{"id":8555,"date":"2020-09-27T21:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=8555"},"modified":"2020-09-27T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:46:32","slug":"double-dip-on-the-amex-leading-hotels-of-the-world-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/09\/27\/double-dip-on-the-amex-leading-hotels-of-the-world-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Double dip on the Amex Leading Hotels of the World offer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American Express has added quite a few hotel offers recently, including Marriott, Hilton and IHG. I have very happily saved all of them, but today I&#8217;d like to talk about a different hotel group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may have this offer appearing on your card account:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/amex-lhw-hotels-offer-350-100.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/amex-lhw-hotels-offer-350-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8556\" width=\"400\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/amex-lhw-hotels-offer-350-100.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/amex-lhw-hotels-offer-350-100-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/amex-lhw-hotels-offer-350-100-768x262.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe you&#8217;ve never heard of the name <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lhw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leading Hotels of the World<\/a><\/em>, but don&#8217;t just close the tab yet! Similar to <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/hotel-loyalty-program-series-gha-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GHA Discovery<\/a> or Small Luxury Hotels, LHW is a soft-branded hotel alliance for high-end independent hotels, therefore you can expect some very good properties here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/merchantgeo.secure.force.com\/selectsImage\/servlet\/servlet.FileDownload?retURL=\/selectsImage\/apex\/selectsImage&amp;file=00P3Z00001UiWWo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The full list of participating hotels is here<\/a>, covering UK and some European countries. Interestingly, the following hotels are affiliated with another hotel group too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nordicchoicehotels.com\/hotels\/finland\/helsinki\/hotel-kamp\/about\/faqs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hotel Kamp<\/a>, Helsinki (Nordic Choice)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raffles.com\/paris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Royal Monceau Raffles<\/a>, Paris (Accor)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairmont.com\/vier-jahreszeiten-hamburg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten<\/a>, Hamburg (Accor)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kempinski.com\/en\/berlin\/hotel-adlon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hotel Adlon Kempinski<\/a>, Berlin (GHA)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melia.com\/en\/hotels\/spain\/madrid\/gran-melia-fenix\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gran Melia Fenix<\/a>, Madrid (Melia)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melia.com\/en\/hotels\/spain\/seville\/gran-melia-colon\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gran Melia Colon<\/a>, Seville (Melia)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melia.com\/en\/hotels\/spain\/tenerife\/gran-melia-palacio-de-isora\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gran Melia Palacio de Isora<\/a>, Tenerife (Melia)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melia.com\/en\/hotels\/spain\/ibiza\/me-ibiza\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ME Ibiza, Ibiza<\/a> (Melia)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kempinski.com\/en\/ibiza\/7-pines-kempinski-ibiza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">7Pines Kempinski<\/a>, Ibiza (GHA)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melia.com\/en\/hotels\/spain\/majorca\/gran-melia-de-mar\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gran Melia Hotel de Mar<\/a>, Mallorca (Melia)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So you could book via the respective group, enjoy elite benefits and earn points, and also get the Amex cashback!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You must ensure that you get charged <strong>directly<\/strong> by the hotel though, not by the hotel group or any third-party aggregator. If you pay at check-out it&#8217;s definitely fine (no matter through what website you booked), but for prepaid rates you should be careful &#8211; I vaguely remember that my Melia booking was charged by the group instead of hotel once, but I may be wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Express has added quite a few hotel offers recently, including Marriott, Hilton and IHG. I have very happily saved all of them, but today I&#8217;d&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amex","category-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8558,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions\/8558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}