 50+ UK hotels and one random property in Budapest!

This is totally separate to the multiple ‘big brand’ hotel cashback deals that American Express runs and which I expect to reappear soon (a Marriott offer is already live).

Importantly, pre-paid hotel rooms WILL count for the offer. This allows you to book during the relatively short offer period and stay later.

There is a dedicated Amex Stays website here.

It’s a simple deal:

• you will receive £75 cashback when you spend £300 IN ONE TRANSACTION with a participating hotel

• you can only earn the cashback once in total – NOT once per hotel or brand

• the offer runs until 1st June 2026

• pre-paid AND ‘pay on departure’ bookings count, so pre-paid online bookings for future stays are ok as long as the charge is taken by 1st June 2026

• you need to opt-in for the offer via the ‘Offers’ tab of your card or on the website

• I suspect the offer is only for Gold and Platinum cardholders, and the Business equivalents, but this isn’t totally clear. At the time of writing it only shows via my Business Platinum card.

Which hotels are participating?

There is a website showing participating brands here.

Some – not all – of the hotels will also give you the cashback for a £300 restaurant or bar spend by a non-resident. Take a look at the Amex PDF list here. ‘Group A’ hotels do not allow stand-alone F&B spend whilst ‘Group B’ hotels do. (Weirdly, the official T&Cs say that standalone restaurant and bar spend NEVER counts. Make what you want of that.)

Some of the hotels listed may be bookable via World of Hyatt or Hilton Honors as part of their Mr & Mrs Smith or Small Luxury Hotels of the World partnerships. Do check before booking.

In general, there are more independent hotels taking part than in previous years, which can only be a good thing.

Here are your options, sorted by location:

BATH: Francis Hotel
BISHOPTON: Mar Hall
BLACKBURN: Northcote (Preferred Hotels)
BRAMAR: The Fife Arms
BUDAPEST: Maison 45
DARLINGTON: Rockcliffe Hall
DORNOCH: Dornoch Station
EDINBURGH: 100 Princes Street
EDINBURGH: The Resident Edinburgh (HfP review here)
GUERNSEY: Old Government House
HEATHROW: Thistle Heathrow, Bath Road
JERSEY: The Atlantic Hotel
LEAMINGTON SPA: Mallory Court
LIVERPOOL: The Resident Liverpool
LONDON: Clermont Charing Cross, Strand
LONDON: Clermont Victoria
LONDON: Hotel 41, Buckingham Palace Road
LONDON: Hotel Café Royal (Global Hotel Alliance, HfP review here)
LONDON: L’Oscar, Southampton Row
LONDON: Milestone Hotel, Kensington
LONDON: One Aldwych
LONDON: One Hundred Shoreditch (Global Hotel Alliance, HfP review here)
LONDON: Royal Horse Guards, Whitehall Court
LONDON: Rubens at the Palace, Buckingham Palace Road
LONDON: Sea Containers, South Bank (Global Hotel Alliance, HfP review here)
LONDON: The Athenaeum Hotel, Piccadilly
LONDON: The Chesterfield, Mayfair
LONDON: The Cumberland, Marble Arch
LONDON: The Egerton House Hotel, Chelsea
LONDON: The Hari, Belgravia
LONDON: The Londoner, Leicester Square (Preferred Hotels, HfP review here)
LONDON: The May Fair, Mayfair (Radisson Rewards)
LONDON: The Resident Covent Garden
LONDON: The Resident Soho
LONDON: The Resident Victoria
LONDON: The Tower Hotel, Tower Bridge
LONDON: Thistle London Bloomsbury Park
LONDON: Thistle London Holborn
LONDON: Thistle London Hyde Park
LONDON: Thistle London Marble Arch
LONDON: Thistle London Piccadilly
LONDON: Thistle London Trafalgar Square
LONDON: Thistle Park Lane
LUTON: Thistle Express London Luton
MANCHESTER: Forty-Seven Hotel (WorldHotels)
MANCHESTER: The Edwardian Manchester (Radisson Rewards)
MANCHESTER: Velvet Hotel, Canal Street
MATFEN: Matfen Hall
NEWCASTLE: Slieve Donard
NEWPORT: Celtic Manor
NEWQUAY: Headland Hotel
NORTH BERWICK: Marine North Berwick
OAKHAM: Hambleton Hall
PLYMOUTH: Boringdon Hall, Colebrook
SEAHAM: Seaham Hall
ST ANDREWS: Rusacks St Andrews
TROON: Marine Troon

A quick note about the Thistle Heathrow hotel. This is directly behind the car park used by the POD parking system. As long as you don’t mind paying £8.25 per person, you can leave the hotel, take a 60 second walk to the POD station and be in Terminal 5 in a couple of minutes. Details are on the Thistle Heathrow website here.

Of course, it is virtually impossible to spend £300 at Thistle Heathrow (it’s old and cheap, and doesn’t even have a lift if I remember rightly) so I’m not even sure why it takes part in this offer!