Luxury Or Liability? A Look At What The Amex Platinum Card Gets You For £650 in 2025(UK)

[@thomasmcdonald5542]

I have the card and will also be renewing this year as it works out still as a positive overall financially. However what i have noticed more and more is the priority pass is becoming an issue when just arriving at the airport and hoping to get into a lounge. Many are over their capacity and will not let in priority pass or dragon pass and they will prioritise airlines who have some sort of arrangement with the lounge like TUI for example and obviously those that have pre-booked. Amex seem to be aware of this and issued 4 complimentary pre-booking vouchers but its not clear if this will renew. Also a lot of lounges don't accept the vouchers so the only alternative if you want to be sure is to pay a supplement to pre-book in those cases. It will be interesting to see if they hike the price as they have done in the US recently. That may change my mind on keeping it.

[@travellyman]

@@thomasmcdonald5542 agreed. Although the lounge access works well for us at the moment, capacity is becoming more and more of an issue for sure. It even has been for Airline lounges too, especially BA. (I am sure the recent changes to the BAEC were implemented to address this as one of the strategies). I have even pre-booked (and paid) the My Lounge at Luton in Feb just to be sure. We used our pre books at Gatwick last year for the Clubrooms and it doesn’t have seemed to have been reset for this year yet.