There’s a new Klook Amex Offer available that provides the opportunity to save up to 20% on activities booked in the next few months.
The Deal
- Spend $400+ in one or more transactions with Klook & get $80 back with an Amex Offer.
Key Terms
- Expires February 15, 2025.
- Offer valid online only at US website klook.com or through the Klook mobile app.
- Offer valid only on purchases made in US dollars.
- Offer only valid on purchases made directly with the merchant.
- Offer not valid on purchases made using third parties, such as resellers, delivery services, or other intermediaries.
Quick Thoughts
I first came across Klook a couple of years ago when Carrie and I were planning activities for the Party of 5 challenge. At the time, we were planning on taking the team to South Korea and one of the activities we were interested in doing there was a DMZ tour.
Ultimately, we didn’t end up going to South Korea, but that DMZ tour research led me to a few sites offering tours such as Viator and TripAdvisor. Klook was another one of those options and it seemed like many of the tours listed on there were from the same companies advertising their tours on other sites like Viator.
That means that if you’re looking at booking a tour from a specific tour company which is available on all these platforms, it’s not generally going to matter which platform you book on other than that there might be different cancellation policies and different saving/earning opportunities.
This Amex Offer is therefore a good incentive to book via Klook rather than Viator et al as it can save you up to 20% on activities. The downside is that there’s a high spend requirement – $400 is a not-insignificant amount to spend on tours and other activities. However, if you’re booking a particularly expensive experience or for a larger family/group of people, hitting that $400 spending threshold might not be as tricky.
The other thing to remember is that the $400 spending requirement is valid across more than one purchase. That means that if you’re planning on booking various activities through the day after Valentine’s Day next year, multiple transactions will count towards that total. Payment is also taken straight away, so you could also book activities well beyond February 15, 2025 provided you pay for them by that date.
Klook also appears on many shopping portals, so that’s another earning opportunity – you can find the current rates here. At the time of scheduling this post, TopCashback is offering 14% cashback on most purchases. However, if you’re not planning on booking your activities immediately, it’s worth ensuring you have the Capital One Shopping browser extension installed and then have a quick explore of the Klook website. Hopefully within a few days you’ll receive a targeted increased rate from Capital One Shopping for Klook purchases. That’s what happened when I was researching the DMZ tours – a day or two later the portal sent me an offer for something like 20% or 30% cashback.
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It’s strange. Klook no longer take Amex. I was able to paid with Amex 2 days ago but when I want to make another purchase today but Amex is not the option.
You can only use Amex if you pay in HKG but Amex offer said Offer valid online only at US website klook.com or through the Klook mobile app. Offer valid only on purchases made in US dollars.
Anyway around it?
paypal? i think when you add amex as payment in paypal the statement credit still shows the vendor
just purchased, here is the amex statement
Pending
KLOOKTRAVEL
Thank you. Amex show up as a payment option the other day and I used my P2 card to pay and he got $80 credit. Today I plan to book another hotel and Amex no longer available again. I will try the PayPal route. I am saving a lot of money with Klook because I also get 30% back from Capitalone shopping.
[…] Hat tip to FM […]
Successfully used this for a flight booking over the weekend! While activities seems like Klook’s bread and butter, the ability to search and book flights is buried on the website. Was able to get a one-way United flight in January for $300 cheaper on Klook vs. United directly, booked into regular economy, and stacked the Amex offer with Klook promo code ‘TRAVELLOVER’ for an additional $50 off the booking.
Amex offer posted yesterday. Only thing with flight bookings is that it’s not instant ticketing. It took about 6 hours (and lots of nail biting) but it came through ticketed and with all the details to easily port into the United app and handle seats, etc.
Just a data point this is potentially more lucrative for flights and also with the Klook promo code.
Link to Flight Search: https://www.klook.com/en-US/flights/search
Had to do some Googling to find the details, but looks like TRAVELLOVER is 10% off your first purchase over $50.
So an ideal stack would be a ~$444.44 flight discounted to ~$400 after coupon and then triggering $80 from the Amex Offer, or roughly 28% off. And possible more from the shopping portal if it tracks on flights.
Don’t have any flights to plan myself right now, but going to try to keep it in mind just in case.
That’s awesome, thank you! I’ll write a separate post about this tomorrow and will give you a hat tip as I had no clue you could book flights through Klook.
Doh! Wish I had waited a few days to book my Vietnam fast track with them.
Wonder if it’s worth it for Bangkok. I am not leaving the airport and have relatively short transit times, on separate tickets.
FWIW, I managed to get through BKK much more quickly than I’d anticipated. However, if a bunch of international flights arrive at the same time and/or your flight is delayed, you might not be as lucky. It’s therefore tricky knowing the best option.
I think someone else mentioned that you could buy fast track on arrival rather than in advance, so that might be a better option even though you wouldn’t be able to have that purchase count towards the spending on this Amex Offer.