There’s a new Expedia Amex Offer out that’s giving 10% back on prepaid hotel stays.
The Deal
- Get 10% back on prepaid hotel stays booked through Expedia with an Amex Offer.
Key Terms
- Expires April 6, 2024.
- Limit of $125 in total statement credits per eligible Card Member.
- Offer valid for pre-paid hotel purchases made online through the following link expedia.com/amex using the pre-paid option at checkout (“pay now”) only.
- Excludes “pay at property” purchases and purchases made over the phone.
- Excludes all other purchases not made at expedia.com/amex link using the pre-paid option at checkout.
- Excludes cruises, vacation packages, flights, car rental and activities, trip insurance and other 3rd party brands.
- American Express identifies qualifying transactions based on information provided by the participating merchant.
- Offer valid only on purchases made in US dollars.
Quick Thoughts
The terms of the Amex Offer state that you have to visit expedia.com/amex, but I’m not entirely convinced that’s necessary provided you ensure that you’re booking a prepaid hotel stay.
Having said that, if you’re wanting to stack this offer with shopping portal cashback, I’d click through from a portal and then manually change the URL to expedia.com/amex. Alternatively, if you have a shopping portal browser extension installed (such as Capital One Shopping), you could go to expedia.com/amex directly and then activate the portal earnings once you get the popup during the checkout process.
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What does the definition of prepay mean?
As in no cancelation properties,even if i can only cancel upto 2 days prior?
I see one where it says: You will be charged a prepayment of 50% of the total price in the 2 days before arrival.
Prepay doesn’t necessarily mean non-cancellable. For example, to use the Amex FHR credit you have to book a prepaid rate, but it can still be a cancellable rate.
With Expedia though, I don’t know if their prepaid rates always means it’s non-cancellable or not. I also don’t know how it would work when 50% prepayment is required. I suspect the Amex Offer would give you 10% back on that 50% payment, but not on the balance, but I’m far from certain about that.
In my experience, booking a pre-paid refundable (ie cancellable) rate triggers the credit, if you go through expedia.com/amex. Never saw one w/ 50% prepayment. Also never tried cancelling those bookings to see what happens to the credit.
I’ve had terrible experiences with portals ever awarding points on Expedia.
The lst 2 times this has happened (for both myself and for P2), I have had success going to the Amex Expedia URL, and then activating the Rakuten browser extension. Both the Amex Credit and the Rakuten points have posted in all instances.