(EXPIRED) Airbnb Amex Offer: Spend $250 & Get 5,000 Membership Rewards

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Update 12/17/21: More accounts appear to now be targeted with this offer (and others), so if you were looking for this Airbnb offer before but didn’t see it, you may want to check your Amex Offers again.

There’s a new Airbnb Amex Offer out today which is giving 5,000 bonus Membership Rewards when spending $250 on an Airbnb stay.

a room with a brick wall and a bed
Bedroom from one of our favorite Airbnb stays in Louisville, KY

The Deal

  • Spend $250+ in a single transaction at Airbnb & get 5,000 bonus Membership Rewards with an Amex Offer.

Key Terms

  • Expires December 30, 2021.
  • Offer valid via US website only at airbnb.com or via Airbnb merchant mobile app.
  • Purchases must be made in US Dollars.
  • Offer only valid on all bookings made via Airbnb.
  • Offer not valid for lodging stays that are paid for before the promotion start date or after the promotion end date.

Airbnb Amex Offer Spend $250 Get 5,000 Membership Rewards

Quick Thoughts

This is an excellent offer if you have it on any of your Membership Rewards-earning cards because it’s not often possible to save or earn significant amounts when paying for Airbnb stays. You can usually buy their gift cards at a 10% discount, but this Airbnb Amex Offer can be like saving 20% or more depending on how you value Membership Rewards.

The offer expires the day before New Years Eve, but one of the nice things about Airbnb in this respect is that it’s much easier to book a stay for after the offer expires to lock in the 5,000 points than it would be for a similar type of Amex Offer for a hotel chain. That’s because with hotel stays you’ll often not be charged until checkout, whereas Airbnb charges up-front and so you can book now even if you’re not staying until 2022.

If you need to book a $500+ stay where you’ll be checking in by December 30, 2021, it should be possible to earn the bonus on two cards if you have a P2 with the offer too. Airbnb lets you pay in full upfront, or pay 50% now and 50% when you stay. You could pay the first half with one card, then change the payment method for the second payment to a different Amex card with the offer loaded to it.

As always when booking an Airbnb stay, click through from their partnership with Delta or British Airways to earn bonus miles on your stay.

In case you were hoping you could buy a $250 Airbnb gift card to lock in the bonus points, it’s looking unlikely that’ll work. Airbnb doesn’t process gift card purchases directly, instead using LaunchGiftCards.com to do that for them. Having said that, DoorDash uses the same company to sell their gift cards and gift card purchases had worked to trigger Cash App Boosts for DoorDash in the past.

I therefore decided to be a guinea pig and bought a $250 gift card. I figured that the worst case scenario is that we earn 5x Membership Rewards on the purchase (I loaded it to a card with a +4 offer on it). We spend 60-100 nights in Airbnbs each year, so we won’t have any problem making use of the gift card for personal use. The best case scenario though is that we’ll earn 5x Membership Rewards as well as 5,000 bonus points for a total of 6,250 points – a fantastic haul for Airbnb.

I made this purchase a couple of hours ago but haven’t had an email from Amex confirming that I’ve redeemed the offer. While that email isn’t always sent by Amex even when an Amex Offer is successfully redeemed, I think it’s unlikely that it’s going to track. I’ll update and republish this post in the future if we do end up receiving the bonus points though.

Update 12/15/21: We’ve not received a statement credit for buying a gift card, so I doubt it’ll be appearing in the future.

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