Amex Platinum cards come with a large suite of benefits, from hotel status to airport lounge access to entertainment subscription credits to savings at Saks and Dell to a Walmart+ membership and more.
All those benefits are pretty well known, but there’s also a whole host of other indirect benefits you can get from being a Platinum or Business Platinum cardholder. With free burgers, Champions League soccer streaming, status with other hotel and car rental programs and more available, here’s what else you can get from being a cardholder.
1) Free Burgers
The first few of these indirect benefits come courtesy of the complimentary Walmart+ subscription that’s a benefit on personal Platinum cards only (although it is also available on Business Gold cards). As a quick reminder, Walmart+ costs $12.95 per month and if you pay for it with a Platinum card, you’ll get a statement credit for $12.95 a few days after each month’s subscription is charged to your card. Important to note: you have to enroll in this benefit first and it’s only valid on a monthly subscription – not an annual one.
One of the lesser-known benefits of Walmart+ is its own relatively new partnership with Burger King. As part of this partnership you can save 25% on a Burger King digital order every day, as well as getting a free Whopper with any purchase once every three months. All you have to do is link your Walmart+ account with your Burger King Crowns account and you’re good to go.
2) Champions League Soccer (& More)
As a Liverpool fan, this is one of my favorite indirect benefits. I already get to watch Premier League games thanks to the Digital Entertainment Credit on personal Amex Platinum cards because Peacock TV is an eligible subscription service. Champions League games are broadcast in the US by Paramount+ which you can get a free subscription for via Walmart+. That means this season I’ve gotten to watch Liverpool dominate the tournament thus far, while also watching Man City go all Spursy last night at home to Real Madrid. All that, plus the strangely amusing studio show with Kate Scott, Jamie Carragher, Micah Richards and Thierry Henry which is often even more entertaining than the action on the pitch.
This obviously means that you have access to not only Champions League soccer but all Paramount+ content which includes their original series like 1923.
There is a potential downside to this free subscription though. If you get your Paramount+ subscription via Walmart+, you can’t subscribe to any add-ons like Showtime. Ultimately, free is free, but it is disappointing that you can’t pay extra to add on additional features like Showtime if you want. Update: I didn’t think that you could add Showtime, but a few commenters have shared that I was mistaken. You can’t adjust your plan within your Paramount+ account, but you can add Showtime on your Walmart+ account.
3) Gas Savings
The other Walmart+-related benefit highlighted here is 10c off per gallon of gas. That’s valid not only at Walmart and Murphy gas stations that you’ll find at Walmart stores, but at Exxon and Mobil gas stations around the country too. You’ll also be able to access member pricing at Sam’s Club gas stations even if you don’t have a Sam’s Club membership.
To access these savings, you’ll need the Walmart app on your phone. On there, tap the Services tab at the bottom of the app, then tap the ‘Member prices on fuel’ section that should be near the top of that screen.
That will open functionality to scan a QR code at the pump in order to fill your tank. You can pay with a credit card or a Walmart gift card stored in the app. At Murphy gas stations, that screen will provide a discount ID code to give at the pump or to a cashier in order to obtain the 10c per gallon savings.
4) Best Western Status
Best Western has an ongoing status match opportunity. If you take advantage of this option, you’ll receive status that’s valid through the end of the year after the one in which you matched. That means that if you match your status in 2025, you’ll keep it through December 31, 2026.
Considering we’ve started seeing targeted offers of 35% cashback for Best Western stays from the Capital One Shopping portal, along with Best Western Amex Offers or Chase Offers and stackable promotions giving Best Western bonus cards, bonus points, etc., having status to go along with that could come in handy. Just go into it aware that even with that top-tier Diamond Select status, the official benefits you’ll receive are minimal.
So how is this an indirect benefit of Amex Platinum cards? Both personal and business cards offer status with two hotel programs – Gold status with Hilton Honors and Gold status with Marriott Bonvoy. You have to enroll in those benefits and link your Hilton and/or Marriott accounts initially, but then you’re good to go. If you renew your Amex Platinum or Business Platinum card each year, you’ll maintain your status in those loyalty programs without any further action needed.
Reports on StatusMatcher.com suggest that Best Western is willing to give its top-tier Diamond Select status to people with Hilton Gold or Marriott Gold status. That’s surprising considering neither of those are top-tier status levels, particularly not Marriott Gold which has extremely limited benefits. I’d be most inclined to try matching from Hilton Gold status if that’s your highest hotel status level just in case their policy changes on Marriott Gold status.
5) Airport Duty Free & Restaurant Savings
Club Avolta is the loyalty program of 5,000+ airport stores and restaurants worldwide. Membership gives you 5% discounts at participating retailers, but if you have Platinum status in its loyalty program you’ll save 10% in stores (but not restaurants).
You can get Platinum status courtesy of another status match. Once again, you can match from Hilton Gold or Marriott Gold status, both of which are benefits of both personal and Business Platinum cards.
6) Radisson Rewards VIP Status
VIP status in the Radisson Rewards program is an indirect indirect benefit. First you have to match to Club Avolta, then you can match from that to Radisson.
VIP status gets you free breakfast for two, an upgrade to the best available room, free ironing and more.
7) Sixt Platinum Status
Platinum cardholders can get complimentary status with several car rental programs:
- Avis Preferred Plus
- Hertz President’s Circle
- National Executive
It’s also possible to get Platinum status with Sixt, but somewhat surprisingly it’s not available via a status match from one of those car rental programs. Instead, you can match from airline and hotel programs.
At the time of publishing this post, you can get Sixt Platinum status by matching from the following hotel programs which are either directly available as a benefit on Platinum cards or indirectly:
I took advantage of this status match a few months ago. We rented from Sixt while in Hawaii in December and got upgraded to a convertible for the week at no extra cost. Driving around Kauai with the top down was pretty sweet, especially considering we’d driven around the other 49 states over the last 7 years in a 2004 Toyota Corolla 😉
8) Cashback, Gift Cards & More
This final entry is like an indirect direct benefit. For several direct Amex Platinum benefits, you can subscribe after clicking through from a shopping portal or something similar in order to earn rewards.
For example, there are frequently promotions offering some kind of bonus when joining CLEAR such as a $75 Uber gift card. Even if you have no interest in the benefit itself, subscribing can be worth it for that reward.
Similarly, you can click through from a shopping portal to subscribe to Peacock TV, Disney+, The Wall Street Journal, etc. if you have a personal Amex Platinum card that comes with a $20 per month Digital Entertainment Credit. Even if you have no interest in those streaming services, you can pick up some cashback or rewards for subscribing nonetheless.
Question
Are there any other indirect benefits of being an Amex Platinum cardholder where you can parlay official benefits to other benefits, rewards, status, etc.? Let us know in the comments below.
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I did the status match to Sixt but only got Sixt Express instead of Platinum. Wasn’t given any options either. Is the status match different now?
This is great! Would love to see others like this for things like the Biz Plat, Gold / Biz Gold, etc.
Thanks and take care!
Radisson was bought by Choice – our points were converted to Choice points – does Radisson still have a website to do the status match?
Radisson Rewards Americas was bought by Choice, but the status match is with the Radisson Rewards program remaining in the rest of the world. That status match therefore wouldn’t get you anything with Choice unfortunately.
I wouldn’t really consider Paramount+ as a benefit. Literally every month they come out with some kind of code that lets you get a month free, even for existing members. DOC usually lists it.
If nothing else, it’s a benefit that you don’t have to fuss around with finding out what the new code is and entering that.
Yeah, our ability to value our time is certainly a benefit. 😀
What’s cheapest thing at bk
I always get a small fries with the free burger, which costs around $3.5 total
I’ve found it to be $0.29 for a dipping sauce.
Sauce is cheaper, but for something you can eat? I like to do the $1 cookies and give the kids the cookies as dessert
Add cheese to the whooper
As Larry said, add cheese to the Whopper and that counts as the purchase. Even better is the regular American cheese is $1 but instead you can get Swiss for 25¢
“If you get your Paramount+ subscription via Walmart+, you can’t subscribe to any add-ons like Showtime.” This is incorrect, at least for Showtime. I’ve been doing this for several months now.
Same, you can subscribe to Paramount+ with Showtime on Walmart’s site for an additional charge.
My WM+ page shows Paramount+ Essential for free, and Paramount+ with Showtime for $5.49/month (which is 50% off the regular price of $12.99).
Edit: There’s also an offer to “Watch Pluto TV–watch select ad-free streaming content that changes each month.” I
You’re right. I don’t know if that’s new, but I feel like it wasn’t an option in the past. Either way, I was mistaken – I’ll get that fixed. Thanks for confirming that as it makes the benefit even better for some 🙂
Seeing my ManCity self destruct is bad enough. Being reminded of it in travel blogs is too much.
Ha! You’ll never walk alone. Hala Madrid.
You’re welcome 😉
For about two years, my Sam’s Club has not allowed non-members to buy gas. Thus, there’s only member pricing. Not certain if this is the case elsewhere.
Walmart + just gets you access to sams gas, no discount. Discount only for walmart and Mobil gas
Indirect Enterprise match (ongoing?). Best Western to Sonesta
Good points – both of those should work.